I take the radical perspective that people dying horrible pointless deaths is a bad thing and should be prevented. Yes, even stupid rich people.

TFW you really want people to stop talking about the molotov-ribbentrop pact.

I believe that's referred to as a "thumb". They're actually quite common.

There's a difference between acknowledging the problem and going around telling people that the problem is hopeless and we're all doomed. I certainly didn't find it especially informative.

No it's absolutely that serious, pushing climate despair is the current number one tactic of oil billionaires.

This take is absolutely deranged and exactly the sort of thing I like to see here.

I'm gonna say probably not, if he were Valve would be full-on employee owned. I will say he seems a little less uh... warped than most prominent billionaires, but that's not exactly a high bar to clear. Overall he seems like an okay guy but I don't know him and have no way of telling whether he's secretly a dick or something.

So called "anarchists" when you touch their pro-state.

Diverging points of view? Like what, that Ukraine should just surrender and let itself be conquered?

Oh so 'line go up' is suddenly a valid way of determining a country's quality of life now? Guess America must be a paradise then.

No one is suggesting that the states the authoritarian communists replaced were good or functional, just that they failed to actually uplift and make people's lives better. There's nothing to admire about one oppressive state being replaced by another.

There are an infinite variety of flavors of socialism, at some point you gotta learn to find folks you don't disagree with on anything too important. In my experience anarchists are generally chill.