Waow Taylor Swift is attending a game! WTF I'm interested in football now!
-- Nobody Ever
edit: plenty of people saying that it is indeed generating interest. Taylor Swift fans are there for Taylor Swift, not football -- and as Mpetey mentions below, that attention isn't going to last.
Instead they chose to grip tighter onto power as their industry burned around them, and continues to.
Then they will be deposed from the ashes, with nothing left to rule. Even Blackrock and Vanguard, as I said, are choosing to (at least pretend to) back off at this point.
The US had a nice, normal June with the corporations cowed into compliance.
They chose death, rather than reform. All of them.
I would quibble with this slightly. They didn't think they were choosing death. They chose to blow us off and call us powerless incels who everyone should ignore because they were the future. They had no idea that it would lead to the end of their entire industry. Kind of like Bud Light or Target (while their industries aren't totally destroyed, they had the same attitude towards their customers as Gawker did). Now, not only is it mainstream to believe that all journalists are untrustworthy liars, it's mainstream to believe that a cabal of wealthy elites is forcing this stuff -- and we were all rewarded with a normal, non-gay June this year. Blackrock and Vanguard have both announced they are stepping away from ESG (they're almost certainly going to rebrand it, but that's another story). No, we didn't set out to destroy gaming journalism, but when your opponent refuses to surrender, the only option is to finish the fight. We did.
Hillary defeated, Gawker defeated, mask mandates and mandatory vax defeated (with the help of a massive Canadian trucker protest), Bud Light defeated, the teacher banning Gadsden flags defeated.
As I've said before, exposing another health bar does not mean you're losing.
They took a losing tactic, and replicated it wherever they could, for no discernable reason.
This is the part that blows my mind. Gamergate won. All of our agreed-on targets are now flaming dumpster fires, with many of them, like Gawker, VICE, and Buzzfeed News, having declared literal bankruptcy. Games journalism is widely acknowledged as totally dead, with YouTubers taking over as credible reviewers -- and mainstream journalism isn't far behind.
Yet they just keep doing it. For over nine years now, they've been running the same losing play. Why? In my view, I think part of it is that they bought their own bullshit. That is, they were so convinced that everybody rejected Gamergate because all they saw were articles rejecting Gamergate. Wikipedia even calls it a harassment campaign, so checkmate atheists.
The other part is that I don't think they have anything else. They have to keep ramming some tactic, any tactic, down everyone's throats or they will just lose. But they don't have any thought leaders left. Thinking gets you purged. So they're stuck with the same old safe orthodoxy, and have no other option but to double down over and over again -- no matter how much they lose.
I don't know. Trump's motorcade got a really enthusiastic, lining the streets and cheering type welcome as they drove through the hood in Atlanta. I tried to find the clip, but oddly couldn't. It's been huge on the wins the last few days; if anyone wanted to link it, I would say thanks.
As others pointed out, even a few percent more of the black vote would be a huge Trump victory.
Edit: I see at least 2 people are upset at the truth.
Well, that just means you've won the debate.