It’s sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn’t think of their absence.

The world has been ending for a long long time. This is just the latest speed boost we’ve run over.

What about the lonely milfs in my area? You can’t tell me they don’t actually want my body…

Being human doesn’t make you good. Plenty of humans are monsters. They’re not some eldritch evil that simply started existing hating, they chose this.

That makes them worse, of course… but still very very human.

Simply destroying something is the easy road. Because it means you don’t have to think about what the problem is, only know that it’s bad.

It’s definitely harder to build something from nothing, but that’s not the “solution” being offered. It’s tomorrow’s problem that you don’t have to worry about yet.

It’s not the easier solution, but it is the easier thought.

Cooking takes time, ingredients, and if you want it palatable, ability. Fast food takes driving up to a location and saying “give me something easy”.

It’s not as fast as it used to be, but it’s still relatively quick, especially if it’s on your way home from wherever you are. Any extra time is just spent doomscrolling on your phone or listening to your preferred media pundit.

Don’t forget his terrorist fist jab.

Like this?

It’s not detached from reality, it’s propaganda. It’s a twisting of reality to benefit a particular agenda.

So you agree with my entire point, but don’t want to admit as such?

That was literally my entire point. That corporations effectively have carte blanche to do what they want, then the tools they use are the ones to take the blame.

Video games are an escape, which can be a problem in and of itself even without exploitative tactics meant to squeeze them of profit… but again, that is a societal problem. The danger of escapism is not so great without something to escape from.

From a quick google search. It’s about 53% for Trump, 45% for Harris.

It may not be true for those you regularly interact with, but that doesn’t make it untrue overall.

A major problem is also that progressive messages are complex, and don’t offer easy answers. They require that people engage, and put in a great deal of effort… that will mostly not bear fruit for them, or their children, or their children’s children… but will help over time.

But people are exhausted. And sick of waiting for things to get better… so they fall prey to the easy answers. Which is what the far-right offers. Easy answers and excuses for why everyone else is at fault.

Part of the problem is that people only want the easy answers. Which is not an easy fix. It requires convincing them of the lie of easy answers.

This is blaming the tool for the actions of the person using them.

This is not a video game problem, this is a societal motivation problem. The motivation of corporations is to make money, so they employ whatever means they can to achieve that.

In this case it’s targeting kids playing video games.

The tool is not the problem, the wielder is. Saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

Ah yes, the games are the problem, not the system in which they are created.

It’s the video games that are the problem. Clearly.

Indeed, he didn’t create the party, he just says the quiet part out loud.

Maybe it looks goofy because you’re looking at a picture you took of your monitor instead of taking a screenshot like a rational adult.

Because it’s nothing more than a popularity contest for them. This isn’t the future of the country (or world) for them, it’s junior prom.

To smash in the parking lot as a form of catharsis?

I’d prefer a Culver’s.

So… three monkeys?