Siege has a story?
It doesn’t help that much, though. It just raises the brainpower bar a tiiiiny bit to “generate an image in the style of a painting from [historical period,] claim it’s contemporary art depicting your fake historical event.”
See, that would be more believable if you didn’t keep slipping it down to 10/12/middle school in all your comments.
If a consulting firm makes every product they worked on worse, why would one not seek to avoid products they worked on?
It's a Gearbox game, I think Sweet Baby or a similar DEI consultant (maybe even internally) can be assumed from that alone.
His response did help me make a decision, yes.
Admins should definitely be censoring pedo pajeet, and I'm on the fence about you.
Well, he usually pops in about once a week. It's worked okay because we're small. Now that the people really shitting up other boards have started to show up here in the last day or two, we could be in for some trouble.
Probably scored admins are more responsive than our mod.
This guy is probably u/trump4045 a long-time user who caught a silly ban recently. Can’t be sure, though.
I read his comment as saying that the light sentencing was the deliberate enabling of said “useful idiots,” and more broadly that women’s movements supported /encouraged by “Fabian Socialists” have encouraged marital strife and intersexual hostility. Not that he literally meant someone had told her that she should poison her husband.
Honestly, the most unusual part of his comment is who he ascribes it to. If you rewrite it as “feminist influence” rather than “Fabian Socialist,” (or “Jews,” or “Communists,” or “China”) you could use it as a pretty standard talking point for various sections of the right.
What do you mean?
Most people (schizos excepted) who say things like this don’t mean that some random person was actually receiving orders from whatever group they blame, but that said group has manipulated societal incentive structures to produce this kind of outcome more often. Your performative incredulity is misplaced because it doesn’t address the point; it’s as though you saw someone talking about “Soros DAs” releasing criminals and went “wow, of course George Soros personally ordered Jamal to mug that guy and Shaniqua to release him afterward!”
No one was suggesting that, and you look dumb and/or hostile for implying they were.
Of course, like a true milquetoast, he picked the feminist angle along with the “bad for the baby” angle. Sure, the “victim” is the one who’s getting paid and willingly entered into this evil deal. Right.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely believe woman agreeing to surrogacy will probably change their minds and regret it. I think the biology at play in pregnancy and birth makes bonding with the baby inevitable, so unless you’re surrogating for an infertile relative and can stick around in the kid’s life, it must be a gut punch. For that matter, if a woman says “I regret this, I want to be his mother,” and means it, I think it’s a forgivable error. Better to let her try than give him to the gay guys.
But.
That doesn’t make her the primary victim. It doesn’t make her the victim at all. It makes her, at best, a fool her saw the error of her ways, and at worst a willing accessory to the selling of a baby who is now feeling like she didn’t get enough money for her role.
The only true victim is the baby being ripped away from his mother and thrown into a home that is disproportionately likely to abuse him, and provides bad role models even if they have no nefarious intentions and try to do everything well.
The Fallout one was a little dumber, though. “It’s not woke, it just has a female lead in an action role, a black-white leading romance, and a scene where they rewrite all the lore so that the evil capitalists started the nuclear war for profit!”
If that’s non-woke, this is straight-up right-wing.
I enjoyed it. As you mentioned, there were two scenes where a woman beats up a man she has no business beating (one of which is much more egregious than the other), but neither one was presented as “yeah, girl power!” so it made me roll my eyes in more of a “maybe they should have made this scene work a little differently” way than an “ugh, feminism” way.
Because—like GG1–GG2 is a case of people that don’t realize how bad things are catching hold of one tendril of the Kraken without realizing there’s a whole beast attached. Let’s hope that lots of them do see more of what’s going on, I guess.
To be honest, unless you’re already over 45, I suspect that the only way you’ll see any social security money is if it’s so inflated by money printing it is almost literally worthless. Speaking as someone that will “lose out” if social security is abolished or fails in the next 30 years, I’d rather take the hit personally and not also import infinity immigrants trying to save a system that’s already collapsing.
I can see grandfathering people who are already receiving it, for whom it makes up a significant portion of their monthly budget, but other than that it really should just end. It is a grenade, and someone needs to jump on it.
supposed music industry “experts”
There's your problem. The connected "expert" class(es) should all be understood to be Current Year adherents. The real experts are the ones that get labelled "controversial" or similar such things, and shunned from big culture contests, academia, etc.
Oh, look, you posted something utterly insane believing that Trump is a total idiot with no proof and it turned out to be utterly insane and also completely fake. This is only, like, the 10th time that’s happened.
I get that one of Trump’s faults is that he makes questionable picks for staffers and advisors. It’s my biggest complaint about him. But this article was obviously amplifying that to an absurd degree. It’s about two steps removed from “Donald Trump considering Hillary Clinton as running mate.”
How do I know this isn’t made up? It cites “people familiar with the matter” and that “Republicans close to both campaigns think” it would be good.
Politely, your thinking isn’t always the clearest about Trump. I’m not even saying all your issues with him are invalid… but you have rushed to believe silly things before.
Certain parts of it are, but not exactly the parts they’d ever admit. Just as certain parts of the North are, to which they’ll never admit.
I think they wanted to go the “welcoming granny” route for their version. She does have a cheerful smile when she hasn’t been face swapped with Uncle Ruckus. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a great adaptation, just that I don’t think it’s supposed to be vitiligo.
That’s what Skull and Bones started as, right? And we all saw just recently how that turned out.