SnotFlickerman

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Politics and censorship in gaming and anime

This. This right here is why you're getting downvotes and no one is taking you seriously.

Politicization of video games isn't a real thing. Games have always been political. Nobody complained about the early Metal Gear games and their critiques of the military industrial complex, nor about the original Dues Ex and it's critiques of corporate control mixed with government control. I mean, Cyberpunk was a pen and paper game way back in the day and the entire cyberpunk genre has always been deeply political as a warning of what happens when corporations usurp power from governments and treat everything and everyone as merely something to extract money from. Wolfenstein is specifically anti-Nazi and always has been and the Nazi's were a political group.

People like Asmongold are being unserious and disingenuous when discussing this subject. To find other people discussing the same subjects, you will invariably only find right-wing voices who are trying to make people angry at something that doesn't actually exist.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

Pretty sure the past tense of "lead" is actually "led."

Unless of course you're referring to the type of metal, lead, which I guess the meme isn't clear on.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Asmongold is definitely right wing but I can't think of anyone who fills his specific niche of bottom of the barrell filth encrusted rat person.

I mean most left youtubers shower and clean regularly.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's actually a very contentious grammatical issue in Germany from what I have been told by a German friend. That there is definitely a contingency of people pushing for more gender neutral language and a large amount of pushback from those who think the entire idea is absurd because of how gendered the language is.

I can see a bit of both sides of the argument. It's important to make people feel welcomed and not like being a male is the default for everything. On the other hand, language evolves often very slowly and you can't just force people to change the language entirely overnight. It does sound like much of the pushback is less political in nature and more grammatical as adding neutral phrases to a gendered language becomes quickly a complex task with complex new words. However, some of the pushback is also political in nature, so it's hard to gauge whether the Ladybird situation was truly political or more grammatical at it's core.

Fascist politics always boil down to "I know what you are but what am I?"

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean, pretty obvious, sadly.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

No, because on the Fediverse you always have the option of making your own instance and your own community (with blackjack and hookers) if you don't like how the one you're on is being run. Literally no point in complaining because unlike reddit you are always free to make your own with your own rules elsewhere whenever you want.

Honestly this whole comment section with people proposing to dogpile this user for how they feel seems a lot more "reddit" than anything else.

EDIT: 12 hours later and now we've moved into people making shitposts about it. Definitely reddit-style beating a dead horse and basically choosing to harass a person when all they have to do is ignore them.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have cancer and medications are $18k a month without insurance. They are covered under Medicaid, but I have to be underneath Medicaid income limits to continue to get Medicaid, which by definition means I need to stay in poverty to have the cost of these meds actually covered.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Steve Huffman already wants to be Mini Elon Musk.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Like everything else, the same laws and rules they have hidden behind to justify and protect their absolute dogshit behavior will be the first things the regime will get rid of for protecting anyone other than their in-group.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)
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