Grouchy Mars

“What must be done leaves no room for hesitation.” - Nayib Bukele

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Blizzard was a game developer that was so popular that they used to have their own annual ComicCon style convention where fans from all over the world would come to meet the developers of their favorite games and learn what new stuff was coming.

Then, an unhappy faction who didn’t like the “frat house” atmosphere made a bunch of largely false allegations at the height of #MeToo. Lawyers were brought in to investigate, and they found email chains discussing the “Cosby Suite,” which was the hospitality suite at the convention hotel that Blizzard developers named for its carpets that looked like a Bill Cosby sweater.

These emails were from years before Cosby’s sexual assault conviction, but they were considered damning at the time and it was insinuated in the media that the men on the email chain were committing rape in the “Cosby Suite,” entirely because of the name.

Everyone on the email chain — men who had worked at Blizzard for decades and built the Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft franchises — were fired in disgrace over this.

Alex Afrasiabi had his name stripped out of World of Warcraft. An Overwatch character named after veteran Blizzard developer Jesse McCree was renamed in the game. These guys did absolutely nothing wrong except joke with their friends in emails they never expected to be exposed as part of a witch hunt.

In the wake of the mass firings of veterans game designers, the entire culture of Blizzard changed as an institution, and the games changed too — for the worse. “World of Warcraft” became a cozy fantasy coffee shop game. “Overwatch” became a gay pride game. Nobody would go to a convention these days to celebrate these games or the people who now work on them.

The false sexual assault allegations were a pretense for a crowd of disgruntled nonbinary weirdos to seize the greatest game studio in the United States, but without the people they purged and replaced, they could not uphold Blizzard’s once legendary standard of quality and the studio collapsed into irrelevance.

When you see gamers celebrating mass layoffs at game studios, it is because things like this happened across the gaming industry. The hobby was conquered and transformed by people who believed gaming needed to change. But they changed it into something nobody wants to pay for, and now they’re all losing their jobs.

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@extradeadjcb Senator Chico: “The wages, they are skyrocketing.”
Citizens: “Oh yeah? It’s the housing prices that are skyrocketing.”
Senator: “Well I don’t look too closely…something is skyrocketing. Come on, vote for me bill.”

[Billy Mitchell @BillyPacMan]

You need ID for Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta but not to vote in elections.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

We’re going to win on this birthright citizenship issue. We’re just not going to win quite yet. The America First movement is not complete. It’s not even halfway. It’s in its infancy stage. The things we all want now WILL come to pass over time. Stay involved and keep working.

[Sophie Anderson @SophieAnde49073]

How many 🥩 dinner bribes did this take to accomplish? 🤔

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@JesseKellyDC I’ve never heard of anything so dramatic and sacrificial since this…

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record.

You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary.

Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@bronzeagemantis @BigRockInsights All those words and no mention of the right to not have your homeland overwhelmed with foreign rape gangs? Not enough room in the tweet? Is that one going on his Instagram post?

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@AnderZin22 @Howlingmutant0 Pfffffffft…which part??

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

Send us the GoFundMe for this, please.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

"If you are harboring and abetting a criminal — we have zero tolerance for you. Zero. You don’t get to pick which laws you're going to enforce." @SecMullinDHS

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@AuronMacintyre I blame the Quakers

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Gentle reminder that having your civilization ruled by women and foreigners is literally a biblical curse

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@tvheidihatch Now a bazillion of us can ask you: “who are the Talons?”

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Sharing footage.

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@info_maiden These assertions that Indians are all next level geniuses would work a lot better if most of us hadn’t yet interacted or worked with actual Indians.

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

@Howlingmutant0 @QuetzalPhoenix And she’s completely ignoring the girth of the knife. That’s what really counts….assurances were made.

[Braxton McCoy @braxton_mccoy]

Californians used to say things like "San Francisco isn't real California." Texans with Austin, Coloradans with Denver too.

Now Idahoans, Utahns, and Montanans are trying to wish away Boise, SLC, Bozeman, etc. It doesn't work. Those cities have to be subdued— not ignored.

[Grouchy Mars @GrouchyMars]

I don’t buy it. They lied to us about how many they let in, they’re lying to us about how many are leaving. Just like you could feel it in your bones as you walked around that there were WAY more here than they were reporting, I’m in the heart of one of the tech epicenters right now and you can just “feel” the number of them hasnt diminished. I sense no panic or imminent change from any of these H1Bs.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

They’re arresting the employers now. Finally they are doing it.