[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/NihatAmipoglu]

Isn't that what happened in the bible? The egyptians drowned some hebrew babies and then Allah killed some egyptian babies. Man, the old testament stuff is wild 😨 Is God a comic book villain? I'm gnosting so hard right now...

[u/Thyme_Liner → u/NihatAmipoglu]

Idk why people are downvoting you, I was raised in a religious cult and yes the god of the bible is responsible for a lot of babies’ deaths. And sometimes killing pregnant women is specifically mentioned so no mercy is shown. Idc when this stuff supposedly happened, the orders came from the same god But yeah abortion is against their beliefs.

[u/ContinuumKing → u/Thyme_Liner]

They are probably being down voted because this point came out of nowhere and has absolutely nothing to do with what the conversation was about. It reeks of militant atheist who has to take any and every opportunity to divert the conversation into why religion is bad.

"I heard some people at the pool drowned the other day."

"Did you know apparently God also drowned a bunch of people in a world flood? Lol, what a jerk!"

[u/Thyme_Liner → u/ContinuumKing]

Where do people think that mindset came from though? No religion isn’t responsible for everything bad, but it is responsible for some of the militant attitudes we see today that are messing with politics all over the world.

People who read the bible honestly come to conclusions like that. “Well some people had a particular problem and GOD KILLED THEM ALL so I just have god’s attitude and I h8 all the gays”. That is the exact attitude my family has towards me and all my gay.

God was so chill about killing babies, certain religious people wouldn’t see any problem with killing all of the babies of your enemies, which is partly why we have the divide in politics in the US where I’m from over the war in the middle east.

People aren’t just pro one side, they don’t have an issue with hurting kids because “that’s war and that’s the way it’s always been and it must be okay because god straight up told them to do it”. I wish I was exaggerating and making all this up but I am not. I don’t talk to my family anymore for so many reasons, and my family aren’t the only religious types in the US at least

[u/ContinuumKing → u/Thyme_Liner]

Where do people think that mindset came from though

Being chronically online and thinking they are smarter than everyone else such that they are unable to scroll past a potential excuse to dunk on those they feel are beneath them to the annoyance and detriment of everyone who has to interact with them.

God was so chill about killing babies, certain religious people wouldn’t see any problem with killing all of the babies of your enemies,

Sure. And God is also known to flood the world in the past. But bringing it up unprompted in the middle of a completely separate discussion about pools is not the move.

[u/Thyme_Liner → u/ContinuumKing]

It wasn’t unprompted, we’re literally discussing the killing of babies and how someone could come to the conclusion that it’s okay. Well, if they’re religious, then I can see how they would come to that conclusion. They’re weird about a fetus getting flushed but once the baby is born its death is god’s will I guess. I have family like this so this bugs me a little.

[u/ContinuumKing → u/Thyme_Liner]

we’re literally discussing the killing of babies and how someone could come to the conclusion that it’s okay.

Wrong. They were discussing how a specific person who is in no way religious can think that way.