# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 451
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9001 "2024-11-09T12:51:10Z")
I feel so woke! Two of the games I own are in the red! WooHoo! `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9002 "2024-11-09T13:28:32Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I’m OK with that. Can we gift Florida to Cuba while we’re at it? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9003 "2024-11-09T16:02:35Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Of course they plan on keeping them - there seems to be this notion that military bases can’t be moved or relocated. Let 'em fuck around and find out. Or just secured. ask the Cubans about Gitmo. Start closing every road crossing into Texas, make every flight international, and let them enjoy their private electrical grid. That’s been working out fine so far, hasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9004 "2024-11-09T16:06:21Z")
Wow this is both frightening and hilarious. One has them upset about a plus-sized mermaid. Or apparent unrealistic diversity \*in middle earth". Or how a person of color - Miles Morales - overshadows Peter Parker _in the Miles Morales specific game_. Imagine being upset by this stuff. I say we change the messaging. Share this list often and everywhere, promoting it as a list of _inclusive game recommendations_ and openly thank the Woke Detector people for their help to identify games where 2SLGBTQ+ and “DEI” people can feel represented. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9005 "2024-11-09T16:14:20Z")
Yeah, it’s almost at parody levels. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9006 "2024-11-09T16:43:46Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Yeah, it’s almost @ parody levels. This whole situation we are in now is at parody levels that are both frightening, unbelievable, beyond crazy and at times hilarious. But I just can’t laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9007 "2024-11-09T16:46:39Z")
“Most alien characters and fauna are not sexually dimorphous”? Bwuh? And Age of Empires is yellow because some villagers are female? And “Contains PoC characters despite the previous game not having any”? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9008 "2024-11-09T18:21:54Z")
Side question: why did it change “at” to “@“ when you quoted me? Weird! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9009 "2024-11-09T18:25:38Z")
I’d be ever so happy to have Canada annex the PNW. I enjoy CBC and would be willing to watch hockey. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9010 "2024-11-09T18:28:55Z")
I just change something innocuous to avoid the whole quote disappearing when I post. I don’t change anything that will alter the meaning. Sometimes I change a can’t to cannot, etc. Or I occasionally remove a comma. The entire post disappears if I copy into the reply without a slight change. I just recently became aware of this after struggling with the quote system here. I could start just adding a random letter at the end of each copied post as well… Sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9011 "2024-11-09T18:56:17Z")
Oh, I’m sorry. I wasn’t complaining or suggesting that you’d changed anything without my permission! It was just an oddity that I noticed. So it disappears when you quote someone? That’s very peculiar. I wonder if other people have a similar issue. Anyway, no worries,. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9012 "2024-11-09T19:00:18Z")
LOL yes it is a bug in the system that I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago and the only fix at the moment is to slightly change something in the original quote or it disappears. I typically like to quote so my comment makes sense and I was becoming increasingly frustrated! No worries. And yes - let Texas be the country it has always wanted to be! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9013 "2024-11-09T19:06:07Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > I could start just adding a random letter at the end of each copied post as well… Just add a period to the end, and then edit it out after the post is, er, posted ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9014 "2024-11-09T19:45:00Z")
It mentions Sadie Adler in _Red Dead Redemption 2_ acting like a modern-day feminist (after her husband is killed and her house burned down and she falls in with the van Der Lind Gang), which, given her circumstances, is completely reasonable. But, despite its “wokeness,” doesn’t mention _The Last of Us 2_, where the main protagonist is a lesbian (there’s even a scene at the beginning of the game where they discuss someone calling her a not-so-nice name after another female character kisses her in public…and towards the end of the game, you actually _see_ the scene in question), and one of the major side characters is transgender? RDR2 was released in 2018. TLoU 2 in 2020. That tells me roughly when this list was compiled. Imagine how bad that list would be if it were updated to today. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9015 "2024-11-09T19:59:12Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > It mentions Sadie Adler in _Red Dead Redemption 2_ acting like a modern-day feminist (after her husband is killed and her house burned down and she falls in with the van Der Lind Gang), which, given her circumstances, is completely reasonable. Boudica must blow their minds. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9016 "2024-11-09T20:11:47Z")
You think they’d actually read any history that doesn’t reinforce their notions that women are property? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9017 "2024-11-09T20:41:43Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > RDR2 was released in 2018. TLoU 2 in 2020. That tells me roughly when this list was compiled. Imagine how bad that list would be if it were updated to today. Nah, it tells you nothing, because it’s just plain a bizarre list. Like, it doesn’t have any of the Starcraft or Diablo games, but it does have games like “Yearning: A Gay Story” and “Juicy Futa”. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9018 "2024-11-09T23:14:34Z")
Are those games available on Steam? It might be limited to that platform only. I laughed at the one for a game called (I think) _Destroy all Humans_ which is not recommended because it’s “anti-human”. These people have no imagination. Oh, and one about “unrealistic diversity in an elementary school for 1981” because we all know visible minorities didn’t exist back then. I can’t imagine being that fucking _stupid_. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9019 "2024-11-10T03:19:42Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > I laughed at the one for a game called (I think) _Destroy all Humans_ which is not recommended because it’s “anti-human”. I own that game, it’s awesome. Cheesy 50s B-movie aliens using weirdo gadgets against humanity. [![](https://www.pluggedin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/destroy-all-humans-review-image-1024x587.jpg) ](https://www.pluggedin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/destroy-all-humans-review-image-1024x587.jpg) The humans are also uptight conservative 50s sitcom stereotypes pushing American values and griping about commies. I can see how it would irritate the kind of person that would bother to make a list like this. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9020 "2024-11-10T04:02:49Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > that would be the unit that makes the most sense what with having an actual government already, national guard, etc. Texas also has the quirk of having existed as an independent nation prior to joining. Plus they’ve got their very own electric system, not chained to – er ah, connected to the rest of the US grid! What could possibly go wrong? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=450) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=452)