Funny events in anti-woke world
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US Navy Seals in Vietnam often wore denim trousers. Though that's more a reflection of what they thought about the standard issue trousers.
You still don't get it do you.
It's up to the people actually affected by something to decide, as individuals, how they feel about it.
There are plenty of reasons why a queer person might decide that "objectionable" representation is worse than nothing. The problem with you trying to make that determination is that living in a world with no queer representation wouldn't hurt you in any way. You are not capable of understanding why that choice is difficult.
All I have ultimately said is that queer people don't tend to get terribly angry about tokenistic representation. That is an observation, not a prescription. It's not a statement of how people should feel, it's an observation of why they do. Queer discourse on media tends to be very cynical, because straight-dominated culture is perpetually disappointing.
There is a fundamental contradiction here. On one hand, you want people to stop patronizing media you think is bad. On the other hand, you want them to continue to talk about it. Why continue to emotionally invest in something you openly acknowledge is unworthy of that response? What "good faith" reason is there to do that?
I explicitly pointed out, in order to preempt this, that it's perfectly reasonable to have or express an opinion. What you probably shouldn't do is tell people who are actually affected how they are "supposed" to feel, because that comes across as incredibly patronizing.
You'll notice the word "tried."
The CIA also "tried" for decades. It didn't work. You can't use psychedelics to control people's behaviour or "brainwash" them because the effects are really unpredictable. You can torture people on psychedelics but that's just a particularly innovative form of torture.
Also, the Angel's Trumpet actually exists. It's a type of nightshade which contains scopolamine. The effects of bliss as shown, while quite silly, are far more consistent with deliriants like scopolamine than with psychadelics. In short, it seems like an extremely obvious and intentional reference. Scopolamine has also been used pretty extensively as a truth syrum and a date-rape drug because it can make people sleepy, suggestible and easy to manipulate, unlike psychadelics which make people unpredictable and emotional.
Who gave you the idea that those things are not compatible with one another?
You're referring to the idea of being born again. However, that is not what has happened to Faith at all. Jesus isn't really a part of what's going on here, in fact he's pretty much absent from the entire thing because explicitly identifying the baddies as Christians might make people upset.
At the time the kingdom of Prussia was founded, many of its inhabitants had been on the receiving end of a crusade within living memory. I really, really doubt crusade nostalgia was a particularly strong factor in their national symbolism.
Manson's misogyny was an explicit part of his belief system, like his racism. It was not something he went to any great pains to hide, and neither did he particularly need to, as his beliefs about women were pretty normal at the time. His ideal of womanhood was an "empty vessel" who would be completely compliant and obedient, and he intentionally targeted very young women (often literal children) because he recognized them as easier to control and manipulate and, consequentially, as closer to this ideal.
Taking away that internal rationality, monstrous as it is, makes the reference shallow.
Again, the term "cult" is essentially meaningless. The fewer limitations we impose on it, the more meaningless it becomes.
Okay, I feel like this has gotten mean and dumb, so let me concede a bit.
I think that I do get the point you're trying to make, and I appreciate that it's a very difficult and intangiable thing to convey. Because it seems like what you're trying to say is that FC5 captures a general feeling or vibe that feels authentic, and to a large extent I agree. It conveys a view of the world that at first seems disparate but which feels holistic even if it's not always easy to explain in any detail why the individual manifestations are interconnected.
Because yeah, I've been using aesthetics as a criticism to imply that the game is not really saying anything, but that's a pretty reductive view of aesthetics. You can't really talk about art without talking about how art makes you feel, and yeah, in that regard the game does have something interesting going on when it can be bothered to hold an emotional tone. But if it was trying to say anything deep or real about why people fall into white supremacy or how cults form, I don't think aesthetics cut it. There comes a point where you have to be brave enough to say (or show) what you mean out loud.
It's 5 metres, the whole household is going to look like cowboy Santa (it's red denim).
SC to decide whether tipping culture should be allowed to spread to government /s
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Snyder v. United States - SCOTUSblog
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Isn't that just bribery?SC to decide whether tipping culture should be allowed to spread to government /s
Snyder v. United States - SCOTUSblog
Independent News and Analysis on the U.S. Supreme Court
No, it's like this:
1. Official does a thing in their official capacity
2. After the official did the thing, a private party rewards that official for doing the thing with money or something, cuz the official did such a good job
3. There was no agreement between the official and the private party to do the thing in return for a reward prior to that official doing the thing.
Completely different from bribery
Funny isn't the word I'd use to describe this but:
www.standard.co.uk
Jonathan Bailey: my life was threatened for being gay
The Bridgerton star talks about his new Paramount+ series and the messages he's received 'from areas in the world where just getting through the day without being outed is survival'
www.standard.co.uk
Somewhat of a contrast between Woke and anti woke world.
Recently there's been a video going viral about certain Youtubers doing a lot of plagiarism. Two youtubers named are the Internet Historian who leans to the alt right, and a queer creator named James Somerton. The fans of the left leaning creator downright chased their guy off the internet while fans of the right wing creator either get super defensive about it or just shrug it off.
I'm rather disapointed to learn that Internet Historian turns out to be a member of the alt right. I recall his Fallout 67 video and I found it quite good. Apparently most of the truly damning stuff comes from his second channel and streams which is mighty sneaky.
Recently there's been a video going viral about certain Youtubers doing a lot of plagiarism. Two youtubers named are the Internet Historian who leans to the alt right, and a queer creator named James Somerton. The fans of the left leaning creator downright chased their guy off the internet while fans of the right wing creator either get super defensive about it or just shrug it off.
I'm rather disapointed to learn that Internet Historian turns out to be a member of the alt right. I recall his Fallout 67 video and I found it quite good. Apparently most of the truly damning stuff comes from his second channel and streams which is mighty sneaky.
The altright 4chan callouts are present in his earlier stuff, though not as blatant as that guy who uses the African warlord as his avatar and flashes 20 chan meme references per minute in his videos, as comedically brilliant as his fans will no doubt insist they are.
In sure the hobbled dwarf will be along to set us straight on his favourite edgy lol lords though soon and how we're totally misinterpreting the dog whistles.
I heard of the guy, but never tuned into his videos. Lucked out on this one.
Who is Internet Historian? Plagiarism drama explored amid Hbomberguy's revelations about 'Man in Cave' creator
New Zealand YouTuber Internet Historian got blasted on YouTube yesterday after being accused of plagiarism.
I have mixed feelings about sseth because unlike a lot of channers-turned-youtubers he is actually pretty talented and entertaining when he's not trying to be maximum edge all the time.
His influence on SS13 is pretty interesting because he was responsible for the first big youtuber tides, which on one hand has been good and brought a lot of attention to the funny little spaceman game, but also pioneered a lot of the worst conventions of people outside the community covering SS13. Like, the game was basically unplayable for a month or two because it was full of literal screaming children who wanted to do all the funny griefing and ultimately, that's the audience. Children like edgy shit because they're too stupid to understand the seriousness of reality.
Internet historian's persona and general smugness always struck me as a weird reminder that channers secretly wish they were old-school goons. They like to pretend they have some kind of elite status, but that status comes from being registered on a free website that anyone can join, so it's literally worth nothing. It's like if we pretended to be the secret masters of the internet because we didn't quit the Escapist during [the event] and then refused to realize how stupid that looks to everyone else.
Brawlman the only one of us here brave enough to post the full 4hour Hrbomberguy video. 
Our cowardice shall not be forgotten!
Our cowardice shall not be forgotten!
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Uhhh... thanksBrawlman the only one of us here brave enough to post the full 4hour Hrbomberguy video.
and your welcome. I didn't realize the thing was 4 hours. I just happen to read the article and saw the video link on the website, and post here for anyone's convenience.
Accidental bravery will have to do 🫡 we'll need everything we can get to survive the looming 4th meme wars.Uhhh... thanks
What are these parasitic dick suckers crying about this time? You leeches already jumped on one Godzilla movie. What makes this different one so special?
The movie studios don't owe you assholes a damn thing.