Ahoy maties, I've got a confession to make...
Ahoy maties, I've got a confession to make...
I am an ad-block user a terrorist?!? France just declared people who use ad-blockers terrorists.
Anyone else here a terrorist? 🤣 I'm part of the uBlock Origin faction, what faction(s) do you belong to?
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For legal purposes, no we are not terrorists. I mean unless you have a twisted worldview as a french bureaucrat.
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The hell's up with France, I also recently saw a post about their president blaming video games for the mass riots that have been happening over there.
I think France just needs a few revolutions. Very fitting considering their anthem.
We are currently organizing the next revolution. There is a lot of debate between citizens about the constitution we should write. I'm on the side of direct democracy without representation. Other french people can contact me if they want to be kept up to date
Yeah, declining quality of education, systemic racism and increasing difficult economic growth for youth has nothing to do with it /s
No way, it's definitely video games. Much easier to blame than to actually change stuff. /s
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The video games thing was apparently a translation mistake, because a friend sent it to me and they had changed video games to social media. I would've heard it way more otherwise
I think video games were mentioned as well, not as in they were causing the riots, rather that young rioters were behaving like they were in a violent game. So the criticism might be kind of valid? I don't know if the translation stripped the quote of some subtext, but video games are mainstream enough that I would generally expect most Gen-X and younger to understand me if I said that crossing a street under construction was "like playing Super Mario" that maybe I had to hop across something. If I said something was like CoD, I expect many people to get that as well (of a certain age). The quote I saw was like that, but if the person didn't know games. So, a little awkward. The rioters were treating it like it was one of their video games. This has a "Hello fellow teenagers" vibe. Do you mean they are out there like it's Stardew Valley, and it's the last day of the month and you want to get your crop in? Or do they mean they are out there like it's Grand Theft Auto, and they can wreak havoc and then just let their heat score drop?
Yeah oviously comparing rioting to videogame usage is dumb af