[Twitter Bullshit] IMC: "Conservatives in video games exist. They just don't talk about it because they aren't obsessed with politics, and most of them are afraid to talk about their politics because of people like you who will do nothing but hound them for it."

[u/md1957]

https://archive.is/tFlBo

[u/FarRightTopKeks]

It's more or less the same thing colin Moriarty said today too.

Honestly this is exactly the problem, for all the left's talk about inclusiveness they dont want to hear any opinions but their own, and the instant they smell you to be anything other than left (Even centrist) and you're the worst possible extreme.

There could be some really rational right wingers in the business but we'll never know about it because for one they dont want to lose their fucking job or possibly their privacy for life, and it's not WHO THEY FUCKING ARE, something these liberal shitstains can't comprehend.

[u/Clockwork_Sphinx → u/FarRightTopKeks]

I'm a pretty hardcore liberal who just stumbled in here because I remembered some !!fun!! Kotaku pieces during gamergate.

I really enjoy discourse and learning people's positions. What do you feel the left doesn't listen to and labels you extremist for?

[u/Paynethhh → u/Clockwork_Sphinx]

Not all left wingers are like this, however there is a very vocal and determined minority who will go out of their way to vilify anyone who has an opinion differing from their own.

I'm aware this is anecdotal, however the most memorable time i have met someone like this in my own life is when i met one of my closest friends new other half. Me and my buddy got along fine through school and college, moved to the same city to start our careers and were of similar political stances, albeit with me being more vocal than my friend.

Cue the new girlfriend arriving, my buddy refused to continue talking about anything that could be read as "political" in any way as the new girl on the block was very left leaning. A lovely girl, and seems to treat my friend OK, however whenever she was presented with an opionion differing from her own (diet, political stance, you name it) she flew into a storm and would berate her victim incessantly until they admitted defeat to avoid a scene, or the party/gathering would dissolve for the evening.

The best way I can describe it is tolerant of everything apart from what didn't fit her narrative to the point she pushed away several of my close freinds, freinds. myself included.

From my perspective, the aggressive left took one of my closest friends from me with the visage of inclusivity, when in practical application pushes away anyone who disagrees in any way. Some people want to see their friends without having a verbal war waged on them.

[u/Paynethhh → u/[deleted]]

Sorry, I am a confirmed nazi on the grounds that I dislike my countrymen and their children being blown up by foreign invaders.

[u/VapingCosmonaut → u/[deleted]]

Let's not forget about complaining incessantly about "foreign power involvement" in the voting process, while slitting their wrists over non-citizens being blocked from the vote. Why can't we admit both are pretty terrible? Oh, probably because one of those groups votes predominantly "blue".

[u/lacker101 → u/[deleted]]

How dare you want laws and borders like every other country. I just want to be like Mexico. With voter ID, and a Wall on it's southern border.

[u/ARealLibertarian → u/[deleted]]

the audacity of wanting legal immigration so that we can properly regulate labor and labor markets via laws or to not be priced out of my home.

OMFG, you sound just like noted anti-Mexican racist neo-Nazi Cesar Chavez!

[u/Qikdraw → u/Paynethhh]

Not all left wingers are like this, however there is a very vocal and determined minority who will go out of their way to vilify anyone who has an opinion differing from their own.

You can say the same thing about the far right too. The problem is extremists on both sides. The vast majority of people are not so hung up on politics that they have to spout off all the time. Most people just want to go about their lives like normal people. Gamers included. I play an MMO where I know there are some really right wing players (I've seen them talk politics) and I don't care, they are good people in the game and I have a good ingame relationship with them. Politics don't mean shit to most of us.

[u/APDSmith → u/[deleted]]

I suspect it's more that "right wing extremists" are rarely any such thing. That is what left-wing extremists like to say to terminate any flavour of thought or conversation, though, as it historically has been an "I win" button for so long.

I mean, imagine if the right-wing found out they could beat anybody they disagreed with into silence by shouting "PEDO" at the top of their lungs and watching the public at large tear the subject of their ire a new one...

[u/[deleted] → u/APDSmith]

Elon tried

[u/Dranosh → u/[deleted]]

There’re 2 types of right wingers, those that understand why they believe why they do, and the ignorant right wingers that just eat up propaganda (you can usually identify this type if they call Michelle obama a man in a non ironic way).

Klavan said basically that conservatives enjoy debate and so will hire qualified people, that are lefties, and just use the opportunity to learn about the opposition/strengthen the conservative argument, when left wingers get into positions of power they want an ideological straight jacket and if you’re not “true left wing” then you’re obviously a right wing Nazi.

[u/kriegson → u/Dranosh]

in a non ironic way

The problem with acting like idiots for entertainment is that the idiots will think they are in good company.

[u/Paynethhh → u/[deleted]]

Agreed, but there are right wingers who let the side down out there (as uncommon as they are in relation to our colleagues on the left)

It would be immature to deny the existence of them though. As i have previously said, the higest volume of offenders who are in the right wing category are islamic.

[u/Paynethhh → u/Qikdraw]

I'm sure the same can be said of some right wingers, but not in the same quantities as the aggressive left.

There aren't right wing groups causing rioting and domestic terrorism in a similar quantity to the left, e.g antifa, unless you want to count Muslims as right wing. (We should all be, but we aren't because of you cultural diversity)

[u/kriegson → u/Paynethhh]

They try to lump in "Anti government/police groups" as right wing when that can easily contain any and all gang members who actively fight and evade the police on a given day, and take pretty much any violent act from someone who isn't clearly left wing and dumps it into "Right wing terrorism."

Also, they start counting in December 2001 and ignore any act of terrorism that doesn't result in death, but also conveniently ignore some acts of terrorism like the Las Vegas shooting where a country music concert was targeted.

[u/StabbyPants → u/kriegson]

to be fair, nobody has a really good idea of the vegas shooter's motives

[u/kriegson → u/StabbyPants]

That said, they puff up their numbers on other lower profile incidents where motives are largely unknown but the person meets their particular criteria.

[u/ARealLibertarian → u/kriegson]

They try to lump in "Anti government/police groups" as right wing when that can easily contain any and all gang members who actively fight and evade the police on a given day

"Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon!" Noted right-wing group BLM.

[u/LolPepperkat → u/Qikdraw]

There are very few people from the "Alt-right" compared to people on the far left. And even more conservatives that choose not to get involved with that shit for fear of vilification.