Okay, I’m Canadian, but let’s play ball:

Republicans (right-wing) want to ban abortion.

Democrats (*left-wing) want to not ban abortion.

What’s the Centrist solution here? Is it… some bans on abortion by any chance?

(*I’m aware they’re basically right-of-centre at this point, but not wanting to ban abortion is a ‘left’ stance.)

Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies.

The issues described in the comic/thread is that when you have one ‘extreme’ calling for the removal of rights/the lives of one group, and their opposite ‘extreme’ is calling to not do that, Centrists ask for some middle ground that cannot exist. You call the top right panel a ridiculous strawman, but go into any thread about immigration, women’s rights, etc, and you will see (slightly less hyperbolic most of the time) comments that line up with that panel. What’s the Centrist reaction to abortion bans? Partial bans. So all the Right has to do is ask for the entirety of something (abortion ban, force striking workers back to work, etc) and Centrists will give them part of what they want.

Wow, author doesn’t know what centrism OR horseshoe theory are, lol.

“In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together”

What’d they get wrong, exactly?

With all the demonizing of men in the last 40yrs…

ah hahahahhahahahahha

A large amount of people have gone through terrible things, and many, if not most, end up feeling forced to do terrible things. Yet in the end they were people, and his acts of goodness were towards you. Cherish that even in a world set to do everything it could to make him into something else, he chose to be your loving brother. He was a good person in a bad place.

It was my pleasure to share. I wish you the best, and if you need someone, please reach out <3

My brother wasn’t a good person either, at least not most of the time. He always, always made me feel safe though. I never got to tell him how much he meant to me, and he never got to see his nieces and nephews.

I’m glad you feel less alone, and myself, and likely others in your life, are here for you <3

It’s a couple months to the 4th anniversary of my brother’s suicide. I’m so sorry for what you’re going through. I hope you’re able to still talk to him, as much as any of us can. There are people there for you if you need them, though you may have to look for them.

All my love.

<3

I wish you the best, I’m looking outside software in general. I used to offer to help people find employment in games but now I just can’t. I’ve seen too many people broken by it.

I do hope you find something, anything, so you can continue to survive.

I’d argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.

I know dozens of people who’ve been looking for over a year, for anything in the software field. The issue is companies would rather hire a kid straight out of school than pay for someone with experience. I’m in a discord channel of people (from the last place I worked at that has now gone bankrupt) and the vast majority are still without a job. Most are going outside the industry into the standbys (food service, warehouse, etc). My linkedin was so depressing, post after post about people who used to be engineers I worked with now getting hurt working in Amazon Fulfillmment centres, I just stopped going there and use discord/indeed for job searching. I’m really close with the QA team from my last job, and all but one of them have moved back in with their parents.

It is fucking bleak in software right now.

The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether.

Not sure where people think everyone is going to go; there are more closures than job openings.

True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.

The entire video game industry would love a word.