On December 1, the situation, somehow, worsened when Kanye appeared on The Alex Jones Show. Over the course of the broadcast, he repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazi party, insisting that he “loves” Nazis and “likes” Hitler, and at one point blatantly declaring, “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world.” His remarks placed Jones in the rare position of attempting to help Kanye walk back his extremism by reminding him that Nazis “did a lot of very bad things.”

“But they did good things, too,” Ye responded. “We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all of the time.”

That was in the morning. By evening, Ye had been indefinitely suspended from Twitter for posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Star of David.

https://www.vox.com/culture/23400851/kanye-west-antisemitism-hitler-praise

What’s weird is it’s always the accounts with no activity making these complaints…

Including this thread, OP has made 4 posts and 20 some comments over the last year.

They probably thought you meant something different than what you actually meant.

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You think they do an annual review of threads?

It was over a year ago I made the comment, they banned me for it five days ago.

I don’t know man, it’s weird you’re not getting that, but it doesn’t really matter.

I’m sorry if I’m explaining it poorly.

I did remember it wasn’t I blocked a mod, I explained why I might not respond. And apparently they didn’t like that I had blocked their instance

Weird, maybe because I looked at world’s modlog and not theirs like you seem to have done.

I clicked on the link, it was a comment from literally a year ago lol.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/3159844

I blocked the mod of that sub about a week ago, so they likely went and saw my last comment there and banned me for it.

Like I said tho, I’m perfectly fine with it. I blocked their whole instance a long time ago, I think it might have actually been that thread that clued me in it wasn’t worth ever going there again.

Thanks for finding that tho! I’ll remember to check an instance’s own modlog in the future for more details.

Quick edit:

(which your agreement to could be seen as agreement with trans-segrigation in sports).

Nah, I was explaining how the only way to get better at chess is to play better people, and there’s no reason for any classes based around gender. And the explanation for difference in skill, is simply that the best men refused to play women, so they never improved. The first female grand master was only that good because her dad was crazy good and made her and her sister play him constantly.

You need the experience of high level play to be able to play at a high level, and any gender divide in division just prolongs that. So I was arguing against any segregation at all.

That’s why they let it stay up a year until I blocked the mod of that community.

And suddenly it was transphobic.

A “tankie” isn’t the same as a communist.

A “tankie” is someone that takes China’s side (the tanks) in that famous picture of Tiananmen square.

Being a “tankie” is using communism as a facade for authoritarian governments where a small group of “upper party members” are essentially oligarchs.

Nah, I replied to OP and they deleted the comment.

Maybe that looks weird on some federated instances or apps tho.

If it looks like I’m replying to someone else, that would explain the down votes.

OPs post gets reposted pretty frequently, always by new accounts which tend to disappear a day or two later after some lazy posts.

I really do think it’s the same person who’s bans are in the screenshots.

It’s too random that a bunch of brand new accounts all find the post and quote it with perfectly formatting including all the pictures just to repost it the same place they found it.

Especially since the new account always claims they’re “helping new users” like they’ve been here forever.

They seem more like nationalists who coopted socialism/communism to white wash what they actually support and overlooking the elite ruling class that they are not a part of.

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Yes…

They’re defenders of USSR and China…

So obviously they’re not going to actually be socialis/communist.

The problem is when capitalists lump actuall socialists/communists with the fake ones.

On the other hand, I’ve blocked both those instances months ago and it’s been great.

Strangely I did notice I got banned from a blahaj community like a week ago despite not commenting there for at least 6 months, maybe ever?

Which is kind of the whole point of me blocking them

Both have mods/admins that are very very opinionated about things. And they tend to refuse to let things go (much like OP or you making that sub)

So if they see something they dont agree with, they’ll pre-emptively ban an account, because, and this is doubly important right here:

It’s trolls feeding trolls drama in a big loop

You making that sub, OP making this post…

All you’re doing is encouraging them

Can you really not understand?

I’ll try and remember to come back and check if you respond, but I don’t get notifications from instances I’ve blocked.

Edit:

I was banned five days ago apparently for this comment from a year ago:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/3159844

Definitely not because I blocked that mod five days ago and they desperately found a way to “get back”.

Great example of my point tho, silly instances like that there’s no point in fighting them, just block their instance and go about your life.

but that doesn’t block those users on them to be fair. That has to be done individually.

It blocks notifications of replies.

Sometimes I’ll notice a .ml responded to me, and if they seem decent I’ll reply back. But I’ll never get a notification and that’s almost always as far as it goes.

Which is fine. Lots of people can make one civil comment to rope someone in a conversation.

just advising new users to watch where they are active; I

Your profile has 10 posts/comments and has been around for a week…

Are you the original OP who just keeps making new accounts to spam this?

Or do you think 10 posts/comments over a week means you understand Lemmy and should reach out to teach “new users”?

World is kind of the vanilla instance.

Just.works is a “free speech” instance, I never see many communities hosted there, but a large amount of trolls make accounts there because just.works is unlikely to nuke an account.

Yeah, a little suspect OP’s account is a week old with barely double digit posts/comments if you combine them and most are from this post…

I’m guessing their favorite (of many) accounts got blocked by .ml, so now they don’t want anyone going there.

I don’t get the .ml drama tho, never have. I realized it was a silly place long ago, so I blocked the whole instance.

I did the same for a couple others. It takes like two seconds.

Who cares if it has bigger communities than others? If that’s all I cared about I’d still be on Reddit

I think a lot or people (like OP) can’t drop this mindset because they’re not on the fediverse willinging. It’s probably the only social media site where IP bans aren’t a thing. So people IP banned from the big ones, are gonna trickle down here and do dumb drama hunting shit like OP.

The only thing that makes sense in my head as to why Until Dawn is underperforming is the game’s lack of promotion. Aside from a couple of trailers, I have barely seen Sony promote this remaster.

Couldn’t possibly be that people don’t want to keep paying new game prices for remasters…

People live rebuying decade old console exclusives on the next console generation.

I mean, the NG+ mechanic is handled incredibly well.

The rest of the game is decent, but it’s definitely geared towards kids. Probably the “cleanest” modern rpg, there’s still some drugs/booze, but that’s pretty much it. And while you can be evil, there’s not a single evil companion. It’s like a PG fallout in space.

But considering all the bad things I heard about it. I was really surprised with how good of a game it was.

Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it

I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…

It’s always corporations

It’s usually a pretty hard sell of “make the company you work at shittier to make more money”, especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.

And most of the ones with the high percent have been there since the beginning, probably close to Gabe’s age, looking towards retirement. They make good money, but retirement is expensive.

I mean. That link from this year said Microsoft was thinking 16 billion. 1% of that is 160 million.

Or they may die and their kids see dollar signs when a vote comes up

Steam is great now, it’s not debatable. But its naive to expect it indefinitely. 10 years, 20 years from now? It wouldn’t be surprising if Valve was a lot shittier than it is today

It won’t last forever

Usually it’s forced arbitration, you can’t sue

It really favors the company. Steam is explicitly saying no arbitration which levels the playing field.

Arbitration doesn’t save money. You still need lawyers.

What’s bigger is this explicitly says it allows class actions. Something that most prevent and require individual arbitration, consumers are better off when they can pool resources for lawyers against a giant corporation, especially since most would require an upfront payment for a large class action.

Not sure, apparently the 25% figure is really new, Wikipedia is sourcing something from 2017 that says he has 50+.

This is the most up to date I can find that attributes a source

https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/

Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve. This suggests that a significant portion of Newell’s wealth is tied to his equity in the company. The decision to sell Valve wouldn’t rest solely with Newell; numerous employees who likely hold stock options could also have a say through a voting process if an offer were made.

So it sounds like a lot was given to employees from the beginning, which track with Gabe.

Then he may have cashed out a couple times, but I doubt that when he could just do the billionaire thing where he borrows against his stock counting on the value increasing enough to pay off the last with a new?

But then again Gabe is different and might not do that out of principle.

It’s not publicly traded, so I guess we don’t really know unless Valve discloses who owns what. Which I just realized is pretty concerning on its own.

Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.

He could be pushed out at anytime. It’s this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.

But Gabe won’t last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely

Steam is already a huge outlier