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GameStop CEO decries 'wokeness and DEI'
- talldayo 2y agoAdmittedly, it will be really funny watching businesses attempt "mask off" schizo marketing maneuvers over the next 4 years. Gamestop is really showing everyone the optimism and long-term hope the games industry is feeling right now...
- 9283409232 2y agoToo bad people didn't realize these people are all psychopaths before giving them all the money and the entire government.
- biker142541 2y ago[flagged]
- 0dayz 2y agoA lot of people just look at LeopardsAteMyFace on reddit.
- AlexandrB 2y agoI suspect most politicians are psychopaths. So this reads a lot like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDKdDlqtsys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDKdDlqtsys
- throwaway4736 2y ago[flagged]
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- int_19h 2y agoWeren't you supposed to fix it rather than adding your own to the pile?
- talldayo 2y ago[flagged]
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- EA-3167 2y agoIf you really understood what that meant, you wouldn't be gloating, you'd be humbly treating other people with respect and hoping that they'd do the same. After all, what goes around, comes around.
- throwaway4736 2y ago[flagged]
- philipkglass 2y agoWhen you see accounts like that: 1) Downvote their comments (if you have the karma to do it). 2) Click on the comment timestamps and flag them. 3) Email hn@ycombinator.com to report the account. Dang is good about killing neo-nazi accounts when notified, but he can't read all the comments here.
- Pommo88 2y ago[dead]
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- charliebitme 2y ago
- _djo_ 2y agoExiting international operations without a clear reason used to spook the markets, so I suppose the new playbook is to blame 'wokeness and DEI' and ride the culture war wave instead. After all, the official market announcement contains no detail other than stating it's a result of 'an evaluation of its international assets.' The kind of wording he used is so unbecoming of a CEO, too. With any normal company, in any normal time, you'd see the market pummelling the stock. But these aren't normal times and GameStop is a weird meme stock.
- 0dayz 2y agoIt's so interesting that all these companies are all "coming out" to express the "truth" about dei, conveniently right now when a new administration comes along that is radically opposed to it. Which is not at all just because it's now artificially "trendy" just like how dei/woke was.
- AlexandrB 2y agoYup. I wonder if anyone will learn their lesson from this. I suspect not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg
- maximus40483 2y agoThey aren't expressing "the truth" they are trying to make sales. When woke was popular they were woke when it's not they aren't. Had the last admin not incentivized dei the corpos would of probably of stayed out of it.
- freitasm 2y agoThere's a big move to online game marketplaces because of health restrictions enacted five years ago, but let's blame wokeness, DEI and liberal policies for our failings to identify market shifts in time to prevent negative impact in our operations.
- xnx 2y agoWe must certainly be nearing the peak of the "fuck around" bubble.
- charliebitme 2y agoWhat's the "fuck around" bubble? You mean being an out of touch CEO who didn't keep up with the trends to stay relevant, so he's now using trendy words (conveniently right after the election) to excuse his company's awful performance? I agree.
- xnx 2y agoIt's the phase of a society where leaders, organizations, and individuals make the dumbest possible decisions because they have no sense of why things were done the way they were. It ends when the consequences of external events take effect.
- legitster 2y ago>“Email M&A@gamestop.com if you’re interested in buying GameStop Canada or Micromania France. High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today,” Is there a "wokeness and DEI" movement in France? That has meaningful social or compliance costs? This is a country where the public response to the #MeToo movement was an open letter accusing Americans of being overreacting prudes.
- orwin 2y ago'Wokiste' recently replaced 'droit de l'hommiste' recently, but practically they mean the same thing. We still authored the human rights declaration, so I guess we are woke since 1789 (with a lot of up and downs. Mostly downs). We don't have DEI, though you aren't supposed to put a picture on your resume, and if someone can convince a judge a company is discriminatory, it get fined (in practice, only two egregious convictions in the past 10 years). Also you have a quota for people with disabilities if you have more than 49 employees, but it's really flexible (depends on the activity, and it's a tax incentive rather than a real quota like in the US). I guess that last point would be DEI.
- janalsncm 2y agoMaybe in 2025 being “woke” means coming to the realization that brick and mortar video game stores have about as much future as Blockbuster, and “DEI” actually means “Amazon and Steam”.
- reaperducer 2y agoIn 2025, "woke" means "anything I don't like."
- scarab92 2y agoWoke means reducing individuals down to classes (race, gender etc). And then reducing those classes down to either oppressed / oppressor. It’s a highly reductive and juvenile way of looking at the world.
- jcranmer 2y agoA couple of months ago, there was a curated list of "woke" games circulating around. One of the games was considered woke solely because an avatar you could pick was of a creature in a wheelchair, something that has literally 0 gameplay impact, but that much of acknowledging that people with disabilities exist was too much for someone to bear. GP is right, most of the people complaining about "woke" are complaining about things they don't like, rather than having a particular, coherent theory as to why they don't like them.
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- janalsncm 2y agoThat might be one definition but I think the “anything I don’t like” definition is more congruent with the article. In other words, it functions more like a generic slur than a coherent criticism of a thing.
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- xyst 2y agoI’m still surprised Ryan Cohen still holds a CEO position at GameStop. Besides the brief run up in GME during 2021 (unrelated to performance) leading to short positions getting obliterated, performance of that company has been pretty awful since then. He’s been trying to so hard to be an Elon of GME by being cryptic on Twitter, but ultimately all of his initiatives have fell flat — trading cards, selling hardware, crypto/NFT marketplace, trying to reposition itself as a platform. Now he is trying to curry favors by riding the political wave. Almost seems like he is just trying so hard to keep it together by selling off assets.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoper our guy Milton, publicly traded companies have no purpose other than generating value for their shareholders, i.e. "stock price go up" the CEO's job is to generate that value. in-person game stores may not have much else, so he's getting that stock up however he can as long as he can. GME is doomed, but I'll give him props for trying
- krisboyz781 2y ago[dead]