Fox News & Conservatives On Crusade Against XBox, Calling It Wokebox

[RAMROD 117,023]

A day after M&M’s canceled their “spokescandies” amid pushback from Fox News hosts who no longer found them sexy, the conservative cable giant found its latest target for outrage: “woke” video game consoles with power-saving features.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Xbox would offer “carbon aware game downloads and updates” as part of the company’s ongoing effort to reduce carbon emissions and help combat climate change.

But because the right-wing outrage machine constantly needs feeding, conservative media outlets and Republican politicians seized on the opportunity to proclaim this as the latest battle in a never-ending culture war.

“First gas stoves, then your coffee, now they're gunning for your Xbox,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who seems more interested in being a right-wing entertainer than a lawmaker, tweeted on Monday. (For those blissfully unaware, conservatives have been losing their minds lately about possible future regulations on gas appliances, daring liberals to “come and take it.")

It didn’t take long, of course, for Fox News tojump onboard the faux-rage train. Getting the ball rolling, the network’s digital newsroom published a Monday night piecepromoting conservative critics who’d “slammed” the “woke brigade” for coming after video games.

During Tuesday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends First, Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone grumbled that “some woke executive at Microsoft thought this was a good idea” before reading off a series of tweets from right-wing influencers mocking the initiative.

“Aware! Is that the best word?!” Fox & Friends First co-host Todd Piro exclaimed. “I’m really stuck on that language. Carbon aware?! I’ve been aware of carbon most of my adult life. It’s a very important element.”

The following hour, however, Fox News warned viewers that the Big Climate Change is coming for their kids because their video gaming system had a new power-saving function.

Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla then sounded the alarm about children being targeted by left-leaning corporations to care about the climate.

“We understand what this is,” the conservative comedian stated. “It’s not that it’s actually going to offset emissions, okay—the level of reduction is infinitesimal. But they’re trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age; make them climate conscious now.”

“You’re right,” Earhardt agreed. “They’re going after the children.”

Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla then sounded the alarm about children being targeted by left-leaning corporations to care about the climate.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-flips-out-over-woke-xbox-because-everything-is-stupid
 

Gurl

 

[Ivy 13,719]

They're getting so weird 

[PartySick 172,486]

13 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

We understand what this is,” the conservative comedian stated. “It’s not that it’s actually going to offset emissions, okay—the level of reduction is infinitesimal. But they’re trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age; make them climate conscious now.”

“You’re right,” Earhardt agreed. “They’re going after the children.”

PLEASE

They might as well just declare a full scale war on common sense

I actually am curious how effective the energy saving is though. Hmm.

The average console use will take up about 233kw per year...

One kw of energy used will create 0.855 pounds of CO2 waste...

So, about 199.2 pounds of CO2 waste per console per year.

There's been about 51 million xboxes sold so that's about 10 billion pounds of carbon dioxide waste with xboxes alone 

Now, Google could have lied to me about some of these stats, and obviously every console is different, and a lot of people who have current gen consoles may not upgrade to the newer ones...AND they don't specifically say how much more efficient the new consoles are, but even a 1% improvement on my (probably wrong) number would mean 100 million fewer pounds of CO2 in the atmosphere.

To put that in perspective, that's about five times as much carbon waste as Taylor Swift created with her private jet from Jan-July of 2022

New xboxes will effectively cleanse the damage Taylor does by five fold!

Now someone who can actually do math please add this up

[CatelynnMarie 4,536]

i'm h*g* and it's making it even funnier omg this is SO ridiculous i can't 

[Dennis 8,391]

I was hoping that the mediocre midterm performance would serve as a wake up call for them to quit the craziness but they're becoming even more unhinged.

Honestly I'm really starting to worry about the direction of the country.

[ThisGuyTony 34,865]

They call everything “woke” that word has no meaning anymore  

[weed 78,905]

girl your copy and paste is horrible lol same thing repeated like 5 times

[gabeoz 7,915]

Nobody tell them about windows sleep mode 

[nATAH 56,922]

this thread had me tripping with the duplicate paragraphs

[Economy 52,844]

Further confirmation when something becomes political in someone's mind, they will argue about it just because. Even if it makes no real actual sense to care about it