fyi "we're leaving politics at the door" translates to "we are going to avoid talking about the issues of marginalization that make other peoples' lives difficult on a day to day basis by pretending they aren't there"
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part of why i've been hijacking the bot account to do thinkpiece commentary so often lately is i realized that satire on its own does almost nothing. in fact, in a consumerist world, it sometimes is worse than nothing, because people take its consumption as political action
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a lot of people keep pointing out that everything is more political now than it was before. that's just code for "i used to be able to ignore this because it didn't affect me"
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this is all a specific response to russ pitts' rebooting the escapist, which has been a center for alt-right gaming dipshits since gamergate, but it all totally applies out of that context too
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"we're gonna be apolitical about video games" 2 weeks after a hate mob got 2 arenanet writers fired is particularly egregious
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i'm sure it will be a rich vein of headlines for me to deconstruct and stick in this bot but jesus christ it is 2018, can dudes fucking stop
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