Not a gamer or a European, but it’s important to remember that none of these digital distribution platforms were ever your friends nor were they without problematic nature, especially so in the case of an entertainment medium that has attracted exceptionally reactionary and without decorum individuals.

Personally, I don’t see why anyone would patronise these platforms in the age of piracy, abandonware, and FLOSS games. Unless we’re talking about some super obscure game made by a not-famous person, shelling out money for a platform that will burn you one way or another in the future is just a bad move. Being nazi lovers on top of all these considerations should hopefully evoke some questions in the gaming crowd here.

Right sorry, must’ve misclicked

An ad hominem would be to dismiss an argument by attacking the person or circumstances. You know, like calling someone a Russian bot.

Secondly, I think you missed the point of the image. You claim to believe America is bad, but simultaneosly adopt it’s views on geopolitical rivals uncritically. Yes, including the view that anything that portrays the west in a negative light being “Russian propaganda”. Funnily enough, that’s the real ad hominem and is something incredibly common to hear coming out of liberals.

Edit: this was actually aimed at potustheplant, not Mayali. Clicked reply on the wrong comment.

Truly remarkable, you found a pizzacake comic that didn’t make me immediately recoil in utter cringe.

That’s not true, anarchists regularly allow themselves to be infiltrated by cops and closet white supremacists.

They have choice, the choice to not hitch themselves with NATO.

Having had the displeasure of speaking to some Ukrainians before, I can tell you they share the same views on race and ethnicity as some 19th century racialists. One straight up told me that people of different cultures have inherent racial “essences” and that ethnic Russians are just inherently bad because of that. 0 material analysis or understanding of how they ended up where they are today, just falling completely back on Nazi/Zionist-esque race science.

On top of that, Zelenskyy is a Zionist that would like Ukraine to be a “Big Israel”. The man is also a comprador. I knew from day one when I heard the West praising a guy I had never before heard of in my entire life that it was all bullshit without even looking into it further. Plus, the fact that the local right-wing pro-Israel parties were ride or die for Ukraine was also an early sign for me that I was right to be skeptical.