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This feels to me like the sort of joke someone would make if they also frequently experienced the first part

Yeah even putting this situation aside I wasn't that gassed for GOY. I played GOT and enjoyed it sure, but it was yet another typical open world action-adventure game with no innovation at all really, basically the same gameplay we've seen countless times at this point. It just had a halfway decent story, which is a low bar for video games, and looked really pretty. And what you say is very true I agree, "by weebs, for weebs"

Edit: oh my god I knew there were apparently new gameplay elements in GOY. I hadn't looked it up but suspected it would again be nothing new. And yeah most of it is but I did see they have something...unique. The "Watanabe mode" where it plays lofi beats music over you playing. So cringe

I just looked it up now seeing as I hadn't heard of this either

From what I can gather one of the senior members of the development team, Drew Harrison, made a (mild) joke in a tweet about the suspected shooter in Charlie Kirk's death. Loads of right wingers, being the thin skinned, wannabe victims but apparently "free speech warriors" that they are, harassed her and contacted Sucker Punch trying to get her fired, threatening to boycott the game and so on. Sucker Punch and/or Sony predictably caved and did so

If I'm missing anything, please feel free to add to this. As I say I'm only just hearing about it and haven't gone on a deep dive about it

No worries! I can totally see how it could be easily misread as "I've" and that would have made what I said really not good. I just saw people were downvoting me too so I thought it was multiple people thinking I wasn't joking

Have people...actually thought I was being serious?

It's been the biggest supporter of Israel from the beginning. The US support is just a distraction from where the true power comes from

If he wanted progressivism he would have gone ahead and started on that over a year ago when they got into power. Going off his and his cabinet's words and actions so far he really doesn't want progressivism. I'll wait and see what happens but this just seems like he's trying to capitalise on the Your Party controversy, hoping by saying stuff like this that some of the people who went over to YP from Labour come back

You're framing this like I'm here claiming Sultana is the reason for this shitshow. I didn't. She isn't 100% responsible, but is clearly very much a key part of it. I'm saying the whole thing has been done badly so far. I'm not saying she individually stole all the money, I'm saying in the name of the party she went ahead with it when it's something that should have been decided between them. And yes MOU have backed her up. Who are made up of pretty much her faction in this whole thing right? Wasn't her faction being in control of the finances part of an attempt to have the power in the party spread around? It clearly isn't working out and certain things should absolutely be agreed on as a whole, while power being allocated in a better way

A lot of what you've just said here, about Corbyn and so on, just further illustrates my point. The party is in complete disarray. Why should people be giving away their money to this, as it is now? The criticism isn't based in just there being disagreements. It's clearly far more than just disagreements and there's not a single good thing they've done in their existence. to make the bad look less bad. Yes it's early days but your point about the mainstream media being against us is true. So they should be even more vigilant and tightly coordinated so that the terrible press can be avoided as much as possible. As I've said already, all of what they're "disagreeing" on should have been discussed and finalised long ago. I'm not wanting said "disagreements" to be silenced either, I'm asking for them to be sorted out. I've made that clear. Neither am I exaggerating this. It's you who's seemingly trying to make out none of this is a big deal and is a very normal thing and we shouldn't really be bothered because... our enemies do it?

Novara aren't trying to cause things to go badly with this. You do realise they're the biggest actually left wing/far left media outlet in the UK right? And that they don't have ads or even any restricted content, all their funding comes from reader donations? I disagree with them sometimes, particularly some stuff Bastani and Walker have come out with, but they're not wrong to criticise here. They want this party to work and they're calling for unity and for opportunity, time and money not to wasted on easily avoidable, embarrassing things like this. I'm not expecting you to but if you want you can listen to their podcasts on what's happening with Your Party. You'll see it's very much the case they want this to do well

Your last paragraph I'm not sure exactly how to respond? I guess just how in any way are Your Party proving to us that they're doing well working towards building a party that can handle disagreements? The rest is confusing to me, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say. A lot of what you've written as a whole seems like you aren't actually reading what I'm saying

Why bring Johnson and Trump into it? Novara obviously aren't supportive of them

And yeah ostensibly the party is for the members and their control but let's be real, this isn't how it's gone so far. Sultana did this without consensus and took thousands upon thousands of peoples money, they got over £1m in one day. What should have been a huge opportunity to get momentum going and leave behind the shitshow that happened around Your Party being announced in the beginning just turned into an even bigger shitshow

Huge amounts of people feel betrayed by this and rightly so. All those people being lied to and having their money taken, some paying over £50 towards it. And now it's opened the party up to fraud investigations and so on. Not saying the fault is solely with Sultana by the way, just she seems to be most responsible

Your argument is almost entirely whataboutisms. We can't be doing what most people do and just deny wrong that our own side does and deflect with examples of the other side doing the same thing. It doesn't help anything and means we don't learn from mistakes. All of this stuff around membership, fees and so on should have been hashed out so long ago at this point between them, ideally before they even announced the party. It's very basic stuff

We desperately need a united antifascist popular front with as many non-fascists in it as possible. We don't have time to fuck about with stuff like this. I'm not usually one who bangs on about left unity that much but it absolutely needs to happen now. I'm hoping this is the last of the big fuckups and we can get on with stopping our rapid descent into fascism

Wow fair enough, I've heard so many do it. Obviously I don't know your background but I think maybe it's because I grew up and have spent a fair bit of my adult life in the northern countryside? The non-White English demographic round my home region is very low. And I've never met a Spaniard or Latin person around there either, I'm pretty sure. Just a theory, anyways

I should make clear by the way that I didn't think every person from the UK does this. I realise it might have come across that way now

Haha thanks I appreciate your kind words. I'm not one for dying on hills, I'll save myself the later shame and anxiety setting in I get from being belligerent