2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
There was nothing unintelligent or inaccurate in my post. I understand you r position just fine,. What you don't seem to grasp is your definition of small government is not the only one that cons use. That isn't my fault nor does it make me the problem. I'm also accurate in what the argument always seems to boil down to.
"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown
Looking at a small number of failures and thinking that means the government has failed isn't very honest.
You have to look at the whole track record. Water and ground toxicity was a real problem before the EPA. Is the water you drink toxic? Is the ground you live on barren? Is the air you breath carcinogen filled? If not, the EPA has done its job.
"BUT FLINT MICHIGAN HAPPENED, THAT NEGATES ALMOST A CENTURY OF GOOD EPA RECORD!"
Getting rid of our alphabet soup would open up our country to a host of problems we left behind over a century ago.
I assume you're one of those types that wants to get rid of them though, since you seem to be defending this viewpoint, and turn back the clock to when your biggest concern was securing a single piece of bread and some clean water each day, rather than which MMO-C thread to argue on. Back when carpet baggers could sell you tooth paste that rotted your teeth and not be held accountable, because it wasn't illegal. Back when people could sell you snake oil as a miracle cure, and it not be illegal. Fun times.
You preach that people should take care of themselves with personal responsibility in such cases I assume? But our entire way of life is built on regulations that keep us safe from being scammed. You think "Oh but I can just not trust carpet baggers and the like and buy everything from the grocery store!"
What if the shelves of your trusted store began being stocked with things that you couldn't trust to be safe? What if all the stores in your area started doing that? It removes the choice aspect from any free market argument.
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2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Again its all about undermining the faith the public has or had i the government. The government could potentially act as a force against the neo liberal individualist ideology but its currently too captured by individuals who buy into that ideology or worse. Government is not perfect by any means but it cam be a force to.improve the lives of working men and woman.
Markets exist because states define the parameters those markets operate within. The government orncivil society provides for common currency, contract enforcement, standardization of weights and measurements, defence from foreign invaders and really the most egregious interference defence of private property. Fact is all economies are planned as far back as surplus societies exist. In ancient Sumeria and babylon it was the temple priests and scribes who managed the systems that allowed the economies of those ancient societies. Its simple a question of who will do the planing. Wallstreet or a democratically elected government. The neoliberal project is to undermine the revolutions of europe in favor of a feudal landlord system.
When the classical liberals talk about free markets theyre talking about markets free of economic rent. When libertarian anarcho conservatards talk about free markets theyre talking about a market free for finance and the rentier class to extract as much wealth as they can. Free to exploit. Free to suck.blood.
You're adorable.
On tape in his 50s bragging about sexually assaulting young girls and women. Brags about "coming at" a married woman "like a bitch." Refers to a girl walking up to him as "it." Meanwhile his third trophy wife (/illegal alien) is at home pregnant.
On tape multiple times bragging about how he would fuck his own daughter if he could.
Forced to settle out of court after beating and raping his first wife Ivana.
That doesn't even touch all the other absolutely heinous shit he's guilty of. Like I said, whatever else everyone may think about him the fact is he was the perfect Republican candidate for president, as he obviously embodies the values of his party.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Or maybe it just shows how well Republicans did disfranchising millions of US voters?
Trump got nearly the exact same amount of votes as Romney when he lost in 2012 and also lost the popular vote to Clinton by 2.8 million+ and counting.
But who cares about the US citizens who were successfully fucked by the Republicans, they better get used to it, right?
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Well the Left is certainly not willing to live with results so why should the right?
I can almost guarantee you that if Trump were somehow screwed out of being named President that this country would explode into chaos and end up with the Right seizing control and the Left fleeing for Canada. Which actually kinda makes me hope they do try to screw Trump out of President.
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The Left is trying to tear apart the country right now.The divide is great at this point. if they succeed in blocking Trump they will end up regretting it. The rights patience with the left at this point is very thin. When they see leftists demanding censorship and oppression of the right it pretty much makes the right want to drive them out of the country once and for all.
Nobody said anything about genocide.
Elections have consequences.
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I don't understand why people use Left and Right to describe anything in politics. In the broadest sense it does describe something. But nothing precise enough to be useful in a conversation with any substance. It isn't much more than a strong narrative for simple minds. It's like sports. Randomly pick a team, probably the one your parents liked and cheer.