GamerGulag [they/them]

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Cake day: March 21st, 2022

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  • election season produced some takes that are reminding me a lot of this situation, wherein something completely innocuous/outright good (being openly indignant about systemic oppression, displaying a user’s preferred pronouns) is smeared by liberals who are trying to associate said good things with bad people, thus drawing a connection that anyone who supports these good things is actually a bad person

    they got it with bernie because he yelled, and abusive men also yell, therefore anyone supporting bernie is supporting abuse. the angle taken here is that hexbear users have pronoun tags, and hexbear users are bad, therefore you should be suspicious of anyone who has pronoun tags. they’re just dipping into casual transphobia as a very limp attempt at an own



  • something that really grinds my gears is the sheer number of people who are willing to treat the US and the decisions of its capitalist citizenry with kid gloves whenever someone fucks up. a piece of entertainment is getting rid of their gay characters? well, that’s just because you’re not allowed to have those in Russia, and we’ve gotta sell there. elon is trying to get rid of the block feature on twitter? well, he’s just capitulating to the authoritarian wishes of the Saudi Arabian government, nothing he can do about it. a million preventable deaths to covid? well, if only China had said something earlier so we could have gotten started on doing nothing a couple months in advance

    it’s such a strange narrative that americans are never actually responsible for anything and they’re just doing what everyone else forces them to do when the closest thing they’ve got to a cultural identity is this idea of not being beholden to any other nation’s whims