Voting Republican Is Kissing Your Fave Online Gaming Site Goodbye
A message for Gen Z gamers and those who care about them (Scroll to the end to listen)
In Monday’s newsletter, I wrote about Leonard Leo’s next coordinated line of attack: The US entertainment industry, which includes Hollywood. But it also includes online gaming.
In my bullet-pointed list of prohibited entertainment, I wrote this:
Voting for Republicans is literally kissing your favorite online gaming sites goodbye.
I’ve never been a gamer, but I love a Gen Alpha male whose world revolves around online gaming. I’ve witnessed firsthand how important online gaming is to those who love and enjoy it.
Online gaming is a profitable entertainment sector (projected to be over $200 billion worldwide for 2022.)
Gaming is integral to how Gen Z decompresses, networks, and makes friends. A full 90% of gamers claim it brings joy to their lives.
The 18-34 age group is most heavily invested in online gaming.
Gaming isn’t heavily skewed toward males. A report from the 2021 Entertainment Software Association claimed the mix was 55% male/45% female.
Many argue that online gaming can have negative impacts, particularly as it relates to violence and sexual assault. The virtual reality component makes online gaming encounters more visceral, whether they involve acts of violence or sexual fantasies. This blurring of fantasy and reality is what Christian Nationalists object to.
Leonard Leo and his army of Christian Nationalist prudes would attack online gaming by citing the violence (sexual and otherwise) and nudity they claim it encourages. This study by the National Institutes of Health was published during 45’s administration, meaning they already have regime-friendly data upon which to base their crackdown.
Let’s review everything Christian Nationalists like Leonard Leo deem to be porn and relate it to gaming:
Any physical intimacy between any persons who do not constitute a heterosexual married couple. Online sexual encounters would be considered pre-marital sex (if one isn’t married); adultery (if one is married); or homosexuality-as-porn (if one uses online gaming to explore their sexuality virtually before coming out, for example.) All sexual gaming components would be regulated and likely outlawed as pornography.
Female avatars could be regulated for decency. It is common for gamers to choose avatars that give them ripped bodies or big boobs or even animal elements. Female avatars would need to cover up to comply with Leonard Leo’s Republican rules for online decency. Any shapeshifting or combination of human-and-animal avatars would also be disallowed.
Any gaming storyline that doesn’t comport with Leonard Leo’s interpretation of the Bible could be regulated and possibly outlawed. In that case, violence and killing would likely be fine. But any sexual enjoyment or element of an online game would be classified as pornography. Storylines that allow same-sex couples or the choice to be a sex other than the gamer’s assigned birth sex would also be prohibited.
Many of the fantasy elements of gaming would be impossible to execute legally in Leonard Leo’s world. In my newsletters on Oklahoma’s anti-pornography legislation, what was one thing it classified as porn? Bestiality. Much like they believe imagining a sex act with someone who isn’t one’s spouse is the same as committing physical adultery, pretending to be an animal online or combining animal elements into an avatar would be the same as committing bestiality in real life to someone like Leonard Leo.
Another motivation for this intrusion into your hobby, gamers? You should be in church, not gaming online for hours per week. Christian Nationalist Republicans like Leonard Leo view gaming as time that could be better spent. If they limit gaming options and make games comply with their interpretation of the Bible, maybe more Gen Z’ers would lose interest and darken the door of a church instead of gaming for seven hours or more every week. Let Daddy Leonard and his Christian Nationalist buddies warp malleable minds with religious indoctrination instead.
Whether you’re a gamer or have gamers in your life, this newsletter is a MUST READ AND SHARE. While it’s hard to imagine this kind of oppressive regulation, Republicans are already making themselves clear. They will invade our private spaces, including the worlds of gaming, and they will make them conform to their interpretation of the Bible.
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Surprisingly in my area in Tennessee there really aren't as many Trump signs as I anticipated, given I know how many here vote R.
Today on my way home from work, a WOMAN was putting up a Trump Vance yard sign. Dumbass woman! Voting against her own best interests. Voting for a fuckin convicted rapist. I'm so disgusted by these idiots, fascist fucks in the US.
Would this apply to sports games, such as NHL 24, Madden NFL 24, MLB The Show 24, and EA Sports FC 24? Those are the games I play on my Xbox.