Why are most gamers liberal?

[Minox]

You do realize we can sense the darkness in you, right? Conservative political beliefs routinely accompany an array of other undesirable traits which make most of you quite easy to spot.

Those psychic powers of yours seem to be malfunctioning today buddy. I personally would not consider myself conservative, and even if I did that is not an indication of whether you're a good person or not.

 

[Deleted User]

You can look at the statistics and you will see that in most colleges the professors are indeed liberal. Explain why hollywood pushes a liberal narrative? Why are blacks over represented in Hollywood when we have a higher percentage of Latinos in the country? Why is hollywood liberal? Why is racial diversity in movies only geared towards African Americans not towards Asian Americans or Latinos? Why are the doctors in Tv Series always White and Black when in real life they are of Indian or East Asian decent? Are you really pretending like there isn't an agenda going on here?

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I never said you "attacked" me so why is that in quotations? I just said on a separate thread I saw that you made a post on a different thread that you decided to delete 10 minutes after you posted it.

Again pretty sure your thinking of someone else. As for attacking I accidentally miss quoted. It's getting too late for me to think properly. But that was from the part where you said other people were attacking.

 

[galneon]

Pretending you aren't racist by proactively calling the opposing viewpoint racist. That's classic projection.

No--"the other side has a white nationalism/domestic terrorism problem."

Is that really how you'd paraphrase what I said? Or do you take exception to my suggestion that white nationalism and domestic terrorism are, in fact, problems?

Who am I racist toward? White nationalists and domestic terrorists?

Atheism is a big joke. It's like a making a foundation on invalidity. It's the religion of the edgelord.

Atheism isn't a religion. It's very simple:

I have no reason to believe in god, therefore I do not.

Do you really think it's possible to describe every tenet of a religion in twelve words? There's nothing more to atheism than that one sentence. It's a simple lack of a single belief. Not an ounce of faith is required because there is nothing to believe.

It follows the same logic as your lack of belief in a terrible demon living deep inside Venus. You have no reason to believe in it, therefore you do not.

Those psychic powers of yours seem to be malfunctioning today buddy. I personally would not consider myself conservative, and even if I did that is not an indication of whether you're a good person or not.

Based on your post feeding the mass conservative victimization pathology (which has long since reached dangerous levels and led to violence), I probably would.

 

[Deleted-401606]

No--"the other side has a white nationalism/domestic terrorism problem."

But please, tell us how atheism is a joke.



Did you not see the research I linked? Liberalism correlates with greater intelligence and a more advanced education. There are more liberal professors because there are more liberal PhDs, not something I'm ashamed to admit. I'm sure I had many liberal professors. They didn't share their views. The Kevin Sorbo professor is a myth, contrary to what Christian bigots preach to the people they want to feel enraged and victimized.

So many false premises in the rest of what you wrote. I'm guessing you haven't seen a doctor television series in the last ten years.

Let's google shall we?

https://www.google.com/search?q=doc...es&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
No Indian doctors anywhere even though in real life it seems like most doctors are of Asian/Indian descent.

You keep talking about conservatives pretending to be victims when that goes against the whole ideology to begin with. Democrats are the one that think minorities are too incompetent to help themselves without special considerations(reparations,affirmative action,welfare,welcoming illegal aliens because they think they are incapable of fixing their homeland). The conservative mindset is "pull yourself up by the bootstraps". The "conservatives" you talk down to on gbatemp aren't even socially conservative. They are libertarians.

 

[tabzer]

Is that really how you'd paraphrase what I said? Or do you take exception to my suggestion that white nationalism and domestic terrorism are, in fact, problems?

Who am I racist toward? White nationalists and domestic terrorists?

I wasn't paraphrasing. My opinion is that the one who subverts any discussion to being something as superficial as a racial issue, then that is racist. It's using race as a tool. Disrespecting every racial identity makes the greatest racist.

Atheism isn't a religion. It's very simple:

I have no reason to believe in god, therefore I do not.

God requires a definition for that assessment to have any relevance. Suggesting that there is a demon living inside Venus... I will consider the context of the proposition. Belief or disbelief isn't even an option.

 

[Deleted-401606]

Again pretty sure your thinking of someone else. As for attacking I accidentally miss quoted. It's getting too late for me to think properly. But that was from the part where you said other people were attacking.

I saw a post you made and 10 minutes later it was edit with the post saying "deleted". I am sure if you search your post history you can find it.

 

[galneon]

Let's google shall we?

https://www.google.com/search?q=doc...es&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
No Indian doctors anywhere even though in real life it seems like most doctors are of Asian/Indian descent.

Yeah, let's Google.

Dear Pilot Season, You Know not all South Asians are Doctors, Right?

And "most" doctors are of Asian/Indian descent?

The Racial and Ethnic Composition and Distribution of Primary Care Physicians

That only covers PCPs, but numbers for specialists don't vary significantly.

We done for now? Go update your own_the_libz talking points.

 

[Deleted-401606]

Yeah, let's Google.

Dear Pilot Season, You Know not all South Asians are Doctors, Right?

And "most" doctors are of Asian/Indian descent?

The Racial and Ethnic Composition and Distribution of Primary Care Physicians

That only covers PCPs, but numbers for specialists don't vary significantly.

We done for now? Go update your own_the_libz talking points.

You cherry picked a show and completely ignored the top results on google. Everything you have posted as a "source" so far has been cherry picked from information that you google with specific keywords to try to prove your point. I know that your college taught you it made you smart to post "sources" this isn't a college paper and in case you didn't know you can find sources that support anyone of your opinions. There are even sources that say you can cure cancer with vitamins, just because you know how to google specific things doesn't mean that your point is right or that you are an intellectual. College does a good job at convincing intellectually inferior individuals that they are the next coming of Albert Einstein. I hate to inform you that it is nothing more than a marketing ploy to get people to take on debt. Stop trying to grow a brain here and accept that you have been brainwashed.

 

[Ericthegreat]

I've noticed that no matter the medium, most gamers seem to have left leaning beliefs and this applies whether it is twitch,twitter,gaming forums, or even just guilds in MMOs. Why does it seem that most gamers are liberals on the internet? It seems like no matter what gaming website you are on people become increasingly hostile towards you once they realize that you aren't a liberal. Why don't more conservatives play games? Is it because most conservatives think it's stupid and childish to play video games? Or is it maybe that younger people tend to gravitate towards liberalism and younger people also play more games? Even saying something as simple as MAGA can get someone to downright despise you.

What games do you play lol? Guilds in MMOs (endgame) can be horrible.

 

[CallmeBerto]

Most people are on the left to center left. That is all really.

 

[notimp]

Most people are on the left to center left. That is all really.

Thank you fo clearing that up.

Can we go home now?

Or do we have to take part in this maybe self pitty induced (collective feels) ritual for longer?

(Not directed at you. In case thats not clear.)

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No - its definitely not our current societal systems (social media, mostly) that are producing this problem, of people feeling the need to 'fight' the other. Definitly not.

Reminder:

 

[Deleted User]

Why didn't you quote the other guy? I quoted part of his post where he says that being a conservative makes you an unworthy person and I switched the word conservative with liberal. Why don't you quote all the other people on here that are calling people stupid and blatantly attacking others including a former staff member?

Also, didn't you delete one of your post a week ago in effort to avoid a ban because you lost control of your temper and resorted to an ad hominem attack?

I saw a post you made and 10 minutes later it was edit with the post saying "deleted". I am sure if you search your post history you can find it.

Found that post your were talking about. Which now almost over a month old. Checking the history of the post, I remembered why I deleted it, it wasn't because staff or anyone from outside as you tried implying. It wasn't a loss of temper, more a questioning of the facts I was saying, since I was pulling it from a semi questionable source (wikipedia) and since I felt that it wasn't quite right, I deleted it, . And then I tried to rework what I said, which horribly failed and became a fallacious argument. And then opted to delete it due to being fallacious.
But I do have to ask.
How does that exactly relate to this?

 

[tabzer]

@galneon is getting pissed because his "god doesn't exist" argument is more complicated than he realized.

Let me ask in another way. What is "god" that you are to assert a non-belief of? Do you not see the irony of asserting what is supposedly a passive trait? Or do you pretend that these sequences of words are not logically possible?

Also, why are you a racist? Don't you realize that it is damaging to the human race, which you are a part of?

 

[FAST6191]

Seems a lot has happened. Will have to get back to it later
edit Might as well have a new favourite video though (the categorisation bit doing well for this discussion).

and another because I am greedy


For now though

Let me ask in another way. What is "god" that you are to assert a non-belief of? Do you not see the irony of asserting what is supposedly a passive trait? Or do you pretend that these sequences of words are not logically possible?

Gods are a concept that a variety of religions (but not all) describe which either created the universe, or were created alongside it and served to further create things as they are today and possibly have a hand in running things, usually also have traits in/actions from humans they consider desirable. Omnipotence (all knowing and all powerful) and immortality (or at least immortality from the perspective of humans) are common traits ascribed to them, this being the case for the god of the Jews, Christian sects and Islam which nominally share the same deity (a singularly powerful being above all others that in the English language usually gets given the name God and has a capital G to denote such).

Common to all of them though is the lack of a test to determine/prove their existence, or other evidence that might be used to determine such. Such a lack of evidence is the basis for atheism (the lack of a belief in a god) or at least agnosticism (for some a weaker form of atheism that starts from the premise that while there is no proof of a god there also lacks a proof of no god).

So that is four sentences with a bit of fluff thrown in there as well that I would say pretty adequately describes the concepts under discussion. You seem to be making out that it is all far more complicated but I am not seeing how. The forum can, and has, discussed things in more depth as there are all sorts of logical problems and thought experiments to consider (Stuff like Pascal's Gambit, why God, or indeed God of some sect of Christianity (various the versions of Judaism and Islam, or indeed other "Christians" would probably claim to have the one true line on God's desires and wishes, most others faltering somewhere in their understanding), and not Thor, Zeus, Amaterasu, Vishnu or one of infinite other gods that are often mutually incompatible? If the god in question is all seeing and all powerful why is there suffering when it is trivial for it to stop it from happening? How can man be made in the image of the gods when a man has a shade under 180 degrees of vision in a narrow spectrum and does not probably know what happened on the spot they are on 400 years ago?)

 

[notimp]

@FAST6191: Thank you for the clips, I laughed. (Now continuing to watch them... )

 

[tabzer]

Gods are a concept that a variety of religions...

You don't have to prove the existence of "God" because even if people are lied to about God, you have to deal with the influence of that... which will likely end up being more real than you or I.

It ends up that God is pretty important to self-described atheists. It seems to preside over their lifestyle, or at least determine how they self-identify. I think it's just another way of expressing "I am ungrateful for my ancestry." Not really about God "existing" or not. An atheist that is noisy about their identity is totally ironic.

 

[FAST6191]

God is pretty important to self-described atheists, no? Seems to guide their lifestyle, or at least determine how they self-identify. I think it's just another way of saying "I am ungrateful for my ancestry."

Gods/religion is a fairly important concept in modern and recorded history (possibly a bit before that as well depending upon how you want to look at things) and informs a lot of how law, morality and many people operate within the world. In that sense you could probably say many atheists find the god question, and its historical implications, important.
In terms of day to day living then it varies. Some people arrive at atheism having left religion and have to leave religious thought patterns behind (if you have been taught since youth that an all seeing sky daddy watches and considers everything you do can informs your mode of thought somewhat -- while I don't necessarily consider it correct there is the ever fun line of "no atheists in foxholes"). As people are arguably born atheist (some religions like to claim all people or the children of followers are born into them now and forever more and only later stray, others will try to claim them way before they can probably even talk, never mind make a legal contract) and religion has been of less and less importance for about 2 generations now in a lot of the west (I have a wonderful book from the late 30s, 40s and 50s in the US contemplating the fall of religion among the youth there) then a lot of people have never known religion or only experienced an ultra mild form of it, and thus have no consideration of sky daddy or overt sky daddy logic in their day to day lives.

As far as "I am ungrateful for my ancestry." goes then as much as one's ancestry is tied to a religion then OK. I don't particularly see how it is really all that tied to it (nor does that say why ancestors are worth venerating in this regard), or could be said to continue to serve a terribly useful purpose in the modern world -- we have cast aside all sorts of thoughts, beliefs and practices that our ancestors followed as time goes on. Indeed even belief in the single god (monotheism) is a relatively new concept so why is believing in, presumably Christian god, not an affront to the ancestors that believed in older concepts still or alternative ones that arose in parallel/independently?
Also how do you know said ancestors were not predominantly atheists, or free thinkers might be the better historical term? Even in places that were nominally Christianised the fringes of the place were often just that and only nominal, still doing pagan stuff underneath it all. A fun one being prior to the protestantism thing (itself a fun thing to contemplate, as is the rise of the Catholic church and eastern Orthodox church from earlier versions) some priest went up to a more rural part of Scotland and found the "Christian" people still doing unmistakably old school pagan fertility rites and rituals under the auspices of their supposedly otherwise Christian priest, and the history of Scandinavia is even better here still.

 

[tabzer]

the god question

Lol. You are being pretentious. Also, your edge is showing strong; I think you are demonstrating to be one of the most religious people here.

 

[FAST6191]

Lol. You are being pretentious. Also, your edge is showing strong; I think you are demonstrating to be one of the most religious people here.

I would say I am none of those.

I am probably one of the least religious people out there, as much as one can tell degrees of nothingness apart anyway.

As far as being edgy I would say that to anybody in any conversation, and have done (apparently since I was very young but different story there) for many years. I don't do it to offend or drop cause monocles to be dropped but as an intellectual exercise (forums being rather good for this sort of thing).

On the charge of being pretentious. I can't say I consider myself of any particular importance, and don't find myself attempting to assume a greater one than I have or otherwise impress with flashiness. To that end I am not sure why I attracted such a charge.

 

[tabzer]

Your scripture is boring and self-gratifying.