The thing that most bothers me is they fired the casters… I can’t see what they did wrong.
So what you want to do is ban any other form of business, and force them all to be cooperatives. Otherwise, I don’t how democracy and socialism come into it. A voluntary co-op is not democratic socialism.
Kaepernick didnt give a crap about his cause.
Interesting
…thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer
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Blizzard is experiencing this right now.
No it wasn’t. Also, you cannot act in accordance with a rule that can be applied to literally (not figuratively, literally) anything.
Another competitor was over-punished for speaking out against a totalitarian regime, so that Blizzard might profit from said regime?
Who?
Sure. Except he didn’t cheat.
EXCEPT FOR ALL OF IT.
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And your sudden heightened sensitivity as soon as I mentioned epoch times tells me what you are.
Such as? /10characters
I didn’t even know what it was until you mentioned it to me. I had to google it. Lol
By getting a business loan from the government, the same way people get research grants now.
Lot of missing the forest for the trees. “Good business”, or “Technically Correct” isn’t the same as a moral justification.
The bigger issue is that the public was sold the lie that opening our markets to china (with no stipulations on human rights, etc) would lead to liberalization. Instead, it’s been turned on it’s head to silence criticism of a brutally repressive dictatorship (Mao’s words) internationally.
Activision-Blizzard gets to be the face of that problem to a segment of the population for awhile. It highlights another problem in our society - that corporations for some reason are believed to be justified in acting in a totally psychopathic manner. “Rational Actor”, “For the shareholder”.
Which leads to another problem - as a society we’ve become enablers to this social construct. Working for a morally bankrupt company should rightly be seen as being morally bankrupt personally. But it isn’t.
Eli-Lilly is outright killing people while trying to profiteer from the fact insulin is in a protected class and medicare and medicaid (and patients) have to pay whatever they demand to stay alive. How you can work for a company like that and feel no sense of shame is beyond me.
Same with this. The company can hand you a line about how you should feel. It speaks volumes about whether you can accept it.
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So in other words, state run
got it
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Kapernick was more worried about Kapernick, and did what he did to stay relevant.
The thinking is that they knew what he was going to say, and didn’t stop him.
They absolutely don’t have any control over global geopolitics, that’s fair, and they’re not going to drop one of their largest markets overnight, either.
… But the way they handled the outburst was rather tactless. They could have had the same result without the complete PR nightmare they’re in right now.
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It’s hard to know what to do in the heat of the moment when the unexpected happens. Looking back is always 20/20, but I can’t blame them for how it was handled. The people that run these events are not seasoned politicians used to dealing with this kind of thing.
They are gamers, software developers, engineers, business people, and most importantly, Gamers.
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If they were gamers we wouldn’t have no PvP vendors and a continuous artifact grind that they call immersive gameplay. 
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Lol, I didn’t say they were “good” gamers.
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Crap, you got me there 
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“try to be fair and rational”
Rational: “Never do anything or speak out against unjust and unfair events because there is a high chance it might not do anything, especially dont support others doing that because that means maybe just enough people might notice and be loud and then maybe some more powerful people get forced to actually do something”
There needs to be a word for such behavior
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Is there a word? Or should we make one?
Pretty sure they made their stance very clear
You don’t need a lot of works to make a big political statement
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