These people are fascists by definition. This is only feature 12 of 14, but they check every single box in the list.

Mike Godwin: “By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis”

But also, the qualification of certain types of art as “degenerate” is a symptom of second feature of Ur-Fascism, “traditionalism.”

Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.

Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism

Two that I can remember.

• To The Moon
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Excellent storytelling transcends the medium, but it’s a shame that there are so few games that have managed to tug at my heartstrings.

Edit: I am reading the comments and making a list. Sometimes a good cry is the catharsis an aching soul needs.

I’m only surprised it took this long.

You haven’t provided a lot of detail on what your current setup looks like. If you use a gaming-focused distro like Cachy or Bazzite they should essentially work “out of the box.” Bazzite is also very difficult to break since the immutability makes for very effective guard rails for new users.

If you went with Arch right off the bat, you did take on quite a lot for a new user, but - and I do genuinely mean this - there is no better way to learn the ins and outs of Linux than jumping into the Arch deep end. Even if you choose to switch to a lower-maintenance distro, your effort with Arch is never wasted.

Want a very low maintenance gaming distro with almost no setup? Bazzite.
Want a more hands-on gaming centric distro like SteamOS? CachyOS.
Want a more stable all-around distro that also works great for gaming? Fedora.

Avoid Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu. You will see Mint recommended often, but I personally only recommend it for older hardware that you are trying to revitalize. There are better options.

A new version of Debian just released, and there is no more rock solid distro than Debian. Add KDE Plasma and you will have a very low maintenance, pleasantly familiar, extremely reliable system.

Neither Secure Boot nor TPM were ever actually about security and neither meaningfully improves security. They are DRM features that exist solely to ensure you can never truly own the things you buy.

Except it was never about cheaters. It’s about DRM. You don’t own the things you buy and they want to make sure it stays that way.

It just got infinitely worse.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/trump-national-guard-dc-takeover-live-updates/85606803007/

But you know what other people mean when they refer to “authoritarian left” and to pretend otherwise is just counterproductive.

The term “authoritarian left” is dangerous cold war era misinformation and capitalist propaganda. It’s important to correct this doublespeak every time it happens.

If you read your own link you find that what is being described is still rightist. A nationalized economic policy does not make an authoritarian government leftist. If a ruling class, be it dictator or oligarchy, controls the economy then it does not belong to the people and is not leftist. It is feudalism wearing different pants.

When this bubble eventually bursts, and it will, the economic fallout is going to be catastrophic.

I am quite surprised at the amount of people that think people exist that would praise a monopoly and celebrate shareholder value.

If you’ve never been to the US, don’t. Half the population unironically hold those beliefs as sacred.

Distributed authority would be anarchist or more broadly libertarian.

Depending on the definitions you use, anarchism and leftism are synonyms. Libertarianism, also depending on definition, is a subset of leftism.

Authoritarianism is always rightist, regardless of how “benevolent” it paints itself. Benevolent rightism isn’t leftist, it’s still rightist.

So this study’s definition of “extreme left” is “extreme right?” There is no such thing as “authoritarian left” as they are opposites by definition. Distributed authority is leftist, consolidated authority is rightist. There’s a reason we have a pejorative for left-cosplaying rightists.

Recipe sites got bad long before AI thanks to SEO changes by Google that rewarded long, meandering text with repetitive term usage.

Point 3 of Umberto Eco’s traits of ur-fascism.

Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

Same. Intel and Nvidia are both on the boycott list.

As great as AMD is right now, I still don’t want them to become a monopoly. The fact that we have a duopoly is already a major problem.

Based on the last sentence, I believe it’s satire.

In the Itch.io incident, Stripe laid the blame for that on “banking partner” rules, claiming they were looking for ways to fix it.

Flipping them off just hurts their feelings. A thumbs down goes on their permanent record.