https://xcancel.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1934661884046921876
Every day we stray further from the light of Allah
kids
These are all 40 year old dudes.
new news same as the old news in some ways. it’s interesting how the medium changes, and that’s probably what’s new to analyze here, but the content is still the same as it has always been. within living memory, kids were running around their cities unsupervised for 12+ hours a day playing “cops and robbers” or the much more genocidal “cowboys and indians” and it has always had this exact same social dynamic. the kids are essentially acting out what they correctly understand to be the defining social dynamic of class society in the dying empire of a continent-spanning-and-genociding settler colony, and they always have. much of the work of schooling is to teach you to rationalize that which the children can act out without need for rationalization. the notion of digital protest against ice is also something that strikes me as novel here.
I just watched a live interview with Taylor Lorenz. She said that everyone in the article was children between the age 11-17. She said that many of the children knew people who had been victims of ICE and some of the children were re-enacting things that they experienced.
She also said that one child was shouting “No human is illegal” and shooting at ICE in roblox.
based antifa kid
Can you link the interview please?
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2488008145?t=02h43m44s
The interview starts at 2h43m. She mostly talks about promoting masking and covid vaccines. The part about the roblox article starts at 3h40m.
promoting masking and Covid vaccines
I knew vaccines caused autism!
Oh dang, big pharma btfo
Also on a more basic level I think kids are always going to find a power dynamic to replicate, because the ultimate goal is to create two sides in a game where one can give chase and the other can run away
Oh good, I don’t need to type out a comment of my own, that’s basically everything I wanted to say.
If you think you’ve found a way to make kids stop making light of horrible shit then I have a bridge to sell you. It goes over the bay in Arizona
What’s wrong with Ring Around the Rosie?!
I have a theory that games like cowboys and Indians was invented by adults to reinforce the genocidal/oppressive mindset; then again if similar dynamics exist in games in non-Imperialist countries then this would be demonstrably untrue.
I don’t think it’s that deep. A child’s dad will say something about “chasing off the Indians” and their first instinct would be to make a game out of it because they like to run around. Children are like sponges, they’ll pick up anything in their environment without needing strict indoctrination.
pretty sure chasing games exist everywhere and are very old, unsure if “cowboys and indians” predates cowboy movies, or “cops and robbers” predates similar media
I think about this image so often.
Hey guys, who’s coming to the next ICE Roblox protest?
Roblox is full of neonazis iirc
True
As a Robloxian ( you can :cringe: at me if you want), I’ll just say that this is the mildest news that has ever come from that gaming platform.
All videogames are cringe except
you’re good to goI don’t know anything about Roblox
¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
I play mostly farming games and 20 year old JRPGs
Yeah, kids roleplaying things they see on tv and in the news? That’s like…regular kid stuff. Much, much more fucked up stuff on that platform.
Like what the hell is an “Obby”? I’m getting huge pizzagate CP vibes from it, but I’m bad at acronyms, but I know there must be something there!
obby is just a parkour map
I guess most obby games are kinda like that.
i’m speaking here as a minecraft junkie who only played roblox once or twice with my nephew, he kept saying he wanted to parkour
obby is not an acronym, it’s short for “obstacle course”, which is a game genre in itself.
spoiler
better than the dozens of experiences replicating George Floyd’s death
i never played roblox and i don’t know anything about it, but is it possible to drive a killdozer and shove all those dudes into deep pit before dumping hot asphalt on it?
it seems to me like roblox is a modding framework for people to make their own games with the roblox assets, so you get like shit like people trying to recreate the anime Solo Levelling in roblox and also stuff like Dead Rails (a train survival game I’ve been watching this dude play because my gf likes watching this streamer) but then also stuff like this
I remember reading an article about a server that was set up like some Roman legion roleplay stuff and it was basically used as a Fascism Pipeline to indoctrinate children. That doesn’t mean roblox is bad but the people who ran that should have probably been shot
It’s one of the modern day Warcraft 3s. In that respect its peers are Fortnite and Warcraft 3. Sometimes DotA 2 (where auto battlers started), Steam if you squint your eyes (Vampire Survivors and rougelikes), and I bet some Godot forum has “easily” accessible tools for making games.
Going killdozer mode on some fascist 6-year-olds.
In roblox
I tried it once because I was constantly hearing about it and I still don’t know what it is
I know I applied for a job there several times but never heard back from them so they can just fuck off.
Depends on which roblox game they’re in, I’m sure there’s at least one killdozer game on there.
Sure. And you can call it the Roblox Mining incident or something.
in my day you had cops and smugglers or whatever on garry’s mod, and before that you just ran around outside with a stick playing cops and robbers, none of this shit is new, it sucks, but it’s not new
yeah exactly. like you’re telling me ‘trouble in terrorist’ town was problematic?? 0_0
Back in my day we only played healthy games like Cowboys and Indians and Kick the Irish
