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  • We need to cut the UK off from all global trade and communication. A total global naval blockade. We can make it a joint exercise between the US, China, and anyone else that wants to come along. Same thing with the internet. Cut off all lines of international communication. The people of the UK are infected, and the whole island needs to be quarantined like in 28 Days Later. Worse still, the UK’s pestilence of censorship and transphobia threatens to infect many other countries. For the good of the world, we need to metaphorically, and perhaps even literally, wall off the entire UK from the rest of the world. Or possibly just England. That’s where the real pus and boils seem to be. We need to cut England off from all global communication before anyone else gets the idea to try this crap. Hell, maybe we just need to go all in and bomb English power infrastructure. The English clearly can’t be trusted with electricity. Let them go back to heating London homes via coal furnaces in every building. Maybe we just need to lower England a few rungs back down the tech tree. The English are just not responsible enough to be trusted with modern technology.












  • Exactly. Have people forgotten how Project 2025 explicitly wants to classify trans people and queer people more generally as inherently pornographic? Like, ultimately they fundamentally do not accept that trans folks just want to live as we are. They believe that people transition as some sort of public act of sex exhibitionism. They believe it is akin to child abuse for a child to be exposed to the concept of gay people existing. That is what they truly in their hearts believe. They believe that any LGBT content is inherently pornographic. If the theocrats can pressure Mastercard to shut down porn, they can do the same for any content produced about or by queer people of any sort. If they can pressure Steam, they can pressure YouTube or Nebula. As the smaller player, Nebula would be a lot more vulnerable to pressure. What would happen if Nebula had to choose between accepting credit card payments or hosting queer content creators?


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    3 months ago

    Or imagine the worst case. Gabe is the world’s greatest prankster. He’s a true internet troll for the ages. He’s spent decades getting millions and millions of people dependent on his game hosting. He’s got hardware. He stands astride the game industry like a colossus. But the key is that Valve is still a private corporation. In theory, Gabe could do whatever he wants with it. Including, finally committing the last stage of his ultimate prank. One day…he just flips the off switch. Steam never enshittifies. It just shuts off forever without warning.

    And thus, with one stroke, his master chess move concluded (to reasons comprehensible only to Gabe), he just shuts it off and walks away. His last words in public are, “it turns out, I was the greatest gamer of all the whole time…”