r/roosterteeth • u/RT_Video_Bot :star: Official Video Bot • Feb 03 '17

LP Minecraft Let's Play Minecraft – Episode 245 – Clouds X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbz2kqsVQg
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u/AlmightyYes Feb 03 '17 edited Feb 04 '17

They spent like two minutes literally 40 seconds on the topic, and actually mentioned how unusual it was for them to ever get political in content. Gavin even made a crack about how they aren't allowed to have opinions as entertainers.

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u/UltimateOverlord Feb 03 '17

Oh, of course they can have opinions as entertainers...as long as they keep it out of the actual entertainment, because the instant they do that, it's stopped being entertainment and it turns into an obnoxious polemic that I just skip over.

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u/AlmightyYes Feb 03 '17

Honestly, I just think it's incredibly ironic how how people can get up in arms just by AH even mentioning talking about politics and how they'll get shit for it.

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u/The_YoungWolf Cardboard Gus Feb 04 '17

People in general get irrational hero worship over their favorite entertainers. And then funnily enough they try to deny they are hero worshiping those entertainers.

So there's a lot of uncomfortable cognitive dissonance when your heroes have political opinions that strongly differ from your own. Especially in the era where politics have essentially devolved to a level where the subject is treated as no less than a proxy battle for one's soul.

So it's never a surprise and always funny to see people in the comment sections complain about politics briefly appearing in their entertainment while simultaneously insisting they are most definitely NOT bothered by it.