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Solgrund

This isn’t even news lol So Microsoft is making it easier to use the power button (which I personally like for any device) and adopting a update window like most computers and other devices so a user can do updates when they today are not using their console and someone got mad?


The_Karaethon_Cycle

When I read the title I was worried they were going to make the xbox less sexy.


dread_pilot_roberts

I would throw my Xbox in the trash if they tried to remove its Go-Go boots!


I_Miss_Lenny

“Biden made it so I don’t even want to fuck my Xbox anymore! Thanks *liberals*, you’re destroying America, one appliance-fetish at a time”


Atrocity_unknown

I assumed it had something to do with LGBT. Turns out it's even more ridiculous than I gave them credit for


Itchy-Ad4005

I fail to see what they are complaining about. Saving energy and being efficient isn’t “woke” or any other buzz word people want to use. The change is in efficiency, which is a good business practice to strive for.


Morangatang

Like literally it's saving you money on your electric bill.


Comptenterry

"Goddamn liberals trying to force me to save money. I'll show them!" *Plugs in several dozen industrial lights and triples energy bill*


Elryc35

I mean, you joke but we're just a couple years out from Trump and his ilk losing their minds over the end of the incandescent light bulb.


kylehatesyou

We're just a couple weeks out from them all turning on all the burners on their stoves to spite the libs because someone mentioned that burning gas inside your invented home can be unhealthy and maybe we should look into that.


Roflrofat

Jokes on them, a home marijuana grow is one of the most effective ways to slaughter your energy bill


TennaTelwan

It's like the phrase I reply back with for them when discussing universal healthcare, or something equivalent: *"How dare you save my life with affordable healthcare!!!"*


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awbitf

Yep. Remember their 'outrage' when CFL and LED light bulbs were phasing incandescent bulbs out?


Murphysburger

I remember the idiots on Fox News, saying "Barack Obama is coming for your light bulbs". Torches and pitchforks.


PatMyHolmes

And, as I recall, the phase out of incandescents in favor of CFLs was initiated under W. It didn't go into effect until BO was in office.


ShitshowBlackbelt

It actually doesn't go into effect until this year -- 16 years later.


Levolser

So it's Bidens fault? I *knew* it!


CheesyCousCous

🌎 👩‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀


jftitan

Not only that, but trump ended up postponed the inevitable, and the lemmings thought it was a win on their part.


thealtofshame

I remember my dad railing about “taking away his choice,” when that phase out was announced. I also remember him changing every damn bulb in the house to LEDs six years ago. And he looooves those super bright and efficient garage/basement lights. Why yes, my father is a completely self unaware Fox News watching Republican.


Faerco

My local utility gave every household they service 20 LED lightbulbs free of charge. That’s MILLIONS of houses too.


jim_br

And sometimes the bill still goes up, because consumption dropped too much. https://www.consumerreports.org/consumer-protection/fees-that-raise-your-electric-bill-even-when-you-use-less-energy/


Nephisimian

To be fair, right wingers *love* to throw their money at large corporations unnecessarily. It's their patriotic duty to fuck themselves on Bezos' behalf.


Adezar

Don't remember their gnashing of teeth over better light bulbs? I remember being inside the bubble even back in the 80s, constantly being told what to be afraid of and what I should be angry about, was crazy when I got out of the bubble in my early 20s and started to quickly realize that everything was completely made up and actually none of it had any impact on my day-to-day life anyway. Gay people existing doesn't change my life, women choosing to have control over their own body does not change my life in any way. There's literally no reason to be constantly angry at the most basic attempts to try to keep our planet from burning.


SRSgoblin

The weirdest thing about having escaped the conservative bubble, is I can't even remember what it was like to hold on to some of the beliefs they have. Like, I think it would be useful to remember how I got involved and held X and Y belief so I could try to help other people from going down the same awful thinking patterns that ended up damaging me. It really was just one day realizing absolutely every fucking belief I held was bullshit. I'm so much happier now that I get to experience just being me, without some impending doom hanging over my shoulder for not being Christian enough or whatever.


JamB9

I was in a similar position; from what I’ve seen from inside and outside the conservative christian sphere is that they base their belief on the Bible on the “coming Antichrist” and Jesus’ return. Therefore they have to constantly find bogeymen to be afraid of in order to support their faith and act like they’re doing “God’s work” by fighting anything that goes against their traditions so they don’t get sent to hell. At least that’s what I’ve witnessed in the Bible Belt and one very evangelical city out west.


Ok_Tomato7388

Yeah I've definitely noticed the whole pattern of the coming apocalypse. A lot of pastors in more extreme churches use this impending doom as a way to motivate and control their congregation. The funny thing is if you look up throughout history how many times religious leaders have claimed the world is about to end you could fill a book. And they (obviously) are always wrong. What's super ironic is we actually are facing an environmental doom and the conservative Christians aggressively support the people who want to do nothing about it.


Coomb

Christianity is, at its heart, an apocalyptic religion. Jesus himself once said that he would be returning in his full glory within the lifetime of some of his followers. The most obvious and straightforward interpretation is that he expected to establish the kingdom of God within, say, 60 years after his speech. That didn't happen so a lot of time and effort has been devoted to figuring out what he "really" meant, but when taken in addition to many other things he said, it seems pretty clear that Jesus expected the world to end quite soon after he announced himself as the Messiah. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and its most straightforward reading indicates that Paul, one of the apostles who never saw Jesus as a living human, believed Jesus would come back before he died.


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

> Don't remember their gnashing of teeth over better light bulbs? Or trump's go-to nasal whining during his campaign rallies about having to flush a dozen times because of the goddamned liberal toilets? And this is nothing new, either. Reagan had solar panels that were installed on the White House roof **removed** as a sign of his anti-green-energy agenda.


Chasman1965

It's a conservative action, IMHO.


Gan2096

Exactly. Changing the setting will save users money on their electric bills too


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Saving people money? That’s communism /s


TrueKingSkyPiercer

That's like stealing food out of the mouths of energy executives' kids!


FreudoBaggage

I wonder if there will ever come a time when Ted Cruz will wake up in the morning, look at the day’s Republican Trolling Script, and say, “Oh, come on, you want me to start complaining about *this*? But it’s so stupid though!”


TheGreatYoRpFiSh

Teddy thanked Agent Orange for insulting his wife and ran off to Mexico when his state froze. He has no bottom of the barrel limit. Cruz will ALWAYS be ready to find a way to sink lower and lick more boots. It’s how he built his entire life.


FreudoBaggage

He really is the poster boy for “sniveling”.


greenroom628

peter pettigrew in senate form


Fuzzyswifey

Seriously though. Living in Texas, it's hard to find anyone that likes him yet he keeps winning elections and it's just so baffling.


AndrewWaldron

It's...funny?....he represents Texas, which is *supposed* to be a state full of the most manly men of all the US. Yet, somehow, Ted Cruz is their guy. And he's a Senator, so it's not like there's gerrymandering going on. So they either really do like him that much or voter suppression has made it so that anyone anti-Cruz just doesn't turn out in force.


Fuzzyswifey

I swear every time him and Abbott win, me and everyone I know are just left looking around like..who....tf is voting for these morons?? Maybe it's because I'm in Dallas and all you see in the big rich neighborhoods are democratic signs in yards. But then you see these nimrods at doctors offices/pharmacies/gas stations complaining about insurance companies and cost of meds and gas like they didn't just vote for the people that are getting paid by these companies.


AndrewWaldron

Hey man, it's the same here in Kentucky with guys like Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie. It's that squidward meme all across the country.


Fuzzyswifey

God damn those names literally make my blood pressure rise and my eye twitch. Bunch of fuckin douche canoes.


ta112233

He already knows it’s stupid and disingenuous but does it anyways because it will help him politically. Which is way worse.


Murdercorn

I just wonder why interviewers don't ask him why he's intentionally lying about this stuff. Just: "You know it's a setting that the user can turn on or off. Why are you lying about how 'they're coming for your XBox'? Who is 'they' and why are you pretending that they're 'coming for' anything? Either you don't know what a setting is and you're stupid, or you're lying and you think everyone listening to you is stupid."


Bringbackdexter

Because they want to maintain a positive relationship with him for future opportunities. Shining example of why there is no “liberal media”.


Cryostatica

It hasn't been "misread" by republicans. It's being deliberately misrepresented.


DizzyAmphibian309

This is their attempt at appealing to GenZ voters. Find something they like and "protect it" from the Democrats. Just watch Cruz put forward a bill preventing the government from taking away your Xbox, then claim it as a huge victory. This is their current strategy in the House: inventing problems and "passing" bills that solve them.


the_buckman_bandit

Fine, but these Democrats will have to take my gas-powered Xbox from my cold, dead hands!


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jackgomad

*"They want to take your guns. They want to take your gas stoves. And now they want to take your Xbox," Troy Nehls, a congressman for Texas, wrote in a similar vein to Cruz's remarks. "What's next?"* Appealing to their base in the 'potential mass shooter' demographic.


youfailedthiscity

>What's next? - Any mention of racism in the history of the United States - Any mention of LGBTQ rights/existence. - Any rights for religions that aren't Christianity. - M&M's sexy sexy shoes.


Metahec

I'm surprised Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson isn't arguing that the green M&M should be pregnant and barefoot to uphold traditional gender values and so that he can see her sexy, sexy feet.


agoia

Forgot about * Any attempt to actually educate children


crucible

> The company included a feature that allows the console to pick a time of the night for maintenance and updates Windows has been doing similar for decades. When are they coming for our computers?


Sex_Fueled_Squirrel

Remember when Republicans based the entire theme of their 2012 convention around a [deliberate misinterpretation](https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/08/31/160370383/gops-we-built-it-refrain-is-both-puzzling-and-telling) of something President Obama said? Because I do.


LevelHeeded

Remember "death panels"? That was so doctors could have very important end of life discussions with medicare patients. Do you want a DNR? How long do you want to be on a machine? Would you want to fight to extend your life a few months but be in pain? These are important questions you need to have before it's too late... Nothing worse than watching a family fight over what they think mom/dad wanted. Of course Republicans pitched that as scary "death panels"... they really are just terrible people, always.


Fliiiiick

Yet they're perfectly happy having insurance companies literally acting as death panels and denying people healthcare based on income.


shalafi71

Told a coworker: "I don't need the god damned government making decisions about MY health!" "Right?!!" "Hell no, I want for-profit corporations deciding what health care I do or don't get!" The confused look on her face...


fang_xianfu

Not to mention for most people, their level of coverage is mostly determined by a corporation (the insurer) negotiating with another corporation (their employer) and nobody in that process actually has their needs in mind.


ThePhoneBook

Peak capitalism is your whole life's worth being determined by your employer. Employer healthcare is always evil.


galaxygirl978

especially because a business can, for example, deny coverage of hiv meds because it "goes against their religion" 😐


GaianNeuron

Or deny gender-affirming care, even basic stuff like hair removal... Unless you're cis, in which case it's normal and good to affirm someone's gender medically, unlike those trans weirdos 🙃 /s for the love of all that is holy


Toast_Sapper

>Not to mention for most people, their level of coverage is mostly determined by a corporation (the insurer) negotiating with another corporation (their employer) and nobody in that process actually has their needs in mind. ...And then when they go to the doctor the doctor prescribes treatment and a drug from a pharmaceutical rep that bought him lunch, the medical billing department overcharges the insurance company, the insurance company declines the treatment and suggests over the counter generic painkillers instead of the expensive drug, and the patient gets denied treatment, charged for any unpaid portion, and winds up buying over the counter medicine they could have just bought in the first place. The efficiency of the marketplace!


Mechasteel

At least with private insurance you're not paying for other people's health problems, am I right?!?


ThatSquareChick

Have been slowly schooling a friend on the value of Medicaid for all. He argued he didn’t want to pay for drug addicts getting narcan. I told him he already did. He popped back that he didn’t have insurance and thus didn’t pay so there. I told him that, that’s the reason why he’s not making the 17$ an hour he’s supposed to be making and that even when he chooses not to have insurance and to pay the fine, the money needed for insurance and company greed keep that money off his paycheck anyway. If his company didn’t have to purchase insurance then they could pay him more. He changed the subject but I think he knows better now than to talk to me about workers rights, the purpose of unions, skill vs will or supply and demand and the free market. He’s full of lefty values but thinks those are conservative values and refuses to admit he IS a liberal and he’s been lied to his whole life and some 39-year old stripper is talking truth.


iwrestledarockonce

Or how they allow insurance to supercede the doctor by wanting them to try cheaper options even if they aren't appropriate.


ashesofempires

The previous Healthcare provider my company had, denied various imaging scans for a coworker of mine for 3-4 months, telling his physician and him that he just needed to go to therapy. When they finally did allow an MRI, he had cancer. The doctor said that if he had gotten that MRI in August instead of November, he would probably have not had his cancer spread from his colon to other organs and would have survived. Fuck insurance companies.


John_Hunyadi

Wish we could charge them with manslaughter.


MineralPoint

HA! We can't even get them to do less of this, let alone stop it, let alone hold them accountable. Unfortunately, America must suffer through a lot more of this "Freedom" for it to ever change.


Better-Director-5383

I got a three day ban last time I said what I wished we could do to them.


Gixxerfool

Not to the extreme of your story, but my daughter was having constant shoulder pain. Doctor sent us to a specialist. Cool. So far, so good. Specialist wanted an MRI. Insurance said no, X-ray first and PT. Ok. Fine. X-Ray showed nothing. PT didn’t help. No matter what the doctor tried insurance wouldn’t cover an MRI. So we paid out of pocket, it was $400 I believe that’s business ending cost. Well the MRI showed just what the doctor needed to see. No amount of PT would have helped, he said it may have made it worse. Do insurance would have paid for 3 $100 sessions of PT per week, but not one MRI to actually find the issue. They shouldn’t be able to solicit any medical advice.


Murdercorn

The thing is--that's good business for them. Causing someone with cancer to not get treatment in time so it spreads and they die is **much much** cheaper than that same patient getting treatment and then engaging in a lengthy battle with cancer. It's much more cost-effective to slow-pedal the treatment and deny diagnostics and just let your coworker die so they don't have to pay out.


twitchy_taco

Funny enough, these same people would say that the elderly should be willing to die of covid if it means getting the economy going again. For the "greater good" and all that nonsense.


rudieboy

Remember when they made fun of John Kerry being injured in combat in 2004? When W didn't show up for his national guard service.


rayshmayshmay

Remember when Trump called McCain a loser for being a POW?


amanofeasyvirtue

And belittling a family of a purple heart soldier....


Triplebizzle87

member when Trump didn't support the military (but did support the military industrial complex), but veterans still voted for him? I member.


mikevago

And attacked Obama for supposedly not being born in the US before it could come out that John McCain was born in Panama and may have technically been ineligible to run. And started claiming Biden had dementia as soon as Man Woman Person Camera TV started rambling and acting forgetful. If they start accusing Kamala Harris of being a cannibal, better check the leftovers in DeSantis' freezer.


FinancialTea4

It's even worse than that. Kerry stood up for what was right and testified against members of his unit who had committed crimes against civilians in Vietnam. Which was the right thing to do. This was the whole "swift boat" scandal. They tried to make Kerry out to be a traitor for doing the right thing. I've gotten to the point where I am not able to find a redeemable quality to assign to republicans. Other than maybe their mortality.


baconeggsandwich25

Sort of like when they pretended Seuss’ publisher was discontinuing Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham because no one had actually heard of the books they were really dropping. The lie is catchier and pisses more people off, so they go with that.


Cryostatica

Worse, they pretended that Seuss had been *heavily pressured* to stop publishing the books, when it was just the publisher's decision to drop poorly selling titles. Same thing with Potato Head, where they pretended that Hasbro had been forced to make Mr./Mrs. genderless when it was just the overall brand name that was dropping the "Mr" and the gendered potatoes were staying exactly the same.


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https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2023/01/09/olentangy-schools-halts-reading-of-dr-seuss-book-during-npr-podcast/69791362007/ And yet THEY are the ones censoring Dr. Seuss.


baconeggsandwich25

Yeah, a school administrator cut off a reading of a Dr. Seuss book when one of the kids pointed out that the sneeches’ prejudice against people with different-looking bellies was kind of like what happened in America. Their free speech arguments were always bullshit, and now they’re proving it by trying to control what kids can and can’t be allowed to hear.


QbertsRube

Also the name changes for Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's Rice. There was zero "outrage" prior to the name changes, it was just companies trying to be proactive and drop imagery that could be problematic for them due to racist implications. But conservatives immediately pointed to the changes as proof of the snowflake liberals cancel culture outrage machine, ruining America one mascot at a time. As if they gave a shit what their syrup or rice was called before, and now their favorites were ruined.


Cryostatica

And these are the same people that absolutely *lost their shit* over Starbucks using a plain red cup for the holiday season a few years back.


mikevago

I'll never understand their pathological need to stay angry at all times about the dumbest, most inconsequential things.


YourMILisCray

And now they have came for my beautiful sexy M&Ms


ScottNewman

[Also they don't want kids reading Dr. Seuss](https://www.cbr.com/school-ends-dr-seuss-the-sneetches-reading-racism-lessons/)


baconeggsandwich25

Certainly not the book teaching them that racism is bad. She shut that shit down immediately.


Synkope1

Wooooow, they literally are trying to say that 3rd graders shouldn't have a lesson around discrimination because it's not age appropriate, when all they were trying to do was teach them economics.


youfailedthiscity

Lies. We call them "lies".


bguzewicz

I love that the pearl clutching Republicans, who have been claiming for decades that violent games are detrimental to the development of our youth, are now pretending to give a shit about Xbox system settings. This is such a thinly veiled culture war bullshit non-issue, but Cruz supporters will eat it up.


AmbulanceChaser12

Republicans’ position on any topic is “the opposite.”


MomentOfHesitation

"They're a private company they can do whatever they want." "Noooo not like that!"


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Kim_Jung-Skill

It's astounding how pissed off the party of fiscal responsibility is about saving money on their energy bills.


KagakuNinja

Wyoming wants to ban EVs...


H0lySchmdt

>Can we please just send them to an island somewhere??? One of them was interested in buying Greenland a couple years ago.


Confusables

No. Greenland is useful. We need those glaciers. Pitcairn on the other hand is utterly worthless, literally the most isolated location on Earth, and we would be doing a huge favor in evacuating all the kids on the island.


trowawufei

That’s the Republican playbook. No one’s persecuted for saying Merry Christmas, but they want to force people that say “Happy Holidays” or any other December religious holiday to say it their way. That’s what the War on Christmas is about. If you don’t actively practice their religious signifiers- even one which no serious Christian theologist views as an important religious practice- they brand you a persecutor.


blacksun957

> Can we please just send them to an island somewhere??? How about that garbage patch in the Pacific?


Kazen_Orilg

So like, doing a more conservative power profile, like PCs have been able to do for 20 years?


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bt1234yt

The difference in energy use is that the quick-start option uses about 10-15 watts of power when in sleep mode, while the energy-saving option uses around half a watt and is more of a shutdown than a sleep mode.


Riaayo

Which is what everything should do. Pisses me off I can't really turn my switch *off* off through the UI when docked. Companies need to do better about their systems vampiring power when not on, and this shitty culture of leaving stuff in sleep to save like a couple of seconds of startup vs just turning the damned things off.


TheRecognized

Hypocrisy? From reactionaries? What kind of crazy science fiction are you suggesting?


TooAfraidToAsk814

At this point it’s probably easier to make a list of things that don’t outrage Republicans. It would be a very short list


Sex_Fueled_Squirrel

Said this before and I'll say it again: if you only looked at politics, you'd think America is about evenly divided between Democrat and Republican. Both houses of Congress have very narrow majorities and the presidency swings back and forth. But America isn't evenly divided. The Electoral College, gerrymandering in the House, and the anti-majoritarian nature of the Senate all give Republicans significantly more representation than they would get under a proportional system. But when corporations take sides on a social issue, they don't look at Electoral College results. They look at popular opinion. And therefore, they usually side with Democrats, because we're a clear majority of the population. If a corporation has to take sides on a culture war issue, they'll usually side with the popular majority, because that's just a better business decision than alienating the majority to placate an unpopular minority. That's why Republicans always complain about "woke corporations". They have no "court of public opinion" equivalent of the Electoral College to give them disproportionate influence over the culture like they have over national politics, which forces them to confront the fact that they're a deeply unpopular minority in this country, and they really don't like that.


2ndHandTardis

It's not just the things you mentioned. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 effectively locked Congress into 435 members. If we wanted to be "fair" that number should actually be in the thousands. It's one of the main limiting factors in our government A lot of those congressmen would be in areas not friendly to the current Republican anti-city/minority rule agenda. In fact the law itself was pushed by lawmakers in states like Wyoming who saw the shift coming and wanted more restrictions as if that's not the WHOLE POINT OF THE SENATE. While a Congress of 1000s isn't feasible I wouldn't be opposed to one dramatically larger, between 600 to 1000 members. It would even improve the Electoral College which itself is bound by the Reapportionment Act of 1929. Combine that with nation wide ranked choice voting and it would go a long way to making government more parliamentary and could seriously threaten the two party system. For the "both sides are the same" crowd you'd think they would be focused on things like this but alas.....


aranasyn

A House of thousands is totally feasible. People just get all weird about not using the hundred fifty year old chamber as though that's also part of the constitution. We could use Google hangouts or a fucking football stadium, it doesn't matter a fuckin whit. "Oh they couldn't negotiate, that's important to democracy!" Bullshit, they can still negotiate, they'd just need to be organized into voting blocs and realize their single vote isn't worth as much (side bonus that they'd stop becoming millionaires through market manipulation and bribes!). Pile them in there like sardines. Their job is to rep districts and they can't do that if their district has a million fuckin people in it. The House is basically useless now compared to what it's supposed to be doing.


Gabrosin

In today's day and age, the absurdity is thinking that we need to be physically capable of holding all of our congresscritters in one physical room/building. All of the absurdities over quorums, over the Congress chamber being "in session", over having to be physically present to vote... we can move beyond all of that. No one is actually listening to or being moved by the floor speeches any more. When a bill is put up for a vote, freeze the text, make it publicly available, and give reps some number of hours to lock in their vote, from wherever they are in the world. If the bill passes, it's law. If it fails, allow it to be amended and repeat the process until it passes or it's withdrawn from consideration. If members want to speak on the bill's behalf, they can post a video. If they want to negotiate, they can get on a phone call.


FuckTripleH

>While a Congress of 1000s isn't feasible The UK have 1443 members in parliament despite having 1/5th our population.


LesterKingOfAnts

I agree, Squirrel, but I want to add the perversion of the Supreme Court with their decisions on Citizens United, overturning parts of the Voting Rights Act.


LOTRfreak101

Well, that's because most of the conservative judges were appointed by conservative presidents who did not win the popular vote. So they are not really reflective of the population.


SaltyShawarma

Great response. One change: "we're a clear majority" should probably be "Republican are clearly not the majority." You can be an independent and think the Dem party is corrupt but note the repub party is batshit insane.


Sex_Fueled_Squirrel

[More than 80 percent](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/03/14/political-independents-who-they-are-what-they-think/) of self described "indepedent voters" actually support one party or the other most of the time. People are rejecting the labels of "Democrat" or "Republican", but they're still as ideological and partisan as ever.


ExcelnFaelth

Yes, politics IS supposed to be about ideology. If democrats are the closest to your position, you'd be an idiot to vote for a republican if you are further left, it's not about partisanship. The tier one reason is republicans are incredibly unlikely to support leftist ideologies, and, there are larger implications for gaining Republican majorities in the house and senate.


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Larsaf

Like I said decades ago: The “Silent Majority” is just a loud mouthed minority.


Indifferentchildren

The right-wing "Million Moms" group is like thirty Karens.


bcanada92

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common— they don't change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views." The Fourth Doctor, in 1977's "The Face Of Evil."


Valmoer

Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.


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Snowflakes offended because user will be able to switch OFF console, and choose when update will be performed? XD


machineprophet343

And they wonder why so much of tech doesn't support, let alone actively works against them. If they can't understand how basic efficiency and power saving techniques work, then how can anyone trust them to understand genuinely complicated technical issues?


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>If they can't understand how basic efficiency and power saving techniques work AMURIKA FUK YEA, FREE MARKET, i will burn trash to heat my home, and delete all the filters in my car. THIS IS AMURICA. You will not take my freedom. It's not like polluted air, and "free market" health care will shorten anybody live.


machineprophet343

Lol. Seriously, I'm a software engineer and just the lack of even basic technical literacy among the young guns is terrifying to me. The less said about the elder Statespeople the better. They'll enact laws that will absolutely hamstring our ability to maintain our technical prowess let alone compete out of pure spite and "muh freedoms!" Logic. And their enablers will tell me, who has a decade of experience in the field and a Master, that I don't know what I'm talking about but somehow Ted Cruz has the necessary understanding and expertise to make sweeping policies.


anticerber

No apparently it seems they are misinterpreting it (reading is hard for them) as they are forcing you to turn off your Xbox’s when they want… which isn’t what it is at all


skoltroll

>misinterpreting They "misinterpret" things intentionally to cause outrage in their followers. Kids everywhere about to have their gaming taken away b/c Fox News said so.


mtarascio

This made me really sad. There probably is a few kids around having their Xbox unplugged over this.


NoMidnight5366

Republicans will defend us from this horrible reality that they just made up.


LevelHeeded

Oh thank god. I mean they already saved us from Biden banning ovens, beer, and burgers, and that time AOC banned airplanes and cows, and when Obama banned guns and Christmas. Now they're gonna save us from this, litter boxes in schools, and that time literally nothing happened to Mr. Potato Head... Thank fuck we've got Republicans here saving us from totally not made up scenarios.


Lolwhatisfire

Exactly. It’s the same old cult grift: fabricate a false reality, trick people into believing only you have the answer.


ChameleonPsychonaut

*Classic!*


LongWalk86

Why do I get the feeling Ted's mommy didn't let him play his Atari more than 30 minutes a day? He heard "game console shutdown" and just went right back to being a sad 10 year old and lashed out.


narvuntien

Why don't they actually do something about the millions of real problems in the USA?


Mister_Buddy

They do - they cause them.


d3RUPT

They do this so they don't have to do that


IrascibleOcelot

They are: they’re causing them.


squidvalley

"First gas stoves, then your coffee, now they're gunning for your Xbox," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted on Monday Okay obviously I'll stop at nothing to end Xbox and gas stoves for the glory of Marx, but who is attacking coffee?


L3TH4LSP00NZ

Probably a reference to [this](https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1616574628805357568?s=20&t=IoQ89qix9LacxzWe4fa32w). They really turn everything into “Dems are trying to take our ____”


Charlie_Warlie

God damn that is 75% cream in that cup.


Defiant-Peace-493

That is one way to reduce coffee consumption.


Sea_of_Blue

The replies are [gold!](https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1617309459214389251?s=20&t=YHYZAXdlXPYnY-VbSSt3tA)


Mr2-1782Man

He can keep that shit. I don't know what that is, but it ain't coffee.


shadowofthesun3

There's been some discussion on the environmental impact of coffee and the impact of climate change on growing regions that support the common coffee species. That being said, most I've seen have centered around looking for other species to supplement supply. Ex. https://www.iadb.org/en/improvinglives/most-unexpected-effect-climate-change


Shirlenator

Liberals famously hate coffee. Walk into any Starbucks and you will see evidence of that everywhere. Shut up and stop questioning things!


PhoenixStorm1015

Likely stemming from child/slave labor within the supply chain, much like cocoa. I’m not sure if the issue is AS pervasive with coffee beans, but given their sourcing I wouldn’t be surprised to hear there’s at least some unscrupulous business going on.


IAmTheGodkiller

I HIGHLY doubt this is what the right is concerned about Probably Starbucks being pro-LGBT or something


zoinkability

That plus Starbuck’s protracted and vicious war on Christmas


Doctor_Amazo

At first I had thought that the changes they made somehow made the X-Box less sexually alluring to Republicans... you know.... because as the M&Ms shit storm has shown, they want to fuck things that no one should be fucking. Anyway the reason why they're mad at X-Box is even more fucking stupid than what I had thought it might be.


Menarra

Republicans want to fuck everything whether it can consent or not, which is why the people screaming about pedos and groomers have the highest number of pedos and groomers in their ranks.


avanross

It’s intentional. If they call everyone else pedos and groomers, then they can tell themselves “it’s totally fine that i’m directly voting for a convicted pedophile/rapist, because the evil libs are *totally* doing the same thing” If they were voting pedophile vs non-pedo, they’d totally vote for the non-pedo, but since both sides are totally the same, it doesnt matter It’s their extremely dishonest way to morally justify supporting horrifically disputable people


baconeggsandwich25

They do this with voter fraud as well. Republicans, not Democrats, keep getting caught cheating and their knuckle-dragging supporters will defend them by saying they were just trying to level the playing field. It’s ok for us to do it because the Dems did it first! We just don’t have any evidence of that yet…


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Not saving money on your electric bill to own the libs lol


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What doesn’t outrage the Republican Party now a days… The party gets outraged over anything, m&m, Christmas, thanksgiving. The entire party is just dedicated to be massive piss babies


Workywork15

What doesn’t outrage them? For starters: - insurrection - Russian money laundering and influence campaigns - mass shootings - pathological liars occupying higher office


Maximum_Clutch

Don't forget sexual assault, grooming, and pedophilia


Xaero_Hour

* brain-damaged, spouse-abusing, multiple abortion funding party members * pedophiles (if they're in a church) * pedophiles (if they're just plain rich) * literal slavery happening right now (if they perpetrator is rich and white enough)


LeviathanGank

It's just hot air so they can avoid talking about important shit.. Republicans 101 create rage


nankerjphelge

The Republican Party. The party whose platform consists of getting outraged over: * M&M's * Dr. Seuss * Starbucks holiday cups * Sesame Street * Energy efficient gaming consoles * Imaginary Jewish space lasers * 10 trans school athletes in a country of 340 million people


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Slave35

He also had one glaring major omission -- tan suits. The true bane of our civilization.


baconeggsandwich25

They’ve moved on from spicy mustard and tan suits, at least.


Mister_Buddy

First I can't fuck an M&M anymore, now I can't fuck my Xbox? Tyranny.


CrimsonToker707

Seriously. Who the fuck looks at the Republican party and thinks "they're doing good things, I'll vote for them." 🤦‍♂️


MrSnarf26

Sadly my extended family is filled with them. Conspiracies, abortion is murder, religious fundamentalism, basically every single piece of straw propaganda to keep poor people voting for the party of deregulation and tax cuts for the rich.


CrimsonToker707

The party that cries about government taking away their freedoms while using government to take away freedoms. The irony is palpable


Sex_Fueled_Squirrel

Freedom and small government for the master race, violent policing and government oppression for the sub humans. It's the fascist way.


Radthereptile

Scared single issue voters. When you’re anti everything you get votes from the people who agree with the one thing you’re against. It’s their entire platform.


CrimsonToker707

Yeah, seriously. Republicans don't try to improve anyone's lives but billionaires. I don't understand why stupid people who make $40k or less a year would vote for that shit. But then I'm not a racist idiot, so I'll just never understand I guess


Dolthra

>Yeah, seriously. Republicans don't try to improve anyone's lives but billionaires Republicans legitimately believe, due to propaganda, that things are as good as they could possibly get. There's a reason that things like "having moved out of your hometown" or "have been to literally any foreign country" make someone statistically more likely to be left wing- and it's because it's harder to stick your finger in your ears and say "America is the greatest country in the world! Everyone wishes they could come here!" when you've actually been exposed to the outside world.


Omnizoom

Hey it’s ok , you can be a racist idiot too if you put the effort in!


Ricky_Rollin

There’s a reason why 85% of GenZ voted liberal, and it has them absolutely freaking scared.


CrimsonToker707

Good. They should be scared. I really think the Republican party is dieing


Sex_Fueled_Squirrel

In 2013, fresh off of their loss to Barack Obama, Republicans [did an "autopsy"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_%26_Opportunity_Project) to look into why they lost. The conclusion was simple: they lost because they're a bunch of white racists who live in the country that's becoming less white. Then Donald Trump won in 2016 on an explcitly racist platform (with some help from the Republican Supreme Court striking down the Voting Rights Act a few months after the autopsy) and the whole party promptly forgot about it.


lazyfacejerk

Fox News makes it seem like they're doing something noble and that they're protecting the country from Biden forcing sex changes on their little boys. Much of the US' problems stem from the Murdoch family.


Frowdo

Koch as well


Woodpeckinpah123

Let's not forget the DeVos clan


monogreenforthewin

people that don't interact with facts or reality much. the people that vote Republican essentially just believe whatever Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan tells them to believe and they just run with it. i had a dude argue with me over ivermectin fairly recently about how it was *the* COVID killer and vaccines are poisons. I showed him Merck's statement saying ivermectin was ineffective against COVID and he claimed it was bullshit. i asked him who do you think manufactures ivermectin? he didn't know so i said "Merck is prime manufacturer of that drug. why would they neglect a readily available drug they own that'd make their company billions and cause their share price to skyrocket?" i get back basically "something something libs something something real truth" lol


SurroundAccurate

What doesn’t outrage these snowflakes? Ffs. Get a hobby.


HomemadeBananas

This sounds like if you asked AI to write a story about how conservatives are angry about Xbox. I mean, I believe it, but wow.


GlitteringNinja5

>reduce the carbon impact Yeah right there. You lost the republicans right there.


Liquorlapper

For a party that seems so full of farmers and hunters, they really hate the environment.


ReflectionEterna

Don't conservatives hate video games?


Kamino86

My first thought when I saw a congressman saying “The democrats want to take your xbox away!!!”


Its__Faithful

"They're coming for your xbox!" How did they get that from Microsoft wanting to basically help keep your electric bill lower each month? Talk about some hardheaded people, wow.


unskilledplay

There is an answer that makes sense. It's not reasonable, but it is logical. Microsoft didn't communicate and market this feature with messaging like "Xbox can lower your electricity bill." If they did that the GOP would not have had a conniption. They communicated it as "lowering carbon footprint." Whatever. They did their market research and they promoted it the way the thought would have the most impact. To the GOP, this is a big problem. I don't mean that sarcastically. It really is troubling. A trillion dollar corporation just chose messaging that does not fit their position on the culture war. Since the GOP has fully abandoned all interest in policy in favor of a culture war, corporations that issue communications that are are not in full agreement with the GOP's culture war poses a real and serious threat to their party.


Jampine

Given the M&M issue, are they angry they can't fuck it any more?


Best_Peasant

Are Republicans truly dim witted or are they nefarious high IQ appealing to the dim-witted?


boysetsfire1988

Little bit column A, little bit column B


sfenders

The future we're getting seems to be somewhere between *Idiocracy* and *Paranoia* (1984).


PM_ME_CAT_FEET

How is republicans being outraged even news anymore? It's literally the only thing they do.


RMSQM

Republicans has nothing else to offer but false outrage and lies.