Trooper Dan, on 18 June 2019 - 10:22 PM, said:
There certainly are plenty of fakers out there who are in the gaming space purely to push their political agendas. But are you referring to johnny? As far as I can tell he is a real gamer who likes games. He never claimed to have any serious investment in the Duke Nukem character or franchise. Nothing wrong with that. He came to the forum after playing Alien Armageddon. It's possible to like games and also be passionate about politics/social justice and not be a fraud or "simulacrum". Just saying.
I've said this before, and at risk of turning myself into the next forum pariah, I will again admit that I used to be a left wing activist IRL - yes, Antifa and animal rights issues, which included organizing and taking part in street protests. All this happened when I was between ages 16-19 though. After that I saw a pronounced shift in my group's thinking, from taking interest in "real issues" to endlessly pontificating on LGBT rights, to getting upset with how people
say things (rather than what they actually
do) and since then I've had to be very cautious with who and how I divulge the fact that I still do care very much about issues typical to the left wing.
I feel like I am mostly the same person, and everyone else went crazy. But they are genuinely crazy and I have never seen it as an attempt to subvert anything on purpose. (Yes, some definitely do that, but not so much in random forums). They really are that easily triggered and the way johnny communicates is exactly the same as people I've known IRL. The rational mind tries to find rational reasons for the irrational. Sometimes people are just stupid.
There's a lot of femininity in these circles. I liked when Peterson came along because he brought really well sourced and succinct biological/psychological explanations for these differences in thinking. Left wingers get triggered because they tend to look at people as babies (in this case various minorities) and they see everyone else as snakes trying to eat the baby. Hence, it's like a mothers protective instinct. You have to assume they have no logical argument - it's all emotional, so you have to appeal to their emotions first. Calm them the fuck down, and proceed from there. Don't automatically assume malice when there's no evidence.
I guess it's also true that as we age we tend to become more conservative, but in my case, I feel like I just kept taking in more information and integrating it with the rest of my knowledge base, so I really identified with Nancsi when he/she (I honestly can't tell, I've been reading your name as Nancy the whole time, too) said that a sensible, pragmatic solution should not have political bias in it. If something is a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. I've always believed that, but the older I get the more I see how rare that viewpoint actually is.
Anyway, with johnny in particular, I think it's close to a lost cause. The problem with feminine men is they aren't women, lol. They've got male hormones and are much more aggressive (or passive aggressive) and stubborn than women.
WorkWandaWork, on 18 June 2019 - 08:49 PM, said:
The important thing I was communicating in what you quoted is the audience that matters most for that post you wrote is everyone besides the agent you were directly replying to.
I keep that in mind in every discussion, but there ought to be a limit before we allow every thread to derail because of one person. At some point everyone will have seen all possible variations of the anti SJW/PC argument and if mods don't do anything, nothing really changes.