"Why can't I just make an app or a service that is that successful? I know some very intelligent people, why did it work for those companies and not for us?" And it really all comes down to that.
They can hemmorhage money for decades and still be going because of investor support. Its a wonder anything works at all ever honestly. Its a weird system
That's fair I guess that would be true after awhile its really just the high cost that's the barrier of entry for people stuck with consoles. I wish this could change but looking at the reality of it all at the moment I don't think its going to change for a long time.
Also Broken Age is amazing such a gem of a game definitely finish it when you can you won't be disappointed.
You are right about this its a lot more involved mentally than I knew.
I originally thought you had meant that when he gave the list over they put him in a sanitorium after that. One of the people who knew him said that to and that that's why they thought he did that.
Wouldn't it bother you if someone were to put you on a list of people to keep tabs on to the government for that belief? I understand it was a different kind of communism but still.
The disappointment of finding out he did that would be comparable to like finding out my mom was a hooker or something. Just shattered my view of him honestly.
The government itself never said that was the only thing that would happen. It was one of his contemporaries quotes on that page, that said that was all that would happen. Why is that persons quote holding any more weight to you than the quotes contemporaries who were against him? If this is really all in the interest of truth then let's be truthful.
And yes I am anti communist I am aware of all that and yeah for sure I support him for what he's done to be against it and speak out about it. I agree with you on that. And yes someone else said "well it was either that or communism in the 70s which would you have picked" and YES I would have picked the UK of course.
Know what I wouldn't have done though? Given them names of people who's thoughts I think they should keep tabs on.
I don't care if they were communists or scientologists. It doesn't matter. That was absolutely a move of thought control and suppression. And was wrong. And I don't think its wrong to point that out about the dude. He made his own legacy and made his own actions himself.
Sure he has done a lot for leftism and I applaud that. But I HATE that he gave that list to them. Fast forward to an old lady being arrested on a street corner for speaking thought crimes and its a long line of people who did things just like he did to get it this way.
Being a snitch for the government isn't being a freedom fighter. Its the opposite of that.
also there are several lines of contempt from his peers of that list on that wiki I linked. You said there isn't much in the way of condemnation except from tankies but right there are SEVERAL of his contemporaries that were rightfully against it and said so. Did you not see those lines? Of course some sympathizers too. I get it. I am against communism too. But I'm not going secret police style and selling out my neighbors and shit that I suspect are sympathetic to it.
And I'm definitely not doing that and then wanting to be remembered as some hero of freedom and thought. Its kind of ridiculous that people just gloss over that he did that.
It is absolutely true that we both just get fed a great deal of propaganda from both sides.
And yeah USA has its own share of problems I will admit that.
But I've never seen a 84 year old woman get arrested in USA for speaking in an inside voice about being against a genocide.
Now sure here the cops will come and throw tear gas and maybe even kill a few people so I'm not saying that's great. It isn't.
But dude once you arrest old ladies for simply saying they are against the genocide of Palastenians then its over man. You don't live in a free society.
Now in USA they use anti Israel sentiment to try and look for reasons to deport visa holders (which is messed up) but they don't arrest citizens for saying it. I could go out on the street corner right now and talk just like that lady did about how Palestinians are being genoiceded while we do nothing and all about even how Trump and Epstein were buddies and nothing will happen to me. Nothing.
In the UK they can detain you for questioning because their face scans of you (that you can't refuse) look like some other dude who may or may not have done a crime.
In the UK they can arrest an 84 year old Lady for just saying she is against the targeted killing of an entire ethnicity of people and nothing else.
Bro, that is insane. You realize that is insane right? I'm not saying USA isn't insane our cops use citizens as target practice but god damn arresting old ladies for saying they don't support what Israel is doing? That's way more fucked up then anything going on in America.
I am not a tankie. I'm a person who is against people being hypocrites. What he did, was NOT freedom. What he did wasn't for the "greater good" even though he felt that way. What he did was akin to censorship and thought control. The very things he wrote about being against.
I respect his fighting for what he believed in. Its what I believe in too. But I would rather die and go to hell than give a list of people I suspected of being the enemy to a government propaganda office. He actually did that so no, that isn't propaganda. That's holding someone accountable for their actions. The actions that he absolutely did do.
Although I didn't realize about the sanitorium thing being around that time. (i looked that up and he wrote the list while he was already in a sanitorium being treated for tuberculosis. so no, his mind was ok) He was someone who talked the talk and then when it really came down to it, was in favor of thought control as long as it was the thoughts he agreed with. I hate that about his legacy and I can't ever bring myself to agree with that action.
I love 1984 and Animal Farm though. I agree with standing up against government oppression but the thing is I think you should do that whether that government is communist or democratic.
But turning in names of authors who he wanted the government to target is completely against every single message that both of those books taught.
And no, I'm not a tankie. I am not a communist. But it bothers me that people can't understand how that action is completely messed up of him and goes against everything he tried to say he stood for.
"Well boys I sure hope you can get in to this because I lost the password ages ago I remember it was a set of 15 random words with capitals in random spots but just can't remember the order..."
Then your lawyer gets to tell the jury that you complied.
I mean just so you know this dude is making bucks off of YouTube views. Now, idk it its like a boatload of money but he is compensated for his time that way.
That said though imagine how bleak the world would be if no one stuck their neck out for anyone over something that didn't involve them. We should all try to help the common man if we can.
I think about this all the time.
"Why can't I just make an app or a service that is that successful? I know some very intelligent people, why did it work for those companies and not for us?" And it really all comes down to that.
They can hemmorhage money for decades and still be going because of investor support. Its a wonder anything works at all ever honestly. Its a weird system