You do understand that, unlike most wild animals, humans change at a much faster rate, right?

The point isn’t “humans did this (though admittedly I did throw a little jab in there)”, the point is “drastically changing an environment can have devastating consequences”.

So you’re saying it can get worse?

Cooking takes time, ingredients, and if you want it palatable, ability. Fast food takes driving up to a location and saying “give me something easy”.

It’s not as fast as it used to be, but it’s still relatively quick, especially if it’s on your way home from wherever you are. Any extra time is just spent doomscrolling on your phone or listening to your preferred media pundit.

The problem is, those solutions are never quick, and never easy. They take time to come to fruition. The American electorate, of all creeds, is far too impatient for that.

Until that changes, nothing will ever be good enough. You could see it with Obama, with Biden, with Clinton… most especially with Carter… not to mention all the reps at the lower levels that people never really think about except to say “they should be president”. They weren’t perfect, but they tried. Maybe not in the best ways, maybe not enough… but they tried. But for far too many it was just broken promises… nevermind the struggle to do good while so many people around you fight for their own pound of flesh. Undercutting you at every turn to please their own electorate and win the next election.

Yes, the politicians didn’t deliver enough, and they’re at fault for that. But the population also demands perfection, and we’re at fault for that. Especially when perfection is different for every single person.

A genocide and a war with another country, which they’d probably like to turn into a genocide as well?

There’s also a whole other population of Palestinians they’ve barely started genociding. Are you saying it’d be no worse if they started killing off people in the West Bank in the same way?

So… a predator it was unfamiliar with and had no defense against?

It makes sense to people who want to use the deaths of their ancestors as an excuse to do whatever the fuck they want.

The implication is that 11 is as bad as it gets. Unless you’re like a hundred, you’ve never seen 11. It can get so so worse.

Yes, people are dying. And it’s horrible. But acting as though this is the worst it’s ever been or will ever be is laughable.

Tell that to the Northern White Rhino.

Don’t forget his terrorist fist jab.

That’s where that comes from, yes.

In after someone gets irrationally angry about people getting irrationally angry.

Because their evolutionary defense is literally defense, and not just having enough numbers to overcome predation.

Sure, there are species that exist without predation, but introduce predators (like humans) and oh, would you look at that… extinction!

Life is complex, and doesn’t have any one single explanation for how it exists.

Like this?

It’s not detached from reality, it’s propaganda. It’s a twisting of reality to benefit a particular agenda.

So you agree with my entire point, but don’t want to admit as such?

That was literally my entire point. That corporations effectively have carte blanche to do what they want, then the tools they use are the ones to take the blame.

Video games are an escape, which can be a problem in and of itself even without exploitative tactics meant to squeeze them of profit… but again, that is a societal problem. The danger of escapism is not so great without something to escape from.

From a quick google search. It’s about 53% for Trump, 45% for Harris.

It may not be true for those you regularly interact with, but that doesn’t make it untrue overall.

A major problem is also that progressive messages are complex, and don’t offer easy answers. They require that people engage, and put in a great deal of effort… that will mostly not bear fruit for them, or their children, or their children’s children… but will help over time.

But people are exhausted. And sick of waiting for things to get better… so they fall prey to the easy answers. Which is what the far-right offers. Easy answers and excuses for why everyone else is at fault.

Part of the problem is that people only want the easy answers. Which is not an easy fix. It requires convincing them of the lie of easy answers.

This is blaming the tool for the actions of the person using them.

This is not a video game problem, this is a societal motivation problem. The motivation of corporations is to make money, so they employ whatever means they can to achieve that.

In this case it’s targeting kids playing video games.

The tool is not the problem, the wielder is. Saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

*an exacto knife and too much time on your hands