Straight up. It's so tiresome - them trying to control the language/narrative to act like the problem is that people are "fearful" of them. The only time that's true is when you get someone like the classic Gamestop, "It's MA'AM!", psychos that looks like they are about to twist off, and assault someone. Other than incidents like that, no one is afraid of them in the way that someone who's arachnophobic is afraid of spiders. We're just tired of watching leftist activists dismantle all of society for them.
The other one that's really tiresome is this one:
While the original game is considered an RPG classic, one particular problematic scene has been called out by fans over the years. That moment is a beach scene involving Junpei, Akihiko and the protagonist, with many criticising it as being transphobic. Thankfully, the scene has been rewritten for Reload.
No. FANS - by and large (and we're talking 99.999% here) didn't give a single fuck. It's you, the shitbag leftist activist types - especially you idiots in the "gaming" media - that had issue with it. NO ONE ELSE FUCKING CARED.
Seriously - it's so fucking tiresome that they want to continuously play this fucking game where they write/act like society has come to some sort of collective/presumptive consensus that - no matter what the subject - the most radical argument put forth by the activist left has been accepted as the correct one. No. Despite the fact that you people have infested all of education, all of the media, all of entertainment, all of the tech companies that control the flow of information on the internet, all of government - despite the fact that you continuously use all that in an attempt to indoctrinate everyone from a young age - the vast majority of people still don't agree with you. Stop fucking acting like there is some sort of presumption that they do.
It's simply unreal to me how much my (the average American's?) vision of Canada has changed since I was young. When I grew up, I think everyone thought of Canada as this cold, hard place, where there were lots of rough guys wearing flannel, who were lumberjacks and shit. Things could literally not be further from the truth at this point.
The country has totally and completely been taken over by the radical shitbag left. It must really suck to be one of the older style Canadians from my youth, who has had to sit by and watch their country be totally taken over.
Make no mistake, there is the definite feeling that it's happening down here, as well.
It's even better than that.
First, they do all those things, tank the people's happiness and trust, yadda yadda yadda. Then, they allocate 84 fucking million - to "study that loss in happiness/trust" - to their grifter friends who got worthless (worthless until their allies in government allocate endless taxpayer dollars to "studies" like this...) degrees in studying this bullshit.
It's simply unreal what the left is getting away with (not just up there in Canada, but in every western country) at this point. They have a massive system - composed of radical ideologues in education, media (traditional and tech), entertainment, and government - set up to create new indoctrinates of the public; they use those people they have indoctrinated to keep them in power, and keep their nonsense bills/edicts passing; when those bills destroy the economy/society, they take even more taxpayer money, and kick it down to more of their ilk, to "study" how badly they've fucked everything up; that money being spent to study this creates artificial demand for more (actually useless, but now suddenly in demand) degree holders in this garbage; people chase that money, and willingly get further indoctrinated while getting those degrees?
What the left has been up to is nothing short of the largest, most destructive grift ever perpetuated on mankind. I don't see how anything short of widespread violence is ever going to force them out. They've entrenched themselves to an incredible degree, and their total lack of morals allows them to use the power of the positions they've entrenched themselves in, to do so even more thoroughly. You will never get these people out of power any other way. Even a "miracle" of voting through a psycho like Trump (a psycho in that the guy was willing to watch himself be absolutely destroyed by putting himself out there to fight these people) did absolutely nothing.
Goddamn. Someone say something nice, and explain to me how I'm all wrong, and things are going to be ok. Even if it's a lie, I feel like I need to hear it.
Except it, if he did say it in that way, it should have been the opposite:
"If I win, the country is in for a bloodbath..."
Seriously. Does anyone honestly think that, if the miracle happens, and all their court cases, electioneering, and general "fortification" somehow doesn't keep him out of a second term, that the left isn't going to freak the fuck out, and burn and kill again?
If he does get in, there is 100% going to be rioting, and violence, as the media and tech companies fan the flames.
Imagine losing your job and your reputation because you missed the trashcan or something.
It reminds me of that TNG episode where that one planet was going to execute Wil Wheaton because he fell on some of their flowers. LOL.
On one hand, losing your retirement over semi-stealing coffee seems a bit too much, but on the other, if a system ends up making it so that we don't have to deal with the douchebaggery of Wil "The Douche" Wheaton? Eh, maybe it's not all bad.
Especially since now, even if you try to fix those things, the fucking big mod sites will ban your mod (and then your account) for daring to take out the woke/leftist bullshit.
You don't even have to add anything offensive. You just need to remove something they did (even something as trivial as the stupid "ThiS gaME is OffEnSiVE!" warning in the Tomb Raider remasters), and it gets you out'ed as a political dissident, and banned.
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This is the main thing that I wish people - the "normies" - would take from the whole Gemini-won't-draw-white-people fiasco: if they were doing this there - and they got caught this one time - pushing this ultra-woke, ultra-radical-leftist agenda there... doesn't it stand to reason that maybe it's pervasive, and they are doing it elsewhere? Maybe we should demand the media (lol - we know it won't be them) look into it?
Seriously - the average person has absolutely zero idea how hard the leftist activists have been at work on the internet. They assume that stuff like Wikipedia is honest/unbiased. They assume that their search results from Google are honest/unbiased. They assume that if they go to a "fact checking" site like snopes, or politifact, that they are getting an honest answer. They assume that, if they use gmail, Google would never treat election emails from Republican candidates differently than they would those from Democrat candidates, and send them to the junk mail folder. They assume that all the social media sites are banning people simply for being "ardent Nazis!", and not just because they weren't perfectly toeing the leftist line. And on, and on, and on...
The problem is that the left does do all those things. The problem is that the companies that are absolutely infested with radical leftist indoctrinates that would churn out an AI that openly discriminates against white people, aren't just working on AI's that openly discriminate against white people; they pour the same ideology into everything they do. Them getting caught the other times just isn't being reported on like it is this particular time.
The average person is just too stupid, or too disinterested to realize it's going on, and thus they open themselves up to the indoctrination campaign the left has been engaged in. On top of that, you then have the media - a media which is every bit as ideologically compromised, and captured - actively seeking to hide this stuff from those disinterested public masses, and protect their politically aligned friends.
And anyone that tries to oppose them is going to have government agencies like the FBI, like the IRS used against them. They will be attacked, they will be delcared as being "domestic terrorists", they will have their finances seized, etc.
It really doesn't seem like people truly get how bad things are; what sort of track we are on. The left isn't going to stop with serving you up pictures of black Vikings.
This has nothing to do with "neutering everything they find." What is neutered about this? It's going to be an incredibly powerful tool, just not in the way that the average person would hope. They are setting all this up exactly how they have set everything else up they get their hands on: as another means for them to set/control the narrative -> indoctrinate people.
Again - the biggest problem here isn't the shitbags like him doing this. It's the goddamned media being in on it. If they weren't, and they did their job - and served the role a democracy require them to serve - they would be investigating the bias, they would be investigating this asshole, and showing the public what sort of a racist he is, they would be making the public question how he got like this, etc. After that, they would then ask themselves, "You know, if they are doing this here, I wonder where else they might be pushing an agenda? Would they do this in the search results they serve up? Would they do this in the videos they promote/suppress on YouTube?" If the media did its job, the public would see all this, be - rightfully - upset, and things would have a chance of changing.
Instead, we have a media - not just traditional, but here on the internet now - that is as indoctrinated as he is, has been conditioned into agreeing with all of it, and hides it from the non-indoctrinated. Thus, the indoctrination is allowed to continue, and more and more of the public gets converted into being exactly like this asshole.
Nothing is ever going to change until something is done about the left's ability to protect themselves via control over what the masses are shown/told.
It's kinda sad that a fucking decade later, people are still unsure what the fuck happened. Like they memory hole the good, but remember the negative.
And the reason they are unsure is the exact same reason for gamergate in the first place: the shitbag left seizing control of the means to set/control the narrative.
You'll never see the gaming media, or the normal media, publish a single honest story about what gamergate actually was, because the same shitbag leftists work in those very companies, and they publish articles in a way that purposely obfuscates, or outright lies about what the reasons were. They abuse their positions to push their agenda.
You'll never be able to go onto Wikipedia and read an honest accounting of what gamergate was, because it's been captured by the same radical leftist activists, who have entrenched themselves there, making sure that no one can edit that article in a way that conflicts with their narrative of the events.
You'll never be able to go onto Reddit - in any place other than minor, non large, non front-page sub - and post/read about what really happened, because the same leftist imbeciles mod all the larger default subs, and they make sure that only the leftist version of events is permitted.
Gamergate is the main event that exposed - to our generation(s) - what the radical left has been up to. Everything they are able to achieve, and have been able to achieve - not just gamergate - is directly because of their control of the narrative.
The weird part to me is they are protecting... sorcerors?
If I search for "Trump is a nazi meme"? No warning.
"Repuplicans are stupid meme"? No warning.
"Democrats are stupid meme"? No warning.
It could also be triggered by "hp lovecraft", since they've been trying to cancel him for a while?
I could believe that. I just don't see how the Nazis in Ukraine are so powerful, and such a threat to Russia/Russians that he needed to wage a 2 year war to stop them.
Lots of other grievances he aired, I am somewhat sympathetic to. The US/West should have done more to help Russia after the collapse. More should have been done to welcome them into the fold. We did the same for Japan and Germany, and they didn't just fight a cold war against us.
It's not difficult for me. If Putin, or whoever, wanted to show me evidence that there are Neo-Nazi types - and not just a couple, but huge amounts - in the Ukraine, and that they are causing problems for ethnic Russians, I could believe that.
That's a far crying from saying that the problem is so bad that you need to wage a massive two year war killing hundreds of thousands over Nazis? What sort of power do these Nazis have there? What are they doing to Russia/Russians?
Man. Some of the stuff Putin is saying, I can totally understand, and am sort of sympathetic to: the feeling hurt that the Soviet Union sort of "peacefully" collapsed, and went away, and that their leaders did this, thinking Russia was going to get tons of help, not be encroached upon, and even be sort of enthusiastically invited into the fold with open arms? That that's what they felt, and they now feel that's not what happened? That, instead, it's clear that NATO/The West is still treating them as a threat, and expanding towards them? That stuff is sympathetic.
The part where he is saying that the main goal for this war now is "Denazification"? Come on. Get the fuck out of here. There is zero way that Russia is afraid of like - what - a fourth reich forming in the Ukraine? That that's the main reason for the fighting here? Two years of war to stop Nazis, and he's saying that successful denazification is the only condition for ending this?
In any event, it's absolutely ridiculous that this guy - the leader of a big country like Russia - a country that clearly has the potential to cause big problems for the world (they are doing it right now), clearly has all these grievances (whether or not they are legitimate or not), and Tucker fucking Carlson is the guy that has to go there to air all this out. What are our fucking politicians doing? What is the fucking media doing? Why wouldn't they be holding those politicians feet to the fire? Why is it up to basically an independent guy to do all their jobs?
Well... that, and the traditional media, social media, Google controlling the world's search engine, YouTube controlling the world's access to videos, control of all the Wikipedias and "Fact checking" sites, the vast majority of all the teachers that educate our kids, nearly all government agencies, the entertainment industry, etc., and they have all those things pumping out 24/7 propaganda to the masses.
Oh. And they only need to swing the vote in the neighborhood of 1%-2% in a couple of swing states to win.
I don't get why everyone is always feeling so glib/smug over how we can show/prove how fucking ridiculous/hypocritical/dishonest the left is.
They don't care.
They only care about power: the power to take control, and force their beliefs on all of us. They know that none of the stuff you laugh at them about will ever amount to anything, because the system they've constructed for seizing control over the ability to set/control the public narrative will shield them, and attack us. None of the ridiculousness is ever shown to anyone other than people on the right that would never vote for the left in the first place.
When you have a populace as indoctrinated as ours is, "Orange Man Bad" is more than enough.
We saw all this. Live. And they are still successfully reimagining all of it in our fucking faces.
And it's because of the same reason the left finds success in anything: they control all the means of indoctrination/propaganda. Everyone goes through the same school system they run. Everyone is subjected to the same 24/7 beating of the drum by the media, and everyone is using the same internet that they run.
The simple truth is that the average person is far too easily swayed by indoctrination and propaganda. Thus, whoever controls that, controls the masses.
The average "liberal" is just some weak minded person that has succumbed to the constant leftist indoctrination/propaganda campaign - and the subsequent peer pressure that is applied by the already indoctrinated - that everyone is bombarded with from the time they enter kindergarten. Nearly every new "current year" radical leftist value/belief they have isn't something they arrived at on their own, but something that was instilled in them by the leftists doing the indoctrinating.
How many people are seriously sitting around on their own and coming to conclusions like, "You know what we need to make into a key issue? We absolutely need d00ds pretending to be women playing in female sporting events, and shitting in the women's restrooms. This is crucial.", or stuff like, "Having a border is fucking retarded r-worded. Clearly, we're all a lot better off just letting anyone walk in (regardless of how dangerous they are), gobbling up billions of dollars worth of benefits (causing not only taxes to go up, but stuff like your health insurance to cost more because someone eventually has to pay for all the illegals who go to the hospital and don't pay, but still consume the service), resources at school - that should be spent on your kids - instead being spent on the illegals' kids, etc."
Seriously - how many fucking people would actually come to these conclusions on their own, without being indoctrinated into it? There is just no fucking way. It's not natural for people to have stupid opinions like these. The left 100% indoctrinates the populace into these asinine beliefs.
To this day, I'm still utterly amazed at what the left was able to achieve with covid - as you said, something that was 99.96% survivable.
Prior to the whole covid fiasco, Trump was basically a lock to get a second term. The economy was great, no one thought the democrats had a chance in hell of unseating him, and - regardless of arguing over how effective the guy was actually being - the left was shitting itself knowing they were stuck with 4 more years of him. Then, at the last possible moment in the election cycle where something still had time to make a difference - miraculously - basically the exact one thing that could get him out - some external event that tanked the economy, and had people screaming for "change" - happened.
I'm not sure I'm willing to go so far as to say China released it on purpose (it sure is amazing that this stuff happened during the presidency of the one guy that was creating serious problems for them, and their plan of taking over as the new defacto world #1 power, though...), but once they realized it was out, they 100% did everything possible to make sure that it spread around the world, because there was zero way they could afford to have it mainly effect just them.
The left here back at home, though? I am willing to say that they 100% seized upon covid as something that they could use as a weapon to force themselves back into power. Their politicians - and more importantly, their propagandists in traditional/tech-based media - did absolutely everything they could to hype it up (God, it's disgusting to even try to remember even just a bit of the daily bullshit), use it to trash the economy, tie it to Trump, and then push for unsolicited universal mail in voting.
Then, they used the fucking masking bullshit, and vaccine mandates - both things they knew had next to zero medical value - as this massive political purity test that they could use to further divide the country, bludgeon their political opponents with, and drive them out of every place possible: police, military, all government agencies, airline pilots, teachers, whatever.
Covid was the single greatest thing that happened to radical leftist authoritarians in the last 100 years - their propagandists were able to completely fuck up the entire world with a virus with a 99.96% survival rate, and they did it just to get themselves back into power.
Sorry for writing a manifesto as a reply to such a simple comment, but - GOD - does the whole thing still infuriate me. Seeing what you can achieve by controlling the means of disseminating propaganda, and - more importantly - seeing that there is virtually no level (up to and including breaking the world) that the left isn't willing to stoop to, just so long as it furthers their goal of getting themselves into power? It's maddening. These people are fucking disgusting. They have zero fucking values, or morals. Seriously - think of everything they've broken with this. They've destroyed the economy; my/your ability to buy a home; stupid amounts of inflation on food; destroyed the average person's ability to travel; the public no longer trusts science, medicine, the legal system, government agencies like the FBI. They were willing to break everything. And, on top of that, they do it with a totally clean conscience. They 100% go to bed every single night feeling that they are some force of good, fighting the good fight vs "fascists", "racists", "nazis", etc. This is what you can achieve if you control nearly all the means of indoctrinating a populace, and you have zero values other than this undying desire to seize control of power. You can get stupid ass weak minded people to freak the fuck out about something with a 99.96% chance of survival, and allow you to do whatever the hell you want so long as your propagandists can convince them you're protecting/saving them.
It's not even that. It's that Elon Musk: 1. bought it. 2. revealed to them that he didn't share their leftist politics.
Seriously. It's that simple.
Prior to that, they loved twitter, and they constantly sucked off Elon Musk. Doesn't anyone else remember what reddit threads used to be like that involved him? Stuff like him making the stupid flamethrower, or proposing the hyperloop? They loved the guy then, because they assumed he was one of their own. Now that it's fairly clear that he's somewhere more in the middle, he's public enemy number one, and they're not going to ever stop attacking Twitter. He dared to break up their monopoly on controlling public discourse on the internet, and that is something they cannot abide.