So really the answer to “what is alienating conservatives” is “absolutely anything that reminds them of any new information they’ve learned about the world since they were a small child” and it becomes a lot more clear how futile it is to pretend you care about what they want

RW culture war hierarchy of disagreement

Man, I like Daily Wire in concept but Matt Walsh needs to shut the fuck up about video games. The same guy who tried to resurrect the tired old "violent video games are harmful!" crap is now acting like he's the first person to notice that video games are pushing woke nonsense (even though there are about a hundred channels and outlets that have been talking about this for years) but his solution is to, of course, for the right to stop playing video games.

No. Just, no.

This is the same "bury our head in the sand and pretend pop culture doesn't exist" mindset that got us into this situation in the first place. You can't win a war (and there is a culture war going on, no matter how many people on both sides want to pretend otherwise) by retreating from every battlefield. You win by raising awareness of a problem and then offering a real solution.

And it's especially stupid seeing this cultural retreat mindset from someone working for DW because DW actually knows exactly how to fight this battle. They created their own media company to fight against woke Hollywood. Are all their movies and shows good? No, not at all. But they still did the right thing. They put their money where their mouth is, and created an alternative.

A much better example is Angel Studios, which is probably the only Christian movie studio I've ever seen that puts out top quality content with great acting, writing, and production values. They're raking in money and getting their content onto mainstream streaming services as well as theaters. In other words, they're taking their message to the people who need it the most. The ones who aren't already in the echo chamber. Unlike Daily Wire, which only offers its content on its own website through a subscription service to its own audience, and never advertises anywhere.

Another successful example outside of movies is Eric July's Rippaverse. He's been killing it with his comics, with every single one of his campaigns raking in over a million dollars, every cent of which is reinvested back into his business, helping it grow, creating more content, and expanding his already impressive roster of writers and artists. Mainstream writers and artists, by the way. Like Chuck Dixon, the guy who co-created Bane and wrote the seminal Tim Drake Robin comics, among many other credits, and Mike Baron, who wrote some of the best early Punisher comics. Eric had a following before he started the Rippaverse. He runs a successful YouTube channel and he's a regular contributor to The Blaze. He could have walled himself off with his fanbase, wrote comics about ancaps saving the world from the evils of government, and made some money while pandering to the people who already agreed with him. Instead, he went big. He invested his own money, runs his own distribution center, owns his own business with zero outside investors, hires the best talent he can, and offers a product that focuses on story and characters over messaging. His work isn't even "anti-woke". It's just not woke.

And that's what we need in video games. We need alternatives. We need to roll up our sleeves and wade into the deep waters and actually contribute our ideas and our talents. Offer an alternative. Hire people who know what they're doing, who care about quality content first and social engineering never. There is a huge untapped audience who would pay hand over fist for good video games free from microtransactions and woke nonsense.

But retreating is not an option. It's not brave or moral to hide in our echo chambers and scoff at anything fun. Entertainment is necessary. And maybe more importantly, it's not going anywhere. We will never live in a world where people go to work and spend time with their families at home and do nothing else. We need to engage with the world as it is. Not wait around for whatever our idea of a perfect world is to magically form so we can finally interact with it. You can't change society if you keep pretending large swaths of it don't exist.

holy shit just saw pronouns in starfield and I shat myself. I sharted ,while crying, so hard that my wife came into my room (she sleeps with her femboy boyfriend) and asked for a divorce. I just turned to her and said

"p-p-p-pronouns" and broke into tears. crying rn.

fuck you Todd Howard for convincing my wife to divorce me and leave me for her woke male wife.

"They couldn't make blazing saddles today." My brother in Christ you'd be the one calling it woke blm propaganda.

I know the culture war grift is getting increasingly desperate for content nowadays (plenty of them are now just openly begging for more woke movies to come out so they can complain about them) and maybe it's just because this particular one is in my wheelhouse but I think the "Dark Fate feminized the Terminator" narrative has got to be one of the most desperate attempts to make something out of nothing they've ever come up with. And not just because the Terminator was never even a man. "They made the Terminator second fiddle to a bunch of hyper competent femoids to push a feminist agenda" Don't know what movie you were watching but in the one I watched the Terminator turns up in act 3 and instantly becomes the most useful character in the movie, spends a good portion of the final battle taking the villain on by itself, saving the 3 female protagonists' lives multiple times and literally getting the heroic sacrifice to beat the villain and save the world at the end because an old and domesticated terminator is still the motherfucking TERMINATOR. "They turned the Terminator into a beta male soyboy malewife" You mean it has a family that it loves and provides for and a stable job it's enthusiastic about? For people who won't shut up about traditional family values and gender roles they do sure seem to hate when MEN do their part. Besides which this is the direct continuation of the narrative thread in Terminator 2 (the one y'all claim to like) where the Terminator's patience, diligence and lack of an ego ironically make it the ideal father and family man.

"They turned the Terminator into a joke! Why isn't he taken more seriously?!" Yes. Never before has the T-800's awkwardness been played for laughs. Such a thing is unheard of in this franchise.

Like I've mentioned precedents, the '68 NYC teacher's strike and ethnic succession in the outer boroughs, but at least that had imaginable stakes, I'm not really clear why a Black/Jewish front of the culture war is opening up right now

Are you paying attention to this!

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This shit needs to be shutdown.

They said it! They said the thing I was trying to articulate in my previous post!

The big problem with the claim that British politics is now experiencing a “great moderation” is, of course, the nature of the Conservative Party. The Economist suggests that the Tories are becoming more sensible and pragmatic, with a leader whose pitch is based on “managerial competence rather than cartoonish radicalism.” Rentoul also credits Sunak with bringing “the soothing balm of competence” to his party after its “wilder adventures” with Johnson and Truss.

In reality, Sunak and his allies are planning to fight the next election on culture-war issues of every kind, from trans rights to children’s literature. Sunak’s home secretary, Suella Braverman, who has a track record of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, recently brought forward a new bill targeting refugees that attracted the praise of Europe’s far right. The main public opposition to the bill came, not from Starmer and the Labour Party, but from a retired footballer and television pundit, Gary Lineker.

When pundits assert that the Tories are no longer in the grip of extremism, they mean that Sunak is not going to pick fights with big business in the way that Johnson and Truss both did. So long as the Conservative Party respects those parameters, it can indulge in xenophobia as much as it likes.

The “great moderation” celebrated by the Economist has removed two politicians, Corbyn and Sturgeon, who challenged prejudice against immigrants and refugees instead of triangulating around it. We are left with an uglier, nastier public culture, while the two main parties have no serious plans to reform a broken economic model that has generated a profound social crisis.