Macron blames video games for Arab riots
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REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel to find an excuse that ISN'T 'we let barbarians into our country because we thought they could replace you but we can't control them'
This is his wife speaking through him. She groomed him to just parrot whatever she tells him, and her generation always found blaming video games worked.
We're just seeing the puppet regurgitate the words of the master.
Ah so real life Demolition Man.
Video games didn't let hordes of feral foreigners into your country bro.
Hell, even as "El Presidente of Tropico", I only let in educated immigrants.
Don't ask me how my Rimwold games handle migration.
Is it organ farming for off-world sale?
I bet on organ farming.
Only in arctic climates.
I don't get many nice immigrants, lots of bandits. I may or may not sell survivors into slavery.
See, if I shoot them and can persuade them into accepting my values as they recover, I don't have to enslave them or harvest their organs. I think that's quite liberal of me.
I told you I was a Civic Nationalist u/current_horror
Damn it Jim. I'm a doctor, not a butcher!
I totally get the Tropico reference.
In fact, in past versions (haven't played the latest one), you had to pay for educated migrants with an uptrending fee while the uneducated ones would just constantly show up on your dock with every cargo ship.
Realism
You think that's good, wait until you try to appease the Communists. You can't, and the more you try, they eventually revolt anyway.
I haven't gotten to Tropico, but I should. I think it's on Game Pass, at least a minimal version.
I did the balance the factions thing to some degree in CK3. But I don't know how similar that is.
I'd recommend Tropico 5, whereas the current version is 6.
Six got weird (I think they changed developers).
Tropico was always kitschy and absurd, but they went too far IMO with the latest version where there's a huge focus on stealing world wonders and airlifting them to be displayed on your island.
The editions up to that point were a comical-but-challenging dictator banana republic sim.
I haven't played CK3 to compare to. I'd recommend Tropico, at least to get a feel for it, it's a oddball city builder.
I was more referring to Tropico 3 (which I played the absolute shit out of), where I could hire very specific foreign workers, but I could craft an "college educated immigrants only" policy as well IIRC.
Ah.
I mostly played 4 & 5.
5 has all immigrants as uneducated unless you mail order for them and pay the freight.
How you describe it is accurate, and hilarious.
As Queen Isabela I, I initiate an inquisition.
Those rioting savages don't play video games in the first place.
Ah! Maybe he misspoke, and we actually need to provide them with free video games.
Macron is only 45!
I assumed he was closer to Trudeau's age.
Deep state plant like Obama. I also think he's been around since the Obama era. Does this guy go away?
I mean, its about as dumb as lumping "video games" together in their effects on a person or mind beyond their basic description.
Because whatever effects games can have on a brain, will not be the same across the games themselves. A guy who plays city sims or farming games will have a completely different personality and result than someone playing COD, or Starcraft.
So when they put a blank check across all games, its an easy sign right there that they are just scapegoating. At least when they blamed COD or GTA back in the day, they were a lot closer to making sense even if they were wrong.
That professor still finds a way to cuck out:
Muh inequalities
There ARE inequalities in France. Specifically, the local residents are policed, fined, judged, and ruled over far more strictly than the influx. Same as any western nation. Solve those inequalities!
He’s right about gun control, there’s not enough guns.
As someone who loves vidya I'd almost agree with the critique of video games and porn if he had been making the opposite point. Games, porn, football, and whatever it is the French like to indulge in... baguettes? These things are distractions that serve to pacify the population so we DON'T rise up and do what needs to be done to remove foreign occupiers and corrupt elites from our nations. They don't contribute to violence. They are the opiate of the masses.
Or maybe the rioting scum. Sounds like they are treating them like the Floyd rioters
Lookat dis fuggin raysis cracka, talkin sheeeit bout da Black Lifes Mattuhs peaceful protestin. Dis be a peaceful protestin by peaceful hard worker people, fuggin raysis cracka. Sheeeit.
How dare I condemn “dat peaceful destruction dey be throwin down”. I’ve been practicing my Ebonics.
Excellent. Don't want you to get caught out for "ackten huwyte".
To be fair, he may have a point. If not for video games, perhaps white men would have banded together and driven out the non-whites from their countries such that these riots would have never occurred in the first place.
We westerners are used to being gaslit by our leaders by now, but this particularly stands out to me for some reason.
A politician this hostile to his own citizens has got to go. And, the French being the French, maybe he will.
Christ, at least when Trump scapegoated gaming he was doing it to protect gun rights. This faggot is protecting a bloodthirsty minority out to replace the native inhabitants.
Is he blaming pro-immigrant games like life is strange 2 for the riots? If so then based. Probably not though.
Did they run out of Goat Simulator?
Well I can’t speak for the migrants, but I can confirm that seeing Horizon forbidden West and the new Saints Row certainly made ME want to riot and torch everything in sight.
Sure, Macron is right, if people weren't so focused on video games, movies or sportsball then they'd all be paying attention to the sandnigger riots and would have done something about this. But I doubt that Macron would be amenable to making that argument about the entertainment Jew machine
It's just leftist scandal response 101. Make a counter-claim, no matter how ridiculous, and it shifts the discussion away from the truth.
See also: Floyd riots were caused by outside "white supremacists" no one ever saw or recorded.
I thought they were rioting over bread, now it's video games?