doublepepperoni [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • The thing that initially got the gamer demographic onto the conservative bandwagon in the first place was when right-wing influencers got them convinced that it was the feminists that were coming for their games instead of the conservative and religious activists that had spent like 2 decades railing against heavy metal, D&D, rap and video games. Like 5 years before GamerGate the biggest gamer boogeyman was Jack Thompson. Maybe if someone finally actually did come for their treats for real there’d be another shift.

    It’d sadly also lead to a lot of adult content creators getting financially hurt which still sucks though :/

    The porn and violent video game bans are bad enough, but it gets worse. As I understand it, the plan goes something like this

    1. Make porn illegal
    2. Define anything LGBTQ-related as pornographic, thus essentially criminalising being visibly queer (the real point of the porn ban)

    Some have warned it could get even worse

    1. Define exposing children to pornography as CSA
    2. Apply the death penalty to CSA crimes









  • (Just to clarify, in case it isn’t clear- I’m not a mod, just riffing on I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream)

    Going back to the site’s founding, the vibe I’ve gotten is that many of the people maintaining the site never fully intended for it to become a direct continuation/replacement of the old subreddit and wanted to use the momentum of the banwave to establish an entirely new online leftist community with its own identity

    Unfortunately for them, a large part of the new site’s initial userbase was chapo posters (well,the least worst part at least, because there were certainly parts I’m glad didn’t make the jump) who brought the sub’s posting style with them