The Gaming Den

Owning intellectual property isn't actually the same thing as being paid for your labor. Labor is the thing you do. Ip is when the government shoots people if they don't pay you every time they do labor. Football players are clear workers until they start a health and fitness business, various peopl...

Remember back in 2019 when Biden tweeted that we don't need another war in the Middle East, in the context of complaining that then-President Bad Orange Man was behaving in a manner which might make this slightly more likely? No? Me neither. ok who am I kidding someone reposted a tweet that I proba...

Doesn't she (now) own her own music, so she's not alienated from the fruits of her labour? (Also...what's Taylor Swift got to do with the Biden administration again? I mean, excepting she's a psyop weapon to encourage people to register to vote or whatever.) Well yes and no. Technically, Taylor swi...

Wow, it's weird that deaddm has access to secret Taylor Swift financial data that no one else has that allows him to make broad statements no one else knows the answer to in his bad faith attempt to ignore the point being made. Please tell us deaddm. How much did 13 Management pay Taylor Swift as a ...

"Most 'rich people' have multiple income streams. They invest in stocks, bonds, businesses, real estate, and many of them have high-paying jobs, too." It's extremely funny to be like "Look they are bourgouise in so many different ways, and also some of them might have jobs like CEO or...

The ICJ specifically said that preventing aid from entering Gaza was one of the genocidal acts that Israel needed to stop doing. Since that ruling, the United States of America has taken over that genocidal act on behalf of Israel so Israel can stop doing it, upgrading the offical US position from a...

To add to the list of countries Israel has bombed thanks to US impunity, Belgium. See, unlike the US, Belgium did not cut all funding to the UN relief agency after a 60 hour torture session produced a confession that the unrwa is hamas. So Israel just bombed the Belgium agency for cooperation and de...

I'm going to put my hand up as someone who'd prefer to see Biden (or whomever is running for the Dems) win the next US federal election. Two parties, broken system, lesser evil, etc. But, c'mon, talking about maybe doing something isn't doing something. At best, at very best, it's a sign that not e...

Someone who is retired and living off Social Security isn't bourgeoise because they don't earn a salary for working. Someone who is working as at a top-flight law firm earning millions of dollars per day isn't a prole because they're a wage-earner. Imagine reading this paragraph and then trying to ...

Yeah, I'm willing to talk about the Biden Administration in this thread. So what the administration does in relation to Israel/Gaza is on-topic, but the larger issue including what actions Israel is taking seems like it belongs somewhere else. But you aren't though. Your response to "Here's a ...

In any case, I came by to say Biden Imposes Sanctions on Israeli Settlers Over West Bank Violence For a guy doesn't want to talk about Israel and Palestine in this thread, it's weird that you can't find it in yourself to talk about the US's many war crimes in support of genocide but can find time t...

So first off revolutions, just like any political movement aren't a single person doing a thing. Yeah it's pretty funny how deaddm is like "I actually oppose democracy if it's imposed by occupation and protest because fair election would inevitably result in Kaelik being dictator, and that's w...

Thanks Kaelik, you saved me from double-posting. Even though you're not really worth responding to. You're not even close to right. I don't think that MLK needed to be put down and stopped. I think that everything he did was within his Constitutionally protected rights and the laws that were used t...

Things that are not deal breakers: genocide. Declaring Greg Abbott the eternal president who decides what the border policy is. Saying that you would personally not let a single asylum seeker into the country or even give them hearings in violation of international law. Things that are deal breakers...

Going to pointlessly do way more point by pointing then is worth anyone's time. You used the term 'bourgeois democracy' in quotes. We haven't discussed exactly what you mean by the term, but it is generally used to refer to the 'middle class'. It meant the people who owned things but weren't aristoc...

There's many, many varied and legitimate complaints against Biden, but come the election, assuming both are still alive, what other viable options are there besides him or Trump? You could always simply not start defending a genocide in January because of a hypothetical in November. You could even ...

Deaddm, come on man. Really putting your ignorance on display by saying all you need to run for office is to be able to go without income for a few months. You need donors you silly goose, or to be personally wealthy. Even running a small campaign for a state office costs several thousand dollars, ...

In the ongoing war against "fare evasion" which is less then we spend on fare cops, MTA will be changing all the Emergency Doors to require a 15 second wait before they open. Can't wait to find out who the first literally dead person will be for this important "fare evasion" prev...

The CIA says the US is a democracy, so it's really silly of you to point to how the US actually works, CIA index says democracy: Yes! Young people voting wouldn't actually fix anything because the young people would simply vote for the preselected psychopaths that all have deaddm's politics of stock...

I really think people would be better off just setting the expectation that items can be destroyed and replaced and just aren't that big a deal instead of jumping through a lot of hoops to invent rules for how you can't break people's amulets. (Which doesn't mean 5e rules aren't too easy to break th...

The coattails theory was why it was important to vote for biden in the 2020 primary. Now the reason you have to vote for the guy who wants to do genocide is you can't change captain mid stream and also no one has ever retired its impossible for him to retire. Did he also have garbage coattails in 20...

"Trump wants to build an authoritarian state (like Russia)" But Russia is a democracy! Sure the elections are rigged. But so our ours. Sure the elections don't matter, but neither do ours. Sure even if the elections did matter and weren't rigged the system itself makes sure that different ...

Yeah. Very weird to hear people say "people may be TIRED of hearing that Joe Biden has cured Cancer and Ended Poverty." It's not really that people are tired of hearing it so much as it was pretty dumb the first time! There does not appear to be a party willing to "maintain democratic...

Sometimes you do the weirdest optimism in your predictions. My prediction, Re:Isreal, is that the US will continue giving them bombs and protecting them from any international law consequences until they finish ethnically cleansing Gaza, Then the US will pressure Egypt into accepting all the refugee...