Not in the slightest in this case. He very much did say that live and also still stands by what was said. The idea that you need someone to walk you though it to such a degree is odd and likely is because you are looking for a particular reality that you can agree with.
Like I could understand if we were talking about some event that had opposing claims here, but in this case the man in question does not even deny that was what he said. And if you want "the context" more then what was on that clip, the live stream was just that he was made aware of the campaign and this is how he reacted.
This initiative can eat my ass, the whole thing. It can eat my entire ass
https://youtu.be/GuTp4Am51i0?t=395
Its like the most used clip in almost any coverage of this, I don't get why you keep asking as if its not a well documented thing.
...he’s dealing with such fall out over an opinion in an industry he’s active in...
Congrats to him, he is now the poster child of everything everyone hates about the industry. And its all due to his own ego centred actions.
Please stop felatioing the game companies. The issue everyone had on his hot take is that by the very same logic no regulation on any company is warranted, and that is insane. Its just more of a bad industry wanting to have their cake and eat it as well.
The solution to this mess is not simple, but it will not be to hide things that may offend people, to stick heads into sand or control speech.
The very idea that someone needs to follow a "non-offensive" guide in political commentary is very much a part of how the us is in the mess it is.
No rules it seems as well. That one image has more "boring dystopia" in it then most feel good news stories.
Wait, "alamy" claims ownership of the picture?! As in monetizing the fucking Holocaust!?
Oh yeah, but watching this from outside is leading me to believe that there is no unifying force in the usa. Also it seems every american thinks that they are in the majority and that someone will swoop in anyday now.
Really at this point the damage is done. Rule of law is gone, international relations permanently damaged if not out right destroyed, literal masked goons on the streets picking up undesirables and 1000 other indications that the usa as a nation is done (at least as a free one).
Well its here, and I can hope/dream its the dumb type of fascism that collapses under its own weight.
I will be a touch disappointed if there is still a us in 2028.
I don't think that the us is worth saving at this point.
Glad I just got one from a yard sale. I don't really have a use for it, just fixed it and think it is nice to stand in my front yard at the beginning and end of each day (within the legal noise ordinance) revving it up and blowing nothing. Just for my neighbours.
Wait, you can eat heath care?
Manitoba remains my least favored province. But the snakes are cool at least.
Ah, now this is the good sort of cross posting that got me banned from uplifting news.
At least they are not charging American Express numbers. (really blowing out your closest trading partner over 3% on netflix is nuts)
The part where "in 7 days we will tell Canada what they have to pay" is going to be interesting.
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/29313889
> Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70. > > Parliamentarians passed a bill mandating the rise on Thursday, with 81 votes in favor and 21 against. > > The new law will apply to people born after December 31, 1970. The current retirement age is 67 on average, but it can go up to 69 for those born on January 1, 1967, or later. > > The rise is needed in order to be able to “afford proper welfare for future generations,” employment minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen said in a press release Thursday.
Trump has supported use of asbestos and blamed the mob for its bad reputation.
The FDA Commissioner also promoted a report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, which President Donald Trump's administration released earlier this week
Why don't they just have a better pancreas?
Kansas’ law says that, if someone can access an explicit site without being prompted for age verification, they can report it to the attorney general.
A new autonomous vehicle framework would also make it easier for Tesla and other companies to research domestically made self-driving cars that don’t meet all federal safety standards.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62309984
> Automakers and tech developers testing and deploying self-driving and advanced driver assistance features will no longer have to report as much detailed, public crash information to the federal government, according to a new framework released today by the US Department of Transportation. > > https://archive.ph/wWwjG
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated following the death of Pope Francis on Monday. "Today there were major shifts in global leaderships," Greene wrote on X just hours after the pontiff died. "Evil is being defeated by the hand of God." Greene's remarks came after Rep. Nancy Mace's (R.....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28523918
> This made me laugh incredibly hard, so had to cross post it.
A group of islands, occupied only by penguins and seals, has been swept up in Trump's trade war.
Yeap, the clown car gets another clown.
‘For $5 million, this could be yours,’ Trump says of card available to wealthy immigrants to buy a right to live and work in the U.S.
A court in the Flemish Brabant city of Leuven has refrained from passing sentence on a 24-year-old medical student found guilty of the rape of a fellow student in November 2023. The judge decided not to pass sentence which means that although found guilty of rape the student will not have a criminal...
Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage
The children yearn for the fields
'May God have mercy on your souls, because this court will not,” Circuit Court Judge MaryClaire Akers said as she sentenced Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, to 215 years in prison and her husband, Donald Lantz, 64, to 160 years.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27304393
> Summary > > A West Virginia couple, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz, received prison sentences of 215 and 160 years, respectively, for forcing their five adopted Black children into slave labor. > > Authorities discovered the abuse after a welfare check revealed children locked in a shed without water or sanitation. > > The couple, charged with human trafficking, child neglect, and forced labor, targeted the children because of their race. > > The court ordered them to pay $280,000 in restitution each.
The three friends renovated the crumbling high school building into a unique apartment complex, while keeping the school’s hallways, auditorium, and gym intact.
The project is maybe not the worst idea, the $1400 rent a month though....
Oh and this was not the first plan:
“We were thinking of turning it into a WeWork space, a concert hall, a beer garden. We had no shortage of ideas on what to do with the space,”
Is this a joke? What else could be under that tarp? It even has a little flap for the plug.
I feel my ability to understand satire is being attacked by reality.
And I checked the comments and its a mix of musk riding:
"I don’t understand how people get so easily manipulated into hating someone that has done so much to change our life’s. Elon is great man and is doing great things for our country and uncovering so much corruption and honestly he needs more credit"
or thinking this is a joke:
"That’s not hiding the fact that there’s a swastikar under it"
cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1485960
> > Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.
I remember reading that the US fought a whole ass revolutionary war over this sort of thing. This has been 7 years of fight for these people.
“When police—including the FBI—raid the wrong house, they must be held responsible for the damages,” said IJ Senior Attorney Anya Bidwell. “The 11th Circuit let the government off the hook in this case, and we are hopeful that the Supreme Court will do the right thing and ensure that Americans can feel secure in their own homes.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24476818
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24467641
Update, this might be a terrible stunt:
