Of all the kinds of stupid that exist out there, certainly it’s the predictable stupid that is the most frustrating. And of all the kinds of predictable stupid that exist, one of the most pre…
  • @[email protected]English
    58•4 months ago

    This is how you radicalize actual children. It’s clear these people are completely oblivious to the fact that every 10 year old in the country knows among us and plays it. Actual children will see how completely absurd all of this is. I love this move. Go ahead, show the children how utterly out of touch the top is.

  • UnhingedFridgeEnglish
    30•4 months ago

    Don’t ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•4 months ago

    This is the same tired horse shit they’ve been peddling for decades.

    The problem is the for profit healthcare system. The system is designed to turn blood into money. It needs to be torn down, then rebuilt as nationalized, socialized healthcare system for all. Everything profit seeking needs banned.

  • @[email protected]English
    54•4 months ago

    Yeah, that’s the problem. It’s our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.

  • FlashMobOfOneEnglish
    19•4 months ago

    Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.

    Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP and Al Jazeera)

    Also, watch moderate people on the other side of the political divide. It may annoy you in some ways (like how I can’t listen to Maher when he gets on the topic of Israel), but you’ll learn more and you’ll have more nuanced views, which will benefit you in ways you can’t fully understand until you’re able to think about things in a different way. I’m a leftist, so for me, it’s been Bill Maher, Chris Williamson, or Jon Stewart. More people need to learn what they don’t know that they don’t know.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•4 months ago

      I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.

      Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.

    • TimeSquirrel
      48•4 months ago

      Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won’t fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.

      • @[email protected]English
        38•4 months ago

        Hello! I played D&D first in nineteen-eighty-fucking-one and lived through the Satanic Panic. Have you seen Tom Hanks in his first big acting role? My parents sat me down in front of that. But I’m still playing D&D in a campaign right now, and my son plays as well. Aha, take that Satanic Panic!

        It’s the same shit every decade. They just need something to blame violence on, because surely it can’t be gun culture.

        • azuthEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          Your parents made you watch a film because they were concerned you could not distinguish reality from fiction?

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 months ago

            Well, I was something like 13, and I remember it on TV. I lived in a rural area, where we got about 6 channels on an antenna tower. I watched what they watched.

  • LiveLMEnglish
    15•4 months ago

    Huh, I thought NBC was a respectable news org…

  • SkavarSharraddas
    9•4 months ago

    Monopoly? No? I guess that’s the less visible kind of violence that makes it acceptable.