Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Cancel Culture Hits a Country

It looks like Cancel Culture has reached an entire country now.  Nearly every Big Tech company and "Woke" corporation has canceled the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, er, I mean the Russian Federation.

So the Russian people are no longer able to access Paypal, Facebook, McDonald's, Netflix, and many other "American" goods and services.  All because they're angry that President Putin pulled an America and invaded a nation that had been bombing Russians for eight years.

Unfortunately, I have yet to see Behavior ban Russians from using Dead by Daylight, which is a shame since Russian players are primarily responsible for most of the hacking and cheating.  They have kept the Pride flag charm up though.  So, you go girl!

In any case, the Russian government quickly responded by legalizing software piracy, which is a fancy way of saying they will no longer enforce international copyrights and let the Russians steal IPs.  The net effect is that their gamers will probably experience a boost in the quality of gameplay without all that anti-cheat software mucking up the processing power.

And the United States responded by refusing Russian oil (kind of), refusing much needed Russian fertilizer, and by confiscating the yachts of many prominant Russian billionaires, at least the ones who didn't flee to Israel.

In all seriousness, I don't think the Western overlords, er oligarchs, er leaders have really considered just how independent Russia really is.  They spent nearly 70 years is isolation from the West before the USSR collapsed and they still have that infrastructure more or less intact.  They have food, fuel, electricity, and Internet.  None of which requires help from Western governments or companies.

And they are perfectly willing to abandon their access Western Social Media and the Online Circus Services like Netflix because they don't hold Western values like sodomy and abortion.  They have the one true Church, though, and that counts for more than all the online sodomy circus services.

Also, many of the surrounding countries are tired of American and Western bullying.

What the United States and Europe are doing to Russia has got to be the most SJW thing that you could do to a country.  Just pray that they don't decide to use nuclear weapons against Russia.