Who cares? Israel has about as much standing to speak for jews as my local pastor has for speaking as the pope.

The living victims of the holocaust dont agree with you.

It probably shouldnt go 100% directly to the hostages.

You could start by actually making an attempt at good faith discussion, instead of pedantic attempts to hide from the point.

But we both know you dont want to do that, because youre not actually here for productive discussion.

Nice, more bad faith misinterpreting of the point

The irony is immense.

You arent actually putting forward a productive premise, of course no one is treating it as such

Scam? Its fucking red, right there in the image!

Only thing mildly infuriating here is that op posted this

Nah. The US just doesnt want to lose the strategic advantage of israel as an ally.

Thats literally all it is. A spot on the game board is more valuable than human lives.

Biden is still lying about headless babies, so yes.

Its astounding, he found the single hill to die on that gives trump a shot of winning the election. Democrats really are head-up-ass stupid

Ill probably have lost interest by then, rocksteady. Other games will have come out finished by then that Ill be busy with.

I think Ill just wait to see what it looks like on release. If you are putting stock in faith about a game you just learned might be coming out, you might need to chill

And a steam page, that still advertises it as an mmo

Thats an odd lie, as youve already stated that you do not value art paid for on spotify if it isnt popular enough.

People have spent money on this art, that spotify is now refusing to pay for. You have repeatedly stated you think that money isnt deserved, despite being paid.

Why are you changing the story now?

I now completely understand how artists get ripped off.

Youre almost gleeful in it. You sound damn near excited not to be paid for your work. Its like you think your work isnt worth the money.

Is it, like. A fetish thing? Some domination kink?

Damn, dude, you are insanely self obsessed, huh?

I dont have any content on spotify, but thats neither relevant nor the point.

This isnt immoral or wrong because it is negative for me, directly and specifically. Its not okay to rip off artists until Im the one ripped off. Its wrong to do to anyone.

Did they stop teaching that in schools, or something? What brain rot is this? Do you stand by and twiddle thumbs when you see someones purse get nabbed? Do you cheer, cause the theif got a windfall?

Cool story bro, it has nothing to do with spotify ripping off artists.

Good for you that youre okay with being ripped off by spotify? I guess? But we arent talking about what immoral actions you are willing to ignore to further your potential career.

People are willingly paying spotify either monthly or via ads to listen to these artists. They have paid for the art. Spotify doesnt want to give the earned cut. Your willingness to give up your fair share in the hopes of future recognition is a personal decision, but that doesnt make it right. It just means you, personally, arent willing to fight off the boot on your chest.

Which is the mentality spotify is counting on to get away with ripping off you and everyone else who cant afford lawyers.

That cost is paid 100000000000000x over from the other artists they are underpaying. If this was really such an issue of cost, and not penny pinching, they would have a filter for content that isnt played enough and remove it from the service.

Why dont they? Because they cost is almost nil, its covered a thousand times over by the money gained from the platform, and they just want to keep more cash from the people they know cant fight back.

His point doesnt apply to spotify. They arent a struggling indie service trying to cover server costs. Massive super star artists frequently complain about penny pinching from spotify. Theyre just greedy.

“Its a sliding scale, we want your content but we dont want to pay you for it, so if we think youre not popular enough to take us to court over this we are sliding the scale of how much we pay you for the content to zero”

You sound like an evil cartoon robin hood villain, do you get that? Are you floating about in chains and a nightgown, in preperation for scaring jeff bezos this christmas eve?

“Nah its like youtube bro, the other super evil and morally bankrupt company!” Thats not a defense, why are you saying that like its a defense

Except thats incorrect. Spotify is a store, asking musicians to give them the rights to sell their songs as a package deal in exchange for a cut based on popularity. All music gets ads. There is no “low popularity ad free” section.

And now you, and spotify, are saying “yeah I know we agreed to pay you based on how many customers came in here for your stuff, but I think what you rightfully and legally earned is chump change, so I wont be giving it to you.”

You are advocating scamming people because you, personally, think the money owed is a pittance. Thats an evil, black hearted mentality.