Tepid take: The only people calling Steam a monopoly are the loser competitors who can’t find a more extortive business model that will actually compete in their quest to syphon wealth out of the gaming ecosystem. Also ‘news’ outlets that are being paid to assert this narrative, and dumbshit reactionaries who believe those narratives. Sorry Epic CEO, you can’t cry and shit your pants into forcing a successful company to make room and give you a cut. The market will ony respond to a better product here, and Epic ain’t it. EA learned this lesson with their shit-ass Origin product years ago, brand loyalty takes a long time to build and is a powerful variable, and steam is good at not fucking with the gamers, or at least only within parameters of acceptability, it appears.

Cool, but you see how that’s still a deep condemnation of tRump and the Whitehouse admin for letting that happen right? There’s no letting either of those greedy soulless criminals throw the other under the bus, they’re both getting run over or justice isn’t real. This also goes for politicans who have enabled this regime and the corrupt memebers of the US supreme court who made this all possible. This IS a rico case whether people want to admit it or not, the alternative is pretending like it was all this one guy and letting the Republicans slink into the shadows to play nice and bide their time for another 40 years. Prosecution and jail terms are the ONLY way to even pretend to still mantain a representative democracy and justice system.

Let them go, with this leadership having them part of NATO when they ideologically oppse it only gives them power to damage it from within, it is clear tRump is more aligned with Putin, and that makes him an implicit threat to stability. Eject US based on their leadership under existing rules, or create new ones to do it, and tell them they can reapply when they get someone rational in power.