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Youtube is for entertainment, not for news.
I hear it's for fashion now...
No, it's for Helsa's Mabinogi Jousting Tournaments
Your check is in the mail.
Thanks boss!
The fact that Epic Games of any company is criticizing Blizzard is absurd, given that they are a subsidiary under the control of Tencent, which doubtlessly has ties within the PRC Communist party.
I am not defending what Blizzard said, given that I am not interested in finding out what it is, but seriously, I like Blizzard a lot more than Epic Games. Trying to get cheap internet points by criticizing a company that hasn't tried to screw over gamers nearly as much as Epic has recently is just anger-inducing.
People using the claim that certain corporations having ties to a political party and government is using faulty logic. Just because certain individuals are members of a political party does not mean they are controlled by the government. And as a result, this is how certain groups with an agenda accomplish their goals by feeding material to the public and abusing their credibility to make claims that may not be true to gain support. In other words, this is called propaganda.
A claim doesn't rely on reasoning in that way. It is simply a positive statement about the world as it is. I suppose a claim can be made with regards to hernuitics of assumptions ala "to assume is to make an ass out of you and me".
With which I base my claim on the PRC's Communist Party's track record (It should be noted that the communist party is the sole party in power, as in the only party that's effectively legal) and Tencent's financial and political clout. It is a very powerful multinational corporation.
I am honestly not sure what it is that you are saying about my previous statement. I am stupid, but can you tie it in a way I can understand?
Not only was he banned, but the price money was taken away, and the interviewers got fired despite them not being involved on his views, their response also only made it worse. One could say that Blizzard tried to please China a bit too hard and it made everyone upset over it.
I think I'm just a cruel person though sometimesIf supporting democracy means to hurt people who do not support your movement, I don't know what democracy is anymore.
I am honestly not sure what is happening, but if I have to something troubling about democracy, it is that prerequisite would be the legalized means to seek a redress of grievance. A democratic system only works when there are avenues available for everyone to address their concerns; of course, if no such avenues effectively exist, then one isn't really living in a democracy, now are they?
To which resistance, even forceful resistance, may have a place, however the propensity it is to devolve into demagogues turned would-be tyrants trying to wrestle power away from one another.
In short, violence is abhorrent within a democracy, but it is an entirely different scenario to fight for it, rather. Whether or not the latter is justified depends on how we view certain conflicts. Sometimes, one must pick the gun up so that everyone can learn to put it down, to be blunt about my views.
Of course, there are issues where democracy is itself the masses oppressing the minorities, but that is a tangential topic.
But in this situation, most people don't even look at the full picture and immediately back the side that supposedly has grievances. And I believe that is very wrong.
Ah, so criticizing the practice and faulty logic instead of the conclusion? That's a rare breed of critical thinking you are practicing, Ken.
I will be honest, I am honestly discussing with myself the idea of moral "imperialism", that I cooked up quite some time ago. If moral claims are normative claims that are to be applied universally, (Think Kant's Categorical Imperative), then would it not be fully consistent to apply our morality on others, and thus hold them accountable to our ethics instead of our own?
At least, I think that's what I was originally asking myself, but it is 1 AM and I just got home. =_=
There should also be a line drawn for multiple sides on what is considered moral or immoral, what is justified and injustice. The issue is being able to come to a consensus on what that line is.
silly girl, you're not allowed politics
edit: nvm i fully support the pro democracy anti china blizzard bad propaganda, dont mind me
also keep politics out of my games in any other situation because freedum only applies to things i support
Clear as distilled mud.
Basically, it is inception. The Communist Party of China has an army, and that army has an air force and a navy.
...*Inception