Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

The endless amounts of Left/Woke Meltdown videos I’ve been seeing is absolutely hysterical. I’m not into politics (I’m also Canadian) but it becomes my concern when so much of my entertainment starts to get effected by these woke ideologies, which is why I’ve been having a blast watching the left’s reactions to Trump winning.

I’ve literally seen nothing of the sort. This isn’t 2016 redux at all. In fact I’ve seen more MAGA people angry because it could wind up being a pyrrhic victory should Trump pass before 2028 (something that can’t be ruled out given how his health is worse than ever). The fact that only one of his swing state senate candidates (Dave McCormick) won out of sheer luck (Bob Casey is a pro-life Democrat from a time Democrats welcomed them to their coalition; post-Dobbs, not anymore) doesn’t help them at all.

Tell me exactly what you mean by “woke ideologies,” and how they are ruining your entertainment. Give specific examples of these “woke ideologies” in action. Cite specific characters and moments in games, movies, and whatnot that offended you.

EDIT: And don’t think you can just get away with dropping a link to some Fandom Menace YouTuber and being done with it. I want you to describe it in your own words so I know that you understand what you’re talking about.

@Dr_Osaka
Yea, seems like so many things are getting ruined by it. The Sweet Baby Inc. controversy is a prime example of it, and its going on everywhere.

You. Same prompt.

@BlitztheDragon
? I did mention Sweet Baby, didn’t I? Weren’t you around for anything regarding them?

I was, and it’s a bullshit nontroversy involving a bunch of racists sending death threats to a Black-owned consultancy firm in Canada because game studios hire them and they’re “mean to white people” or whatever.

Kinda telling on yourself that you’re one of those people who gets offended by there being a gay person or a person of color in your vidya.

So my point is: Give me actual concrete examples that aren’t sourced from the fevered imaginations of a handful of pro-Trump influencers who lie through their teeth on the regular.

If anything the second Trump presidency is likely to increase representation of LGBTQ/Black/Latino characters in media and not the other way around.

@SleepySteve
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What I don’t get is that North Carolina elected a Democratic governor, yet they didn’t want to elect a Democratic president?

The Governor’s in North Carolina, the margins were better on the Democratic side versus the Presidency’s side. What the hell gives?

A whole bunch of Trump voters chose to either split the ticket or leave the downballot races blank.

And that is what should make the MAGA movement worried. Their ideas are not as popular with the public as they like to think, and if/when Trump is gone/passes it’s not an exaggeration to say the movement is dead, or at least irrelevant.

There’s a huge disparity between how downballot Dems did compared to Harris. As Commune has been bringing up several times now, Harris’s performance was dragged down by dislike of Biden and anger over inflation, which his administration was blamed for. They weren’t buying the “the economy’s fine, see the charts?” line, not that I can blame them.

The backlash was centered squarely on the President, and apparently not the Democratic Party as a whole.

Sweet Baby Inc is a consulting firm with no more than 16 employees and only helped with NPC dialogue. Anyone who still actually believes they’re able to Strongarm massive dev teams and entire corporations to do their bidding are genuinely brain damaged morons

Exactly. And this is why I think the GOP’s victory party is both a) premature, and b) a very pyrrhic victory. Their trifecta is looking to be far weaker than it was in 2016. You can forget about trying to push through Obamacare repeal, a national abortion ban or cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Tax cuts will be your only realistic outcome at best.

Trump is also a lame-duck because he can’t run for a third term, so his relevance has been greatly diminished.

@BlitztheDragon
Hardly bullshit. Every criticism directed towards them was correct.

Dialogue and stories in general has gotten worse in most AAA games recently that they have worked on (ie Suicide Squad), Not to mention their blatant left leaning political bias, their hatred towards the people who actually purchase and play video games, demanding people to mass report any criticism directed towards them, using underhanded tactics to push their political ideology into games (as seen in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZ8UJvsYBI , its only 20 seconds.) and are pretty racist despite claiming to fight against it (https://thatparkplace.com/sweet-baby-inc-ceo-and-co-founder-kim-belair-compares-white-male-gamers-to-picky-babies/).

This is just one example of more left leaning extremism and while I wouldn’t prefer it on the other side either, I feel like its quite a problem.

That Park Place is literally an alt-right outlet.

@SleepySteve
Still true. regardless. Would you also mistrust a left-leaning outlet talking about right wing stuff then?

https://x.com/GamesNosh/status/1764802262017183761
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMsxjWgUbI&t=1083s
https://nichegamer.com/sweet-baby-employees-incite-harassment-campaign-against-steam-curator/
https://archive.md/rYkFo (from one of the employees)

The fact of the matter is that these, rather unprofessional people who clearly hate most gamers, as in the people who consume video games, have a hand in many of the largest modern day video games out there, and frankly, I feel like that’s not a very good thing when it comes to the quality of them.

@Background Pony #2572
I’d wouldn’t trust this alt-right sources with a fuckin jello cup much less this.

It’s grifter horse shit to get people mad and blame anybody not white.

That has been conservative mo for the last 50 years.

@SleepySteve
They have no incentive to tell the truth either when it fucks with thire money.

@Angrybrony
And of course, far left leaning sources are completely reputable and never lie, right?

Nobody on here reads “far-left” sources. Unless you consider your local newspaper or TV station “far-left”, which…lol.

@BlitztheDragon
Close to home: My Little Pony Gen5
Gen4 had some liberal ideas (see all the lesbian shipping and eventual LyraBon marriage), which is fine. The entire setting wasn’t an excuse to include them, and they were very well integrated. I say this as someone who even likes the school of friendship and the student six, they did that in a great way.

Gen5 decided we need an allegory for extreme racism and the flaws of ethnostates, and in order to shove it into the setting, the movie writers decided to destroy Equestria and make the setting post-apocalyptic though also lighthearted to keep with the MLP setting. If it weren’t for a desire to make political issues the #1 focus for MLP:ANG to the exclusion of keeping to the bones of the setting, we could have had Luster Dawn as the protagonist with her diverse friend-group. Hell, if they were less focused on making the allegory the focus of the setting, we could have used an already extremely racist society in the show to make it work! Maybe Chrysalis makes a new hive and it’s changeling supremacist. Maybe go for a slavery allegory with the Storm Kingdom’s likely war-crime laiden setting. Who knows.

And again, I say this as someone who was happy to see LyraBon’s marriage, the school of friendship, the works. It can be done well, and it can be done poorly. It was done poorly. And it was done poorly because they really wanted to work the politics into the fiber of the setting, instead of letting it enter it naturally.

@Background Pony #2572
Jesus fucking christ vet your sources. There are so many ways of knowing who’s bullshitting and who isn’t these days.

So it sounds like you’re aiming to blame “pushing a political agenda” simply because they decided to take the setting in a direction you didn’t want it to - namely, breaking up Equestria and returning to the pre-Equestrian Dark Ages with the pony tribes divided once more.

I personally had no problem with the Gen 5 movie, though I didn’t watch the TV shows that came after.