Shit man, next year we're gonna be a decade old. Its also wild that you can trace the line of dominoes from us to the exposure of all the current day insanity, one event and regime-double-down at a time.
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Wait, we're 9? RUN! THE LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO 'SEXUALLY LIBERATE' US!
It really is funny how just attacking gamers seems to have removed the rose-tinted glasses from many right in time for 2016, who would have thought that calling all gamers scum for liking attractive female characters would end up in the slow ruination of the left's plans.
GG was crazy. I lost friends over simply saying there might be some validity to the complaints. I wasn't even waving a GG flag or anything, simply saying maybe some journos were scum, not all accusations of "sexism" made sense, GG was being smeared, and I didn't appreciate cultural invaders. Basically, "It's Okay to be a Gamer."
Same thing about 2016, actually. Even without waving a Trump flag, I lost relationships with friends and family for saying evil warmongering Hillary was an evil warmonger.
It's amazing how they managed to fracture and divide everything so badly, where even opinions that should be so non-controversial, like politicians and journalists are self-serving jackasses who are tearing apart the fabric of society, suddenly became verboten Wrongthink.
Honestly, one of things I find most frustrating about leftists and the left; how they turn on a dime with no regard for history, give no shits about hypocrisy, and the true NPCs don't even remember what they believed last fucking week. Before any 'mah both sides,' yes, the right does this too, but not to anywhere near the same degree. Leftists are masters of historical blindness and quickly changing values to fit their newly downloaded ideology.
The left used to agree with me that politicians were largely scum, journalists served the regime, war was generally bad, (really) treating people equally was good, censorship was bad but free speech was good, and liberty was a good ideal. But overnight, believing in those "liberal" ideals (not exclusively liberal, but ideals liberals claimed to agree with) made you Far™ Right™.
I'd stopped watching TV in about 2008 and stopped following politics around that same time. So I was basically stuck on pre-Obama shitlib politics. The bits and pieces of current events I picked up through osmosis were all filtered through that lens.
In 2012 I was sitting in a restaurant on election night watching people toast Obama somewhat confused why a bunch of "liberals" were celebrating a guy who assassinated American citizens.
Then during Donglegate, Elevatorgate, and then GG I kept finding myself wondering (and sometimes outright asking) why my friends kept supporting such obviously stupid people.
"Why are you trusting what a 'journalist' says?"
"Why was this one rude thing Richard Dawkins said among thousands of rude things he's said actually bad?"
"Why are you trying to define some set of things that all 'good' atheists ought to believe in? I thought the whole point of atheism was finding your own path"
"Why aren't you allowed to make a private joke to a colleague at a conference? And since when are you against 'offensive' jokes?"
"Why are you of all people crucifying a nerd for awkwardly asking a girl out?"
I once heard someone describe this side of things as "most people here aren't conservative or right-wing. They're liberal nerds who expected the system to play by its stated rules and were surprised to learn it didn't."
That reminds me...remember Shirtgate? That poor guy got fucking roasted, for no reason.
The shirt, made by one of his friends, who is a woman.
Guy had just landed a probe on a comet or something but the focus was "Look at how he's dressed" 🙄.