Steam has a massive catalogue. I doubt Nintendo could ever match it given how different the goals of the companies are.

That being said Switch will outsell the SteamDeck because the Switch is shipped kid safe. You need to actually do things on the SteamDeck to make it safe for kids.

That’s really sad. Family should be a source of love and support even when you are in a bad place. Im sorry if that hasn’t been the case for you.

That’sa sad perspective to have on family.

That changes nothing. You need to decode whether you want your brother in your life and how much if the family ypu would want cutting off.

Because it is their brother’s wedding and there’s a chance he won’t be a fascist in the future but he’ll always be family?

You didn’t start off talking this way. You shifted to it when I challenged you in ways you normally aren’t for example by pointing out the many ways in which China has abandoned leftist ideal by supporting an investor class and exploiting the working classes to enrich the elites. You don’t have a built in reply because you’re used to arguing talking points not having to actually think.

You seemed to actually be capable of thinking so it is sad that you made this choice.

Are you capable of having an informed adult conversation? You seem to be struggling with your ability to respond intelligently. If you really think you have a valid point to make then do that. If you can only respond in pre-drafted talking points you picked up from the internet consider not replying and maybe read a book.

fir fucks sake you think economists are the ones making lusts of what constitutes freedom

Do you not see how much of a non-response you gave? It’s a strawman. At no point have I made any untrue statements. Please try to demonstrate how not being able to decide the direction and philosophy of your government in any meaningful manner makes you free.

I hope you realize how illogical your arguments are here because you aren’t making any coherent point other than demonstrating a lack of real education on these subjects.

No the metrics for freedom aren’t invented by economists but are determined by political scientists. I think you’re demonstrating a common failure in Leftists who are self educated in leftism in that ypu have reactionary responses to situations you aren’t informed on.

What metric are you taking issue with? Self determination is always the biggest one and Chinese citizens do not have this. If the masses wanted to pursue Communism harder and Xi did not (and he does not) they don’t have this option. Not being able to decide the direction of your nation is a significant sign of oppression.

You do not have equivalent rights under the law as gay people because you cannot marry and domestic partner rights are less than married. There is no path to LGB+ marriage. I’m just not as equal in China.

Do we need to address freedom of speech? You have more in most nations than in China.

Look at that 3 major freedoms none of which are economic and all of which China is just bad at. You started everything repeatedly suggesting I bought into propaganda and Im hoping you see how much propaganda you are accepting uncritically here.

I don’t know what country you live in but we clearly do not reside in the same nation or state of mind if you believe what you claim.

Regardless Im not here to defend America. China being substantially less free by every metric than many other nations is an easily verified fact.

Ypu don’t have to be authoritarian to meet people’s basic needs. China chooses authoritarianism because it benefits their investor class nit because it benefits the working class.

I don’t understand why anyone claiming to support liberty or freedom would back China. That’s like joining the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s dept because you want to fight back against gangs.

And many nations do all of those things better than China while retaining greater individual freedoms. We don’t have to become authoritarians to achieve this goal.

Gotcha, that would make sense.

I too took a break until recently.

I still think you need to take a minute to look into how much freer many nations are on a fundamental level than China. That’s not propaganda it’s factual. Not every nation or government values freedom equally.

Are you talking world or oneninetysix which is also blåhaj? Blåhaj has no warning on this for the instance

As an aside if your claims that “defending inherently inequitable and oppressive systems such as capitalism, fascism, genocide, and imperialism are forbidden in this community.” doesn’t seem to appear in the guidelines for what is not approved in that instance. If this is your actual policy you should include that information in your sidebar.

You can do some grand conspiracies as my grandfather knew it was odd that the DoD in WWII wouldn’t let him talk about the math he was doing but he figured there had to be some reason (the Manhattan Project) but didn’t know what it was for.

Orban’s allies bought up the media that opposed him before the elections. Something like that could never happen in the USA…/s

Election interference would conservatively require thousands of people working together in secret. It us extremely unlikely Trump was able to cheat like this.

Trump won because stupid people believed he could or would bring down prices and voted for him more than they voted for Harris.

You’re familiar with these claims but do ypu understand what they mean? I don’t think ypu have a clue.

You can compare the rights people have. China is going to be near the bottom of any logical assessment of rights as Chinese people do not have the rightsto free speech, the right to free expression, the right to determine the direction of the Chinese state who h ultimately means there is no freedom.

Im not defending America. Im rejecting the objectively flawed claim that they are as free as other nations when they are not. You currently have greater rights in Norway than you do in China. Hopefully you can see the difference.

Finally if ypu cannot defend capitalism here why are you defending China a nation wth a stock market and investor class? What economic theory are they pursuing when for-profit banks are investing in foreign companies and not ceding control to the workers? China is a capitalist nation wearing the skin of a socialist nation much like America currently wears the skin of a capitalist democracy.

Nope less free across the board. China is a repressive state when it comes to rights. This isn’t an opinion it is a fact. There are countries freer than the USA but the overwhelming majority of nations are freer than China.

Have you ever studied any political philosophy in a formal setting? Im suspecting you have not since you seem to not understand what constitutes “freedom” in this context.

In China you can’t suggest they stop having their current government. That’s a HUGE problem if you are trying to argue how free a society us as it means the masses have no say in their future.

I have protested against the state nany times. I have directly stated to Governor Mitt Romney, who was in office at the time, that I hoped he was a single term governor. I haven’t been arrested for that.

I have protested every military conflict the USA has been involved in since 1991 and Im not in jail.

Stating China is less free is a fact that’s not propaganda.