#culture war

[quasi-normalcy]

So really the answer to “what is alienating conservatives” is “absolutely anything that reminds them of any new information they’ve learned about the world since they were a small child” and it becomes a lot more clear how futile it is to pretend you care about what they want

#coelasquid #culture war

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#republican assholes #republican party #maga morons #Republican oligarchs #Rupert Murdoch #Koch family #Walton family #DeVos/Prince family #Robert Mercer #Harlan Crow #Leonard Leo #Elon Musk #never trump #traitor trump #crooked donald #culture war #wage slaves #war on the middle class #middle class death #union busting Republicans

[republicansexscandals]

#republican hypocrisy #republican family values #gop groomers #hypocrisy #Nate Schatzline #homophobe #drag #culture war

[tentacion3099]

RW culture war hierarchy of disagreement

#culture war

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Man, I like Daily Wire in concept but Matt Walsh needs to shut the fuck up about video games. The same guy who tried to resurrect the tired old "violent video games are harmful!" crap is now acting like he's the first person to notice that video games are pushing woke nonsense (even though there are about a hundred channels and outlets that have been talking about this for years) but his solution is to, of course, for the right to stop playing video games.

No. Just, no.

This is the same "bury our head in the sand and pretend pop culture doesn't exist" mindset that got us into this situation in the first place. You can't win a war (and there is a culture war going on, no matter how many people on both sides want to pretend otherwise) by retreating from every battlefield. You win by raising awareness of a problem and then offering a real solution.

And it's especially stupid seeing this cultural retreat mindset from someone working for DW because DW actually knows exactly how to fight this battle. They created their own media company to fight against woke Hollywood. Are all their movies and shows good? No, not at all. But they still did the right thing. They put their money where their mouth is, and created an alternative.

A much better example is Angel Studios, which is probably the only Christian movie studio I've ever seen that puts out top quality content with great acting, writing, and production values. They're raking in money and getting their content onto mainstream streaming services as well as theaters. In other words, they're taking their message to the people who need it the most. The ones who aren't already in the echo chamber. Unlike Daily Wire, which only offers its content on its own website through a subscription service to its own audience, and never advertises anywhere.

Another successful example outside of movies is Eric July's Rippaverse. He's been killing it with his comics, with every single one of his campaigns raking in over a million dollars, every cent of which is reinvested back into his business, helping it grow, creating more content, and expanding his already impressive roster of writers and artists. Mainstream writers and artists, by the way. Like Chuck Dixon, the guy who co-created Bane and wrote the seminal Tim Drake Robin comics, among many other credits, and Mike Baron, who wrote some of the best early Punisher comics. Eric had a following before he started the Rippaverse. He runs a successful YouTube channel and he's a regular contributor to The Blaze. He could have walled himself off with his fanbase, wrote comics about ancaps saving the world from the evils of government, and made some money while pandering to the people who already agreed with him. Instead, he went big. He invested his own money, runs his own distribution center, owns his own business with zero outside investors, hires the best talent he can, and offers a product that focuses on story and characters over messaging. His work isn't even "anti-woke". It's just not woke.

And that's what we need in video games. We need alternatives. We need to roll up our sleeves and wade into the deep waters and actually contribute our ideas and our talents. Offer an alternative. Hire people who know what they're doing, who care about quality content first and social engineering never. There is a huge untapped audience who would pay hand over fist for good video games free from microtransactions and woke nonsense.

But retreating is not an option. It's not brave or moral to hide in our echo chambers and scoff at anything fun. Entertainment is necessary. And maybe more importantly, it's not going anywhere. We will never live in a world where people go to work and spend time with their families at home and do nothing else. We need to engage with the world as it is. Not wait around for whatever our idea of a perfect world is to magically form so we can finally interact with it. You can't change society if you keep pretending large swaths of it don't exist.

#matt walsh #daily wire #video games #gamergate 2 #sweet baby inc #culture war

[gec-tre]

holy shit just saw pronouns in starfield and I shat myself. I sharted ,while crying, so hard that my wife came into my room (she sleeps with her femboy boyfriend) and asked for a divorce. I just turned to her and said

"p-p-p-pronouns" and broke into tears. crying rn.

fuck you Todd Howard for convincing my wife to divorce me and leave me for her woke male wife.

#bethesda #todd howard #jokes #rant post #angry #fallout 4 #fallout #starfield #anti woke #skyrim #oblivion #morrowind #chess club #gec tre #culture war

[animentality]

#tiktok #culture war #boomerisms

[whereserpentswalk]

"They couldn't make blazing saddles today." My brother in Christ you'd be the one calling it woke blm propaganda.

#196 #my thougts #leftist #leftism #mel brooks #blazing saddles #blm #culture war #discourse #disc horse #comicsgate

[queerism1969]

#internet culture #gay culture #queer culture #culture #museums #history #anthropology #heritage #society #american politics #culture war #conservatives #usa politics #censorship #class war #anti capitalism #class struggle #class warfare #capitalism #classism #working class #class

[saywhat-politics]

Days after the resignation of Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, students, faculty, alumni, observers, and Gay herself are sounding alarms that her resignation was the outcome of mounting political pressure from conservatives on colleges and universities.

Now, her rocky tenure and stunning downfall have emboldened conservative activists to keep up their fight.

Gay stepped down as president on January 2 amid numerous accusations that she had plagiarized some of her academic writings and that she’d failed to address antisemitism on campus in the wake of Hamas’s October attack on Israel; Gay and Harvard have since acknowledged that Gay made “missteps” and “mistakes” both in a failure to initially cite materials from other authors and better communicate Harvard’s commitment to confronting antisemitism.

Meanwhile, conservatives and billionaire donors are jostling for credit for a departure that they say was warranted and overdue, arguing that Gay lacked the merit to lead Harvard through campus unrest or exemplify academic integrity.

But the fallout at one of the nation’s elite universities is also illuminating the ways in which the political right is increasingly targeting education, with deliberate efforts to “take on” elite schools by stripping them of federal student loan money and undermine diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, and a parallel movement to undo K–12 education with laws that limit the teaching of history or ban books and classroom libraries.

People on both sides of the controversy have portrayed the resignation as something much bigger than just Gay or plagiarism or antisemitism.

“This is the beginning of the end for DEI in America’s institutions,” conservative activist Christopher Rufo, one of Gay’s most vocal detractors on the right, posted on X after Gay’s resignation. “We will expose you. We will outmaneuver you. And we will not stop fighting until we have restored colorblind equality in our great nation.”

In an op-ed published in the New York Times on January 3, Gay, highlighting the racist and violent rhetoric that accompanied calls for her ouster, wrote, “The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda. But such campaigns don’t end there.”

#claudine gay #harvard #former president #christopher rufo #culture war

[but-a-humble-goon]

I know the culture war grift is getting increasingly desperate for content nowadays (plenty of them are now just openly begging for more woke movies to come out so they can complain about them) and maybe it's just because this particular one is in my wheelhouse but I think the "Dark Fate feminized the Terminator" narrative has got to be one of the most desperate attempts to make something out of nothing they've ever come up with. And not just because the Terminator was never even a man. "They made the Terminator second fiddle to a bunch of hyper competent femoids to push a feminist agenda" Don't know what movie you were watching but in the one I watched the Terminator turns up in act 3 and instantly becomes the most useful character in the movie, spends a good portion of the final battle taking the villain on by itself, saving the 3 female protagonists' lives multiple times and literally getting the heroic sacrifice to beat the villain and save the world at the end because an old and domesticated terminator is still the motherfucking TERMINATOR. "They turned the Terminator into a beta male soyboy malewife" You mean it has a family that it loves and provides for and a stable job it's enthusiastic about? For people who won't shut up about traditional family values and gender roles they do sure seem to hate when MEN do their part. Besides which this is the direct continuation of the narrative thread in Terminator 2 (the one y'all claim to like) where the Terminator's patience, diligence and lack of an ego ironically make it the ideal father and family man.

"They turned the Terminator into a joke! Why isn't he taken more seriously?!" Yes. Never before has the T-800's awkwardness been played for laughs. Such a thing is unheard of in this franchise.

#terminator #dark fate #culture war #Youtube #carl #t800 #t-800

[kontextmaschine]

Like I've mentioned precedents, the '68 NYC teacher's strike and ethnic succession in the outer boroughs, but at least that had imaginable stakes, I'm not really clear why a Black/Jewish front of the culture war is opening up right now

#2022 #culture war #same as it ever was #afamhist #amhist

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Are you paying attention to this!

😡🤬

#republican hypocrisy #republican lgbt persecution #Republican homophobia #Republican transphobia #Republican bigotry #culture war #fascisim #lgbt rights are human rights

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

This shit needs to be shutdown.

#Christopher Rufo #republican assholes #oligarch #right wing misinformation #fascist propaganda #republican values #traitor #culture war

[thehalfwaypost]

#war on christmas #culture war #christmas #culture wars #humor

[disgruntledexplainer]

They said it! They said the thing I was trying to articulate in my previous post!

#religion #catholicism #catholic #religious extremism #disorganized religion #organized religion #christianity #right wing extremism #culture war