Because he likes the idea of money so if kids have to be locked in cages, no regrets.
And sincerely the
idea, with no proof the money actually exists for anyone.
Eh, it's kind of a global site, and I don't feel comfortable framing everything in the US-centric political zeitgeist, which I would class as incredibly right wing overall, and incredibly weird and conservative about sex-stuff on both sides.
Overall though, you could be a moderate on the global 1st world western scale, but that would translate into sitting fairly deep into the democrat side of the U.S spectrum. And certainly the whole U.S. political system could do with a lurch to the left in a lot of ways to even itself out.
That said, resetera reflects a lot of principled ideals, and generally I have few complaints. There is still room for the (globally) moderate conservative. People can voice their view, even if it's more to the right of 'ideal', we need this. Sometimes they have a point, occasionally I agree on a small number of things, politics isn't that that homogeneous is it? The middle ground between disagreeing opinions sometimes meshes best with reality. Sometimes idealism clashes too hard with a logical, workable moral framework, or contradicts itself.
And moderation is here is usually strict but with a light touch, warnings, temp bans, it's all very reasonable. The only time I've seen it be unreasonably harsh recently that i remember was that CDPR tweet thread recently where permbans were handed out like candy to anyone daring to not understand how it was a problem. That was poor form. But it seems to be the exception rather than the norm.
Nah, the CDPR thread's bans were absolutely all deserved; lots of folks rushing to defend a shitty transphobic joke with inane arguments that they pushed over the line. Many of those banned were outright trolls too; it's not hard to tell that someone whose account was made in the first week this site opened and has posted 5 times since then popping up just to argue this very specific point might have bad intentions.
If you really want to claim that, go point to some you think we're unreasonable.
It's cowardly to not shut down discussion?
Did you come out of the womb with your opinions fully formed? Did you not come to the views you have through discourse and discussion and hearing all the views and weighing them up?
It's lovely that you've come to the conclusion that your views are so undoubtedly correct and just that even allowing another view to be heard is something you can't stomach, but no one is born racist or trabsphobic or homophobic or bigoted. Everyone who ends up that way does so because of the influences on their life - the things they hear at home or at school, the things they read, or watch or hear. So if they're not born this way but become this way through their outside influences, how do you ever expect them to change their view? Or is having a place where you don't need to be confronted with opposing views more important?
Look at the whole country. Look at where you politics is today, then think about where it was under Obama. And Bush Jr and Clinton, and Bush Sr and Reagan. These changes aren't random. I don't understand how you can possibly think that anyone who votes for th GOP is unable to change their mind. How often does *anyone* every stand up in a thread and say "I have changed my mind"? It's practically unheard of. And yet we do change our minds. It might not happen during a discussion, but if you've never heard a good, reasonable argument in favour of, say, trans rights, how can you *possibly* change your mind? It might not be the thing that pushes them over the edge, but it's certainly a prerequisite.
This forum does not need to be the place where we convert conservatives.
Sure, confronting people works for getting them to realize things they didn't understand, occasionally. But it's tiring. You brought up trans rights specifically, and what being transgender even is and how not to be transphobic has to be explained here all the damn time, largely by trans people, and it's exhausting. And people largely never fucking learn, they just double down, wasting even more time for people who already have to confront this shit in their day to day life, and sometimes they want to talk about things where the discussion can be had with the basic assumption
that they're normal people too out of the way.
So fuck the idea that everywhere needs to be a battleground for confronting ignorance. Sometimes they can just be ignorant somewhere else, somewhere else can teach them, and we can enjoy a discussion - not necessarily agreement - from a better starting point. There is so much value in that.
(And, honestly, using trans rights as the example was almost insulting when someone in the discussion is a trans woman who absolutely frequently participates in educating people on here about it, despite the fact that the vast majority of the time I've seen her do it, the people she's talking to refuse to learn.)
Anytime I get annoyed by people on this forum for any political attacks/dog piling or just outright hypocrisy, I always try to remember this is a game forum, equivalent to going to an arcade or a D&D game and asking for political opinions and discussion. I cannot imagine too many people would do that and take it seriously, so I've tried to learn not to. I often agree with the forum's overal views on broad strokes, but the dog piling, hypocracy and echoing here make it hard to even want to align ones self with some of you. Threads like the McCain one really made me feel disgusted with some members of this board.
Games aren't apolitical and it's really more like criticizing a movie you saw than randomly talking politics while playing Pac-man in an arcade but have fun with that I guess.
Ok, well at this point is basically just sounds like you're saying that there's literally no justification at all for voting GOP. Ok, that's fine, I have absolutely no interest in changing your mind on that issue, I don't really care. But as long as there are roughly as many people voting for Trump as for Hilary then I'd say the debate over any given number of issues is far from over. And I think being allowed to discuss them is better than not being allowed to.
There is 0 justification for voting GOP that actually matters given the obvious cost voting for them brings with whatever your justification is, regardless of what your personal reasoning, assuming it's not bad to begin with, is.