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Poor conservatives can’t catch a break from the problems they keep inventing
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? >

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

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

I'm a big strong man. I keep my Go-Go boots right next my the door. I dare the woke democratic demons to try and take my Go-Go boots from me. They will have to wear them or pry them off my feet if they want to take them from me. I even keep a backup pair strapped to the bottom of driver side seat in case of a Go-Go emergency. >

Cue "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" >

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. >

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

Conservatives own and are sponsored by energy companies, they don't want us to lower our bills. >

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

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

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. >

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

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

🌎   👩‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 >

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!” >

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. >

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. >

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. >

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. >

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. >

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

Don’t insult douche bags or canoes. Both of those things serve a function unlike these parasitic worms. >

I'd rather have parasitic worms than Mitch McConnell. >

My apologies to parasitic worms. You are correct. >

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

Remember when Republicans based the entire theme of their 2012 convention around a deliberate misinterpretation of something President Obama said? Because I do. >

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. >

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

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... >

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. >

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

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

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 >

I’ve never met someone who actually got hair removal covered by insurance for gender affirming reasons. Even when I had insurance that said they covered it and it was necessary for a surgery they wound up paying for >

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


Microsoft has announced changes to its Xbox console settings that is to allow users to save more energy and reduce the carbon impact of their gaming. But this has been read (or misread) by Republican representatives and organizations as the "woke brigade" wanting to "take your Xbox."

Seriously? Allowing you to save energy is triggering them? Goddamn it. It's not even like it's a forced thing. Can we please just send them to an island somewhere??? >

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

Not even, it's just going to do updates at night when energy is cheaper. I don't know how much that would actually save you, or how a million Xboxs doing it at night would affect energy overall but.. damn.. not something to even be concerned about. >

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. >

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. >

"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." >

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

I'd say that's an understatement 
A chilling commentary on reality as a non-white cis person >

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

They do - they cause them. >

They monetize them. >

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

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? >


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. >

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. >


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.

on the bright side, america declining in tech will good news for the rest of the world that that suffers brain drain due to america offering better tech opportunities for their young graduates >

"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? >

Probably a reference to this. 
They really turn everything into “Dems are trying to take our ____” >

God damn that is 75% cream in that cup. >

The replies are gold! >

This will live in my nightmare for years to come >

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. >

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. >

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 >

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… >

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

unfortunately i think this phrasing died when republicans proved that they were willing to kill themselves to own libs (covid) >

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

The xbox has several ports, you could try but it might void your warranty >

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 >

What doesn’t outrage them? For starters:

insurrection 
Russian money laundering and influence campaigns
mass shootings
pathological liars occupying higher office >

Don't forget sexual assault, grooming, and pedophilia >

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 >

Don’t forget, they are also upset about a toy potato. >

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

And fancy mustard, which one might put on, horrified gasp, a plant-based burger at a Juneteenth bbq. 
This culture war stuff would be hilarious if it weren’t so effective on morons who vote. >

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

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. >

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 >

Keep in mind, in just 25,000 years, those 40K a year people will be billionaires and want to protect their self interest!!! >

What's the quote from futurama.
Leela: Why are you cheering, Fry? You're not rich!
Fry: True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step. >

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

They have a hobby, Destroying America.. No that's wrong. That's their raison d'etre. Their hobby is Y"all Qaeda. >

"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. >

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. >

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. >

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


reduce the carbon impact

Yeah right there. You lost the republicans right there. >

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

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

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

Don't conservatives hate video games? >

Yeh the party of “video games cause violence”. >

Right... I remember the Republican party was up in arms basically my entire childhood about how video games caused kids to shoot each other. It's crazy how guns are never involved when laying out the fault for shootings, but entertainment and youth culture always is. >

I'm pretty sure Xbox is more popular than the Republican party, they may want to tread a little more lightly. >

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

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

Little bit column A, little bit column B >

Republicans are so tedious. They piss and moan about everything while lacking any serious platform. >

The right is just plain evil. Stupid evil. >

I do not like that man Ted Cruz, /
I can't believe he didn't lose. |
I do not like lying face, /
I wish someone would take his place. >

They're LITERALLY the party of the blinking 12:00
No one under 35 is confused or upset by this, guys >

What a sad attempt to try and appeal to the younger voters. >

I really thought they were going to update some anti-harassment campaign or something racism related, but no - power savings are whole propaganda. jeesus >

It’s pitiful, isn’t it? >

Try having friends lose their minds and actually try and convince you this is something you should be mad about.
I have no idea how we got here. >

Republicans once again demonstrating that they have cannot understand even the simplest of changes >

The group of people that turned the word snowflake into a slur were projecting harder than the Sun. >

They did this over low-flow toilets, anything that promotes efficiency.  They have become the party of WFA.  The The glorification of waste, the celebration of fraud, and the encouragement of abuse. >

I'm just surprised they know what an Xbox is, don't they just call all gaming stuff 'a nintendo'? >

"pry my xbox out of my cold dead hands"...  Just waiting for Elon to join in. >

Will this new update setting actually keep my games updated? Even with all the power hungry settings set to full, and auto updates turned on, I have to manually queue up every single one. >

Why isn’t there a trigger warning for the image of Ted Cruz. This should be marked NSFW. >

This is dumber than Ted Cruz and his proposed dildo ban. >

Stupid old men are outraged by optional features that are actually helpful and do not constrain the user, because being outraged is the only thing they can do. >

First they came for the Communists.
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists.
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists.
And I did not speak out, 
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Gamers... >

God dammit I wish that non-Texan shitstain would get the fuck out of my state.
Just because you put on a pair of shitkickers and add a little drawl to your speech doesn't make you a Texan, Ted... you piece of shit. You aren't a Texan and never will be. Fucking leave. >

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. >

These fucking idiots and their idiot voter base. I'm so tired of their constant bullshit. >

Classic smokescreen. There were two mass shootings (that I know of) over the weekend but they want to shift focus to a meaningless “controversy” over XBox energy usage settings. 
Fuck the Republican Party >

I'm so fucking tired of hearing about Republicans being outraged at some stupid shit in some stupid attempt to stay relevant instead of, you know, running our fucking government.
Republican governance is a oxymoronic fucking joke. >

This is literally a positive in every way and the gop is mad at it? Next thing they will complain about is us turning off the orphan crushing machine. >

To be fair, what doesn’t make them outraged? Biggest group of snow flakes I’ve ever met >

Yeah, saving energy is woke. Paying more on your electric bill is the American way. Start telling your kids to leave the lights on, was the smallest loads of laundry the can and leave the AC on high all year 'round.
Fucking clowns. >

The same people who refer to all gaming consoles as "A Nintendo" suddenly giving a shit about this is just hilarious. >

As an onlooker it really does appear that an irregular number of your congress really don't know shit from clay. Just an observation of course. >

Glad to see some people have set their priorities to important issues like keeping your xbox in sleep mode rather than shut down /s >

Ted is so pro-oil he’s anti-American. >

They really do want to take the planet down with them. >

Keeping your electric bill high to own the libs >

Wait so they're getting all bent out if shape because Microsoft voluntarily added an optional power saving mode?
But democrats and leftists are the snowflakes, right? >

Is the Republican platform that xBox must update at 6pm when you get home from work and ready to play? >

Looked at the tweet. The comments are beyond painful. >

Democrats should start warning about the dangers of sucking on the end of your guns while they're loaded and just see where it takes Republicans. >

the liberals don't want you WATCHING your UPDATES like good patriot blooded AMERICAN like how my ma and pa used to do it! >

But wait, what about those violent video games they were complaining about just a few years ago when that mass shooting happened? 
Now they're defending Xbox consoles? I'm so confused. >

I don't understand how anybody can take Ted Cruz (or 99% of Republicans) seriously. >

TL/DR: Republicans are idiots >

Fucking hell, xbox and Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon album?
There's homeless vets and families, poor infrastructure, corruption, inflation, corporations greed, ect.
No but, this is what you guys make noise about? >

I’m conservative and this is dumb lol. Buncha fuckin old people in positions of power not knowing how tf new technology works and then complaining about it.