Helldivers 2 is a contender for wokest game of the year but the chuds are too pea-brained to notice
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Literally incapable of detecting a single iota of irony while playing the actual game.
And then one of the developers says "From the River to the Sea", a switch clicks in their brains, and they start reflexively spewing N-bombs until they go deaf from their own screaming.
Fox News and whatnot has devolved chud ideology into a set of trigger words, with the silver lining being that it's incredibly easy to get anything past them by simply avoiding the hi-vis tripwires.
This is honestly so true and it is funny every time
They know it's woke, but it didn't go broke so the 
are lashing out seeing their bumper sticker hate campaign melt.
It's also nice to know they already bought the game and most likely played it too long to get a refund, lol
If I didn't want to get banned I would simply not be a fascist, skill issue.
Geeks + G*mers, I recognize them, a reactionary channel that tries to appear normal by having a bland sounding name.
They do this as a strategy of setting their standards as the cultural norm for the group. Audience members go on to act like what they heard is totally normal, and it normalises the behaviour and views.
Eventually the end goal is spewing rword and nwords as totally and completely normal behaviour, thus shift cultural norm.
A game about a fascist government spending their citizens lives for profit? Woke? Impossible.
just like this upcoming presidential repeat, gamergate 2 is but a sad, pale shadow of the first one
this is all they have. reboots and retreads of cultue wars i can't fucking wait 
isn't it amazing how quickly anything like this becomes as harassment campaign against women, wow, shocking., anyway here's some bullshit that pops up from leddit when you google her name:
So How About Helldivers 2's Community Manager?
So I just heard about the community manager for Helldivers 2 doing something incredibly stupid. Now, you're probably wondering what that could be, so let me tell you.
Katherine Baskin, the Community Manager, said that Helldivers 2...is woke. I think Baskin's also pretty delusional in another comment that it amuses them that they (us the players of Helldivers 2), do not know that Super Earth is bad. We're not idiots, we're well aware of this. Heck this is the game that, like the film Starship Troopers, is a satire in regards to the Super Earth Patriotism and similar things. We've all known that for awhile, again, we're not idiots. Makes you wonder though about Arrowhead if they have an individual like this being their Community Manager and saying things like this.
it's not woke, it's not woke he continues to insist as he shrinks and transforms into a corncob 🌽
First it started with banning toxic people in their discord over anti LGBTQ posts. The company said it didn't have plans for them and were banning people being toxic because they didn't want the predicable hate mongering to follow .
Once they didn't get their fix via discord to bash the queers extremely disingenous spam posts on Steam Forums around rainbow capes (which the company supposedly said they had no plans for). Between "Geee I hope this company doesn't go woke" to "I'm queer and I demand pronouns and rainbow capes and such" devolving into a 
anti woke feeding frenzy. They did this to farm 
jester points for one and to harass queer people playing the game to deny them an escape from the IRL suffering the fash were enacting by the state towards queer people.
I DON'T WANT IRL POLITICS IN MUH MAN GAME GET HAT OUTTA HERE!
When that didn't produce the effects they wanted / got bored of they went out of thier way to attack the community manager for showing empathy asking people to listen to the suffering of Black people during BLM protests. She also said upfront Helldivers 2 is satire. Which melted many froths.
yeah they've been pretty strict in keeping spam and constant nagging people out of their server
some LGBTQ+ people got banned for spamming and baiting, too
it sucks but i understand it and of course this all happened which unfortunately proved them right in their stance to keep the game tongue-in-cheek because of what you've pointed out
the moment they add in flags and capes that are america or thin blue line punisher skulls the assholes are going to feel vindicated and it has to be that nothing real-world-political overtly seeps in
GRIFTING POPCORN 
Of course a doing it for a grift. Going by name of Grummdaddy / Grummz -IRL name Mark Kern - a serial abandonware grifter
https://www.em8er.com/founderPacks.html
Kern has criticized what he considers the influence of ESG standards and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on video game developers. Following what Kotaku described as a "fundamentally misinformed, GamerGate-esque firestorm" originating on Kiwi Farms against the Canadian narrative development studio Sweet Baby Inc. Kern became an outspoken critic of the company. In March 2024, he railed against "wokeness", telling Fox News that there is a "coordinated effort to insert diversity politics into games
CW CHUD MEDIA
Video Game Producer Mark Kern Talks Sweet Baby Inc. and ESG in Gaming
Gaming circlejerk with screenshots of Mark Kern's crying about Helldivers wokeness.
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