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I would say a third of those games make sense.

Anything WW2, Shooters, and anything 40K related would be my assumptions. I would also throw in Madden. Top of the chud pile would be Call of Duty.

Oddly enough BioShock still has Ayn Rand fans despite the story. Naturally they can't understand that it is a deconstruction of Ayn Rand. They also say the only reason Rapture failed was because Ryan abandoned his ideals...

HE DID BECAUSE HE FUCKING HAD TO BECAUSE HE WAS LOSING UNDER HIS IDEALS. That is the entire point of that story. It's a self contradicting society.

I see what you mean. Fortunately the labor market in the US is very much in favor of workers at this point and barring a major depression, its probably going to be like that for many years because boomers are retiring and leaving faster than the Fed can try to squeeze the labor market into submission.

Disagree. There is nothing that says someone needs to be subjected due to trans acceptance. I do not feel threatened by, or feel that my "privilege" is being attacked by the existence of trans people. They want to exist and be accepted and I don't see this as an assault on my existence. For the record am a cis male. I know I lose nothing by accepting trans people.

What you described is what they believe will happen. Their minds are always in a place of believing that someone needs to be losing.

As a tangent for the sake of example: I recall during the George Floyd protests that white people flooded gun stores to buy guns because they seriously thought that black people were going to come into their neighborhoods, drag them out of their houses and kill them. They think this because that is what they would do in their place. Its a silent admission of knowing they fuck minorities over and they have a right to be angry. They were scared of being casualties in a race uprising that they assume has been brewing because they know how they treat black people in America. They also assumed black people would just indiscriminately murder people because they see them as animals and not human beings. I was blind-sided by the entire white-panic mentality and one of my black friends had to explain to me why the lines were so frenzied and long at the sporting goods store.

The same goes for trans people and the gamer throwing a crybaby fit about being reminded that they exist and people respect them. They don't understand them, so they hate them, and assume they... or someone else is working to undermine their lives. It is a lot more premeditated and sinister than you think. They want these people to disappear. Trans people make them scared. They worry they will have to question their own identity or sexuality which their culture has told them to strictly adhere to and demonize deviants. It does not look like it in the video, but the gamer dude raging about pronouns is utterly terrified of them because he has been propagandized and programed to do so.

Its built on layers of punditry and propaganda that all feeds off of their basic human instinct of fear. Their reactions and solutions are reinforced by western civilization. They believe they would be undermined their privilege because that is what society teaches them, and not reality.

I believe it simply comes from them believing that these people are destroying their country. They see trans acceptance as proof they are losing the culture war which they feel will have political consequences for them. It isn't going to affect them but they have been told it will by every pundit and cultural convention they are familiar with. At best they see it as strange and the ground is moving from beneath them. To put it more simply, its fear. They don't understand it so their reaction is to hate and destroy it because it signals societal change.

Everything is zero-sum game to them. If someone is getting more recognition and rights, they believe it means they themselves have less.

I don't know if he means well, but whether he is accidentally correct by whining about treats or he is giving a relatable example, he is right on the money.

Rather amusingly, treats are pivotal to both the economy and the culture of America. A Wendy's closing in America could actually be a sign of decline.

Imagine that being disowned by their children is prevalent enough that this meme exists between boomers. 🤔

I have felt myself coming close many times. I still have normal relations with my parents but they don't know how thin the ice is.

"Some billionaires did a great thing once, so they are not bad."

This is the capitalist framing of saying "I am not racist, I have a black friend."

Name me one billionaire that has provided a net good that has outweighed their net bad. You can't do it. It is fundamentally why they are billionaires in the first place because they exploited and stole from everyone else. They are not a necessary component to society, they are an eventuality of capitalism and at their very best, an inefficiency.

The ongoing copium of living inside this failing system is not only to justify them, but say they are going to save us. These people just need to admit they want a king with devine right because they don't believe any other system can work.

I think even the Golden Throne pales in comparison to how many lives are sacrificed to keep the US alive.

It was awesome back in the day. Its clunky but still fun today. While it was a little campy during the cutscenes, it was actually supposed to have a more serious tone than RA2.

It also answers the question of what if Stalin didn't stop at Berlin.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a White House press briefing Tuesday that the US needs “more information about precisely its character and composition” to determine if parties bypassed American restrictions on semiconductor exports to create the new chip.

"They couldn't have possibly made this, they had to have stolen it from us somehow."

I wonder how long before they do the classic thing of saying 👽s made it for them. Just like how there was no way the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids on their own so it had to be .

To these kinds of people, nothing is political until their views are challenged. Politics dominates every facet of their life and they only notice when a necessary change is pointed out.