They’ve voluntarily bowed to the will of Chinese censorship in regards to ALL products worldwide. They basically proved that China has to approve all of their content and exert control over adjacent content. That would be bad by itself even without the fact that in this case, they sided against pro-democracy…

You have the right idea. Blizzard went from being an automatic, “I’ll check it out” to an automatic, “I will not buy any new Blizzard games and will remind my friends of their stance every time they try to move past this or release more content.”

Americans have been complaining about ivory tower intellectuals, using “know-it-all” as a derogatory term, and saying things like, “Those who can’t, teach,” since looooong before the 70's.

It’s not stated enough that the future of this planet is being threatened by the callous greed of less than a million people.

There is no next team, he’s done.

Corruption and abuse of authority are built in to American Christianity. The Salem witch trials demonstrate they’re older than the nation.

When people complain about late stage capitalism, they are specifically complaining about this laissez-faire, regulations-are-bad, parody of capitalism that betrays many aspects of the free market in favor of a simplistic “Rich means virtue and hard work!” Randian fantasy.

“Look, like whatever team you like, but don’t disrespect the city! You gotta be better than that!”

Apparently the modern aristocracy has started inbreeding to the point that they’ve become tone deaf and lost all sense of self awareness.

It only took getting to the phrase “members and staff of color... haven’t felt adequately affirmed in our spaces,” for me to realize this is probably a top down problem.

I’m surprised I can’t hear their principled defense of states’ and corporate rights. Probably getting drowned out by all the crickets in here.

Seriously, what the hell. I can’t imagine a context in which that isn’t stupid at best and passive aggressive towards the victim at worst.

It’s still just single digits!

Do you think valid concerns were exposed by the leaks? Do you believe that anyone authorized to have access to the information would have done anything (considering they hadn’t up until then)? Do you believe that if not made public, the illegal actions would have been investigated or curbed?

Name checks out.

That only matters if you subscribe to the notion that the wedding is more for the attendees than the couple. If they’re fine with it and had a happy day then the only people who are detracting from the day are the detractors. By criticizing the dinosaur, they’re basically saying the couple’s feelings are wrong and…

Stealing “the duality of man” as the best excuse ever.

They are getting the grimdark future they always wanted.

red really was scientifically the fastest color

He’s not some naive, virginal internet poster who stumbled out of of a research lab to try this “tweeting” thing either. He’s a media-savvy celebrity scientist who knows the nature of viral media. He also knows the danger of wading into the culture wars with thoughtless, cherry-picked statistics. Despite all that, he…