The image of the playstation became, over time, the preferred attack against Maximo Kirchner. For years, his critics used that console as a symbol to accuse him of lack of commitment or being an “eternal teenager.” In a talk on the program 1111a space with a strong Kirchnerist profile, the leader of The Campora He decided to face the issue and explain why he never denied it.
“Suddenly a channel decides that since it doesn’t know how to criticize you, it criticizes you with Play,” explained the deputy. For Kirchner, the accusation made no sense because playing a video game is a common activity which should not be used as a political insult.
One of the points that stood out the most was the irony what he sees in his opponents. According to Kirchner, the same sectors that accused him of using the console are the ones that are now looking for young fans vote of video games.
He even took the opportunity to make a difference with the communication style of the current management: “It made me laugh to see the people who told me that, attacking the gamer culturewho are then their electorate. They film themselves playing, like Adorni playing Age of Empires“, he shot, pointing out that what was a source of ridicule in him, the ruling party tries to show as something modern and close.
To close the topic, Kirchner took the talk to the side of the family memories in Santa Cruzlong before the surname arrived at the Casa Rosada. He said that his relationship with games began decades ago and that it was a ground wire shared with his father.
“I played Atari with Néstor before he becomes mayor,” he recalled. He made reference to the 1978 basketballa game where the characters were just minimal rectangles on the screen. “They were two sticks. “You had to have imagination and creativity to feel like you were playing basketball,” he commented with amusement.
With this response, the deputy seeks to tone down a urban legend that accompanied him for years, trying to normalize a habit that, according to him, his political rivals use only when it suits them.
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