• bagsy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    This is how revolutions start. Some smooth talker is going to come along and motivate all these people to do something wonderful or terrible.

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      11 days ago

      My group of buddies always say that if gaming hadn’t become so wildly popular a revolution started by young men would have happened already.

      The US is really good at placating the masses with media. Stay distracted, stay oppressed.

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        11 days ago

        Hahaha ! “We would start a revolution but we’re too busy gaming on the couch”. What a bunch of losers indeed.

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          10 days ago

          Uhh, yes. Unironically. Revolutions happen when a sufficient number of people can’t afford to game & jack off any more, so their only source of entertainment is to LARP overthrowing the government, which they do so realistically that it actually happens. Open a history book smh.

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          If you look into it at all, America is a really embarrassing place.

          I mean, we just started an unprovoked war by bombing a school full of little girls.

          If someone has done that to America, there’d already be memorials about it and several random brown countries bombed back to the stone age, but since we did it, it’s actually totally cool.

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      11 days ago

      Yeah because this guy is totally trying to be a useful member of society with his lounging around all day watching TV.