I worked as a game tester for Red Storm shortly after graduating from college in 2006.

I also grew up playing their games, starting with the original Rainbow Six. There never would have been a Counter Strike or a Call of Duty if it weren’t for Rainbow Six.

Tell him to gobble broken glass.

This is one of the more profoundly well-put summaries I’ve ever read on the Internet.

Everyone gets lost talking about this thing. Purchasing and driving a poorly-engineered or aesthetically-questionable vehicle isn’t the primary problem. That’s not unique. There have always been shitty vehicles.

People who drive these gave $80,000 to empower the Nazis. The fact that they’re shitboxes just underscores that conspicuous consumption and the support and affiliation for and with Fascism are the entire point.

Thank you for providing an implicit demonstration of the output of a grossly underfunded education system.

“Only extremists are pushing for conflict.”

This is a disastrously ill-informed perspective. There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to rising fascism. There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.

Stop scrolling and sit with these facts. Then stop rage-posting and start planning.

Yes, because if we weren’t captured by a single-party corporate system we wouldn’t be in this mess. Reactionary fascism arises from the material immiseration of the people. If the Democrats were beholden to improving the lives of citizens rather than clinging to power and corporate interests, we would not be in this mess.

“Couple was extra-judicially murdered because…”

There is no way to conclude that sentence that anyone should give a rat’s ass about. If you buy this sort of post-facto justification for the Brown Shirts murdering people, you’re a Nazi.

Thank you for sharng this. I really needed to see an example of being decent and growing today.

If aiding genocide is our “lesser evil,” we don’t have a lesser evil.