One needs to construct a strawman when the person you’re arguing with has made no attempt to make any kind of actual argument, and just thrust a single word into a discussion.

Maybe construct an argument of your own to get defensive about before reacting so harshly.

So… you just wanted to be heard, but had no actual input to give?

Then what’s your perspective on the specific issue of this thread? You say your opinion is being erased… but all you’ve said so far is “I exist”. Which… okay? What impact would that have on literally anything related to this?

Going to the store means going outside and dealing with people.

It’s sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn’t think of their absence.

The world has been ending for a long long time. This is just the latest speed boost we’ve run over.

Being human doesn’t make you good. Plenty of humans are monsters. They’re not some eldritch evil that simply started existing hating, they chose this.

That makes them worse, of course… but still very very human.

Simply destroying something is the easy road. Because it means you don’t have to think about what the problem is, only know that it’s bad.

It’s definitely harder to build something from nothing, but that’s not the “solution” being offered. It’s tomorrow’s problem that you don’t have to worry about yet.

It’s not the easier solution, but it is the easier thought.

Like this?

It’s not detached from reality, it’s propaganda. It’s a twisting of reality to benefit a particular agenda.

So you agree with my entire point, but don’t want to admit as such?

That was literally my entire point. That corporations effectively have carte blanche to do what they want, then the tools they use are the ones to take the blame.

Video games are an escape, which can be a problem in and of itself even without exploitative tactics meant to squeeze them of profit… but again, that is a societal problem. The danger of escapism is not so great without something to escape from.

From a quick google search. It’s about 53% for Trump, 45% for Harris.

It may not be true for those you regularly interact with, but that doesn’t make it untrue overall.

A major problem is also that progressive messages are complex, and don’t offer easy answers. They require that people engage, and put in a great deal of effort… that will mostly not bear fruit for them, or their children, or their children’s children… but will help over time.

But people are exhausted. And sick of waiting for things to get better… so they fall prey to the easy answers. Which is what the far-right offers. Easy answers and excuses for why everyone else is at fault.

Part of the problem is that people only want the easy answers. Which is not an easy fix. It requires convincing them of the lie of easy answers.

This is blaming the tool for the actions of the person using them.

This is not a video game problem, this is a societal motivation problem. The motivation of corporations is to make money, so they employ whatever means they can to achieve that.

In this case it’s targeting kids playing video games.

The tool is not the problem, the wielder is. Saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

Ah yes, the games are the problem, not the system in which they are created.

It’s the video games that are the problem. Clearly.

So… three monkeys?

Well, as that was a restaurant not managed by Disney, but through an independent pub owner in their public market area… I kind of doubt it.

They’ve always been on the menu

“Have you thought about installing Linux?”

Did she not? Is that an obviously silly flaw, or just some dumb internet argument keyboard warriors throw out to try and prove how obviously intellectually superior they are?

It’s a fucking movie, not a scientific study.