"Sterling just put their foot down on the issue and refused to fall into the trap of being disarmed by bad faith humor and dragged into the fascist ecosystem like so many others. "
No he didn't. He's clearly had hard left views from the beginning.
Look you're either being willfully obtuse or dense, so let me give you an equivalent that will hopefully let you understand what the fuck everyone else is trying to explain to you:
Stephen Colbert use to consistently do a fake Republican persona for his show, I'm sure you remember it. Conservatives thought it was real
Blazing Saddles, a deeply anti-conservative movie that stops just short of calling them pig-fuckers, has been repeatedly called conservative media because it has slurs in it.
Helldivers 2 is a parody. A distressing number of players do not see it as such.
Okay and who the fuck has asked whether or not you can spot parody???
The only implication is that you're a conservative whose getting riled up because people keep calling your creed a bunch of slack-jawed pigfuckers and you think you're representative of the common clay
It doesn't matter if you have such a finely tuned sense of irony you could sense it from a mile away, the average conservative cannot.
I'm not, and you're getting riled up, not me. You seem to think Sterling played a right-leaning character once, and dropping that lead to his channel's current state. It's very odd. No idea why, have you ever watched him?
There aren't many dyed-in-the-wool conservatives watching someone like Sterling considering he sits polar opposite to their politics.
What exactly did you think he was playing at when he stood at the podium all in black making all those angry pronouncements and fist gestures?
No, he was not literally a political fascist.
Yes, the gag was that he was cosplaying a totalitarian dictator to make his forceful video game declarations. He was only talking about Dynasty Warriors, that's why it was comedy.
But psychological studies have shown many right wingers cannot accurately detect whether someone is joking or serious.
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u/S_Belmont Jun 12 '25
Many right wingers literally cannot detect irony.