I doubt it was phonebanking that did it, that was just the ground level cover. Guarantee they made a direct financial threat against shareholders.

Nah, pretty sure the policy got implemented in the first place because the deep pockets of the ideological lobbyist group.

The NPCs you call in GTAO kind of comment on you just sitting there in a menu if you do it for long enough.

In a universe where an infomercial demi-god can freeze you in a moment of pure embarassment, they can also have the power to keep you cognizant of everything around you as well.

That’s probably an aspect, but likely there weren’t enough people talking about it because most who did though it was mediocre at best.

For a franchise this popular, a few noisy bigots won’t stop people from seeing it. If anything, it draws more attention to the show. You can see this with shows that are actually good.

Does it solve it? Or does it just shove it away until it pops up again?

Hate doesn’t look for solutions, it just seeks to remove something detesteble. A revolution fueled by hate toppled a regime… just for something else, often much worse, to take its place.

Hate is great and continual, persistent determination of a singular goal… not for effective progress.

You attribute far too much to a simple, inefficient, emotion.

Compassion, empathy, desire to do good creates positive change. All hate does is perpetuate a cycle of fear and violence. It can seem like a positive in the short term, but it never lasts.

Hate is like rolling coal, it gets the job done, but in the dirtiest most inefficient way possible. There’s far better and healthier fuels to use.

Jokes on you, I read the title, forget that I read the title, read the post, then go back and read the title again 😎