Fortunately, KickVic never got the critical mass required to see a good woke horde kick up against him. The pushback was too fast and too hard on social media, and the people who would amplify it simply aren't there in the various Journo-activist blogs like Buzzfeed News and HuffPo, thanks to the Obama era propaganda bill expiring. So instead you just saw a handful of sociopaths -- MarzGurl, Marchi, Rial, Toye, Thotmoore, Skye, etc -- who would have normally been the ones escalating to keep themselves in front of the horde, but without the horde to constantly drive them forward. So they just looked like idiots instead.
This bit. Right here is the real key and why suddenly the moves back are more effective. You've now got incidents like Covington, and Vic to an extent in which an entire side of the argument no longer has its amplification network to whip everything into the frenzies it used to get on the regular. All those friendly outlets are fleeing from, or no longer have funding for, these useless departments that simply sowed division among society. All that's left are the unhinged on social media and nobody
really gives a shit about these people in real life. At all.
People who play pallies like this in D&D genuinely make me sad. The idea that you have to be the nicest goody two-shoes the entirety of an adventure and never once be mean or rude is so stupidly restrictive. I myself am just finishing up a pathfinder campaign (Kingmaker, if anyone cares) where I played as a paladin of Erastil, god of agriculture and community. I was chosen to be king of our fledgling kingdom, and I worked to make it the best damn kingdom I could. When it came to interactions with other kingdoms, sometimes it would end up coming down to shooting an arrow through the opposing royal's throat. I would always start with diplomacy (and was generally pretty good at it), but sometimes being nice just won't work. As long as I put the health and prosperity of my community (kingdom) first, then my actions were generally just.
That being said, I know sometimes it can also be the fault of dickhead GMs who go "oh you weren't the prime exemplar of human goody-two-shoe-ness, so your god is pissed at you and all your powers will be stripped"
I laughed really hard at the idiot throwing in "he stole a sandwich" at the end. Like yeah the rest wasn't bad, but holy shit the sandwich tho what a dick I'm kickvic now all the way 100% convinced
Going by kickvic's history, it wasn't a sandwich but a plate of fries and the person offered Vic one. Then ten years later they decided he stole it.
I'd rather play a more amoral Paladin one of these days. A kind of "justice is blind and so am I" sort who punishes with righteous fury for any law breaking no matter how minor. Lawfare of the physical kind.
Ya know, the sort who will take the starving child thieves off to the baliff, then run the baliff through when he derelicts his duties and releases the kids because they're too small time.
Sounds fun.
Also, I can see how the sammich "theft" played out.
Probably be a table with some food on it, one with a sammich on a plate.
Vic: Hey, is this anyone's sandwhich? I've been signing
all day and I am starving!
Person A: Uhhh, no, I don't think it's anyone's. Take it man.
Vic: Bless you.
Person B, comes back two minutes later.
Person B: Hey, where's my sammich?
Person C: Oh, that Vic guy took it.
Person B: Vic stole my sammich? Heh. I'll just grab another.
And end scene.
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