{"id":68327,"date":"2018-10-23T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68327"},"modified":"2018-10-22T21:08:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T02:08:34","slug":"a-nation-of-npcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68327","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Of NPCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t keep up on new memes \u2013 not even certain how to pronounce the word \u2013 and my experience with role-playing games dates back to Gary Gygax and graph paper.\u00a0 So I was surprised to learn the New York Times says it\u2019s totally unfair that somebody on the Right stole the phrase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/16\/us\/politics\/npc-twitter-ban.html\">Non-Player Character (NPC)<\/a> to describe Liberals who mindlessly follow The Narrative.\u00a0 Apparently, that\u2019s dehumanizing and mean and Twitter was correct to engage in viewpoint discrimination by restricting the free speech of people who use that meme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/1539571076929.jpg?itok=iWyTC45F\" width=\"714\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also, the situation is completely different from when Liberals describe people on the Right as \u201cDeplorable,\u201d or \u201cbitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles,\u201d or \u201cliterally Hitler,\u201d or going back to the early days of Rush Limbaugh, as \u201cmind-numbed robots.\u201d Those descriptions were acceptable because they were accurate.\u00a0 NPC is not acceptable because it\u2019s intentionally misleading election-related content.\u00a0 Not all Liberals are alike.\u00a0 Every Liberal is as unique as a snowflake, individually expressing the exact same sentiments at the exact same time using the exact same words as every other unique individual snowflake who all vote exactly the same way and you should, too.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest part of the article is Twitter claiming negative advertising hyperbole affects the election so they must ban those accounts to protect the integrity of the electoral process.\u00a0 If that were so, every ad on television should be banned, they\u2019re all variations on the same theme of \u201cSo-and-so will do bad things if elected\u201d and frankly, Liberals are the worst offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking way too much pleasure in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I don\u2019t keep up on new memes \u2013 not even certain how to pronounce the word \u2013 and my experience with role-playing games dates back to Gary Gygax and graph paper.\u00a0 So I was surprised to learn the New York Times says it\u2019s totally unfair that somebody on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68328,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68327\/revisions\/68328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}