About a year ago, John Carmack, a game designer of some fame, posted the following on X regarding the gleeful reaction some left leaning people had over the assassination attempt made on Trump, and the attempt on Trump’s supporters to cancel these people:
I’m sad to see the glee that some on the right have at the opportunity to deploy cancel culture over post-assassination-attempt comments. I’m a hard core free speech advocate, and I look at it like germ warfare – it’s bad for the whole ecosystem.
People like to think that they would fight and die for their sacred principles. This is low stakes practice. The actors will say “THOSE aren’t MY sacred principles, I’m going to punch back at my enemy”, but to the people at the margin – Maybe the principle is important to you? Maybe you shouldn’t cheer for an online mob?
This elicited a rather fiery rebuttal from Sam Hyde, along with an attached screenshot with a statement made by a left leaning person demonstrating his point:
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
These people have spent the past DECADE proving that they are irredeemably UGLY inside, and they won’t relent until they can make you feel some semblance of the pain and bitterness they feel every day towards God for making them fucked up freaks.
The only time they care about rules, civility, unity, etc., is when those things can be used to HANDCUFF you while your kids are transed and your money is stolen to pay for some fag war or some group of people that hates you and is replacing you.
There is no reconciliation. We are not gleeful and we are not out for blood, we just know that WE CANNOT LIVE WITH THESE PEOPLE ANYMORE.
Their moral lassitude is the reason why American cities are unlivable. Their virtue signaling comes at the expense of child abuse, medical malpractice, and a couple hundred thousand dead Ukrainians. They will ALWAYS play dirty no matter how much we play fair. They need to be politically disenfranchised, publicly shamed—they need to be properly trained with electric shock therapy to keep their fucking mouths shut.
These are not people who think critically from first principles, they are THE mob you speak of. They are mob mentality incarnate—that is why they are called normies, NPCs, and the like. The idea of them exercising “free speech” is a joke, because the only thing loaded into their software is CNN talking points.
| think you are overthinking things. Your last game, “Rage’, was very bad. In fact | would go so far as to call it Penis Poop. What | would suggest you do is stop being a little fucking pencil neck dork defending people wishing your president was dead (you’re being a smarty pants), and get back to making games that are actually good, as that is something we are all in desperate need of right now.
It’s been over a year since Trump’s assassination attempt and the above exchange. Sadly, the people of the nation remains divided and hostile against each other along political grounds. With the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, a high profile supporter of Trump, the social and political climate of the nation appears to have degenerated further into violence.
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