Imagine how the average consumer would feel if Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV, or any other entertainment streaming platform started bombarding their customers with political propaganda about supporting one side in an international conflict.
Imagine pouring a box of Kellog’s Corn Flakes into a cereal bowl and you find a blue and yellow Ukrainian flag wrapped in plastic tucked in with the flakes. All you wanted to do was to have your breakfast in peace but Kellogg’s decided you needed to be reminded of the Russian-Ukraine war.
Both intrusions would feel highly inappropriate and invasive. But this is exactly what Blizzard Entertainment is doing with their new Pet Pack for Ukraine promotion for World of Warcraft. Other video game studios have engaged in similar moral grandstanding. When you need to find moral clarity in this world, there is no better place to look than the pious slacktivists in the video game industry.
If you purchase a pet in the Blizzard cash shop they will send all of the proceeds to BlueCheck, a pro-Ukrainan relief charity. In effect, Blizzard Entertainment just announced that they are picking a side and supporting Ukraine in the current war between them and Russia.
Here’s useful idiot bimbo actress Mila Kunis shilling for Blizzard and the Bidgen regime:
You will notice that the Blizzard Mila Kunis video has an equal amount of likes and dislikes. This is an obvious sign that Blizzard players are not happy with Blizzard’s attempts to virtue signal with one-sided political posturing.
In the good old days before Blizzard become woke, I eagerly anticipated videos from the Irvine studio. They were wholesome light-hearted, escapist fun:
Wars and Rumors of Wars
At any given time in this world, there are various wars and conflicts. As of the time of pulling this article, there are a total of 15 wars and conflicts going on in the world right now in 2023. But for some reason, Blizzard had decided to ignore all of that except the war in Ukraine.
Why is this?
The reason is that supporting Ukraine is a fashionable cause among the globohomo intelligentsia, the woke aristocracy, and their vassals in media and academia. It is no coincidence that the very same people that had Hillary, BLM, Biden, and Pride flags flying outside their homes, now have blue and gold Ukraine flags.
The Woke Need Villains to Show Their Moral Superiority
Now that Trump is gone, these perpetually angry activists need a new malefactor to focus their rage on and anti-LGBTQ, pro-Christian Vladimir Putin fits the bill. Like Trump, they believe Putin is worse than Hitler.
The Russian-Ukraine war is controversial here in America but you wouldn’t know that because of the propaganda being spread by the globalist-controlled mainstream media which now includes FoxNews. Many Americans rightly believe that the U.S. government is fighting a proxy war against Russia and using Ukraine. So far, the Biden regime has sent $75 billion of financial, humanitarian, and military aid to Ukraine.
At a time when the U.S. economy is in bad shape with rising inflation, out-of-control crime, homelessness, and widespread drug addiction, that money should be spent right here at home. But the warmongers who run both political parties here in the U.S.A. have different plans.
Another point of contention is the very same Biden regime that is leaving the southern US border undefended as millions of invaders are flowing into the country from over 151 countries. In 2022, 109,680 Americans died from Fentanyl overdoses manufactured in China and smuggled into the U.S.A. from Mexico.
Open Discussions About the Russia-Ukraine War Are Being Repressed
There are no easy answers to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This is not a Spielberg film with clear heroes and villains.
Ukraine has a long and complicated history with Russia and the world. Stalin and his brutal communist regime killed millions of Ukrainians by starvation in what is now known as the Holodomor. To their eternal shame, American journalists like The New York Times’s Walter Duranty knew full well what was going on but failed to disclose this genocide to the world because he was a communist sympathizer.
Russian’s perspective on Ukraine is rarely reported in the West as the U.S. and NATO media are only telling one side of the story.
One point that is rarely mentioned is that U.S. Secretary of State James Baker promised the Russians that NATO would not advance eastward. In February of 1990, Baker suggested to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that if Germany were to reunify, NATO would not expand “one inch to the east” of Germany. So from a Russian perspective, America and NATO have broken that promise. It is reasonable to expect Putin would feel threatened if Ukraine were to become a member of NATO.
Some believe that the current Ukraine regime is illegitimate. George Soros admitted that he and his nefarious Open Society Foundations helped install Zelensky in 2014 who at the time was an actor and a comedian. The Bill Kloss Blog reported the following:
George Soros acknowledged in an interview with CNN that he actively contributed to the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. “I created a foundation in Ukraine before it became independent from Russia. The foundation has functioned since then and has played an important role in current events,” explains the financier who established the International Renaissance Foundation, in Ukraine, as part of the Open Society Foundations, in April 1990.
Here are some videos of the Clown Prince of Ukraine:
The Real Possibility of Nuclear War
My heart goes out to all the people on both sides that have endured suffering, death, and destruction. There are no good guys in this war. My family barely escaped the bloodthirsty Russian Bolsheviks in World War 2. There is no country that I despise more than Russia for the millions that the U.S.S.R. murdered and the millions they enslaved after World War 2.
Both Putin and Zelensky have tried to work out a peace deal but each time they are on the verge of success the warmongering Biden regime sabotaged it. The U.S. government — currently run by neocons like Victoria Neuland — wants regime change. They want Putin gone and replaced with a U.S.-friendly leader. Ukraine would have fallen within a few days if the U.S.A. had not supported it. There can be no doubt that the U.S.A. is waging a proxy war against Russia.
Many have speculated that Biden is a compromised puppet of the communist Chinese. His drug-addicted son Hunter Biden has been involved in questionable deals in Ukraine for years. Biden is acting like a business agent for the U.S. military-industrial complex, and the large corporations that seek to make billions of dollars with contracts to rebuild Ukraine just like they did after the Iraq war.
War is hell. Nuclear war will be far worse than hell. This is why we should do all we can to stop this senseless conflict.
Conclusion
Blizzard Entertainment has no business promoting national and international political causes to its customers. American companies should not be taking sides in wars in faraway lands that do not concern us.
The idea that corporations should be politically neutral was never controversial until a decade ago. Businesses always respected the right for everyone to have their own political beliefs. It was how business was conducted. Those that didn’t follow this unwritten rule would promptly go out of business. But today, thanks to Steve Jobs and the proliferation of “values marketing,” corporations are trying to seduce consumers by appealing to their deeply held beliefs and their ideological worldview.
The weaponization of empathy and the manipulation of compassion by corporations is sinister and dangerous. Left unchecked, it is a recipe for division and polarization. One only has to look at how the political and social landscape of the U.S.A. has been destabilized for the past 12 years, to see how this has played out. Nations need things that bring people together; they don’t need things that tear them apart.
Corporations like Activision-Blizzard have no business siding with governments and lecturing their customers on political and social issues. When the government and corporate values align and engage in censorship, it’s a red flag that looks like a textbook definition of fascism. I do not use that term lightly as the woke left has been recklessly using that label for decades to smear and silence people. But it’s becoming impossible not to draw these conclusions about the current state of the U.S.A. and the Deep State that controls it.
The entire point of entertainment is that you are providing people with pure escapism. Breaking immersion by introducing real-world wars and events erodes the quality of escapism. Offering virtual pets to people who support Ukraine is a clear sign that Blizzard is putting their thumbs on the scale and involving themselves and their customers in matters that do not concern them.
Activision-Blizzard are hypocrites of the highest order. They suspended e-sports Heartstone player Blitzching for daring to speak up for the people of Hong Kong in the face of Red China’s aggression. Blizzard never offered WoW players special pets for Hong Kong and donations for charities, but they do for Ukraine?
No matter what moral exhibitionism Blizzard engages in, you can be sure there is some ulterior motive that benefits its executives and their shareholders. Follow the money.
By offering assistance to only one side, they are aggravating WoW players who may support Russia in this conflict. They are also betraying players who simply do not wish to be reminded of real-world politics.
The point of virtual pets is that other players will see them. Players that may not support Ukraine or are neutral in the matter will see these immersion-breaking virtual pets throughout Azeroth and they may feel uncomfortable and alienated. But this shameless political proselytizing is par for the course for virtue-signaling Jedi masters like Blizzard who routinely choose sides in various culture war battles such as LGBTQ rights, Black Lives Matter, DEI, ESG, and radical feminist causes.
Players who inhabit virtual worlds are a captive audience. They should not be shamed, cajoled, and coerced into supporting real-world causes.
And what happens to WoW players who disagree with Blizzard? Players that may want to protest this in-game by using general chat could have their accounts banned by Blizzard for daring to speak out. So their only option is to vote with their feet and quit.
The right to publicly or privately support either Ukraine or Russia, to have no opinion on the matter, or to ignore it completely is the right of every single person. That right should be respected by video game companies and they should not be trying to convince their players into taking sides in international conflicts or taking part in “raising awareness” virtue-signaling stunts.
They are plenty of charities that support Ukraine. We do not need moral exhibitionists at video game companies jumping on the bandwagon du jour to score more virtue-signaling points. Players that feel inclined to support Ukraine can do it in their own way, privately, on their own time, without destroying immersion further with their Ukraine vanity pets.
Keep your nose out of people’s lives and stay in your lane Blizzard.
–Wolfshead
It’s like BLM and the pride crap. They are doing it for money.
Pathetic, sleazy and despicable. I haven’t had fun with Activsion games since WoTLK. All their games now feel souless and boring, catering to trends, fads and noobs, everyone who isn’t a noob, is alienated from the games by default.
Everyone who has done their research knows the West and NATO caused a Coup in Ukraine in 2014 and installed their cocaine drug addict pupped Zelensky as a president and incited a war with Russia. Now I’m surprised, but maybe shouldn’t be seeing the amount of idiots who believed the COVID lie are now parroting the same crap “Russia invaded a sovereign country, yadda yadda”, like they are too stupid to read between the lines… or maybe they really are.
It’s scary how deluded the majority people can be, it makes you feel alienated for not relating to them and all this propaganda that’s been everywhere.
Well said, Allwynd!
I believe there are a lot of folks who can, but there are few places where one can say what you just said and walk away with the head still attached to the body. So much about freedom of speech right now. I am self-censoring myself all the time or just can’t talk in so many places, it is terrible.
You are truly not afraid to touch a hot iron. This awful war. Now with a chance to further develop into WW3 from a not entirely unexpected African angle. Wagner and Russia are more popular in many American states than the collective Western nations, in this case particularly France and USA.
Restoring democracy is the new term for regaining control and access to the uranium mines of Niger. Right now, African states, or rather their leaders, are bribed to restore democracy in Niger. Let’s see if it will go so far that France will send the Foreign Legion.
You are correct that the impression in Europe is that the USA are 110% behind the support of Ukraine. Sometimes Republicans are shown on TV here denying or reducing support to Ukraine, they are immediately getting framed as villains.
I am very surprised that Blizzard is doing this. They still have Russian players. While Russians cannot pay with a Russian credit card for their sub anymore, using gold, playtime cards, etc… there are ways they can pay. The servers were officially kept online as other nations use the cyrillic alphabet, too.
You might be surprised to hear this, at least I was, there are still tons of Russian players playing WoW, even seen in Mythic+ dungeons.
But virtue signaling, they do that all the time, so why are we even surprised. As you stated so brilliantly, you are so right with that, if you want to know what currently is the right and just and politically correct thing to do… look no further.
Right now, the politically correct do-gooder should put the following checkmarks in their Twitter profile: LGBT flag, Ukraine flag, Vaccine syringe icon, add preferred pronouns. Europeans can add the EU flag.
I hope China delays their conquest of Taiwan; I don’t trust the Biden administration to solve this without escalating to nuclear war. I know some Chinese people living all around the world, they explained me Chinese mentality and the history of Taiwan, there is no chance they will let go anytime soon. Chinese government and society would have to change over many, many years for them to give up on Taiwan, which is now a very different nation than right after WW2.
China and Asia are rising, Europe is falling into the Abyss, Russia as well, while being still powerful enough to cause trouble. The USA are the remaining superpower, but the West is losing its grasp on the rest of the world, particularly Africa. Add in moral and religious downfall… we live in interesting times is an understatement.
Yushchenko, (Tymoshenko), Yanukovych, Poroshenko, Zelenskyy… if people bother to read up, Ukraine was the playfield of rich oligarchs and a struggle between West and East for decades already. Oligarchs and money were always involved. Don’t believe for a second it was the majority of Ukrainians who did this Euro Maidan thing; this was a western backed regime change operation, just like in Syria. The result has always been war or civil war so far. The West is not without guilt in this conflict.
Ukraine was deeply troubled and divided for a long time already. There are parts of Ukraine where the majority has a Russian heritage in the East, there are Russian-Ukrainian couples (I know one that fled not from the Russians but from the Ukrainian secret service), but also great hate between Ukrainians and those that lean more towards Russia.
While I have little love for most Russian oligarchs, the legality of taking their assets is not there. Being friends with Putin or having considerable influence at the Russian top level doesn’t mean they have a say or should be punished. They are corrupt and powerful, but reading the Nawalny 35 list, if this can be punished, American billionaires backing Democrats or Republicans, beware…
The current push “all Russians are evil and must be punished” is terrible. It’s never that black or white. For instance, the irony of Dmitry Utkin (one of the founders of Wagner, it was his battle name, him being an admirer of Hitler and Wagner, hence the name) and the Wagner group fighting against supposed Nazis in Ukraine, with the far-right Azov Brigade that committed atrocities towards Russian civilians as well only recently having been declared not to be like that at all. That’s because they are now our Nazis, cough, cough…
The worst thing is, Zelenskyy might be a puppet, but he is not fully under Western control and quite a Bandera-fan. This guy was so Anti-Russian and dangerous that the Wehrmacht and Hitler denied his constant requests for more weapons, despite him being their ally. Sounds a bit like today.
I talked to Ukrainian refugees; Zelenskyy isn’t their national hero. Quite surprising, didn’t he win 73% of the votes? His popularity waned rather quickly after that. His universal acclaim is a very western media fabrication. Some even called him a puppet and fear that he will fight till the last Ukrainian soldier is dead and then request Western soldiers. Or that he banned all political opposition. Just like that. He will also stay in office now till the war is over, to be more precise till he himself revokes martial law.
Well, Blizzard banned “Blitzchung” lightning fast when he said “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.”
It is interesting who then quickly jumped onto Blizzard for doing this. Senators like Rubio and Ocasio-Cortez wrote a letter “… could have a chilling effect on gamers who seek to use their platform to promote human rights and basic freedoms” and that the company must decide whether to “promote American Values – Like freedom of speech and thought – or give in to Beijing’s demands”
Well, freedom and freedom of speech seems to be an overabundance of LGBT etc. stuff in Overwatch. Speaking up against that is hate speech.
Warcraft became Wokecraft. Neither do they allow freedom of speech nor do they manage to stay neutral. Gaming and streaming are the new propaganda venues of today. Tolerance, doubt and critical thinking are not welcome in this system. Speaking up against this will turn people into wolfsheads. It’s dangerous.
All the WoW heroes like Thrall, Varian, Bain, etc. were either killed, went on a vacation or became a bunch of pussies. Right now I’m hearing Anduin is the next one to turn into a pussy who wants to get away from it all to focus on his feelings or some crap like that.
That’s why if I want to play WoW, I play on the Turtle WoW Vanilla+ private server, it’s Vanilla, but better, recently passed the 10,000 player mark, while back in 2018, it barely had 100 players and it has so much new content it’s hard to comprehend that it’s all lore-friendly and fits perfectly into the game, nothing feels forced or fake.
All the great heroes got indeed turned into losers, died … add in the rageful female… oh hello, Sylvanas… oh my. They made up the original lore and story of WoW without being writers at all, see what professional wokesters turned the world into. This is what has become of WoW, they defile the legacy of Blizzard.
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