Its only my anecdote, but my church sermon the Sunday immediately after was somber and full of eggshells from the pastor. He was attempting to keep it neutral and not upset the Lefties and "soft" Rights among our congregation with getting political about it, and we could all tell.
This Sunday he came in loud and full of passion speaking about it. About the power of martyrdom and the revival this is already bringing across our nation, and how this is the time to push and reach people to bring them to Christ. That's not the political upheaval I know we all want, but its a sign of how many people are still of fire about it all and using that to push our society back on track.
There was also zero talk about forgiveness in it. For all the other cucks among the Church.
My nigger, I was disowned by my family at a young age and was a MRA 20 years ago when it was actively dangerous to be so. I've been outcasted and been actually homeless. I know what men can suffer under and I got my ass beat naively trying to campaign against it for years.
You will not get my sympathy for giving yourself up to drugs to hold onto people who don't care about you, making yourself a meek compliant little zombie and for what? You are still miserable in the only life you have.
People will hate when you speak up about it. That will never change, and that means you only have yourself to rely on to drag yourself out of it and find a purpose in your own life. Life isn't fair, and its especially not for men. Crying like a victim about it doesn't make it better either, so the sooner you get that trait out of your mind the sooner you can start to make some steps forward.
As Woke as DA2 is, it still has the greatest mechanic in any of these party RPGs that I've never seen replicated.
Which is the Rivalry scale. As in, you can call your companions fucking idiots and not be forced to kowtow to their every bullshit whim to keep them happy or progress their personal quests. I don't have to choose companions based on my alignment or way I want to progress, but can pick ones that I enjoy personally or need the skills of.
It wasn't perfect, but it was such a huge game changer in terms of actual player freedom. Especially after Morrigan's fucking nonsense in the first game in terms of keeping her happy. The fact that every single game since hasn't replicated it shows how incompetent they are.
Also the accidental aesop of "there are no good mages, every single one will go into Blood Magic if they get a stubbed toe, the Tranquil Solution is the only safety from demons" in it still makes me laugh. Its just on the edge of when Woke was coming on that it was still capable of destroying its own platitudes. Like Anders literally bombing the church and killing the not-Pope (the only vaguely good person in the equation, if guilty of inaction and neutrality) just to force a Civil War after he failed to start a revolution is so on point with modern Leftism despite being older than most of their adulthood.
The boomers watching his show had a scant chance of thinking anything otherwise, and a million other sources that would easily convince them so.
Kimmel is just one source of near infinite selling this, and he is one of the lesser ones at that. Cutting it off is always good, but the problem is the boomers themselves and nothing would have prevented their minds being made on this.
The point isn't abuse, its that you are completely lost in the trap of "well I'm fine so they must be fine period."
The abuse of them isn't in their overuse, its their overprescription and lifelong commitment, in which you can physically watch people slow down into a zombielike state with an empty stare that is common enough for people to note it. A problem so slow acting that people on it rarely notice it happening to themselves, but because people on them never really quit they lack the perspective to ever see it.
I don't think anyone would disagree that China is leagues ahead of India in terms of capabilities. Their own history is littered with their potential, and its only hampered right now by their culture and government from becoming at least competent if not flourishing again.
The fact that heads on pikes haven't already started to appear should be a massively relief to them that the temperature hasn't been increased enough as it should have.
But at the rate things are going, I am seeing people only get angrier by the day, fueled on by their reactions like this. So we might still get there.
Exactly, the local man only takes one drink after work and can totally quit anytime. Thereby all this hullabaloo about alcoholism is overblown and he just doesn't get it and you are in fact the problem for bringing it up.
Honestly, I hope its the SSRIs that make you this braindead retarded because if you are correct and they don't do much, then you have far worse problems in life.
I think both look like complete dorks, and Beast looks worse because his veneers (or whatever specific thing he did) is extremely uncanny on top of it.
Their eyes are soulless, but even if they had humanity in them their physiognomy would be fucking nerds and everything downstream from that accordingly.
it's just a fantasy and they don't want to actually go through it.
Most of them want to go through with it in a "noncon" setting. If the man is attractive enough, the main qualifier for them to trust him because women, they will basically let him get away with all sorts of roleplay brutality to the level that if the cops were called it would still get you charged with the crime regardless of her consent.
You don't even need the consent half the time, just be dominant enough and she will soak herself that you just did it to her. Not the rape part, but the rest of the roughness that comes along with it, obviously.
Its a common enough problem for the modern standup joke "I'm not going to rape you on the off chance you are into that" being less joke and more a real issue in the dating market.
I really hate that all this discussion seems to be centered around the "level 1" autists, who are basically just kinda weird but mostly functional, instead of the "level 3" ones who are living monsters that ruin the lives of everyone in their family because of how violent and in need they are.
You could probably just stop giving any attention to the level 1s, and spank them a little more as kids, and they'd stop existing 70% of the time. Literally giving them the label is the excuse they crutch on to keep their maladaptive behavior.
Whereas the level 3s are completely broken people, even less functional than actual retards, who we need not only preventative research on but also actual answers to giving them, and their family, a life. Or a path towards euthanizing them, because there unfettered ape strength makes them an actual danger to everyone.
Gonna be honest, I think the biggest consumers of CNC content are the actual women on these sites. Its the number one fetish among women by a long margin for a reason, and its pretty normal for the autism fest that is the troons.
Its because deep down that lack the ability to understand things outside themselves. To them its not "white, Christian morality" its just basic "kindness" and Whitey is just trying to steal credit for it. You can see this in not only their politics and the words they use for it, but in all their art.
Lovecraft is a great example, because the very idea is something unknowable and outside human comprehension. To them, its just tentacles and "existentialism so scary."
And in this case, the Aztecs weren't brutally evil assholes everyone hated but simply different and misunderstood and those monstrous Spaniards made them look eviler than they were. Probably also something something whitey wrote the history book and its all lies.
A lot of American "law" is just random Executive Orders, barely read bills, or state rulings that we all just play along with.
Its one of the reasons why Roe v Wade was able to be overturned, because no one bothered to actually put it into real writing. They just left it as it was, floating easily about to be destroyed with any effort by anyone who was willing to take the hit to their reputation.
Its also the reason why we sometimes see really retarded "Virginia outlaws slavery in 2011" ideas. Because its better to get that on the record than leave it in that floating state.
hat sort of thing being accepted as normal entertainment in Japan is an oddity that illustrates the problem
The "loli harem" genre is so common that it can even be called a genre, and its one of those things so inherent to the industry that I can't even find it more than an oddity despite it being offensively awful to so many (which is why the "loli question" is so prevalent in the online sphere). Perhaps I've just been around anime so long that its become numb to me in terms of its existence, but the fact that it is so commonplace, yet Japan doesn't have seemingly any large amount of pedo nonsense in real life makes it hard to even get mad about its existence outside of "gross and not for me."
You are right they represent more ends of the spectrum with little middle, though that's a deep enough problem that its above me to find a solid solving of that without tipping the balanced scale too hard in one direction. I've seen a considerable enough "subversion" take over the industry where characters break out of those two assumed extremes, though the Japs fucking love their standard generic stuff across all things. Its why isekai is so popular right now, why every female character has a named stereotype it falls into, and why we can predict so much. Its a bigger problem than just this in regards to what they love in media.
But clearly they have something wrong going on over their if their birthrates and marriage rates are any indication, and I think they are
I think the bigger problem in this regard is the economic one. Like, we have it bad in terms of people not buying houses or having children because of how expensive it is, but we have more freedom and options in regards to offsetting it somewhat.
The Japs don't have that, they are struggling with the economic issues of the modern world meeting the traditional culture of relationships and careers and seem to be taking the worst of both worlds. Like an office drone who works 14 hours a day until he can barely stand from stress and exhaustion is a standard part of their life, but that guy can no longer support a family on his income (like all of us) meaning now he either doesn't find a girl or his girl has to work too. Both of which means she is less attracted to most men and even less likely to breed with the ones she does attach to.
I know you said you didn't like parts of Horimiya, but I think that's exactly the sort of thing that might do some good
I enjoyed Horimiya until the "first" ending. Where the main couple's story basically ended and it became like 8 volumes of "and here is what everyone else is doing!" My dislike of it was to talk about the downside of the "continue after they get together doing filler" option, in how badly it can end up.
become a healthy adult couple
Its amusing to think of a healthy adult couple from "girl who gets sexually aroused from him raising his hand to hit her, and keeps trying to provoke him into doing so." I get what you are saying, but its very funny to remember that plot point in this conversation.
Then you have far more important things to work on than defending the honor of your drug online and arguing with me.
Life isn't ever going to get easier by throwing emotions (other than anger, real fueling anger, not impotent) at it. Nor will those skills simply be given to you. You have to make it so through force of your own will, even if it means pushing through obstacles put in your way and reverting to zero.
I don't envy your position, because its one I remember too well in many ways. But that's the cards that have been dealt to you, and, short of folding, you have to play them. If you are lucid enough to recognize the problem, then they haven't taken your mind from you fully yet.