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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 6, 2023

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I have the same complaint about the Great Awokening in 2020 alongside the George Floyd protests: I felt like every institution in the world had to share their views on the situation, no matter how disconnected they might actually be from it. It became totalizing, overwhelming. I would compare it to a moral panic.

It will never stop being funny that fucking Call of Duty felt the need to weigh in

Oh god this gives me flashbacks of summer 2020 when Rockstar literally closed down their servers temporarily. I recall feeling a sense of rage and frustration that was so over the top that it was rather calming. It wasnt even that I couldnt play my stupid game, it was that I somehow wound up in this timeline. I was already dying of virtue signalling poisoning from covid, god those times were rough.

Seriously I dont even live in the US.. Why the fuck do I have to pay a price or care at all for whiteys sins on the other side of the world. I literally cant even.

We're all living in Amerika...

for better or worse, and without the benefits that come with it.

Oh god this gives me flashbacks of summer 2020 when Rockstar literally closed down their servers temporarily.

I never heard about this, and I would assume that anything I found on a Google search would be misrepresentation written as propaganda for the future, so I leave it to you, a rando blinded with rage so hot that it loops back round to calmness, to tell me the tale.

Rockstar posted about it themselves. They took down the servers for 2 hours "in honor of George Floyd".

I dont recall exactly what happened but my rockstar games launcher was acting real buggy and the game was taking forever to load when one of the people I was playing with checked if the servers were down and they were actually down but for the most clowny reason. 🤡

Straight from the horse's mouth:

Black Lives Matter.

To honor the legacy of George Floyd, today, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. ET, we will be shutting down access to our online games, Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online. Following the memorial, we hope you will join us in further honoring the many victims of America's racial injustices by supporting their families, black-owned businesses, those marching on the streets, and coalitions through the various organizations listed here: http://rsg.ms/a401443.

What the hell is the legacy of George Floyd? Putting aside the circumstances of his death, and even agreeing that negligence and bad decisions on the part of the cops did cause it, he was a petty thief and drug addict (and if I believe half the rumours I read online, an unpleasant guy to be around even when he wasn't high on a mix of drugs and attempting to pass funny money).

Unless they mean the looting, burning, rioting, property destruction, and shootings by the self-appointed militia of CHAZ and CHOP, as his legacy, what the hell are they even on about?

The surgeon general's pop-up shop, Robert Iger's face

Discount Etsy agitprop, Bugles' take on race...

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