I like how all the dorks in that RLM OT safe space of theirs think they're providing any insight any more valuable than the dumb shit going on in here.
"Oh man, those PC POLICE are at it again! If you don't say Fuck Trump, GAF's gonna eviscerate ya!"
What a bunch of marks. I bet they vote libertarian.
Benji, confirm/deny?
Deny. Basic statistics would inform you that the known libertarian posters on GAF are probably the only ones who actually vote Libertarian considering how few people vote Libertarian.
Someone mentioned before regarding the RLM guys' politics and this ties into it so indulge me. People, especially on NeoGAF.com, confuse libertarian attitudes with libertarian politics.
RLM is full of libertarian attitudes, so is Giant Bomb mostly. RLM is more likely to be libertarian in their politics than Giant Bomb's crew, I'd say almost certainly, but I wouldn't consider them to necessarily have libertarian politics.
The people who most confuse this are the people who can't switch off politics. The personal is the political. Everything is politics, etc. crowd. Because American politics is essentially sports, with two teams, this makes them even more unable to make the distinction.
So when RLM makes a video where they despite praising the film (for them) they mock the Wonder Woman empowerment
corporate PR push and express a general skepticism towards the film being this or even appropriate for children considering its violence, it's automatically fit into the "good guys" or "Gamergator" spectrum. Same thing with
Ghostbusters, where they see the Dr. Scientist video as them clearly being "enraged" over the film when they're clearly mocking the whole
marketing driven idea and outlining
why. RLM is also self-aware of the
politics involved, which is why the review ends with Mike going "actually, Jay, the reason I hated it is they're women." The Power Rangers review is both hating on the film, hating on the PR (both the diversity and the Krispy Kreme tie-in) and hating on the nostalgia hooks being used for bad films.
But they don't take this serious enough to care about it towards their view of the movies, they mention it because it was being talked about elsewhere, and they say so. They've done this for other movies for other subjects ranging all over the place, often Mike will mention he's looked a few online reviews/articles or comments or something and bring it up and they'll chat about it for a couple minutes and that's it. But this is his interest in the
industry much like he's the only one to ever bring up budgets and box office figures. He's also the one who most often brings up casting and directorial decisions. And the Plinkett reviews, which are his domain, are seeped in this industry-centric focus for their critiques. (Probably why the Sainted King Roberts dislikes them so.)
That's a libertarian
attitude, which is an attitude The Bore has in general, even though
politically I'm more of a 1% here than I am on GAF. Libertarian, like liberal, was a word before politics that was adopted politically because it was closest to describing the general viewpoint.
If we, as Americans, didn't confuse liberal for "progressive/Democrats" you could say they have a liberal attitude or whatever. Personally, I still do this, with libertarian being a more severe version of it.
What's funny is that many popular political libertarians do not necessarily have libertarian attitudes. Penn Jillette claims to, but he actually has some fairly severe POVs on topics. Ron Paul doesn't claim to, because he's a strong Southern Baptist who has super strong hardened views.
What made old
Red Eye great was not its politics, that was the worst part of the show. It had as a regular a libertarian, a conservative sometimes libertarian and a progressive-leaning libertarian; but it regularly had on guests of all views. But it kept a libertarian attitude, so even when someone like Marc Lamont Hill was on, he would happily do a joke like this:
or regularly played "this character" for the show:
If you watch him on CNN or MSNBC or elsewhere where he's expounding on his true political views or views on race or etc., he's got the "progressive" political views of NeoGAF.com's most "popular" OT members. When both Marc and Ann Coulter appeared on Larry King, they did their schtick with the proper positions, but on
Red Eye, they setup a pre-planned joke on Greg about some racial controversy story where Coulter took the outraged view and Marc didn't think it was even slightly racist and thought the whole thing was overblown.
NeoGAF.com users have trouble pulling this off. Especially considering they've whipped themselves into a paranoid frenzy about Russian Gamergators stealing the American election and then turning their forces onto the real prize in the no longer Bish protected NeoGAF.com forums.
