I think they're just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.
Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn't expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.
There's good solutions, and there's easy solutions. They just don't align. It's just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn't peace...
Which is really what this post is about. It's about the tactics used (by "both sides") to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.
The real rub is those parties, the "good guys" and the "bad guys" (interchangeable depending on which power player we're talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.
I didn't like it because it seemed pointless if you don't really care about getting vengeance on specific thing. So the name of a mob that kills you fills in an empty space? Which is the same thing that happens any time you hit a story beat anyways? What's the point? It's all just randomly generated grunts that try and kill you.
It brought very little in the way of innovative gameplay and roleplaying, yet people seem to treat it as the greatest revolution of game design in the last several decades.
We do need to be concerned with ourselves. If we focus too much on others, we lose sight of ourselves and can fall apart. But if we don't concern ourselves with others as well... well we get America.
The people supporting the Republicans doing this believe the Republicans are doing the right thing.
You'll see an occasional post on social media about someone who voted for them but now regret it... but the vast vast majority continue to support them.
I literally just said you don't have to watch it to understand. Just that you'd need to watch it to get the whole story. Which, if you're interested in... you watch. If you're not, you don't. You aren't missing anything crucial to watching the movie by missing the series.
Of course, if what you want to do is complain about Marvel content being significant, it provides an excellent starting point. Which seems to at least be what you want to do.
If he cared that much about the journey, wouldn't he follow it the whole way? Why is he complaining that, since he didn't follow the story, he isn't getting the whole story?
If he doesn't want to watch all the little bits here and there, he doesn't have to. There's more than enough there to show where it was leading. If you want to see the how and why... watch the show. It's not like it's hidden away in a back room somewhere.
I had the opposite experience. Left a shitty blue-collar job (it was even a union job, but the union was toothless and mostly just existed to get work from places that would only place orders with union shops) for an office job.
The hours are better, the pay is better, the co-workers are less bigoted, and I no longer smell like grease and sweat whenever I come home.
There will always be trade-offs in any job. Whether it's blue-collar, white-collar, or whatever ever other collar you can think of. There is no perfect job type for everyone.
Their response wasn't to fix the problem, it was to find a better way to subjugate people. Clearly his methods aren't the solution. They're just an easy way to pass the problem off to someone else without you having to put in the effort to help fix it yourself.
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