Someone on bluesky said they're "beginning to suspect" I'm "on the right wing pipeline" because I hate Gabe Newell and his armada of megayachts.

[mayazimmerman@gamedev.lgbt]

@eniko Probably the same people who gave me shit on Facebook for "not supporting Equality Matters" (not changing my pfp to an equal sign) because they were actively throwing trans people under the bus.

[srazkvt@tech.lgbt]

@mayazimmerman @eniko on top of the fact that changing a pfp to a cause's symbol does nothing, if not removing individuality and self expression from people

(talking to you clippy avatars)

[xerozohar@retro.pizza]

@eniko that.... I.... But ... It's.....huh?!

[theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social]

@eniko This is fucking hilarious. The level of mental gymnastics just made my day. I have never heard of such an effortlessly perfect landing in the "completely incoherent nonsense" category. 10/10.

I mean, I think as far as billionaires go, I think he is pretty unobjectionable... but that's kind of like beating the fastest toddler in a race.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@SRAZKVT @mayazimmerman pretty sure it matters more what people say about a cause if they can be identified

[fabiosantoscode@mastodon.social]

@eniko maybe they assume by default that Gabe is progressive because he isn't famously a shithead? Maybe the bar *is* that low.

[igimenezblb@oldbytes.space]

@eniko
That website is very much the "fucked political opinions" space. Weirdest behavior I've seen when it comes to anti Covid/airborne pathogen activism. I don't discard the idea that a lot of accounts there are disingenuous, they're just too perfectly in the "regularly verbalizes poorly thought out opinions that everyone gets angry about" category.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@igimenezblb now i'm curious what you've seen in the anti Covid/airborne pathogen activism space there

[foxyoreos@gulp.cafe]

@eniko ..Right-wingers dislike Valve? Since.. since when?

When did disliking CEOs become a right-wing thing!?

[foxyoreos@gulp.cafe]

@eniko god help me I read the thread.

"Okay but this ONE billionare actually deserves their success" is not a Left-wing talking point what are we fucking doing I can't, this is divorced from political reality.

"Heh, I bet you believe that ALL cops are bastards instead of just some of them? Pretty right wing of you. /s

[foxyoreos@gulp.cafe]

@eniko if somepony is going to form a parasocial relationship, at least go form it with a streamer instead of a CEO.

[igimenezblb@oldbytes.space]

@eniko
Well not so much from the activists, more the reaction to them. Like, on Twitter you get the fascist abuse everyone's come to expect (even if we shouldn't normalize it). On bluesky, you get the Liberal version of that, which is less personal attacks and more getting called a conspiracy theorist or antivaxxer despite being backed up by scientific evidence. The place stinks of being stuck in the denial stage of grief.

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@eniko
Someone on BlueSky is an idiot and has no idea what the right wing is.

Though, right wing pipeline might be a good way to remove the output of the tree shredder we use to pulp billionaires...
@oblomov

[passocacornio@tech.lgbt]

@eniko I'm staring at the screen for so long because of that... I don't know if I am just misremembering, but didn't liberals used to also have this type of reaction regarding elon musk before he became THE neonazi "poster-child"?

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@passocacornio not sure what you mean by "this type of reaction"?

[passocacornio@tech.lgbt]

@eniko being this passionate about a billionaire to the point of accusing people of weird stuff like that

reactions like saying you're in the right-wing pipeline i mean...

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@passocacornio oh i gotcha yeah

the billionaire defenders are fucking weird like that

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@eniko Are they going to tell you about "horseshoe theory" next?

[jedimb@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@foxyoreos @eniko Imagine thinking the man deserves all that money when he won't even invest in proper moderation and harassment prevention for Steam.

[jdarkside@mastodon.social]

@eniko Reading that briefly game me a migrain. Amazing things going on at twitter 2