MasterDeeLuke

Assmongold's reaction 0.0002 seconds after the news hits.

You will own nothing and be happy vs Everyone will own everything and be (actually) happy.

Freedom and democracy means nothing because those two things are incompatible according to people like Peter Thiel these days.

I think it can heavily depend which exact place you work at, I worked at a place assembling cardboard products and it was extremely chill and respectful, would still be doing it if I wasn't forced to quit due to moving. Meanwhile, I've also worked shortly in a plastic factory where I felt like I was inside a Nazi labor camp. Rude micromanagement, machines set to inhuman speeds, no phones or anything allowed, no going to your car at lunch, carcinogenic fumes and particles everywhere, ruthless firing of sick employees, shifts that can exceed 14 hours if there is a meeting, using and hiring active prisoners with crimes like assault and treating everyone at that level, people frequently losing fingers due to equipment failures, etc.

Nooooo do imperialism on them not us lets sit down and carve up maps together daddy Trump nooooo whyyy 😭😭😭

The US billionaire class has gone full on drunk and it's certainly something to see.

I grabbed a 16GB VRAM edition 4060Ti and 48 GB of RAM back in 2024 right before prices exploded and it was one of my best decisions. I have a PS5 but it's just collecting dust because I'd much rather be able to do everything in one place, not to mention the majority I'm interested in playing are either indie of strategy type games that aren't on the PS5 anyway. But yeah the current situation sucks, it's clear big companies are planning to choke people out of PC ownership so they can eventually force people into cloud based computing where they can charge ridiculous subscription fees and leave people completely powerless.

It's the exact same as what has been happening in the housing market where real estate companies have been buying up homes on mass and forcing people into rentership. Consoles are also being negatively effected because they use same RAM and GPUs that are are being strangled.

It also doesn't help that Europe heavily played up the "territorial integrity" argument to justify why they so staunchly support Ukraine and oppose Russia. Of course, shameless hypocrisy is nothing new for them, but it's still a terrible look politically.

I think it's less about anti-communist propaganda, there is still very much an abundance of that, and more about the absolutely dismal existence young people are being thrown into. Housing, schooling etc have all exploded in cost while wages have barely budged. It's not exactly fun to spend 50 or so hours every week being micro-managed and disrespected like slaves while everything you make gets eaten up paying to maintain your ability to keep coming back to work. Under those conditions you eventually realize that society existing as it does isn't benefiting you and you naturally begin looking for alternatives.

Sounds like a bit of an awkward "what now?" situation for the US. They took out the person they played up as being a dictator running everything, congratulations, except ,surprise, the country wasn't actually a one man dictatorship and nothing has changed.

I think a lot of millennials got contaminated with all the anti-SJW and gamergate type stuff, the result is a lot of them dislike oligarchs and big corps but think for some reason that woke communists are controlling the big corps.

Probably out there being assimilated by The Thing I bet.