I see where you’re coming from now and can understand your line of thinking. It is a difficult question because it is difficult to predict. Gaming is also a source of radicalisation.

Whether removing it altogether would lead to a sizable mass of men to become politically active and engaged, that I kind of doubt. Gaming is more accessible now and there are many poor men that game. Poverty goes hand in hand with worse education and more precarity. Removing one source of distraction from a badly and/or insufficiently educated man would not necessarily lead to an awareness of the source of their struggles. It might make them receptive to influences claiming to know the source of their struggles, but unfortunately, I believe that most of those influences are controlled by those who actually are the source of the problem.

IMO, there’s a greater chance of more affluent and educated gamers to become aware of the circumstances. But they often will not be the ones doing the damage IRL as they have more to lose than the lower classes. Times are changing and they also possess less, especially housing, so the uber-rich might actually be creating a system where even “affluent” and educated people have so little to lose that they are willing to actually gamble and go protest, try to change the system, and violently or peacefully enact change.

In summary, my guess is that removing gaming wouldn’t change much - unless if it were done suddenly e.g the state said gaming is now illegal.

Women escape reality with youtube, tabloids, tiktok, instagram, and more. They don’t need gaming to be distracted and yet, they are. Guys would just find another thing to be distracted by.

There’s another article (thread) saying there is no loneliness epidemic but a poverty epidemic. And yes, that’s the problem: the uber-rich just have taken as much as they could and will continue to take more. They bought up our apartments, our debt, our third places, are playgrounds, and more. They own the media to tell us that the problems are all due to minorities that have no power and want us to look down or be distracted by services that we give all our information too, and allow them to find more ways to hook us into distractive crap so that we don’t look up.

Want to solve loneliness, childlessness, poverty, etc? !twnw@fedia.io #TaxWealthNow #TaxWealth

4chan has people hiding their identities and being nazi fucks. Xitter has people showing their whole face and location, calling for the death of trans people. Xitter is IMO by far the worst. Screenshots from that place should be banned across the fediverse.

In reality 4chan is a cesspit of the worst people on the internet and a hotbed of fascism.

I think that crown goes to Xitter now. Hopefully there’s detection of Xitter screenshots too. Fuck that place.

Says Gooegl

Not if Gooogl says no.

Ads work. People browse or walk by something, there’s a logo, video, or picture or some company or a product, it stays in their head, and they just keep buying shit they don’t need. That’s why. So the more people browse or happen upon ads, the more they sell (sometimes).

“But you don’t understand, it’s the iMmIgRanTs’ fault!”

Guys, the the uberrich aren’t paying their fair share and you have to pay for them. This is the source of your troubles. Tax their wealth. That’ll really piss them off, but you’ll have a better life and the state will be able to pay for shit without it just ending up in a billionaires account to end up never used.

The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share. They pay way less than they should in taxes and keep accumulating wealth and buying up shit, which of course is coming from us. That then increases prices because more normal people need it.

!twnw@fedia.io #TaxWealth

Sure, that’s why profits have been up.

Mike Bloomberg goddamn, that dude is rich.

Timothée Chalamet. Had to look him up. That does look like him.

And yet, they will make billions more because gamers don’t care. They will keep buying their slop and using their slopware.

This is how religions start.

Are those random people or celebs?

You saw milkers and immediately went for it. My an.

Lol, is this USAian propaganda? Absolute humbug.

Good riddance! About damn time.

They don’t even have to plant trees, they can put grass on the ground and give space for vines. I heard khudzu grows like weed 😉

Wash it. Keep it clean.