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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 150 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Ffs trump and his lackeys making even Sweeney look good

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 84 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, I don’t recall ever reading a Tim Sweeney quote and thinking, “that sounds about right.”

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Likewise, I now feel like I need to scrub clean my soul.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Eh he once gave me an all you can drink pass at the after party for a gaming convention in Melbourne.

So the quote is ‘get whatever you want, drinks are on me tonight’.

Its still a complete mystery how I made it back to my hotel with no map, no local knowledge and on foot.

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[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm just sitting here fingers crossed that Gabe doesn't "donate" to the orange dipshit....

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

He's also swimming in Chinese money, so this might not be a purely altruistic statement.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

trump has opened the portal to Bizzaro World

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 96 points 11 months ago (3 children)

For the first time in my life I'm actually agreeing with Tim Sweeney. I hate the guy but at least he has the balls to say it like it is. The rest of them are just cowards.

[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 79 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican

to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'

doesn't that just make them… a Republican?

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Right? I feel like almost every 'Republican' is just an opportunist that likes to cherry pick the things Republicans supposedly stand for these days. I think any people out there who can say that they wholeheartedly agree with every talking point on the Republican agenda (the ones that don't shift constantly) then they are horrible, horrible, terrible soulless excuses for human beings.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

no-you-spiderman.jpg

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

Saammee. He's an endless stream of bad takes, but I find myself in agreement with this

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

heartbreaking: worst person you know made a great point

[–] str82L@lemmy.world 76 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you have to pretend to be bad to get your own way, maybe you are in fact bad after all?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 66 points 11 months ago

They're not pretending to be bad, they're pretending to care about what the Republicans care about. They're very openly bad people

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They ain't pretending.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they may retain a different self-image, but their actions & goals are in line with Republican ideology.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's rich coming from Tim Sweeney, but hey for once he accidently spoke the truth

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well Tim you went from a -10 in my books to a -8 with this. Keep it up.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

God damnit sweeny. You have had a visit from the ghost of Christmas past or something?

Don’t make me agree with you.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Doesn't that just make them republicans?

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks Capt. Obvious.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So basically the morality of an opportunistic infection

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So.... Republican.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The Democratic Party too is a big tent

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you want those things then you are a republican, there's no pretending.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

If the democrats would have given them those, they'd have continued their "woke capitalism" arc...

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

I'm not used to this kind of honesty from CEOs. This is epic

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago

I've done nothing but trash talk this man, but I have to take this opportunity to praise and give him the respect he deserves for calling this out.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 13 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I believe the word you’re looking for is capitalism. Unbridled late stage capitalism.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

Trump/MAGA is a big corrupt scam. After election, CNBC had guests that you should go all in on smaller companies, because "deregulation will be magic for them". Truth is, only those buying Trump's favour will be granted exemptions from blanket tariffs, and will receive H1B worker allotments. Rest of economy will be destroyed. Tesla specifically gain gain significantly by destroying US/Canada big 3 auto production, and fast tracking FSD approval/deregulation. FB/Google will give enough to ensure tiktok ban.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 10 points 11 months ago

even a broken clock...

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you're at a table with nine Nazis and you don't leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won't care why you were at the table, just that you were there.

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[–] Jinni@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call it pretending but... Yeah, no shit.

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Guys it was just a prank. I’m not really fascist, I was just pretending. I just gave money to the fascists as a joke, isn’t that funny?

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Epic got so much bullshit for - reads annotation - making platform exclusives that were only temporary and helped developers with stable financing with better terms.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

After pulling those games off other stores, some of which refused to refund pre orders

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

One of the only CEOs speaking truth.

[–] WilderSeek@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Eh? I think they're trying to prevent Musk from becoming an AI god.

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[–] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 4 points 11 months ago

Wild how many men are legit actually pro rape as a policy position (August COUGH)

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