Personally, as time goes on, I'm starting to hate this brand of right-winger almost more than I hate leftists. Leftists are misguided but this brand of right-winger is willfully hateful and judgmental for the wrong reasons with 0 ounce of sympathy or compassion. If you think they're bad online, they are worse in-person.
I guess I'm missing something, because this type of person seems like an endangered species nowadays. The last time I can remember somebody crapping on video games vs. the outdoors was in summer camp and that guy is probably less militant now than he was then. Games aren't novel anymore, they're part of the background noise.
I also find that zoomers don't seem to have the strong defensive attitudes that millennials had about games. Puritan threats to gaming aren't credible anymore, and why get worked up about defending mediocrity that everyone kind of knows is goyslop anyway?
Well, I'm a millennial so there's still a lot of these summer camp guys and girls out there. You're just unlikely to encounter them as readily as you would have when you were younger. I remember 5 years ago when I was 30yo working downtown a major city with a bunch of other people around my age, if someone asked you what you did on the weekend and you answered "played video games", you'd be regarded as a loser. Everyone instead would talk about "went to the mountains, went camping, travelled to X place, etc..." or something to that effect. If you weren't spending your weekends going somewhere outdoors then you were a loser. Maybe that has changed but for some reason, I doubt it.
My beef with them comes down to the issue of women in western society. This group tends to blame men for everything. They're the epitome of, fuck you got mine and refuse to consider the systemic impacts to relationships. They'll talk all day about jewish subversion destroying our culture and the only reason they aren't richer is because of jews but they think because they got what they wanted out of life with regards to women that everyone who didn't is just a bad person. It's like, well what about all the people who have plenty of resources despite jews, does that mean the only reason you struggle to buy a house is because you're a bad person?
They'll insult and ridicule men who don't get the intimate outcomes they want in life suggesting it's a failure of the individual man but for all other outcomes in life, it's okay to blame the jew instead of the individual man. This inherent contradiction is personal for me because I'm literally the opposite. I have everything else a man could want in life but the intimate outcomes. They suggest that they are great people and the only reason they don't have what they want out of life is jews but when I say the same thing, they say no it's actually because you aren't this, that or the other thing and if you were those things then you'd have what you want. Can we not just apply that logic to them also? Maybe if they were this that or the other thing they'd get what they wanted out of life too instead of blaming the jew.
Their logic doesn't work. They believe in individual attribution to outcomes in life when they like their outcome but then they blame others whenever they aren't getting the outcome that they want but when other people pull the same logic they turn around and say it's entirely the individual not structural. This lack of integrity in their arguments bothers me.
Hmmm well yeah, that is a serious self-contradiction. How could you simultaneously talk about Jews and believe that individual men are to blame for the state of women?
I guess I'm missing something, because this type of person seems like an endangered species nowadays. The last time I can remember somebody crapping on video games vs. the outdoors was in summer camp and that guy is probably less militant now than he was then. Games aren't novel anymore, they're part of the background noise.
I also find that zoomers don't seem to have the strong defensive attitudes that millennials had about games. Puritan threats to gaming aren't credible anymore, and why get worked up about defending mediocrity that everyone kind of knows is goyslop anyway?
Well, I'm a millennial so there's still a lot of these summer camp guys and girls out there. You're just unlikely to encounter them as readily as you would have when you were younger. I remember 5 years ago when I was 30yo working downtown a major city with a bunch of other people around my age, if someone asked you what you did on the weekend and you answered "played video games", you'd be regarded as a loser. Everyone instead would talk about "went to the mountains, went camping, travelled to X place, etc..." or something to that effect. If you weren't spending your weekends going somewhere outdoors then you were a loser. Maybe that has changed but for some reason, I doubt it.
Yeah I mean sure but calling them worse than leftists? Your beef with them has to be bigger than anti-gaming snobbery.
It is definitely bigger than gaming.
My beef with them comes down to the issue of women in western society. This group tends to blame men for everything. They're the epitome of, fuck you got mine and refuse to consider the systemic impacts to relationships. They'll talk all day about jewish subversion destroying our culture and the only reason they aren't richer is because of jews but they think because they got what they wanted out of life with regards to women that everyone who didn't is just a bad person. It's like, well what about all the people who have plenty of resources despite jews, does that mean the only reason you struggle to buy a house is because you're a bad person?
They'll insult and ridicule men who don't get the intimate outcomes they want in life suggesting it's a failure of the individual man but for all other outcomes in life, it's okay to blame the jew instead of the individual man. This inherent contradiction is personal for me because I'm literally the opposite. I have everything else a man could want in life but the intimate outcomes. They suggest that they are great people and the only reason they don't have what they want out of life is jews but when I say the same thing, they say no it's actually because you aren't this, that or the other thing and if you were those things then you'd have what you want. Can we not just apply that logic to them also? Maybe if they were this that or the other thing they'd get what they wanted out of life too instead of blaming the jew.
Their logic doesn't work. They believe in individual attribution to outcomes in life when they like their outcome but then they blame others whenever they aren't getting the outcome that they want but when other people pull the same logic they turn around and say it's entirely the individual not structural. This lack of integrity in their arguments bothers me.
Hmmm well yeah, that is a serious self-contradiction. How could you simultaneously talk about Jews and believe that individual men are to blame for the state of women?