I thought the clear takeaway from the last decade was that "I just want to grill" is the vanguard of communists and their bankster masters.
The only types of people who still value grilling are people on this forum concerned with Qataris and James Lindsay types. All of whom, conspicuously, have the same employer, who has a vested interest in keeping people asleep.
I saw a Walmart commercial the other day that made me think that they've managed to subvert the BBQ as well.
It was essentially a short clip of a soyboy, beta White husband type alone pushing a shopping cart (maybe containing a new BBQ box?) who unsolicitedly gets greeted by a dumpy, mystery meat bluevested middle-aged woman employee with a "There’s nothing better than having a BBQ".
The juxtaposition of the soyboy husband buying consumer goods and goyslop food from Wallyworld vs the more classic images of more masculine cultural figures like Hank Hill or Tony Soprano and the themes around grilling meat for family and friends just a few decades ago.
It also hit me with the irony of some box store wagie declaring how great BBQing is on holidays and weekends while physically stuck in the deadend retail environment that probably has them scheduled to work those times they'd be BBQing anyway.
I've also seen a lot of "Keeping Up With The Joneses" advertising targeted more at women surrounding back patios and grills from outfits like Wayfair, Walmart and hardware stores.
Where the marketing is all about being envious of your neighbor's backyard setup, so you rush out and buy entire sets yourself to show off for status.
The marketing is more of an interior decorating/accessorizing focus surrounding the BBQ rather than any Hank Hill one that has anything to do with the grill specs themselves.
It was a mindset born of a bunch of faulty assumptions. One of the biggest was "they just want attention, deny them of it and they will shrivel and die."
Which works on children, and even clickbait advertisers, so it was a valid first thought but that was obviously not going to work on people with huge mysterious backings nor people with massive fanbases of soybois who'd throw money at them for saying anything.
But people clung to it because it allowed them to not have to work, to avoid any responsibility, and morally justify "ignore it until it blows over" laziness.
Exactly. I used to read left wing news everyday. It was clear they hated me for being male and Christian and looked down on me for being black. I find it hard to believe it wasn't purposeful ignorance on the part of the GG crowd to avoid addressing the left
Of course it was purposeful. Most of GG was Leftists, they bragged about it constantly. All the beliefs and problems of the Left that led to us being where we are were things they supported and believed in, but it was being "abused" by "far left extremists" and hurting them so it was bad right now.
Yes but no. There are "ignore the obvious transgressions leftists are engaging in" type actors, but keep in mind marxists' modus operandi is politicing the private. When a leftist tries to make a game about troons, pocs or women you should them them to fuck off and mock them, that's how you gatekeep.
When marxists already infiltrated fandom is when you have to push against them, because they'll tell you their propaganda activism isn't political
But "I just want to play vidya" isn't gatekeeping. Gatekeeping is active hostility to outsiders, as you described. "Leave me alone so I can masturbate" is the opposite of that.
I thought the clear takeaway from the last decade was that "I just want to grill" is the vanguard of communists and their bankster masters.
The only types of people who still value grilling are people on this forum concerned with Qataris and James Lindsay types. All of whom, conspicuously, have the same employer, who has a vested interest in keeping people asleep.
I saw a Walmart commercial the other day that made me think that they've managed to subvert the BBQ as well.
It was essentially a short clip of a soyboy, beta White husband type alone pushing a shopping cart (maybe containing a new BBQ box?) who unsolicitedly gets greeted by a dumpy, mystery meat bluevested middle-aged woman employee with a "There’s nothing better than having a BBQ".
The juxtaposition of the soyboy husband buying consumer goods and goyslop food from Wallyworld vs the more classic images of more masculine cultural figures like Hank Hill or Tony Soprano and the themes around grilling meat for family and friends just a few decades ago.
It also hit me with the irony of some box store wagie declaring how great BBQing is on holidays and weekends while physically stuck in the deadend retail environment that probably has them scheduled to work those times they'd be BBQing anyway.
I've also seen a lot of "Keeping Up With The Joneses" advertising targeted more at women surrounding back patios and grills from outfits like Wayfair, Walmart and hardware stores.
Where the marketing is all about being envious of your neighbor's backyard setup, so you rush out and buy entire sets yourself to show off for status.
The marketing is more of an interior decorating/accessorizing focus surrounding the BBQ rather than any Hank Hill one that has anything to do with the grill specs themselves.
It was a mindset born of a bunch of faulty assumptions. One of the biggest was "they just want attention, deny them of it and they will shrivel and die."
Which works on children, and even clickbait advertisers, so it was a valid first thought but that was obviously not going to work on people with huge mysterious backings nor people with massive fanbases of soybois who'd throw money at them for saying anything.
But people clung to it because it allowed them to not have to work, to avoid any responsibility, and morally justify "ignore it until it blows over" laziness.
Exactly. I used to read left wing news everyday. It was clear they hated me for being male and Christian and looked down on me for being black. I find it hard to believe it wasn't purposeful ignorance on the part of the GG crowd to avoid addressing the left
Of course it was purposeful. Most of GG was Leftists, they bragged about it constantly. All the beliefs and problems of the Left that led to us being where we are were things they supported and believed in, but it was being "abused" by "far left extremists" and hurting them so it was bad right now.
Yes but no. There are "ignore the obvious transgressions leftists are engaging in" type actors, but keep in mind marxists' modus operandi is politicing the private. When a leftist tries to make a game about troons, pocs or women you should them them to fuck off and mock them, that's how you gatekeep.
When marxists already infiltrated fandom is when you have to push against them, because they'll tell you their propaganda activism isn't political
But "I just want to play vidya" isn't gatekeeping. Gatekeeping is active hostility to outsiders, as you described. "Leave me alone so I can masturbate" is the opposite of that.