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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Conservatives HATE GAMING. Not the online chuds and 4channers who hate women, they're barely even conservatives...

They sure sound like conservatives to me.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

I mean, they are in the moment that they're mad that someone made a black female with realistic proportions as a selectable character... but they largely don't have principles or values at all, they're a slime-mold that fits into whatever social trend is easy to latch onto right now so they can share emotional connection with their peers.

What happened is we ignored them and people like Steve Bannon and Russians and other agents of regression saw them as a ripe target for exploitation and manipulation. We have a massive rise in things like incels and anti-woke young men, but it's largely manufactured. These are mostly young people who are unhappy, alone and they've been nudged towards easy-to-digest memes and talking points that this is the fault of unattractive feminists who want to take their games away.

This isn't "conservatism" as much as reactionary attitudes and social isolation. If we were able to get a foot in the door faster and have a concerted effort to show them that their issues are largely socio-economic and mental-health related, we would have made a lot more progress a lot sooner. Source: I used to do just that and mentored/coached lonely young guys for years, they're staggeringly easy to turn if you make the effort and are social and can listen to people.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Terminology is confusing. Lowercase-c conservatives want to keep the status quo as it is. But fact is that e.g. in the USA, legal access to abortion has been the status quo for 50 years.

So nobody can say that the status quo has been anything but that in the US. So uppercase-C “Conservative” just means “reactionary” now, because that's what it is to roll back a 50 year old right.