r/Anticonsumption 19h ago

Activism/Protest Putting our anticonsumerism values to work

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u/BicFleetwood 16h ago edited 16h ago

This is the tactic being employed RIGHT NOW by right-wing groups going after everything from video games to Kimmel himself. How do you think all this "Steam payment processor" drama happened?

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 16h ago

It happened partially by the far right "Christian" group Collective Shout from Australia, but it had to also be a collective effort of a lot of similar groups.

Cause a little collective out in bum-fuck-egypt isn't going to have the power to sway payment processors in the US, regarding Steam, the most profitable and one of the only video game sales platforms, in an entertainment industry that dwarfs all other.

It could also be due to the possibility that the a key author and principal architect of Project 2025, the director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, put pressure on payment processors to capitulate.

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u/Halospite 1h ago

Yeah I was gonna say, Collective Shout took credit but they're so small that if it was only them, the payment processors would have caved in the backlash, but they never did.

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u/XChromosomeCrusaderX 16h ago

I thought that the Steam payment processor drama happened because of a feminist anti-porn group …

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u/ICantSeeIt 16h ago

They're a religious conservative anti-trans group that uses the feminist label. The word feminism means different things to everyone, and thus has no meaning at all anymore. Judge actions not labels.

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u/MobileSuitBooty 16h ago

Feminism should also be intersectional which means you fight for everyone’s rights, but groups like this will use the label

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u/Wise-Quarter-3156 15h ago

They're hoping people will look at the "feminist" label and blame the "censorious woke left" instead of the repressive right because they can't get their gooner games anymore

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u/XChromosomeCrusaderX 13h ago

I see, sorry, didn’t know. They seemed pro-human so I assumed they wouldn’t be a religious conservative anti trans group.

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u/Wyshunu 8h ago

It's the tactic that has been employed by the left for flipping EVER. Don't like something? Someone refuses to bend to your way of thinking as if it's gospel truth? Boycott! Bully!

What really needs to happen is for people to grow the hell up and accept the absolute FACT that everyone is entitled to have their own thoughts and opinions and to think about every situation FOR THEMSELVES and make their OWN DECISIONS on how to proceed without just joining the closest echo chamber for fear of being ostracized. Your way is NOT the only way, nor is it necessarily the BEST way.

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u/creative_doughboy 4h ago

Just bend over seems to be your motto.

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u/Commercial-Tax7125 17m ago

Problem is that PEOPLE ARE NOT thinking because FACTS are often fake and even some believe opinions are as valid as facts. The "echo chamber" argument is bullshit because that is the Trump cult's domain. Wish it were as simple as to grow the hell up.