I tried playing it while unemployed. Did not click with me. At all. I just don’t get it.
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Alteon@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests3·4 days agoI mean, according to the history of how conservative news has worked, you constantly need an ‘enemy’ to be afraid. It’s the reason we’re attacking their rights, not yours, it’s the reason that we’re enacting laws to target this specific ethnicityn not yours, etc.
Modern conservativism only works if your supporters are fearful of the ‘other’. It used to be “orientals” and the Red Scare back in the mid-1900’s. Then the blacks, the ‘marihuana’, and communism in the 60’s and 70’s. In the 80’s, it was the welfare queens, the moral panic, and AIDS. In the 90’s, it was child predators, gays, and the start of many identity politics. Then it was Middle Easterners and Islam in the 2000’s. Now it’s the Great White Replacement and the immigrant populations. See? The pattern is that you always have to have some target for fear. They don’t stick around long before people realize that what they were fearful of isn’t as bad as people said they were or that it was never a risk on the first place. It’s all just a massive distraction to keep people from targeting the real problem. The ruling class, and they’re ability to manipulate our laws, elections, and lives all for their benefit.
In the 1980s, conservatism leaned heavily on fear of the communist threat, the ‘welfare queen’, and a moral panic over crime, AIDS, and the erosion of traditional family values. By the 1990s, the new ‘others’ were undocumented immigrants, queer Americans, and the imagined tyranny of political correctness and globalist elites. The conservative movement has often relied on stoking existential dread—whether it’s the red menace, the crack epidemic, or creeping secularism—to unify its base through fear rather than hope.
Alteon@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County3·4 days ago100% this. There’s been resistance everywhere over this. Minnesota drove out a bunch of ICE agents from their neighborhoods, there’s been major protests all over the US about it. Like… we’re for sure doing it.
Alteon@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County3·4 days agoAh yes, the dangerous criminals that are out farming for slave wages. Good job ICE. I’m assuming that ICE is going to punish the farmer that employed these dangerous criminals? ICE has entirely lost the fucking plot…
Alteon@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•1,800+ 'No Kings' Rallies Planned Across US as Trump Deploys Military to Crush Protests1·5 days agoNo, they aren’t paying for the no kings rally. This has been planned for months - essentially since Trump declared he wanted his thuper duper special big boy parade.
Just because they paid for an ad to support the movement doesn’t mean it’s now co-opted by Walmart or any other billionaire.
This is blatant misinformation.
Alteon@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brainEnglish1·8 days agoWife already wants hourly neck and head massages. My thumbs are already working at max capacity, Captain. I’m giving it all I got!
Nah bruv, that’s that citrus fruit that grows from trees in Cali (or Italy if your in the EU).