The only people I’ve seen “spam the forums” are people whining about “DEI” and “woke” (source: like, 90% of the game discussion forums on Steam). Coincidentally, most of the ones that aren’t “just asking questions” have exactly the same “they’re forcing it on us” language, and you’ll have to pardon me for immediately finding that language suspect.

No one is forcing a gender on you. No one is forcing a sexual orientation upon you. Only assholes that think conversion therapy is a valid thing think that’s okay. Frankly, it’s REALLY weird that you parse it that way, versus “these people exist, so of course they’re in games”. Are you bothered by characters that aren’t the same race as you?

Informing you that a right wing idiot tried to assassinate ultra-right wing idiot isn’t a “no true scotsman” argument. You keep pointing to right-wing violence as evidence of left-wing violence.

Dude. No.

The idiot that committed the political violence that you tried to hold up as a “BoTh SidEs” was on the same side as the idiot he tried to kill.

90+% of the political violence in this country has been committed by the same party.

Whatever you think trying to do is only helping the fascist idiots.

The guy that “shot” him in 2024 was a Republican. Not sure how that makes this a “both sides” thing.

Propaganda rag signs propaganda agreement. Not surprising.

Ignoring that we’re way, way off track from my criticism of your initial comment, it looks like we’re now into some random criticism of antifa being cooperative with Hitler?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)

That’s the closest I can find to your “quote” (wiki gives it as “After Hitler, our turn!”) Are you trying to do some kind of nihilistic “bOtH SIdEs” here, or am I missing your point?

I don’t know where you’re trying to go with this comment.

You complained people were down-voting something without knowing it was “left of Bernie”. I pointed out it used Trump admin data, which is… not “left of Bernie” (and frankly not to be believed under any circumstance without validation).

I do understand this is from Jacobin (if you ignore they republished it from some guy that hosts most of his stuff on substack).

I also understand that they unapologetically and uncritically used data from the fucking TRUMP ADMINISTRATION to “prove” their point.

Even if true, it requires so, soooo much independent verification before it could remotely be taken seriously, let alone used as a hit piece on the former admin. I’m not saying the Biden admin was great - but damn, does this smell suspicious.

I’m well aware the plural of “anecdote” isn’t “data”, but literally no dev I know (senior or otherwise) thinks this. Give me a junior work with - most of them at least actually learn.

Then I hate to disappoint again, but I’m just some rando that votes of his own accord - not part of some grand “vote manipulation” conspiracy.