• db0
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    15215 days ago

    Ffs trump and his lackeys making even Sweeney look good

    • @athairmor
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      8715 days ago

      Yeah, I don’t recall ever reading a Tim Sweeney quote and thinking, “that sounds about right.”

      • sunzu2
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        God damn… WTF is this bizzaro timeline… Just take me to the fuxking shed already

      • @Cypher
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        414 days ago

        Eh he once gave me an all you can drink pass at the after party for a gaming convention in Melbourne.

        So the quote is ‘get whatever you want, drinks are on me tonight’.

        Its still a complete mystery how I made it back to my hotel with no map, no local knowledge and on foot.

      • chingadera
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        I don’t think he’s able to afford to kiss the ring, otherwise he would.

        • PonyOfWar
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          1315 days ago

          Why wouldn’t he be? Sweeney is a billionaire, richer than Tim Cook even.

          • chingadera
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            114 days ago

            Isn’t that company at risk of bankruptcy?

            • PonyOfWar
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              Not at all, as far as I know. They’re making massive bank with Fortnite and they’re developing the engine used by >50% of modern AAA games.

              • chingadera
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                614 days ago

                I think I’m thinking of Ubisoft actually. My b

    • @[email protected]
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      1615 days ago

      I’m just sitting here fingers crossed that Gabe doesn’t “donate” to the orange dipshit…

    • @Duamerthrax
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      914 days ago

      He’s also swimming in Chinese money, so this might not be a purely altruistic statement.

  • @TommySoda
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    9715 days ago

    For the first time in my life I’m actually agreeing with Tim Sweeney. I hate the guy but at least he has the balls to say it like it is. The rest of them are just cowards.

    • @[email protected]
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      8015 days ago

      I’m sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican

      to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’

      doesn’t that just make them… a Republican?

      • @psycho_driver
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        1315 days ago

        Right? I feel like almost every ‘Republican’ is just an opportunist that likes to cherry pick the things Republicans supposedly stand for these days. I think any people out there who can say that they wholeheartedly agree with every talking point on the Republican agenda (the ones that don’t shift constantly) then they are horrible, horrible, terrible soulless excuses for human beings.

      • @jaybone
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        1115 days ago

        no-you-spiderman.jpg

      • @[email protected]
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        213 days ago

        In case you hadn’t noticed, the Democrats have been just as much into exactly the same thing by actively pushing deregulation and the rest of the Neoliberal mantra as the Republicans.

        Those parties differ in the Moral and Freedom planes but Economically they’re very much the same (except right before an election when the Democrats will do a bit of loud but toothless pro-consumer announcements of intentions on things they had 4 years to fix but chose not to).

        If you have any doubts, just go check who overthrew the Glass-Steagal act, which ended up causing of the 2008 Crash and who was the President during that time who chose to unconditionally rescue some of the nastiest investment banks around - you’ll find they’re both Democrats.

        • Refurbished Refurbisher
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          I really hope this past election will cause neoliberalism to finally die. We’re already seeing signs of it (granted, being replaced with fascism, which isn’t exactly better, but historically, fascism doesn’t last long).

          Also, when corporations have to choose between any semblence of even mild socialism (social democracy) or literal fascism, they will choose fascism every time. This is a big reason why we have Trump today; just look at the massive amount of funding that The Daily Wire gets (namely from the Koch brothers) as opposed to any lefty independent media (specifically media who is openly anti-corporate and usually doesn’t take corporate money, like Kyle Kulinski for example).

          The fact that the corporations had to choose at all is also an indicator that neoliberalism is dead. Corporations much prefer neoliberalism over fascism due to longer amounts of social stability.

    • @[email protected]
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      1515 days ago

      Saammee. He’s an endless stream of bad takes, but I find myself in agreement with this

  • str82L
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    7715 days ago

    If you have to pretend to be bad to get your own way, maybe you are in fact bad after all?

    • @[email protected]
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      6715 days ago

      They’re not pretending to be bad, they’re pretending to care about what the Republicans care about. They’re very openly bad people

  • @njm1314
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    5814 days ago

    They ain’t pretending.

    • @surph_ninja
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      1414 days ago

      Yeah, they may retain a different self-image, but their actions & goals are in line with Republican ideology.

  • ZeroOne
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    4515 days ago

    That’s rich coming from Tim Sweeney, but hey for once he accidently spoke the truth

    • @TheKingBee
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      2415 days ago

      The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

  • @psycho_driver
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    4115 days ago

    Well Tim you went from a -10 in my books to a -8 with this. Keep it up.

    • arglebargle
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      514 days ago

      I was trying to think of a way to put it, and I think you nailed it.

  • @fox2263
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    4014 days ago

    God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?

    Don’t make me agree with you.

        • Masterbaexunn
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          215 days ago

          Oh yay what about the other guys.

          • Bakkoda
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            414 days ago

            There’s no other guys if you are simply talking about wealthy opportunists. It’s the same orgy just some people are wearing masks.

          • @Quadhammer
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            314 days ago

            The point is none of the plebs are being represented and they’re all online fighting each other

          • مهما طال الليل
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            214 days ago

            Just because the neighbor’s kid gets to eat ice cream and play video games all day, doesn’t mean you should. You can be better or at least people were misled to believe it.

        • @Eatspancakes84
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          114 days ago

          Yes but there was a genuine attempt of the DOJ to apply antitrust laws to big tech. Not saying they would have succeeded and big tech would have attempted to corrupt the process all the way with the Dems in charge. Nevertheless, they seemed to face some risk under Dems that has now passed.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      614 days ago

      If the democrats would have given them those, they’d have continued their “woke capitalism” arc…

  • @Xeroxchasechase
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    1615 days ago

    I’m not used to this kind of honesty from CEOs. This is epic

  • @[email protected]
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    1315 days ago

    I’ve done nothing but trash talk this man, but I have to take this opportunity to praise and give him the respect he deserves for calling this out.

  • @[email protected]
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    1315 days ago

    Yeah, I believe the word you’re looking for is capitalism. Unbridled late stage capitalism.

  • @[email protected]
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    1215 days ago

    Trump/MAGA is a big corrupt scam. After election, CNBC had guests that you should go all in on smaller companies, because “deregulation will be magic for them”. Truth is, only those buying Trump’s favour will be granted exemptions from blanket tariffs, and will receive H1B worker allotments. Rest of economy will be destroyed. Tesla specifically gain gain significantly by destroying US/Canada big 3 auto production, and fast tracking FSD approval/deregulation. FB/Google will give enough to ensure tiktok ban.