Bernie Sanders appears to want to ride the hot ticket of Leftist talking points in what’s likely going to be another failed bid to become President-elect in the 2020 election next year. He’s doing so by latching onto the current wave of Cultural Communists who have been advocating for the gaming industry to unionize.
On June 18th, 2019 Sanders dropped the tweet in reply to a story from Time about some developers complaining about crunch.
The video game industry made $43 billion in revenue last year. The workers responsible for that profit deserve to collectively bargain as part of a union. I’m glad to see unions like @IATSE and the broader @GameWorkers movement organizing such workers. https://t.co/Ia5gMG2v0w
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 18, 2019
This netted the usual response from a bunch of Leftists latching onto the tweet to virtue signal their support and how hip they think they are to gaming. Pretty much the same sort of parasites that have helped ruin gaming today.
Bernie, are you for or against sprint in Halo? I personally think it compromises the integrity of its arena shooter DNA in a vain attempt to imitate modern trends. Doom 2016 proved that a modern FPS doesn’t need to follow trends and conventions to be fun. I’d love a response.
— Chris Ray Gun (@ChrisRGun) June 19, 2019
mario, he’s a working-class icon
— sᴄʀᴇᴀᴍʏ (@_cancelery_) June 18, 2019
Bernie go on Splitscreen
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) June 18, 2019
That’s pretty cool. But he’s still a socialist. So nice try to get the gamers vote but nah we’re capitalists
— MEMES | HIP HOP | POLITICS (@NADJIBgat) June 18, 2019
Too often, workers in the entertainment industry are underpaid and overworked because they are so passionate about their crafts. By joining together and negotiating as a group, we can make our workplaces better. Thank you @SenSanders for speaking out on this important issue.
— IATSE (@IATSE) June 18, 2019
Thankfully there were a few red-pilled people in the threads who realized the absolute pandering that Sanders was doing in order to placate a base who have the mental capacity of a gold fish and the attention span of an aids-ridden rat.
Some of these people rightfully trolled Sanders for being completely out of touch with the industry while trying to virtue signal reform on behalf of it.
i agree, he’s so obviously pandering to all of those children working crunch at game dev studios
— wooloofeel (@mousefeel) June 18, 2019
So your plan is to kill off the video game industry. Good idea.
— Devin Nunes’ Sushi (@NunesSushi) June 18, 2019
They don’t need government interference
— Paleo, Libertarian (@bolderthanu) June 18, 2019
So, you work for a company that has bad management but want to keep working for the company because you feel entitled? Poor management will topple any company. Internal workings of private companies should not be public knowledge. No one is forced to stay in any private company.
— Paleo, Libertarian (@bolderthanu) June 18, 2019
Bernie Sanders is really getting desperate into transforming the USA to his Venezuelan socialist paradise that he’s now garnering support from video game developers “unions” in the United States.
The absolute state of leftists in US of A. pic.twitter.com/fNaLCAQ221— Mad Lucied, Embodiments of Mokkori Core Values (@magi_slayer) June 19, 2019
What?
We have 30 million employers to choose from and a million more job openings than people looking for work.
Find another job.— David Adkins (@davidarlington1) June 18, 2019
Half the world lives on less than $3000 a year and $34,000/year puts you in the world’s top one percent.
Don’t screw up our good thing with the proven failure of socialism.— David Adkins (@davidarlington1) June 18, 2019
Basically a bunch of children with no education on economics and poor social skills think Socialism will save them.
They also fail to realize that not everyone’s job in an artistic market like video games is worth the same, which is why you see a lot of talentless people in that Sanders thread begging for Socialism to put them on the same standard as people who actually work hard and have marketable skills.
For instance, a community manager has zero talent. Anyone who can read, write, and speak can be a community manager. They should not ever have the same standing, benefits, or protections as a physics engineer, a shader programmer, or a gameplay designer.
Trying to reduce the value of one set of jobs to raise the value of another set of jobs is a bad way to go for the gaming industry, and it’s a quick way to tank the industry. Then again, maybe that’s for the best?
What’s also funny is that while the Leftists are flocking to Sanders’ tweet like Tencent data acquisition specialists to stolen U.S., patents, many of them seem to have forgotten that Sanders was never a fan of gaming, much like his other political peers, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Game Objective’s Brad Glasgow dropped the information in response to Sanders’ tweet, showing a clip from 2012 where Sanders took aim at violent video games and movies as partial motivation to mass shootings in America, even going as far to say that with strict gun control in place the shootings would keep happening due in part to media influence.
You blamed video games (and movies and TV) for mass shootings. https://t.co/jy2vkIzDxj
— Brad Glasgow (@Brad_Glasgow) June 18, 2019
Got it. 23:32. https://t.co/Wx5LFJZ5PZ
— Brad Glasgow (@Brad_Glasgow) June 18, 2019
If you’re unable to see the video in the tweet, you can watch the clip below at the 23:20 mark from the Thom Hartmann Program that was published on December 21st, 2012.
These sentiments were reirated again ahead of the 2016 elections when Bernie Sanders was still advocating for a reduction in gun violence by advocating more gun control, mental health awareness, and toning down the glorification of violence in media, as reported by Reason.com.
So just to circle back around to the original point: Bernie Sanders is tweeting about video game crunch and unions because it’s a popular discussion right now in Left-wing circles where Socialists and Communists reside. They love stripping hard working people of the things they rightfully deserve. This is essentially what Sanders would be advocating if a union did happen.
However, just seven years prior Sanders had blamed violent video games for influencing mass shootings in America. So he doesn’t mind an industry that he feels contributes to real violence in America so long as it’s unionized? Is that his stance?
Regardless, it’s just more busybodies sticking their nose in a place where it doesn’t belong.
(Thanks for the news tip Mad Lucied and Lyle)
(Main image courtesy of Comrade)
