I think conceptually its a great idea. I know quite a few families that survived off it and would have fallen into holes they could never recover from without it, and are now fine.
Problem is, as always, it needs to be nigger-proofed. You can't rely on high-trust, dignity or pride to protect it from abuse. You need extremely specific limitations and rules, almost to a point of comedy, or else it just becomes a generational abuse of our tax dollars.
Personally, I think the barest minimum that should have been there from the start are "coupons for specific foods, not cash to spend on anything" and lifetime limits, where if you go over you are clearly not deserving of the help any further.
I think part of the reason its working is because a lot of people are basically salivating at the thought of the niggers and other SNAP fraudsters suffering, of which I am completely guilty and I think all of us can agree its probably morally justified.
But for the fainter heart, the normies in the middle that are easily swayed by those "14 heartbreaking photos" type propaganda, that's a very easy thing to show to frame it as "look at the Righties trying to kill the poors and laughing about it!"
He's allowed to do it, and we are allowed to criticize how pathetic and unjust it is that he is doing so.
He deserves his fate, as he tied his "health" to the Vaxx and showed himself to be willing to sell every bit of credibility and intelligence he once held out just to assuage his fear of death. And now, once again, he is groveling like a little baby in terror of it, and selling what remains of his dignity to do so.
Once again, he is allowed to do all these things and in the face of death many men are rendered into their meekest forms. But just the same, everyone is completely in the right to mock and belittle him for it, as he made his "health" the most important part of his brand all on his own out of pure ego and inability to admit being wrong and is now reduced to suffering from the same gay healthcare system we all do.
And in the face of that nightmare, what does he do? Does he use the thing he is famous for, understanding business and corporation cultures, and try to leverage it into change for the betterment of all men by showing that even someone as connected and rich as him can't escape it?
No, he begs his friend to save him specifically and only him. He is deserving of mockery in the highest degree, and no amount of "well he technically can do that because he is rich" will change that.
My podunk church literally feeds homeless people every single week, to the tune of thousands of dollars a month. It does this in complete silence and this week was the first time in years of going that they've even asked for more money due to the obvious problem (and our insurance rates skyrocketing on the building).
The Satanic Church and all its variations only show up when its beneficial to their optics for these little quips, and otherwise exist to lavish themselves in hedonism because that's literally their doctrine. The local chapter in my town, who shares a building with the Jedi Temple, is nothing but extremely fat, gross nerds who you can tell are already on EBT/SNAP assistance with their 4 feral kids.
Also while I appreciate these posts, maybe use a few less so the text of some of them isn't so painfully small. Just as a request, more posts with smaller collages.
People hate it because its just a blatant case of "some pigs are more equal than others."
Especially given his Clott Shot past, it 100% reads as a man running away from the consequences of his own actions (even if the Vaxx wasn't responsible, Covid deaths counted in car crashes so turnabout is fairplay) to rub it in the faces of those who have to suffer and die under the same circumstances that he is famous and connected so he shouldn't have to deal with this bureaucratic nonsense and die. This is the problem of throwing it up on social media to whine about it, instead of privately asking for help.
From his perspective he probably sees himself as a scared man trying whatever he can to survive, but that's not what the reality of it is.
That is a great one, and its also a great example of how the shift happened from "positive indoctrination," as Captain Planet was generally fighting totally unrelateable villains whose evil was laughable over the top, to the modern form where its meant to say "this is you and you are evil!!" in many of their characters.
Which is likely why it feels to many like it just started, because its easier to recognize when its cruel.
Its not about stoicism, its about condescension. Grown men generally do not enjoy being treated like a poor victimized little thing, and will be less likely to go along with someone who treats them as such. Its why rape and domestic violence against men will never be given the daylight it deserves, no matter how much people harp and try to destigmatize it.
I don't need Trump to validate me or my struggles, I just need him to remove the obstacles that I cannot myself.
Yeah, that's been a major issue with men's issues for the longest time.
The guys who want you to pity them and be taken care of are the biggest losers that nobody wants to associate with, while the actual men of value who are being held back barely want their suffering to be acknowledged and just want to be left alone to succeed on their own merits.
So in a way, not acknowledging it directly while simply removing the problem likely is the most effective way of fixing it, even if it lacks the feeling of justice being accomplished.
Yeah I was picking up problems with it in middle school myself, though I was certainly too scared to speak up on a lot of the problems, sans the gender one. Plus there was that youthful ignorance of "let people do their thing" regarding a lot of it.
Which is why I take a lot of issue with people acting like "omg, how could we have known it would get this bad? I voted for Obama three times but like I'm so totes on your side now!" It was obvious to a retarded little swamp boy who'd never even been to a city, how could anyone not figure it out?
This very comment section proves how loaded it is, because the reaction it has received was entirely intentional and most of them knew it from the moment he walked up. Its a clickbait journo trying to create a witchhunt, even if we all agree with them deserving it that is still what is happening.
I didn't argue they were morally in the right, they are still deserving the rope as all traitors do, only that they were smarter than the retards who stopped and tried to defend themselves. Because, once again as shown very clearly by everyone here's reaction, there was no winning once the question was asked so why bother?
Higurashi has been remade like 4 times, so make sure you pick the one that feels most appealing to you. I don't recall much of the content changing, but the art between versions is wildly different. The later versions probably have more added (since they came after the anime was a huge hit), but I know a few guys who swear by the "boxing glove" originals.
And?
And dismissing them is the right move 100% of the time for that reason. Like I said initially, the guys who humored them at all should be lambasted for being so retarded they did so rather than any answer they gave.
And the question isn't remotely controversial at all.
Except we live in reality where it is, even if we really don't like it, its a dangerous topic to speak off the cuff on. The same way "I am pro-white" has been for a long time, even if obviously any white person should be and many are.
For Japanese VNs? Most of the ones I could suggest you've probably heard of or seen the anime for (Steins Gate, Higurashi, Clannad). I enjoyed School Days way back when for the meme, but outside of that its mostly pornographic.
That's really the reason why its stayed a mostly Japanese genre, because 90% of it is porn or close to it, and when it isn't its usually becomes big enough to get adapted into something else.
It depends on what deep end you consider the breaking point.
I was a MRA for a long time, we hit peak feminism sometimes in the mid 00s and that was years after going off the deepend on that front. Someone could say Rodney King was the tipping point for their anti-nigger stances.
The later Obama years was when they finally felt comfortable enough as an Intersectional whole to leave the shadows and stop operating as puppetmasters and could just outright act in your face.
By merely asking it is primed, because by asking you reveal your own intent is to use their answer against them. Or I suppose for them, if you trust such a journalist wouldn't just cut any answer that doesn't fit his clickbait.
Someone running up on you while you are walking to film themselves asking you one of the most controversial questions around is not someone who is doing it out of neutrality or journalistic information sharing. Its a set up, one way or another, and should be treated as such.
I like a lot of what he is saying, but something about this really rubs me wrong:
when “woke” kicked off in 2015
2015 is just when the word "Woke" entered common parlance. It had been going on forever before that, under multiple labels and names. "Woke" was literally people repurposing their own word to mock them, much like Snowflake before it, as they used it relatively often to be "woke to the problem of microaggressions" or some other. For a brief period it was "Intersectionality" which was the time when feminists, negroes and gays realized they hated White Men more than each other and combined forces under the Leftie umbrella.
I've talked before about it, but in my public school decades ago we would have regularly scheduled White Guilt months in Feb/Nov for angry black and Indian dudes to come in and talk about how evil we were for what we did to their ancestors. We'd do little assignments and projects basically cementing it into our brains and apologizing for it all. This wasn't optional, they didn't send home permission slips to attend, it was part of the curriculum and every class would attend. I became an adult significantly before 2015 and I knew at that time that the world hated me for everything I was, and expected me to grovel for existing.
This has been happening for a lot longer than he or really anyone gives it credit for, and its very important to recognize that longevity both in how deep it goes but also in how long it took for people to finally resist. If Trump hadn't won in 2016 and TDS didn't make them turn everything up to 11 in a frothing rage, they'd likely have kept the much more subdued and insidious plan going until it was actually too late for any choices or resistance to matter.
A child actor whose the big "hit" in a show that is blowing up and going viral with herself getting forced into multiple projects to ride her fame is the exact type of "too big for your britches" idiot who everyone wants to bully, and likely said bullying was simply challenging that ego without backing down.
Its funny that people think its even possible to do things like that and remain in Hollywood, especially young and replaceable ones.
Chris Pratt literally just goes to church and seems to be otherwise unoffensive in all ways if not Leftie/Progressive in many, and is a fucking MCU megastar, and they spent years trying to destroy him.
If this little nobody whose biggest claim to fame was a Netflix show that's long since past its relevance (and ruining two otherwise good Godzilla movies) did a single thing even close to that they'd have discarded and publicly destroyed her within the week.
Its funny how the VN genre of games evolved from Japan and the West in completely different directions.
The West its always the gayest of gay stories, usually about lesbians, and some dumb message about politics and leaving your parents. And its a dead genre entirely propped up by the Games Journos fluffing it or literal government funding, as very few of them ever sell.
Japan its about which girl (or guy for the fujos) you want to fuck, with entire subgenres about specific types of women and sex scenes for most of them. And its such a massive industry that multiple VNs are cultural landmarks if not the start of entire billion dollar franchises (Fate).
I've never met a Union at any company I worked for that provided anything for me other than the promise of "you can never be fired, ever, no matter how much you suck." Something I didn't need because I'm not a nigger tier worker.
Any wage increases we got, were long lost on Dues, any protection offered was also used to protect legitimately problematic employees, and any time I wanted to work on my own volition (to say, help get to work faster) I was reprimanded because Union rules.
Unions in theory are good, and Corporations will absolutely abuse their employees if allowed. But most Unions that exist in reality are just bloated bureaucracy that are just fucking you in a different manner.
How is "have you stopped beating your wife?" a trap? You know how it is, despite the fact that the answer should be simple.
But if you stumble on a single word, it will be pounced on and held against you, heck even entertaining it will be used against you, and anyone with a brain knows that "while I'm walking somewhere a random nobody shoves a camera and mic in my face and is asking me a question regarding a mega clusterfuck" is not going to end well for you no matter how you answer.
I know the answer I believe in with passion, but if someone on the road while I was walking asked me about it I'd be equally dismissive and suspicious of his intent.
Its actually a very hopefully sign to see a full on Indian costume like that in public. We spent years and years under Cancel Culture rule where people would be terrified of doing such, and you'd not even be able to buy the pieces to assemble one. To see one organically pop up means people aren't as afraid anymore and they will continue to spread little by little.
You can even see how impotent this formerly terrifying situation is. Everyone is laughing at him and he has to walk off like a loser instead of getting his "and everyone clapped and jumped her" moment like he expected. Just a few years ago this woman would have been destroyed over this, now its just a slightly unnerving memory that all her friends will back her up on.
So while its Clown World nonsense at work, its also a sign that we are healing from the peak of it and they are losing their ultimate power, even if only somewhat.
Its probably a smart move to recognize a trap question and just dodge it, unless you are in a specific format where dodging looks worse like a debate. Its just a "have you stopped beating your wife?" setup, regardless on what answer we want them to say.
The ones engaging should be more criticized for how retarded they are for doing so, than the obviously scripted canned responses they give. Someone that stupid shouldn't be in Congress to begin with, but we know how that goes.
Jediism became officially recognized as a religion in 2005 (thanks Texas) and even has tax exempt status as of like 2015. Most big towns likely have an "official" Jedi Temple if you look closely, though they are usually used for multiple purposes beyond just that like card/comic shops up front or DnD locations.
Its filled with the exact type of losers you'd expect, all of them "Grey Jedi" so they don't have to adhere to codes or rules and saying a lot of empty platitudes that sound super deep before having sword fights.