Asklemmy

Wait. Out of all the bullshit and evil stuffs EA has done over the years, they were voted worse company in America over gay characters?

That is ridiculous.

There is plenty of reason to hate EA. The only good thing they've done in a while was making The Sims even Gayer. But then they sell you a glorified overpriced and utterly worthless stuff pack.

This was definitely a 4Chan thing. I frequented that pisshole quite regularly around that time, and the LGBTQ+-hate was a prevalent stance when it came to characters in videogames. And since they have a history of brigading and manipulating "contests" like this, I would be very comfortable in mostly attributing this to 4Chan. I remember plenty of threads about this from back then.

"Right-wing organization" would not be the right term here exactly. 4Chan themselves would likely call it along the lines of "weaponized autism". In less inflammatory terms, they did it because they were bored, they had the time, and simply because they could. This particular case just "happened" to be about their anti-LGBTQ+-stance. A lot of their actions tended to have that particular flavor.

Sickening place. Glad to have left it for good years ago.

Conservatives have taught people that it’s not just okay, but patriotic to be a loud, obnoxious, hateful bigot. Meanwhile, way too many liberals tolerate their behavior instead of calling it out. As I see it, both sides contribute to the problem. Obviously, the aggressors are worse, but standing by silently just encourages them.

Hopy shit.

All this time I thought that "vote" was because of some EA Sports FIFA crap, lootbox bullshit, or something like that.

Now it turns out that it was another bunch of Sad Puppies throwing a whinepocalypse about inclusion.

They are a terrible company but I never thought it was for any LGBT reason.

The right has always been very organized. The church helps keep then organized. Fox News keeps them organized as they are all fed the same crap. Politically, the Tea Party helped organize the neonazis and neoconfederates, giving them a louder voice and recruited more of the like. Then the Tea Party rejoined the Republican party shoving it much further to the right. Around that time, they also figured out social media, which gave them an even louder voice.

When Obama was in office, the news wasn't as focused on them, so people that were living in Blue states weren't as aware. In the south, it was still a battlefield as you lived next to people with these beliefs.

It's their level of organization that has made the Republicans such a force to deal with. Before social media, the fringe groups stayed on the fringe of society and weren't given a voice through various forms of media. Since social media, they have a much stronger voice and we have discovered how easy it is for people to be manipulated, like with the Jade Helm scare in TX. If you don't remember this, there was a social media scare going around that Obama was going to take over TX and imprison those who didn't vote for him. The posts claimed that there were a bunch of Walmarts that had been emptied and were going to be used as makeshift prisons. The posts also claimed that Obama was hiding his plan from the public by claiming it was a training exercise named Jade Helm. So effective was the scare, that Greg Abbot (who still remains governor of TX) ordered the TX National Guard to watch the US army perform its training to prevent the army from arresting civilians. In reality, the US army was just performing practice exercises around Fort Hood, which is a little north of Austin. Years later, it was revealed that the scare was the work of a Russian troll farm experimenting with social media to see how disruptive they could be.

This is... horrible. I don't even know how to describe it. For the first time in my adult life, I'm genuinely horrified and fear for my LGBT+ brothers and sisters, as well as their allies (which includes me, fuck).

2013 felt... different. Two years later in 2015 gay marriage would be legalized nationwide.

Not to say we don't still need to keep fighting the good fight, but this just seems like evidence of cornered animals becoming more desperate.

Right-wingers know they're losing this battle so the most insane among them are falling back to "last resort" tactics that will probably have the opposite effect they want.

Be out and proud or openly supportive as an ally, now's not the time to let terrorists have the final say.

I'm pretty sure they were trying to use gay people as a shield. There were definitely people complaining about it, but there's no way even 20% of the people were upset about that. Tbh I don't know why you'd believe EA when their idea of inclusion was to trot out the freak wagon and then rattle all the bars to wake up the gays for the crowds to leer at. At least that's how it felt at the time. They liked to make a big deal about their gay characters and if a game with gay characters was bad, they (and other publishers) had a tendency to say, "oh no, all the criticism we're getting are bigots who hate gay people. Oh no! Please come help us, please?"

Its always been this way. Conservatives have always been a societal problem and no one ever deals with them. Its always brushed under the rug with a phony "arc of history" narrative which allows society to ignore the problem. Modern ideas like brainwashing further compound the problem as it thrusts upon the left an impossible task: the ability to turn fundamentally bad people good.

This is why i got out of politics fwiw. Stay armed, protect yourself from the right by any means necessary and keep on.