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

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    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.

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      I think we might be talking about two different types of “arcades” here.

      The arcades where you go and play pinball and pac man and street fighter are the ones we’re talking about. That was the 80s. Those of us who remember those days fondly would probably be between 40 and 60. I don’t know about the rest of my middle-aged community members, but I ain’t planning on dying any time soon.

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

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        , 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…

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      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.

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      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.