Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it

I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…

It’s always corporations

It’s usually a pretty hard sell of “make the company you work at shittier to make more money”, especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.

And most of the ones with the high percent have been there since the beginning, probably close to Gabe’s age, looking towards retirement. They make good money, but retirement is expensive.

I mean. That link from this year said Microsoft was thinking 16 billion. 1% of that is 160 million.

Or they may die and their kids see dollar signs when a vote comes up

Steam is great now, it’s not debatable. But its naive to expect it indefinitely. 10 years, 20 years from now? It wouldn’t be surprising if Valve was a lot shittier than it is today

It won’t last forever

Usually it’s forced arbitration, you can’t sue

It really favors the company. Steam is explicitly saying no arbitration which levels the playing field.

Arbitration doesn’t save money. You still need lawyers.

What’s bigger is this explicitly says it allows class actions. Something that most prevent and require individual arbitration, consumers are better off when they can pool resources for lawyers against a giant corporation, especially since most would require an upfront payment for a large class action.

Not sure, apparently the 25% figure is really new, Wikipedia is sourcing something from 2017 that says he has 50+.

This is the most up to date I can find that attributes a source

https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/

Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve. This suggests that a significant portion of Newell’s wealth is tied to his equity in the company. The decision to sell Valve wouldn’t rest solely with Newell; numerous employees who likely hold stock options could also have a say through a voting process if an offer were made.

So it sounds like a lot was given to employees from the beginning, which track with Gabe.

Then he may have cashed out a couple times, but I doubt that when he could just do the billionaire thing where he borrows against his stock counting on the value increasing enough to pay off the last with a new?

But then again Gabe is different and might not do that out of principle.

It’s not publicly traded, so I guess we don’t really know unless Valve discloses who owns what. Which I just realized is pretty concerning on its own.

Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.

He could be pushed out at anytime. It’s this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.

But Gabe won’t last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely

Steam is already a huge outlier

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/25/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#un-cease-fire-resolution-gaza-israel

Took like two seconds to find an example of Israel not stopping one of their genocides when the UNSC told them to stop…

Charlie Brown has commented that this time he is 100% confident Lucy won’t yank the football away for the millionth straight time…

The lawmakers pointed out that only an arms embargo to Israel — as has been ordered by international and domestic law — can result in the de-escalation of tensions that the Biden administration has claimed that it supports.

It’s fucking insane that Dem leadership is acting the same with Biden that Republicans did with trump.

He is and he’s been saying it for half a century…

But to truly believe Israel is the good guys working towards peace in 2024 is completely illogical and in direct opposition to every piece of intelligence that isn’t coming from Israel.

And he does seem to truly believe it, I don’t think he’s just lying to everyone. It’s no different than an elderly relative going hard trump, he’s being taken advantage of by a foreign government.

It’s not an excuse, and it’s definitely not a reason to let him keep doing this shit, but it’s important to understand why people do horrible shit like support a genocide.

Just write him off as a horrible monster and it’s hard to prevent it from happening again. That’s a big part of why we’re still fighting fascists all over the planet. It’s not enough to say they’re monsters, we need to understand the why so we can stop it from happening again

Biden is literally being taken advantage of by Israel at this point due to his age, or he’s flat out lying to everyone about what he thinks is happening.

Like, his continually denial of reality at this point doesn’t have any other explanation

He believes it and age isn’t just why he couldn’t be the candidate, it’s why he shouldn’t be president right now.

Or he knows that when people criticize him, people and the media will label them trump supporters for having standards higher than “not trump”. Which I’ll never understand but still happens online often.

Either way, Biden is faciliting a genocide.

Rightwing media could report the sky is blue, doesn’t mean everything in their article is true

That’s how most propaganda works, it’s not outright lies it’s reporting a true thing that’s been completely wrapped in bullshit.

I just don’t ever see the point of driving traffic to their site, like you just showed, it wasn’t the only option. Just the one you picked first.

Faux news reporting the IDF…

What’s the value of this article? At no point is anyone involved remotely trustworthy.

No one is disagreeing with that.

But using trump to defend supporting a genocide and cutting off aid to its victims will only depress turnout and help trump win.

What would help stop trump is the rest of the party (especially Harris) calling out Biden despite having the same letter by their name

With the added benefit of you know…

Not supporting a genocide and cutting off aid to its victims…

If you use trump to excuse this then how is that different than people excusing Trump’s extremely dangerous faults because they think Dems would potentially be worse?

Standards only matter if you hold your own “team” to them, if you don’t they’re not standards.

Blinken is only there because Biden needed someone willing to throw every last shred of integrity they have out the window.

It’s maddening that the party keeps demanding random republicans endorse Harris because Trump is so bad, but Harris won’t even admit that best case scenario Bidens brain is just as cooked.

Worst case scenario he’s mind isn’t gone and he’s still supporting a genocide.

But either way, grandpa shouldnt get to drive home from country Kitchen Buffet “one more time” when we all know he can’t drive. Either he should have stopped down, or gotten the 25th by now.

Straw is shaped like a straw…

Hay is like grass, it basically is grass really.

Genocidal fascists always hate the media…

The killing of journalists in the Israel–Hamas war, along with other acts of violence against journalists, marks the deadliest period for journalists in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict since 1992 and the deadliest conflict for journalists in the 21st century.[1] As of September 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists counted 116 journalists who were killed (111 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese),[2] and the International Federation of Journalists counted 134 journalists and media workers who were killed (127 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 3 Lebanese)[3] A July 2024 count by the Gaza government media office placed the number of Palestinian journalists killed at 160.[4][5]

On 30 January 2024, the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists stated, “Israel’s war on Gaza is more deadly to journalists than any previous war”.[6][7] Israeli airstrikes additionally damaged or destroyed an estimated 48 media facilities in Gaza.[8] Reporters Without Borders has reported that the Israeli army intentionally targeted Palestinian and Lebanese journalists.[8] The Guardian stated that contrary to international law, Israel had targeted Hamas-affiliated Palestinian journalists despite their non-involvement in combat, thus disputing Israel’s denial of targeting journalists.[9] In 2023, nearly 75% of journalists killed worldwide were Palestinians who had died in Israel’s war in Gaza.[10][9]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_Israel–Hamas_war**___**

Yes. This isnt the first time Israel has broken these laws…

That’s not true, but you said it confidently so people upvoted it without source…

People of all religions used to coexist in the area before the Brits declared they were in charge and segregation was a good idea.