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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have really bad news if you think this wasn’t exactly what happened when they wrote the bible…

  If you’re agreeing he didn’t invent shit, I’d recommend amending your comment saying that he did. No need to add legitimacy where there isn’t any. No pressure though.

  As for gog, the deed is done and out in the world. Whatever they do from here on out, it will be with this burden attached.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re agreeing he didn’t invent shit

    Not even slightly and please don’t try to put words in my mouth, but I don’t particularly feel like going on about how no human creation is truly original or you know, defending a nazi right now.

    it will be with this burden attached

    Probably this will be forgiven provided they don’t do anything more indicative of actually being Nazis. I’m not sure it should be given the spectacular process failures needed to knowingly email out a bunch nazi symbology, their history of trans/homophobic jokes, their insanely miserable work culture… but it probably will be, much as all those previous examples were. It’s depressing.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, they have a history of bigoted jokes?

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To their credit not recently, but it’s all stuff like with this nazi email:

        dailydot.com/parsec/gog-transphobic-joke

        which are deeply tasteless but hypothetically just really dumb mistakes until they come in and clarify that that they knew what they were doing the whole time.

        Even then it’s not unforgivable it’s just… really stupid and tone deaf. But the examples of them being really stupid and tone deaf keep piling up and it’s getting harder to overlook.

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not even slightly, but I don’t particularly feel like going on about how no human creation is truly original, waxing interminable over the distinction between symbols and concepts or, you know, defending a nazi right now.

      But in a way, we kinda have to. I mean, are the nazis today the same as the nazis which started this movement or are they a separate entity and should be treated as such? Are all the nazi groups today are their own inventions and should they be granted the so-called ‘honour’ of having invented their particular brand of ‘doppelnazism’? Or should we reserve that for when one particular branch starts calling itself something else and only looks to have been inspired by nazism, but is something else entirely?

      Yeah, history is a continuous chain reaction. And the problem with fixating on specific points as the start of something has the disadvantages of ignoring everything which lead up to it and disagreeing on which point to put an end to it.

      With your point of view, nazism ended with the second world war and what we suffer now is something different. A new invention as you say.

      With my point of view, the dude didn’t invent shit and just stole what was already there and now we’re dealing with more of the same, the major difference being there’s no new brand of terror to set them apart visibly.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But in a way, we kinda have to.

        Uh, no? No we don’t? I’ve already expressed an utter lack of interest in arguing about this with you - this hasn’t changed.

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