Tell me. Are these "alts" in the room with you right now? Or are they just as imaginary as how you're totally going to stand up with a grand revolution aaaaaannnnnyyyyy second now?
Or is it more likely that someone else just came along and thought you were being an idiot for taking this so personally?
So because I disagreed with your bravado on another post, you're now going to stalk my account to try and drum up some sort of crusade? Okay. You have fun with that one.
I'm not using alts. But it's interesting that you're caring about and looking to internet points simply because I'm telling you that posting faux bravado on the internet is all a show.
And again, I'm not decrying you doing nothing. I've also done nothing. I'm just calling you on larping, and how that larping keeps you complacent. Because you'll always do it next time. Just like you were going to do it next time the last time it happened. And the time before that.
It's about being honest with yourself, rather than trying to bolster yourself up pretending to be something you're not.
Why are you so assmad that you're bringing a separate discussion into another thread? Trying to go through posting history to find dirt on someone to avoid the discussion at hand? Did it hit a nerve that badly?
You did nothing last time there was a new injustice.
You'll do nothing the next time there will be a new injustice.
You'll continue to lie to yourself and others that you'll do something next time.
The western comic industry is honestly terribly ran.
The model of issues at this stage are an archaic holdover. Thanks to modern manufacturing costs, issues should be digital only with TPBs being their main physical option instead. And even then, they could do better by having 2 versions that are basically standard and deluxe. Use basic materials for the standard, and better production quality for the deluxe.
It's not rocket science, but these companies are more interested in focusing on bad stories and archaic models because it's all subsidised by a dying film series that they're not even considering how close they are to losing nearly the entire mainstream western industry because it's in the shitter that bad.
The US is not, and will never deport American citizens to the UK for this nonsense
And a decade ago, you'd have told me that the US would never demand papers for the citizens to walk into a shop. Yet that's exactly what happened during lockdowns. And what did you do? You might have mildly non-complied. But did you actually do anything? Has anyone faced repercussions for their actions?
It won't happen, until it suddenly does, and you'll continue to do nothing. All bark, no bite.
If you want to go out and fight a personal war to defend the honor of a bunch of spineless cucks in the UK, then knock yourself right out, tough guy.
Make no mistake, I'm not saying you should go out there and fight. But don't pretend like you're a tough guy on the internet when you're not. You've had countless opportunities to call foul and start fighting. There are any number of grand injustices that you could banner behind. But you don't. Because you're afraid of losing what you've got. And I am too. I know I am. But I'm not sitting at home on my computer talking about how we can rise up if they do X. I'm not fantasising about what I'd love to see happen but ultimately doing nothing to achieve that.
I'm not saying you suck for doing nothing. I'm calling you a tool for being an internet tough guy. Wake up. You're not going to fight because, and I don't mean this as a negative, you still have too much good to lose. You have so much good to lose that it's not worth risking it. You think I'm being a "tough guy", but I'm in that same boat too. I haven't thrown it all away either. Nor do I intend to. I'm just not going to pretend that I will if some other arbitrary injustice were to take place.
Sorry mate, but the reality is that shit is going to have to get a lot worse before people will rise up and fight back.
So to go back to my question. That's a no. You haven't done jack fucking shit any of the countless other times shit has gone too far. So why pretend this time will be any different? Why act like this injustice is the one that will finally get you to do that mythical Something™ when we both know that you're not going to do anything?
I think we're at the end here and I've pretty much made my point. So you have a good one, though you should stop trying to delude yourself that you're going to rise up at the next injustice, because there's just no real reason to suggest you will. It didn't happen last time, it won't happen next time, and it won't happen the time after that.
You know what the sad thing is? They'll convince themselves that it's because they're not going woke hard enough. It's not that their writing is garbage. It's not that they can't create anything original that works. It's clearly because "straight white boys" don't sell. Ignore the fact that Dark Horse's most profitable comic IP is Hellboy and that extended universe, meaning it's characters like Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien and Johann Kraus. Ignore that their most popular tie-in comics are things like Aliens, Predator, and (admittedly surprisingly) Avatar TLA/TLoK. Ignore that the ONLY woke property that makes them money is fucking Critical Role. Of course, even that is fucking pitiful considering that in 2019 it was their 6th most sold comic at...... ouch, 19,000 copies sold. Damn. Even with piggy-backing, you still barely sold a thing. It must suck to suck.
These losers will never learn. The time they could have learned came and went loooong ago. I could have felt sorry for them if they were misguided and then learnt their lesson. But they refuse to even consider it. So why should I feel sorry for people who's downfall is entirely and at this stage deliberately self inflicted? The only sad thing is seeing decent IPs get tossed away, but even that shouldn't be a tragedy since they should learn from the manga market and learn to let IPs go and just create something fucking new!
Answer this one question: If you've done literally nothing about every other time that shit has gone "too far", what makes this "too far" situation any different?
All bark. No bite.
And what exactly have you done so far? No really. You've had your rights infringed upon over and over and over. And every time you fuckers claim you'll do an uprising at some point, but you never fucking do. Look at the lockdowns for example. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs. These fuckers have done so much to you. And not once did you do shit. Neither did I. Nobody did shit. Because you'd always do it next time. Next time, the people would rise up and we would revolt! Because last time juuuust wasn't far enough.
But this time, however...
You're not wrong that we have the strength. But are you ready to use that strength? Because I don't think people are. I don't think shit has hit the fan enough for that. People are comfy. The like what they've got, and they don't actually believe it's at risk enough. Revolutions happen because losing their lives is better than the alternative of losing.
You're mocking them for rattling sabres, but I'm not seeing anything but sabre rattling in return. It's all bark and no bite, because you somehow believe that the system can be reformed. Tell me one point in recent history that it was actually reformed. And to give you a window, let's say anything past 1990. Show me any time it has actually been reformed. Until then, it's still going to be all bark and no bite as you continue to back a 90s Democrat and believe that somehow means you're a true Right Wing Champion because you've defined your views in opposition to the Left.
Don't forget, all of this while standing around idly filming instead of stopping the thieves. He didn't even try to get close to get ANY information on them.
Physically and mentally incapable of basic action.
It's this attitude that leaves you shocked if and when it happens. Maybe when someone makes a threat (and they have the means to even remotely try to achieve it), it should be taken under advisement?
A lot of things have come to a head at the moment. And a lot of idiots who don't understand the power they're playing with are overplaying their hand. How people react could change a lot of things. I'm not hopeful, but it's possible. But equally so, doing nothing and giggling at them won't change things at all. It'll just facilitate the status quo.
If I were to nitpick, I'd say 60 years isn't completely accurate, but that's certainly around when it ramped up.
I'd say it depends on the western nation. If we were talking the US/Canada, that's probably around right give or take a decade. If you're talking Aus/NZ, I'd easily add 20 years to the number, and if you're talking about the UK, then I wouldn't entirely argue against a century as being the early start of it. I'd say it was definitely early days, since mass immigration wasn't exactly that prevalent in the 1920s, but to deny the early examples of it is also silly.
You'd also have to do a similar breakdown of Europe. There's a big difference between the mass immigration rates of countries like Germany and Poland.
this is how public support for black lives matter declines so sharply
Are you sure it was the violence, and not where the violence was targeted?
Hell, are you sure violence was even a metric? Because it seems like the life cycle of BLM has ALWAYS been correlated quite nicely with elections. Almost like their growth and decline might have something to do with that.
You're determined to bury your head in the sand and do nothing all because you don't get to control the PR. Here's a newflash for you: You will never have the mainstream media on your side. Ever. It will never, ever happen. And so, if you cannot control the media perception of you, why are you still so determined to play by that rulebook? Is it fear? I wouldn't blame you. I'm scared myself. I admit it. I don't want to lose my life, either literally or in the figurative sense of what I have going for me. But I'm not going to wring my hands because of violence when violence is being used against the innocent public every single day.
You want to ignore the problem? Fine. Don't have a hissy fit because others are done ignoring it.
Well of course voting is a proxy for violence, though few are willing to accept that conclusion when taken to the logical extreme. Every law, every single one, is a threat of violence. Voting is, ultimately, what decides laws. Ergo, voting is violence.
How many times does peaceful means need to emphatically fail through unjust and evil measures before you're willing to accept that violence is, sadly, the answer?
I don't say that with glee. I don't say that happy at the idea of violence. It's awful that it will eventually come to this, but it inevitably will become the choice of "let injustice flourish, or fight back".
Better yet, instead of wringing your hands over it, what is the solution here? Voooooote harder? Vooooooote for some other establishment stooge of a different party colour? How many times have you voooooted and actually voted FOR someone you actually and wholly support? Or has it always been against the other, supposedly worse side from winning? Has that ever actually worked out in your favour and made actual progress? Or has it actually just maintained the status quo of perpetual state growth at the expense of the public?
I hate that it will come to violence. But it will come to violence at one point. It just disgusts me more what will happen if that doesn't occur.
Isn't it ran by hard leftists or something? Or am I getting that wrong?
I doubt that he "already" instituted the handshake thing, considering those other posts he just removed were from handshakes.
Dom just removed it right now.... two hours later.
He literally JUST arrived. 2 hours later. But hey, he clearly has it under control, right?
Jokes aside about nothing of value lost because it was a shit episode (it really was), this isn't a good thing. It's just another in a long line of post-humorous censorships. Attempts to hide, deny, and revise history. It might seem minor, and individually it is. But this shit is a cancer that will get worse and worse and worse, all in the efforts and worship of ideological purity.
Counterpoint: There shouldn't be any companies that dominant because government programs are what build these companies up. Just look at how many benefits, tax breaks, incentive programs and more Amazon alone get. Look at how cities have literally tried to throw money at Amazon to get them to open a warehouse in their city (the rationale being that they provide jobs). And it's not limited to a handful of companies. The entire aviation industry is BUILT upon this system. How many times have airline companies been bailed out? What about the pharma industry that is, yet again, propped up by government market interference?
These companies become dominant because of market interference. They become dominant through literally uneven ground. The idea of a free market doesn't exist when bailouts, tax breaks and financial incentives are as common as they are. Is the market "free-er" than other markets out there? Absolutely. But an argument in relativity means nothing when discussing objective measures. And the reality is that growing economic divide and a lack of economic mobility are directly caused through government market forces, not a lack-there-of.
Trust busting is a result of government losing control of what they themselves created. It's got nothing to do with protecting the public.
"Why lie" Simple. Because the person(s) running that account believed that, and they don't want to come to terms with the idea that their views aren't mirrored identically by those around them.
Kinda unrelated, but I'm kinda sick of this buzzword that leftists started to push about private entities engaging in "election interference" because ultimately it comes with the implicit baggage that therefore Something™ needs to be done about this and that the entity to do this Something™ is always some government agency. And I'm just sick of the endless growth of the state, as if it will ever turn out to be anything less than a tool to help further reinforce the establishment and never let anyone else in.
Don't like this shit? Sure, expose it and call it out. But don't fucking expect the government to fix it. Stop using these companies, stop giving them your business, and look for alternatives that don't pull this shit. We need more situations like the Digg Exodus and less situations where people shrug their shoulders and behave like it's all pointless and powerless.
Stop trying to bring this shit here in an unrelated thread. It looks pathetic, like you're trying to get other users in on it. I'll respond to you again on the other thread.