AOC couldn’t care less about football, she seemed to barely know the rules. Boomer Tim Waltz know about football, but he struggled with the controls. The gameplay was atrocious, it ends 0-0, and it is cringe because they both clearly don’t care. They both sent their players to die and get concussed every single play. They could’ve at least discussed concussion in NFL, but they didn’t. They could’ve discussed EA’s union busting practice and horrible working conditions, but they didn’t.

Why not just play Mario Kart and discuss the material conditions of working class in Mushroom Kingdom, how Toad deserved to get another game, when is Nintendo gonna give us Captain Toad Treasure Tracker 2?

A Democratic consultant got paid thousands of dollars for organizing this cringe stream. ALSO IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF FASCISM, DON’T YOU BOZOS HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO

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    so predictable that it would go like that

    someone else summed it up but it is absolutely bizarre that they think they can get away with having fuck all policy, and then do half arsed panders like this to make it up. Seriously dog brained from whoever came up with this shite.

    Of course, they can’t talk concussion crisis or anything at all important because that risks placing them on a ‘position’, when the Dems approach is to have no position at all… but from an entertainment perspective -

    why wouldn’t they just get Walz to get ‘coached’ by someone who knows how to play on stream? Walz can do his whole fuddy duddy uncle routine like your dad who doesn’t get vidya, eat a fucking hot dog, say thanks everyone, remember to vote, and call it a day.

    The American political system is so rotted through with nepotism and cold-dead-eyes that it’s incapable of doing anything at all.

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    fellow-kids How do you do fellow genocide enthusiasts?

    All this orange stain on my fingers is from these flaming Cheetos. Speaking of which DAE cheeto-man bad? You don’t want that stain on your fingers. Our brand genocide doesn’t leave visible stains. Now with more ethnic cleansing power!

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    They really don’t understand just how hollow this focus tested “try to please the maximum number of people” kind of “outreach” actually feels. You can see the gears whirring in the heads of the suits who planned this. “Ah yes, the plebs love football and video games, so we should have the candidates play a football video game to show the plebs how relatable they are. It’s a sport and a video game, two incredibly low brow forms of entertainment, so we don’t need to bother to coach the candidates on it, it’s so simple a monkey could do it.”

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    Huge missed opportunity to set up a session of NFL Blitz for them. That would appeal to nostalgia-addled GenX and Millennials, and the game is more ridiculous and fun, but it’s still football, and you don’t have to know as much technical detail to play it. I’m not a Dem consultant who gets overpaid to be a clueless dumbass, sadly.

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      Could you imagine if Trump played Mario Bros. just to own the Dems? I mean sonic is already blue, and that probably would let the dems have the very important Sonic fan vote. But Trump would counter that with the Nintendo fan cursed vote.

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    Shouldn’t a twitch stream be a slam dunk if the people are even a little funny?

    Also snarky reminder of when she cameo’d Hbomb’s stream, said trans rights, and we all cried.

    I’m not entirely battle-hardened comrades, I fall for liberal pandering sometimes. Hasn’t happened in a good five years cause there hasn’t been any, but yeah.

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      At least the Hbomb stream raised money for a good cause (even if AoC was shit all along), this stream exists for no reason but for ghouls to soullessly pander to the youths.

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        That’s cause they made this stream. They parasitise good work, offering their majesty in exchange for the propaganda bump.

        I’m genuinely not sure if I’m cynical enough to believe what I just said but to be very cringe and borrow from Pratchett : "If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life "

        Considering the various ways I thought to describe Vimes before giving it up as something that would take too long, yeah I might just be that cynical.

        Also I have absolutely no idea if AOC was shit all along or not. Or rather, specifically if she was this shit all along. The border photo op looked convincing enough. . .until election time when she started defending our concentration camps. I’m not a mind reader.

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      Hasn’t happened in a good five years cause there hasn’t been any, but yeah.

      Huh.

      Did they all stop pretending when Berndog tragically died of Ligma or have I just been out of touch?

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        I think so? Maybe I just stopped hearing it. Maybe that stream was the last time it worked on me.

        Mainly tho, sure feels like they’ve be on a kick of punching left that ain’t gonna quit now.

        Edit: missed the obvious “down and to the left!” badum tisch, damn

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    They could’ve at least discussed concussion in NFL, but they didn’t. They could’ve discussed EA’s union busting practice and horrible working conditions, but they didn’t.

    If the Dems made either of these a campaign theme this would be a 50-state wave election, I won’t go so far as to predict which direction

    it ends 0-0

    damn they put up as many points as they scored with voters?

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    I saw a clip of AOC crowing about how happy she was not to have to do another four years of “resistance stuff” or something. IDK if it was from this but it was something. like something…