So, leftyville looks completely different from here. I thought I'd tell you what is being talked about right now.
Trump took over the police department in DC. There are tons of rants and images about it. They're saying that ICE, the police, and others are raiding houses at night. Hitler is brought up a lot. He's going to stop elections for sure!
The next one is that Trump was seen yelling at people from the top of the White House. They're commenting that's he's lost his mind and deranged. Also, this totally happened even though it's only them talking about it.
Basically, they're making him out to be a monster that needs to be destroyed.
I've been a foster parent, and eventually adopted one of them. The entire thing is weird and has different rules than normal parenting. For example, my kids all know a different life and how to survive in it. If they grew up in a messed up house, they know how to survive in it.
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to see that the kid went through hell. Every child has a book about anything reported from health issues to acting up to what the police know about their homes. The thicker the book the more messed up the kid. What's even scarier is that this is the stuff reported. We once took a foster kid to a trampoline park and had to quickly take them to the hospital. The ankle had been broken for years, and my wife had to explain that we A) Didn't do it and B) were the first to know it happened. The bio family knew but ignored it. Reading between lines and looking at evidence becomes really important.
Another part is how much people will lie straight to your face about the kid. They will tell you about how this poor child has been kicked out of 5 homes this year and just needs a family to love them enough. Those times when they picked up a stick or bit someone, or other things were just a small child throwing a temper tantrum. Talking to previous parents we saw scars over their faces and arms, and heard that things had been destroyed. The powers that be often tried to stop us from talking to previous parents.
So it becomes really important to figure out the kids Modus Operandi, and how they think. A 7 year old with anger issues has no problems trying to beat someone to death, or throw a chair at a grandparent. Mental illness and messed up life can create some monsters. Also, if they were sexually abused, they may think it's important to have sex to feel safe. I've had 10 year olds try to seduce me. When we realized this, we made sure I was never alone with that child for event the hint of an accusation. They're all thieves and pack ratters.
One of the biggest mistakes every foster parent makes is thinking that their goodness will make things better. They see a messed up kid, and want to hug the problems away, or give them whatever they want. This creates a messed up and spoiled child who thinks crying and sob stories along with violent behaviors will get them what they want.
Some of the best training we got was to recognize that kids are still kids and need to be disciplined and given strict rules. At times I felt like a jail warden instead of a parent. My wife wanted desperately to let her love win them over, and she got injured pretty badly. Only when they started to follow rules and keep to things could the rules be relaxed a bit. Even then, I had to be wary of problems and ask major questions.
The system wants it to be winning them over with love. In fact, most of the people involved think for certain that the kid that dragged my wife into incoming traffic was just kidding or something. Love and having good moments is important, as is recognizing the lines that can't be crossed or the need stop change rules based on how they respond to things. The system makes it sound like you just hugged them till they were ok.
It comes from the Christian beliefs in goodness. Someone was so good that those around them couldn't help but become good. There are similar stories in Buddhist teachings. My favorite is about a grandmother who has to take care of her grandchild, and does all these sacrifices for him until he realizes he loves her. We all tell stories like this and want them to be true about ourselves. I wanted to be that kind of parent with my kids, and had to be sat down and explained to that my job was to be somewhat scary and loving. I could test you with kindness and love, and send you to your room or even spank you -its legal in Florida btw- depending on the need.
Honestly, when I hear about us being children of God, it makes me think about the requirements I have as a father. How often is wanted to give a kind thing, and they refused it or needed to be punished instead. I work with various theme parks and can easily get tickets and discounts in the park. I've gotten tickets and prepared a great day, only to not take them at all. I often wonder how many blessings I've refused because I thought of my own greatness.
I see a similar thing with immigration. We want to love refugees and those from difficult parts of the world to the point that they become great. We want our very presence to make them better. We give them so much out of a desire to help them become better. I have received that help when coming to this country and it is a big important memory to me of the goodness of this country.
I've also worked with refugees and learned to recognize when a family is telling us to not let someone in. They usually ask about the background checks and if there were any problems. The government type always assures that it shouldn't be a problem, while I quickly called various groups to recheck that history.
Immigration is a lot like foster parenting. You're taking in someone who has a reason to be living here. We sometimes forget that this means they know how to survive in that world. Many a mafia was created because no one really knew how to deal with the immigrant group. There's also a lot of people who think they're helping and are doing the opposite in all sorts of angles. Some demand we give up everything to fit into the new culture, while others demand we give up nothing and make a little Germany or a little Baghdad. It gets even hard when the USA is so big it has different cultures demanding both. I feel just as foreign with my Scottish Germaness as my Seattlite Northwestern self in Florida. There's a lot more Argentines here so that's nice. I swear a cried a little when I saw Mate and Irn Bru in the same aisle at Publix. I had never seen it except on Amazon beforehand.
The government lies all the time about either. They make the kids and immigrants out to be these absolute angels with small problems, and then you get hit in the face by a rock. If you find out problems you get scared of being reported. When I was adopting my son, we knew there was something wrong, but anytime we mentioned it, we were yelled at for doing it wrong. Only after he was adopted could we find out he had a mood disorder that it difficult for him to turn off whatever he is thinking about. Add in ADHD and I saw him walk into a room, pull everything out of all the drawers, try to guilt trip me, and then start to cry because he had a sad thought. He had to get training and new meds. No amount of love could solve this without help.
In a similar sense most immigrants don't even know how to shop at an American grocery store. They need training, and someone to answer questions like: Why is everyone smiling? Why is the waiter acting like we're close family? Why does my boss need constant updates on the project? I wish I knew the answer to the last one.
I've watched this happen in immigration and the foster program. It makes me realize that a lot of it has the same problems and solutions. Recognizing this and working toward a better goal seems to be the thing that all the people talking don't want. They want the power, money Laundering, and sense of goodness without having to get their own hands dirty.
This tirade was sparked by various conversations I've seen and made me realize the connection.
I found a comic telling the story of a Sister of Battle falling for a Black Templar. Even the commenters are confused why it exists. I think this will be a thread the left uses to take over the game.
Warhammer has dropped language that says Space Marines are only male. This article praises it.
To answer the question I had by a few others who thought I meant Custodes. It's Space Marines and it's getting praise from lefty ville.
The new codex for the Grey Knights is out, and it tells the Terminus Decree. I read about this right before the License to Buy a Pizza thread, so all I could see was Orks. Apparently the decree says that if the Emperor stands up from his throne, is reincarnated, or ascends to godhood, the grey knights must stop this. There's hints that the emperor is already reborn against his will, and doesn't even know what or who he is yet. So a new story is building up.
I haven't found any news about it, only YouTubers and random reddit threads. This is coming at the same time that Space Marines are no longer male.
I guess I should mention this is WarHammer 40k stuff.
HBO closed down their kids streaming service a few months ago. To compensate they put almost everything onto Max. What wasn't there could be found on Tubi. There are several shows, movies, and other stuff to get everything to understand the Scoobster, so it has a weird feel to it. Fans collect the DVDs and VHS all the time.
I bring this up because suddenly Scooby has been pulled everywhere. I could watch it off several streaming services or buy some DVDs at Walmart. Now, it's all missing. There are a few shows still around, but the basic stuff, and even then it's limited to Tubi and HBO Max.
It's really weird and works with a weird rumour I keep hearing about WB being up for sale, or selling parts.
Movies and shows are not quite making the money they should. We have the Superman thread here as an example. Big pushes for movies to make Billions and only making hundreds of millions. What's keeping a lot of them alive is the theme parks dedicated to them. Avatar as a movie series is incredibly forgettable. The theme park area at Disney world is full. The Star Wars movies aren't doing great, while the shows are hit and miss, but the parks for them are why people visit Disney world. A joke among people at either Disney or Universal is someone asking where Harry Potter is at Disney, or Star Wars at Universal.
So the parks are making tons from this. The new How to Train your Dragon movie was released to promote the new park. Movies and TV shows are being used to promote parks as the real money makers.
Paramount was just sold for $8 Billion, and then gave the South Park guys $1.1 Billion for a show. Is that stupid? Yeah. However, Universal Hollywood had a Star Trek experience a few months ago for geeks. It also had a D&D experience. Imagine a haunted house but it's a geek experience instead. That made a lot of money and will likely be used for the other parks like Florida, Japan, China, Singapore ECT. I don't think Paramount paid a billion for a show, I think they paid for an IP for an experience. My wife was shocked to find out Casa Bonita was a real place, and wants to go entirely for the Cartman picture.
I think a lot of companies are pushing for IPs to be used as themed experiences. Scoobert has a mini put and escape room. Universal has some rights to it because they had a Hanna Barbera experience and still regularly have meet and greets. I wouldn't be shocked if WB sold the entire thing to Universal. Paramount and WB don't have the money or know how to create parks or experiences. They are likely going to rent out or sell IP to make money for experiences.
WB may be letting more IP loose or even go up for sale. My guess is Universal will buy it, entirely for the IP for the theme parks.
I have mixed circles of friends and associates as many of you have guessed. Left leaning gaming Historians are talking about all the archives they have of GamerGate and studying it to prove how evil it was. One bragged about having over 5TB of files.
They all talked about how it was destroyed and the leadership was in jail for rape and stuff. I get the feeling more papers from those types is incoming.