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I mean, I kind of guessed this way back when Collective Shout pushed their action.

I actually had a comment removed here on Lemmy when I brought up how this was “US politics/elections affecting your life as gamers”, because the mods insisted it was purely an Australian action, and my comment was off-topic. But we live in a global online world. There’s no way that US politics wouldn’t have a huge effect on this type of censorship.

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SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It is as it always was: Even if you have no interest in politics, the politics are interested in you.

Ordinary people should adopt politics as a hobby, if only to have agency about which type of politics thrives or dies. I would much prefer sex-positive media to proliferate over sex negative, because the latter will take away my hentai games and manga. Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.

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- ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.
  
  And facing towards the earth with their head decapitated and placed between their legs. Kudos in advance if you know what that means.
  
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ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s no way that US politics wouldn’t have a huge effect on this type of censorship.

I’ve been called a fearmonger also for trying to tell apathetic gamers who “hate politics” that if they don’t get involved they’re going to start losing their own goddamn games.

I have linked the “Conservapedia” articles on video games all over reddit until they banned me. I have tried to tell people that voting for Trump or supporting his ideals even distantly isn’t going to “take the woke out of your games” that it will actually crush your gaming entirely, because… and I can’t stress this enough, Conservatives HATE GAMING. Not the online chuds and 4channers who hate women, they’re barely even conservatives… they’re fodder for the online fights. But the old-guard and middle-class conservatives who get marching orders from churches and grifters, the ones who have all the actual money on the right. They want to see an end to “distractions” and fiction and fantasy and everything that isn’t some kind of sanitized, un-nuanced devotion to Dear Leader and his United States of White Jesus.

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- plyth@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Fiction has been an enemy of power since writing began
  
  x for doubt
  
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  - Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Gilgamesh literally becomes king. He changes the power paradigm to put himself on top and thats the oldest text we have.
    
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    plyth@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What came first, kings or the stories about kings?
    
    I think kings came first, and the storiy supported their power.
    
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- supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Conservatives HATE GAMING. Not the online chuds and 4channers who hate women, they’re barely even conservatives…
  
  They sure sound like conservatives to me.
  
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  - flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Terminology is confusing. Lowercase-c conservatives want to keep the status quo as it is. But fact is that e.g. in the USA, legal access to abortion has been the status quo for 50 years.
    
    So nobody can say that the status quo has been anything but that in the US. So uppercase-C “Conservative” just means “reactionary” now.
    
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  - ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I mean, they are in the moment that they’re mad that someone made a black female with realistic proportions as a selectable character… but they largely don’t have principles or values at all, they’re a slime-mold that fits into whatever social trend is easy to latch onto right now so they can share emotional connection with their peers.
    
    What happened is we ignored them and people like Steve Bannon and Russians and other agents of regression saw them as a ripe target for exploitation and manipulation. We have a massive rise in things like incels and anti-woke young men, but it’s largely manufactured. These are mostly young people who are unhappy, alone and they’ve been nudged towards easy-to-digest memes and talking points that this is the fault of unattractive feminists who want to take their games away.
    
    This isn’t “conservatism” as much as reactionary attitudes and social isolation. If we were able to get a foot in the door faster and have a concerted effort to show them that their issues are largely socio-economic and mental-health related, we would have made a lot more progress a lot sooner. Source: I used to do just that and mentored/coached lonely young guys for years, they’re staggeringly easy to turn if you make the effort and are social and can listen to people.
    
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Tryenjer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The US is still the leader of the West, whatever its policies are, they will greatly affect the people in these countries.

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- leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The US isn’t a leader in anything they are imperialist and they meddle. It’s not leadership it’s influence. They’ve consolidated political, economic, and military power and they use all of those to varying degrees to meddle in everyone’s affairs
  
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  - Tryenjer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Let’s discuss semantics instead of the hegemony they still have over our countries as they descend into a clear dictatorship and drag us down with them.
    
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    leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s not just semantics the idea that the US is leading implies passive influence rather than active influence.
    
    They’re leading not through inspiration and innovation but as they would with a leash.
    
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No matter how you measure it, global sexually repressive puritanism always traces back to the US.

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- bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have q quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.
  
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  - Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.
    
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    bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The Taliban hated women long before being funded by the US, and hating women was not why they are funded. Same for the fundamentalist Iranian Muslims.
    
    Them being in power (and the subsequent suffering of women) can be attributed to the US, but not them hating women per se.
    
    I like hating on the US as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend they’re the source of all evil (only lots).
    
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  - BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is Iran in the 1970s, before the US got involved.
    
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    AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Those photos are of Shah-era Iran, when the West was propping up (including providing weapons, training and funding to) an unpopular authoritarian that had been installed by the UK and US when the previous democratically-elected government dared to attempt to nationalise the oil industry, which was owned by BP. Under the Shah, traditional Islamic dress was outlawed, which is why everyone’s in 1970s clothes. If you disagreed with the Shah, the secret police would take you away and kill you.
    
    Eventually, a coalition of leftists and religious leaders overthrew the Shah. The religious faction then assassinated all the prominent leftists and switched the secular authoritarian dictatorship for a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship. Under the Ayatollah, traditional Islamic dress was mandatory, which is why women in contemporary photos from Iran always have some kind of headscarf unless it’s in a news report about a protest that someone got executed for. If you disagree with the Ayatollah, the Revolutionary Guard will take you away and kill you.
    
    So Iran’s had laws forcing women to wear only the clothes approved by a dictator both with and without help from the West.
    
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    Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wow, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way or anything, but they look like people.
    
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  - CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The women in the middle east weren’t nearly as suppressed before the US got involved
    
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