Cabrio
joined 2 years ago
Thankfully I live in a country with social safety nets and universal healthcare.
Just saying that trust in Gaben and trust in Valve are two separate things. Valve has been doing fine without Gaben at the wheel.
I should look at getting fluorescent strip lighting and false walls for my house.
Gaben has been hands off at valve for a decade. He's off breaking world records with research submersibles. Playing with his rubber duckies in the bathtub.
What I feel isn't existential dread of my pending non-existance. What I feel is FOMO.
These people get their understanding of other cultures from the same sources they get all their other misinformation. Even if she was being genuine she'd be wrong by default.
I see your problem.
You don't believe people when they tell you who they are. You imagine their actions and their beliefs to be separate from the individual even though they are the beliefs and actions of the individual. Your idealism doesn't reflect reality.
apologist
/əˈpɒlədʒɪst/
noun
a person who offers an argument in defence of something controversial.
'critics said he was an apologist for colonialism'
synonyms: defender, supporter, upholder, advocate, proponent, exponent, propagandist, apostle, champion, backer, promoter, campaigner, spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson, speaker, arguer, enthusiast
They finally have their own cancer to fight instead of just being the cancer.
The sad part is that they could have gotten everything and they'd still have less workers rights than in other developed countries.
A worldview that is incompatible with the cooperation of society. If you want to go play apologist for a bigot you might as well be one.