You ever looked at Twitter, or Lemmy for that matter? The left is every bit as bitter and angry if not more so. Currently both sides (or at least significant portions of them) think the other is in power and responsible for all their problems, and it’s the media’s job to keep us thinking that way.
I miss the days before identity politics when it was still possible to keep political pandering and normal life stuff separate, and just enjoy my grill. But now if you use meat on the grill, you’re pandering to the right. If you use soy or lab grown vegan meat substitutes you’re pandering to the left. And thanks to the inflation both cost too much.
Ah, yes. Both sides. Both sides hate net neutrality. Both sides clamouring to make healthcare worse. Both sides fighting against the right for women to control their own bodies. Both sides hinting that their supporters violently attack the opposition at rallies.
I’m with you on net neutrality. I have no problem with women doing what they want with their own bodies, it’s the child’s body I’m worried about. I’m not a huge fan of the healthcare system either, I just think giving “free” healthcare to illegal aliens and putting the government in charge of it will make things worse and not better. Honestly not sure what you’re on about with the violent attacks thing, but I’ve seen plenty of calls for violence from prominent leftists, and the “summer of love” 3 years ago destroyed quite a bit.
But either way, I’m not a “muh both sides” centrist. To the contrary, I think the media is trying to distract both of us sides from the real enemy: moderates.
There's a smaller number of rage-filled dumbasses on the left than on the right.
And the rage-filled dumbasses on the left tend to be teenagers who will grow out of it. On the right it's middle-aged people with brain rot from too much Fox News.
As someone who used to have a lot of similar opinions, it really isn’t. If anything, it was energizing to make people squirm and try to prove you wrong, only to have another issue chambered and ready to go.
They thrive on this shit. And after moving left, I’m fucking exhausted.
When someone says “woke” I immediately assume that they have an opinion of the thing in question that they know will be seen as sexist, racist or -phobic in some way that if they said directly would get them called out on.
It’s just another cowards way of saying “I’m not racist but…”
Thus successfully agitating liberals into censoring a word that originally was created by the black community to highlight the calling out of systemic racism and it’s lasting effects on society.
Depends on what you consider bullshit. And if you complain about woke you probably have stupid opinions.
True that some ‘woke’ game suck, like that most recent saint’s row. But that’s because the writing is terrible, not because it includes minorities. Just an example
The bullshit wouldn’t be pushed if marginalized people in our society would be treated the same as everyone else and you know it. Grow up and stop being annoyed with black mermaids ffs
Like what? what don't you appreciate? What exactly and specifically about it is bullshit? Are we too afraid to say what we actually hate about the content being presented?
I don’t use it because it’s social suicide, but I think either everyone should be allowed to use it or no one should. But that’s like an opinion on USA tipping culture. You can have your opinions, just don’t exercise them unless you’re ready for trouble
Still is. If someone who doesn’t think anyone else but white, straight people are allowed representation in our diverse world calls you woke as a slur, you wear that as a badge of honor
That’s probably a fair assumption at this point, but I wish there was a word for egregiously obnoxious shoehorning of culture war stuff that wouldn’t get immediately diluted into a generic partisan shibboleth. For instance when they were doing the Enhanced Edition of the first games, and using the characters as mouthpieces to break the fourth wall to whine about gamergate, I don’t think you really have to be a bigot to be annoyed by it or want to put a label on that sort of thing.
It never meant anything. It is just a slur word invented by right wingers for when they face repercussions for their bigotry. They regularly switch out the word when they think it has outlived its usefulness. Older terms were PC and SJW. None of them meant anything.
Depends on your definition, but doesn't appear to be. The developers haven't gone out of their way to ham-fist any ideological messaging into the game, while allowing people to craft whatever character and story they like. Still, few people have actually played the game, so we won't know until it drops.
Shit man, that means even the original WoW was pretty woke with all the same sex avatar simulating rubbing on Ironforge.
Given all the cross-species simulated sex going on (like dwarfs doing it with elves), same sex, different sexes, thresomes and more-somes it was hugelly woke even by today’s “standards”.
Most things are "woke" by modern bigots. That's OK. We should always points out to conservatives that most things are woke so they GTFO and leave us alone.
The only people concerned about wokeness are the same exact people who perpetuate the same old White Fright/Satanic Panic insane conservative bigotry. If you have to ask, yes, Baldur’s Gate is woke. That game is SO woke it will actually FORCE your children to turn into gay black trans ANTIFA supersoldiers hellbent on eradicating America. If you don’t want to play a woke game, do not play Baldur’s Gate 3. Don’t play the first two either - I did as a child, and now I make sarcastic posts trying to piss off humanity’s worst. BG has always been a video game series intent on pushing the librulgenda.
They’ve changed their ToS recently to ban NSFW content (which isn’t an issue for me) but will also be less likely to hold onto anonymously-uploaded pics in general, so unless I keep a bunch of random screenshots saved to an imgur account posts like this will probably just go kaput out of nowhere!
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