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My god, you are that easily led.

Think for yourself. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. Whoever wrote that line has as much authority as I do on whether something leans or not.

And by the way: it doesn't require particular expertise to identify a bias; it just requires basic media comprehension. But since you get your judgements on this matter second-hand, that's something you severely lack.
Not anyone can just edit Wikipedia and you have to provide a source. And, yeah, you can just edit it and put in some bullshit but it'll get fixed. My source made better arguments than your source.
 

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My god, you are that easily led.

Think for yourself. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. Whoever wrote that line has as much authority as I do on whether something leans or not.

And by the way: it doesn't require particular expertise to identify a bias; it just requires basic media comprehension. But since you get your judgements on this matter second-hand, that's something you severely lack.
See, it doesn't matter if the person editing Wikipedia has any authority. What is important- what is vitally critical- is that they say what Phoenixmgs wants to hear.
 
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Not anyone can just edit Wikipedia and you have to provide a source. And, yeah, you can just edit it and put in some bullshit but it'll get fixed.
OK, so what's the cited source, let's check... there's just the one for that term... oh, an article in the New York Times used that description, OK.

So now we know what you consider an acceptable source for an outlet's bias-- a newspaper using that description! Hmm, but the NYT, Washington Post, and Washington Examiner all variously describe the Tax Foundation as "conservative", "business friendly", or "right-leaning"!

My source made better arguments than your source.
I've already pointed out how two of the arguments were complete bunk. You then said there were better ones there... but refused to identify any.
 
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Did anyone even like BloodRayne back in the day for reasons other than the obvious?
Well, killing Nazis never gets old, but...yeah, to be honest, I only ever played the second one as a kid, and it was less for Rayne and more for the violence.

Edit: Also, I think everyone who talks about games being "woke" nowadays needs to be sent a picture of this character from Final Fight. Then read a biography on the character. Then try to justify how she is cool, but anything they are doing nowadays is "woke".

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OK, so what's the cited source, let's check... there's just the one for that term... oh, an article in the New York Times used that description, OK.

So now we know what you consider an acceptable source for an outlet's bias-- a newspaper using that description! Hmm, but the NYT, Washington Post, and Washington Examiner all variously describe the Tax Foundation as "conservative", "business friendly", or "right-leaning"!



I've already pointed out how two of the arguments were complete bunk. You then said there were better ones there... but refused to identify any.
And you have still cited no sources...

When you ask for something and I give that to you, you then edit it out when you quote me and ignore the actual arguments. You only a care about your weak ad hominem attacks.

Your source used 401Ks as an example of normal people not being able to avoid capital gains taxes but a roth 401K isn't taxed when you take out money because the income was already taxed when going in so you have 0 taxes on any gains, unrealized or realized.

You skipped over the part of how US citizens are put at disadvantages over foreign investors.
I referred to a good reason my source provided for why unrealized gains tax would be bad that you edited out of my quote. I also criticized your source's dumb comparison to 401Ks that you also edited out.
 

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Plus, they were wearing a realistic amount of clothing for the setting/situation, and weren't designed to be hot, and therefore were just more proof of how the AAA studios are actively trying to uglify women to be woke.
Even that at the very (very) least would make some sense. But you look at Elena in the Uncharted games or Tess in The Last of Us - not exactly unpopular games - and nobody gave a flying fuck about them looking "regular" compared to Lara Croft and whoever that Bloodrayne girl is. Christ, they didn't care how Aloy looked in Zero Dawn, but the exact same character design in Forbidden West sent them reeling. 🤷‍♂️

But at this point certainly we have much better things to worry about than these unfuckable dorks still keeping their "woke Hollywood/games" grift going. It's really just wasting your breath now.
 
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Even that at the very (very) least would make some sense. But you look at Elena in the Uncharted games or Tess in The Last of Us - not exactly unpopular games - and nobody gave a flying fuck about them looking "regular" compared to Lara Croft and whoever that Bloodrayne girl is. Christ, they didn't care how Aloy looked in Zero Dawn, but the exact same character design in Forbidden West sent them reeling. 🤷‍♂️

But at this point certainly we have much better things to worry about than these unfuckable dorks still keeping their "woke Hollywood/games" grift going. It's really just wasting your breath now.
I know you probably don't actually care, but the main character in Bloodrayne is, in fact, named Rayne. And I personally just roll my eyes when that subset of gamers complain about how games nowadays don't have enough fanservice/sexiness because...I play Mortal Kombat. Trust me, the bodies have not gotten any more modest. And...well, *gestures to my avatar*, does it look like I have anything against sexiness?
 
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I know you probably don't actually care, but the main character in Bloodrayne is, in fact, named Rayne. And I personally just roll my eyes when that subset of gamers complain about how games nowadays don't have enough fanservice/sexiness because...I play Mortal Kombat. Trust me, the bodies have not gotten any more modest. And...well, *gestures to my avatar*, does it look like I have anything against sexiness?
Gamers™️ have an extremely narrow view of what's considered attractive or sexy. *Nikaido* is too beefy for them, let alone adult Noi. They're basically perpetually stuck at teen devil girl Noi, Tracer Overwatch, or 2B knockoffs.
 
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I know you probably don't actually care, but the main character in Bloodrayne is, in fact, named Rayne. And I personally just roll my eyes when that subset of gamers complain about how games nowadays don't have enough fanservice/sexiness because...I play Mortal Kombat. Trust me, the bodies have not gotten any more modest. And...well, *gestures to my avatar*, does it look like I have anything against sexiness?
These people have trapped themselves in a 'I hate women' vortex. They're either not hot enough, too girl-boss, not revealing enough if hot enough, too gay, too manly, too much like a male action hero, hot but only by Hollywood standards, aren't real gamers, aren't real fans etc. This has always kind of been there in the gaming space especially, but the last 10 years we've seen figures rise up who gave them permission to openly express it and that it's them who are the real victims.

Again, it's spite, and a lot of these guys really can't seem to (or want to) kick it.
 
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Well, killing Nazis never gets old, but...yeah, to be honest, I only ever played the second one as a kid, and it was less for Rayne and more for the violence.

Edit: Also, I think everyone who talks about games being "woke" nowadays needs to be sent a picture of this character from Final Fight. Then read a biography on the character. Then try to justify how she is cool, but anything they are doing nowadays is "woke".

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I bet you most of those same idiots don't even know Poison's back story. She's pre-op in Japan and post up everywhere else.



Again, it's spite, and a lot of these guys really can't seem to (or want to) kick it.
Sucks to be them. Good luck ever getting a woman to like these assholes. They more than likely can't get with a woman or lady without being obnoxious ass hats.
 
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Did anyone even like BloodRayne back in the day for reasons other than the obvious?
The only BloodRayne game I care about is the one done by WayForward. That game is over ten years old now. Back in the day, I never cared for the franchise and it was always just there in the background.
 

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And you have still cited no sources...
I just named 3 newspapers. All are cited by Wikipedia as describing the Tax Foundation in those terms. I linked directly to one of them.

This was /your standard/. You said a sourced Wikipedia description was enough, and thats all you provided. Then i provided the same (times 3). Now suddenly it's not enough?

When you ask for something and I give that to you, you then edit it out when you quote me and ignore the actual arguments. You only a care about your weak ad hominem attacks.
You haven't cited any argument from it. You just dumped the link, then when I pointed out how shite two of the arguments were, you said "there's more than that"... with no detail. You cited nothing. You expected me to sift through some right-wing thinktank piece, because you have put no thought into this yourself, and all you're doing is regurgitating.
 
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See, it doesn't matter if the person editing Wikipedia has any authority.
Wikipedia actively opposes people with authority on a topic editing it and will revert such edits, unless they can provide a third party source to cite.

What Wikipedia actually promotes is the most commonly presented media narrative on a topic, after discarding media deemed "unreliable". A lot of the tricky bits are things like "how do you decide who is reliable or not?" or "how do you deal with topics that make the media look bad?" Neither of which really has a great answer in application.
 

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You haven't cited any argument from it. You just dumped the link, then when I pointed out how shite two of the arguments were, you said "there's more than that"... with no detail. You cited nothing. You expected me to sift through some right-wing thinktank piece, because you have put no thought into this yourself, and all you're doing is regurgitating.
I cited the arguments previously and quoted myself last fucking post.


Your source used 401Ks as an example of normal people not being able to avoid capital gains taxes but a roth 401K isn't taxed when you take out money because the income was already taxed when going in so you have 0 taxes on any gains, unrealized or realized.

You skipped over the part of how US citizens are put at disadvantages over foreign investors.
I referred to a good reason my source provided for why unrealized gains tax would be bad that you edited out of my quote. I also criticized your source's dumb comparison to 401Ks that you also edited out.