According to one poll, 68% of respondents think there should be a ceasefire in Gaza. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/ 57% of Americans think immigration should be kept at its current level or increased. The things he is being criticized for…

Kissinger was born in 1923. No one from that era should have anything to do with the current state of affairs, much less someone with a megalomaniacal bent as he. He had a full century to cause chaos in the name of order, but look at the state of the world, and the ripple effects of his playbook. 

How about just the one position, then? And when you say “extremely online left”, I take it that means the 66% of Americans who want a ceasefire?

TIL that being against the horrors happening in Gaza and not wanting to restrict immigration and asylum are positions extreme left positions. Huh. 

Well, he explicitly ran as a progressive in 2022, so?

Thanks so much for being a voice of patronizing mediocrity.

But here’s the thing: Many of John’s fellow Democrats who have not come out in support of a ceasefire are at least ... being quiet about it. That doesn’t make it any better of course, but John is actively antagonizing his critics through mocking protestors and posting stupid memes. The man cannot deal with criticism.

Uggh god.....that fuckin cringefest.

Democrats are not “the Left.” They are a center/center-right party. They are absolutely anti-left.

You’re only kidding yourself if you think the DNC wants actual progressives. Never forget that Pelosi and Schumer supported anti-abortion incumbent Henry Cuellar in Texas against actual progressive Jessica Cisneros:

Don’t do a Sinema.

There really isn’t clear-cut criteria and i think Keighly defended the inclusion fairly well where someone who hadn’t given it much thought would say “well it’s a pixel game”

“We bet you’d forgotten about sort-of-Intellivision’s disastrous attempted console, the Amico.”

No, since Hbomberguy’s insanely popular video about the lies of Tommy Tallarico put it back on everyone’s radar last year.

I also think it was pretty disproportionately Hashino’s direction.

I think a lot of it was him too, because Persona 2 (both of them) handled gay characters (namely Jun, but also Tatsuya in Innocent Sin if you choose that option) better than 3-5 did.

Nah, I think a lot of it was him, too. I remember reading somewhere that people had brought it up to Hashino a few times and he kind of just swept the issues under the rug. The weird thing to me is that the queerphobia always felt really out of place. Like, the scenes with the gay dudes in P5 bring the pacing to a…

The fiddly bit is that the game literally gives the protagonist more actual romantic chemistry with two guys you can go on multiple dates-in-all-but-name with as part of their social links and not acknowledge that as more than a ‘friendship’ and then turn around and let you sleep with a girl whose Social Link is…

One thing to realize that Persona 3-5 has you as a silent protagonist in the “They’re supposed to be a mirror for you” sort of way. It’s not like the character isn’t gay because the character isn’t anything. You as the player are the one deciding how they are for most things, so with that freedom, the bottleneck on…

So then you just didn’t read the article at all, huh?

Well the Democratic party is not a left leaning organization, it’s a center right one so being left of them isn’t actually difficult outside of the US but yeah socially Japan is stuck way back in the past as far as any kind of minority rights