Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Sep 3 2021 01:42pm)
They want you in competition with other men to look masculine instead of looking at the man behind the curtain. When the population is busy oppressing each other it tends to keep eyes off those in power.
Same reason why Republicans are constantly finger pointing at immigrants and trans people here. If you actually look for the people fucking things up you tend to pretty quickly find out it's the people selling you out to corporations, not the poor immigrant family with no power and money.
I don't think that's the correct read on the situation. The CCP isn't restricting video game hours for minors because the minors might become too woke, they're doing it because they're old-timers with new age technology, and they want their teenagers to hit the books. They want men to be masculine not because they're trying to distract them from oppression, but because they like the ideal they're trying to (re)create.
Republicans like American culture. They like that ideal, they're protective of it, and they dislike people they see as trying to tear it down. It's really that simple. Corporations coopted that (e.g. the NFL), and now corporations have coopted woke culture, just as they'll coopt any culture that they think will make them a quick buck.
This post was edited by bogie160 on Sep 3 2021 01:27pm