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Most normal people don't fly airplanes either, but that's not a requirement for Flight Simulator to mimic real life well too.
You're sounding like a 90's christian parent worried that video games are going to turn their kids violent.
Which reminded me, I should have mentioned this earlier, but you used the word "depraved" in the first post; I am not comfortable with you using that christofacist language.
Well, you do sound like one. Condemning a piece of media for its "depravity" sounds like it came straight out of a Republican's playbook. As for perspective, I mean, if it means "things with a sexual tone that I consider morally bad", then it is a problem regardless of culture.
Edit: maybe I am being too exclusionary, all religious fundamentalism is bad, not just christian.
Holy shit, you're literally talking like a conservative, let's drop the religion talk completely and just call this what it is: conservatism. And wth is that list? Am I supposed to agree that games like The Witcher, DDLC, Resident Evil and L4D should be banned for "depravity"? You're literally proving my point.
In fact, China is a great example of why that talk about "depravity" is nothing more than another tool for oppression: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effeminate-men-tv-official-morality
I don't hate China like your average westerner, there are many things there that I like, the unfortunate conservatism in the government is not one of them.
And men that are not "masculine" enough for your standards?
Wrong.
Is that "strong anti western culture" the same one that Russia is using to label LGBTQ groups as terrorism?
Not yet? They are already raiding gay clubs and arresting people there. And try as you may, you cannot justify Russia going after their LGBT population as a whole.
This is not a problem of "different cultures", this is a problem of a law being used to oppress a minority, vulnerable group.
For fuck's sake, this is just like what RΓΊssia is doing. Good job on being part of the oppression of the LGBT population.
I am not American, you fool. My country is worried that Venezuela will try to play Israel and Gaza with Guiana right now.
We expect those to evolve... you know, "progress", that thing we progressists like. Not wanting your culture to evolve, specially on social issues, is textbook conservatism.
Ah yes, you support starting war for oil, while criticizing imperialism. It can't get any more ironic than this.
I am well aware of American interested here on their "backyard", but starting a "civil war" between latinamerican countries isn't how we're going to defeat imperialism. You are also defending the annexation of 70 percent of a country. You are also forgetting that Venezuela doesn't have nukes, and the US has zero reason to not get involved, with boots on the field if needed be. At the end of the day I'm not worried that Maduro will succeed, at all, but I still don't support war for oil. If you like war so much, maybe ask Xi to start one with Japan and South Korea, prime examples of American imperialism in Asia.
Yes, I am. I defend Venezuela when it comes to the bloody sanctions the Americans put on them, I defend that the US should stay the heck away from their oil (if you know the story of Hugo Chavez as president, that's a prime example of America messing with another country to take their oil), but I don't defend their own quest to take another country's oil.
The Arab world did try to free Palestine with strong military operations. But the Americans had the Zionists' back and the rest is history.
My point is that they did try military action and it didn't work out for them. What is happening in Gaza today isn't consequence of them not fighting back, because they did fight. And they weren't wrong for trying to defend Palestine against colonialism.
No they're not, they want to annex the whole fucking territory, and the idea that a country like Venezuela can "protect" another country by buying a war with the US is ridiculous, which is why it probably won't happen. If there is any way to stop the Americans to get that oil, that one isn't it.
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You didn't even finish reading that paragraph I wrote, so I will do the same and not read your replies anymore π
What are gamergater takes?
Games are the newest bugaboo in a long line of media 'boos. Movies, tv shows, books (really). Its extremely tiring to see this same pattern play out