According to a report from the Washington Post, Donald Trump's inner circle grew increasingly alarmed at his complacency during the Democratic National Convention and had to convince him to hit the road instead of spending his days playing golf and complaining.With the Democrats sucking up all the m...

Factually, that’s what he did during his time in office as well. I’m not sure what they thought had changed.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    11 months ago

    Anyway, I write this because I think your video game metaphor really works here, and I think that’s the way to speak to a large portion of our populace now.

    I don’t know that arcade metaphors really work for most of the population now, though. Even when I was young they were dying.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        , but I ain’t planning on dying any time soon.

        I mean the arcades were dying, not the people in them.

        If you’re living in a place where 40-60 year olds are dying on the regular, you’re probably living around methheads.

        … though there’s that too…

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      I mean, that’s fair, but that’s also why I said it was only semi-related.

      The arcade metaphor works here on Lemmy with a mostly Gen X/Millennial audience, but you’re correct that the people who need to be opened up politically are the Fortnite generation and younger.

    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
      61·
      11 months ago

      Video games > arcades.

      Playstations, Xboxes, desktop games are where gamers are playing.

      Twovery evident impacts are regarding others as NPCs ( instead of humans) and the application of Min-Max philosophy to economic endeavors.