Trump's legislative agenda was frequently stymied but the people he appointed did a lot of damage. Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr moved funding away from investigating domestic terrorism, Ben Carson and Betsy DeVoss rolled back LGBTQ protections at the federal level, Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan was a failure like everything else he's ever done, and the rotating lineup of fossil fuel stooges Trump appointed the EPA practically destroyed it. And that's not even getting into how McConnell stacked the judiciary with unqualified ideologues.
Scott Cawthon (FNaF guy) cancelled
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Ok, so I know this is tangential to the point at large, but this part, right fucking here, drives me entirely insane.
Exactly how unqualified a number of these appointees were cannot be understated. We're talking about people not only who had never been judges before, but people who didn't even have law degrees. We're talking about people who could barely describe the concept of judicial review.
The utterly batshit off-the-walls crazy part is that there are hundreds of perfectly qualified partisan ideologues Trump could have nominated instead. Hell, there are conservative think-tanks like the Federalist Society that literally hand out lists of such people to every Republican politician.
WHY THE FUCK WAS IT NECESSARY TO APPOINT PEOPLE WHO CANT NAME THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT TO LIFETIME JUDGESHIPS?!?!?!
Because your demanding proof in this thread of this happening.
Here's an article saying he was doxed
Five Nights At Freddy’s Controversy Explained: Creator Scott Cawthon Steps Down Amid Scandal
Five Night's At Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon steps down amid controversy over political contributions. Here's what's going on.
www.forbes.com
Here's Kotaku also saying he and his family were doxxed
Sorry, FNAF Creator Scott Cawthon, Political Donations Don't Work That Way
Scott Cawthon claims to "love" his queer fans while donating to Donald Trump
kotaku.com
Or do people need to provide primary sources now?
So what was all those posts accusing me of holding a position I don't?
Yeh it's performativity outrage on your part as I predicted you'd go for. Oh also I thought you were fine with criminal accusations (Which I have NOT made but don't let that stop you) and saw false criminal accusations as all part of valid criticism because that's what you've been arguing when I've said it's literally liable but no you kept going in words to the effect of "No that's just criticism"
So you're happy to make false allegations against me but are made that you claim I (Despite not having done so) made false criminal accusations against you?
You want to claim I've accused you of criminality.
Quote me.
Quote me doing so.
This will be good to see you try and justify this latest lot of sophistry.
Because for all your claims of hypocrisy you just showed your own here.
No as (C) is due to a shocking level of personal incredulity on your part not anything I've actually said. I've been pretty damn clear and to now claim I've been wildly inconsistent in my position is nothing short of gaslighting when saying I draw a line between valid criticism and threats and libel again will now be the 22nd time I've said such a thing in this thread and likely the 15th to 18th time you won't accept it and will once again try to demand I take the strawman position you wish to argue with not my actual position.
It was me being nice and giving you an easy out to save face and easily justify your antics in here in a way that was something other than malice. So to try and turn it round on me is rather funny and rather does show a level of malice lol
It's the context of the reality of the situation.
"Why won't you do what I want you to" is not valid criticism.
No-one is obliged to hang massive warning labels about the nature of people everywhere.
If you want to argue that is somehow valid criticism then clearly every Hollywood film should start with a 4 hour segment where the actors and director all tell you their full political views to allow you to be warned about them before the film fully starts lol
Fun fact: I do not eat at Wendy's specifically because of their politics, yes. I do not need to pay for slavery tomatoes. I also do not eat at Chik-Fil-A or shop at Walmart.
And yes, you should fucking look into the people you give money to. Fucking obviously. There might not be any ethical consumption under capitalism but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to minimize harm. This Radical Centrism bullshit is pathetic. But hey, maybe I should watch more than the first two seasons of The Good Place so I can get my sense of morality and ethics from a sitcom.
So you check the political views and donations of every major developer of every game you buy do you?
How about phone makers?
Hope you have one of the few brands that has ethically sourced components (Oddly I have and it wasn't deliberate but will be going forward)
Right but do you actively hate people that shop, or even work at those places? Do you want them to lose their jobs (the shoppers and workers alike)? Because that is what is happening with Cauthon. He supported something some people didnt like therefore he should step down from his video game career.
I assume this is so that people can still play and buy the games without guilt because the bad man is no longer involved. And is also likely why they want Rowling removed from HP products. It isnt that they dont want HP books or games, it is that they dont want Rowling a part of it.
So now we're back to "should people be forced to buy a thing made by a person they don't like". Because what you saw happen was a *boycott*. Should people not be allowed to boycott Wendys or Walmart or Five Nights At Freddys? Am I doing a cancel culture by not buying FNaF during the Steam Summer Sale? Am I doing a cancel culture if I say why I'm not buying FNaF during the Steam Summer Sale? You slag off on games and people and trends you don't like all the time, are you doing a cancel culture to, say, some ladies on Twitch? Or game developers making games that anybody can play? Or character designers making the wrong kind of beefy lady?
Lotta people like Enders Game. Lotta people don't like Orson Scott Card. Some people would like to have a way to obtain Enders Game without giving money to Orson Scott Card
No-one is arguing people should be forced to buy something.
In this case people want to have their cake and eat it.
They want to carry on buying Harry Potter stuff and enjoying it but for J.K.Rowling not to make 1 cent off it.
Yeah but, that still doesn’t explain how or why a F2P game like Fortnite has players spending more per capita than a normally full priced game.
No we aren't. That has nothing to do with being forced. You can not like Wendy's and not support them but that doesn't mean that the people who still eat and work there are "forced" to do so. So that wasn't the question I asked.
Don't eat where you don't want, don't shop, and don't buy media products made by the people you don't like. That's fine.
But should the people that continue to do those things be hated for doing so? Are you going to hate a Mom who just wants to get their kids to read, because she bought a children's wizard story? Are you going to hate a construction worker who just wants some spicy nuggets?
Because that is the root of all this "cancely" bullshit.
It's people who don't like a thing and therefore nobody else should be allowed to do so. At least that is one side of it.
The other side, is like I said, people who still want to love and enjoy Harry Potter but can't because of some morality towards Rowling (or whatever the creator might be). So they feel that is they get that person to loose their job, then they can freely buy the product because the big bad orange man is now no longer involved.
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I'll worry about that slippery slope as soon as it exists.
It's a logical fallacy for a reason.
Hey, how about that question of if your public criticisms about dooming various industries and platforms are cancel culture or not? Any thots on that?
You can't give a shit about literally everything. What if you want a gaming PC and both Nvidia and AMD donated money to someone you don't like, are you not going to get/build a gaming PC? I bet there's tons of things you've bought where some of that money has gone to things you would prefer it not go to.
Have fun being angry all the time then.
The problem is people are getting offended by people living normal lives and being good people.
So do Democrats...
SO DO DEMOCRATS!!!
When that medical for all coming...? What is Biden currently working on that will ensure every American has healthcare in a pandemic?
"You are not allowed to get mad at anything unless you get mad at everything" is not the knockout argument you're pretending it is.
How is that cancel culture? Nobody is saying those people should be removed from the platform (aka fired from their jobs). The demand is that Twitch uphold it's own rules and control how the streams are showcased. What is even your point here?
The point of the show is that the kinda of society we live in, it's impossible to be "good" because there's so many moving parts. Is it my fault that for owning a computer that you probably can't have if you want to contribute to no harm whatsoever? Is it my fault for driving a car that emits carbon when as a society would should've moved well passed gas engines a long time ago but that was basically out of any one person's control and they need to provide for themselves and their family?
Not my logic at all. You can get mad at the things that do a lot of harm and not get mad at minor issues. People are getting mad at minor fucking issues that is completely unreasonable to expect others to concern themselves about. Like if co-workers want to get lunch and you're like I can't go to Wendy's or all these other places because they donated to republicans or democrats, looks like you ain't getting lunch with your co-workers then. It's enough to get everyone agree with where to go just based on the food itself let alone this social justice warrior bullshit.
Donating to political candidates is not out of your control. Kinda the opposite
Okay, then I don't go get fast food with my coworkers sometimes. And if they ask why, I tell them.
This is not a big deal
Aka, they should be removed from the platform. I can quote you, if you want, back when it was hot tubs and bikinis
Meanwhile, there's no general effort in getting FNaF removed from storefronts
Removed from the platform if that's the content they want to continue to make. Not removed from Twitch period. The funny thing is, those girls don't give a fuck about the content they make. They'll do literally anything to make the cash, including pushing, bending, or outright breaking any rule they can get away with. If twitch told them to fullstop knock it off, they'd be right back to doing normal ASMR and whatever the fuck else.
Don't have to because the evil creator has stepped away from the games, therefore they socially safe to purchase again. That's how this works.
"Personally I think this sort of streaming doesn't really belong on Twitch"
They weren't breaking the rules and you wanted them canceled anyway, forced to censor their content
But it's not canceling when you do it.
So, you're really mad that the FNaF guy...retired and is still getting paid for games he made?
I am genuinely confused by this argument. Is that cancel culture? Retiring with royalties?
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To some people, these are important issues. It is unreasonable to expect others to get fired up over things not important to them, but it is just as unreasonable to declare they shouldn't find these things personally important.