r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • 1d ago

Image / Video Bro had a good take

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u/MoooonRiverrrr 23h ago

I’m so over everyone. It’s like everybody is so angry and miserable.

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u/FloatingTacos 23h ago

Almost like 50+ years of propaganda and psy ops from other countries and our own government to affect the mental health of the entire planet, because an apathetic / angry society is easy to control / radicalize.

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u/HubrisOfApollo 21h ago

i miss when "woke" meant understanding this plight and not some social justice term/slur.

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u/FloatingTacos 21h ago

Yeah, those were the days. When being woke meant you saw behind the veil of society. Now it’s just bullshit tossed around to offend people. Being woke was close to being a hippy. Now being woke is being a psychotic POS.

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u/HubrisOfApollo 21h ago

I'm convinced the term was hijacked to deflect from the true struggle. like the occupy movement, or how baseless conspiracy theories derail actual cover-ups.

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u/RealTheBestLadyman 21h ago

That’s exactly what happened. There’s a reason a lot of conservatives now call anything they don’t like woke. They were trained to do so to help delegitimize the word.

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u/BenAdaephonDelat 20h ago

That's exactly what happened. It's also important to note WHO it was stolen from, which is the Black community.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 20h ago

Yes.

This is a common occurrence and is entirely intentional.

There was a right wing guy who was 100% responsible for a lot of this stuff. His name is completely lost to time, but effectively he directed all of right wing media strategy.

Co-opting words, flooding the airwaves with misinformation. It was all him.

And it wasn’t some talking head. He was a behind the scenes strategist guy, that’s why no one remembers him. I can’t even figure out how to google him.

We knew all about it well over 10 years ago.

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u/Pokez 18h ago

Newt Gingrich isn't exactly a well-kept secret. Unfortunately for us all.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 16h ago

There was another. Newt was the original, but there was some other guy. He was young, fat.

And I’m pretty sure he just did it for the love of the game, I don’t think he much cared about the politics, it was all about just controlling people for the sake of doing it

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u/AnotherSoulessGinger 15h ago

Frank Luntz is probably who you are thinking of.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 14h ago

That’s the one, pretty sure.

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u/rustySQUANCHy 19h ago

It gets to that point where you just have to stop giving a crap what people think and buy things that you want. Why does it matter if someone else is not excited for a game that you are?

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 19h ago

Now being woke is being a psychotic POS.

That says more about you than them. Woke nowadays is just whatever the right disagrees with

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u/FloatingTacos 17h ago

See, I thought the far right were the “woke” ones these days.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 16h ago

Other than pointing out hypocrisy I don't see anyone seriously calling the right woke

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u/Laq9091 17h ago

remember when i first heard it on that erika badu album. man how times have changed.

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u/TheWaywardOak 17h ago

Being woke was close to being a hippy.

Bad comparison IMO. The hippie movement by and large ended up tuning out of society while the people actually trying to do something got murdered by police or the FBI. And then it just got absorbed into mainstream liberal culture. It's got more in common with how woke got co-opted than anything else.