Outside of populists breaking in, it’s the uniparty.
I’m pro abortion because of who’s getting abortions, but someone that’s pro choice tried arguing with me the other day when I said abortion wasn’t ever a right. They said it is because of the right to bodily autonomy. I said you have two bodies in this situation so it’s hard to draw the line as to when both have the right to bodily autonomy as it’s not like we let mothers kill their babies after they pop up and there’s at least a period of time before that when it’s not any different. There’s never any coherent response to that. You know your side is fucked when you can’t actually address or discuss an issue but have to rely on metaphors and slogans indefinitely.
At least with me I can say I think plenty of abortion might be murder but I’m okay with that because of who’s doing it. Then I just point to a photo of pretty much any women’s march attendee, or ghetto welfare folks. I’m okay if they kill their babies and don’t breed in the same way you’d be okay with a warring tribe of crazy people chopping off each other’s limbs. “Great, you do that and disappear from existence. Let me know if you need help.”
She Hulk is becoming a telling cultural example of this type of shit. Like when she tried talking down to an actual super hero that saved the world countless times and has dealt with things throughout his entire life that she couldn’t possibly imagine, which she one ups by saying some guys say she’s pretty or disagree with her at work sometimes. She doesn’t put it on par with what he’s been through, but claims she has it worse because she’s so pretty people try to ask her out or comment on it.
If I had a family member that not only was a war hero but a war of all wars hero, I’d sooner die than say that to him.
In context, it’s actually so bad of a character portrait of her it’s funny. “You remember that one time you were enslaved to fight in an intergalactic battle arena? That doesn’t hold a candle to even one syllable from the mouth of a man that says I have a nice ass.”
Haha, been a while since I’ve seen it I guess! The main criticism was the idea that it was Tom Cruise though based on the title, which people were still critical of.
Yeah. It’s why it’s weird to have a black chick as the queen of a medieval European period. Although in context Tom Cruise made sense in Last Samurai, that’s also why that film got criticized for that because it’s a deeply Japanese thing and the last samurai’s a white guy.
Sometimes it’s fine as long as everything else is good, like Stranger Things making the black kid a star basketball player and getting a nice girl and all that. He was also decidedly not urban ghetto black, which was true of his sister as well. He was just some kid, which was great. Most great black characters in film and TV aren’t usually ghetto welfare black types into hip hop, unless the fact that they are is the point of the joke, like Fresh Prince of Belair.
It’s probably no coincidence that all popular black actors and actresses seemingly never play the ghetto black stereotype. Idris Elba, Denzel, etc. The closest you’d get is Samuel L Jackson but for the most part he just says Motherfucker better than anyone in history, he’s not usually made out to be ghetto. The ones that do try seem to have their careers go nowhere eventually, like Martin Lawrence. Kevin Hart’s right on the line but he basically plays the formerly ghetto guy that made it and is rich and isn’t really all that ghetto outside of a hip hop vibe. I might be wrong as I’m not a scholar of black actors and actresses off the top of my head but at least thinking on it, it appears true.
I heard the fight scenes were the best in the franchise.
I don’t pay much attention to most modern entertainment. Netflix right now is finding success in showing more Korean things because all American stuff now’s woke ass nonsense.
It is funny when you put it that way. Thousands of years of empire, philosophy, and nation building, and some kid that grew up playing Minecraft thinks he can do better without having in most cases even read the greater history of the world or the ongoing conversations on it.
Same thing with healthcare and college tuition. If you mandate a payment for it, they’re going to ask for more because everyone’s using ‘magic money’ to pay for it. If they really wanted to see healthcare and education costs drop, remove regulations and guaranteed free funding for it. Then there’d be nobody that would be willing to pay for it at the current prices because it’s not worth that much, so the price goes down.
You go to a GP for 15 minutes, he plugs what you said into their WebMD, then they bill insurance for thousands. Even super cheap meds like thyroid meds that abroad cost pennies on the dollar get billed to insurance for $400 when they cost $3 to make and have been generic for years.
I tried talking to a leftist guy I know about this and his counter was that the head of the IRS already said they wouldn’t go after low and middle income folks. Well, that settles it then. They promised they wouldn’t! Pay no attention to them having passed laws over the last few years that only make sense if they were.
Is that math right? 87000 people can cover 20 million people with 200 per millionaire? 87000 people can at most cover 87000 millionaires at one each.
That’s why they’re having PayPal and Venmo and other companies issue 1099’s every year. Billionaires aren’t using Venmo to get around their taxes. Hair stylists, contractors, dog walkers, tutors, and people like that get paid that way plenty of times and now they’re coming for them.
I expect a new cash economy will form for those folks.
It is sad that in real life the actress is better looking and takes great pains to look good like almost everyone. Then she gets a role in a game and they make her uglier. Someone posted a link to pics of her and she’s actually very decent looking.
I agree with the general sentiment of there being woke nonsense in games but I actually liked her character in the game. Everyone’s an off the wall parody of themselves.
I should probably feel otherwise but admittedly the pedophile and sexual assault stuff kind of flies over my head at this point because it’s like pretty much anyone ends up being a pedo and having a parade of girls saying he grabbed her butt.
Most people’s image of Trump is the CNN caricature. Talked to a guy earlier in the week and he’s hyper political. Something came up about the Jan 6 hearings and he kept going off on it. I said it seems like the people there were protesting an election they felt was fraudulent. Then he started shouting out random names and frothing at the mouth about Trump.
All I said after that was that I don’t think the people supporting Trump are the caricature you made them out to be and asked if he’d ever tried talking to them because most of them just don’t want more government regulations and communism and SJW nonsense. The froth kept flowing.
I don’t like Biden but I don’t feel a deep seething hatred for him. They really did a number on the TDS folks.
It’s redneck culture from the South from many years ago that lingered on to today through them.
I completely agree that it is a dialect and has rules to an extent, the ‘to an extent’ part being that most people’s criticisms of those using it is that they aren’t actually saying anything, they’re just cursing and using slang to cover up that their speech has no content.
“Sheeeit, nigger! Bitch nigga fuck sheeeeit. Fuck ass bitch nigga.” A lot of what people say when they speak that way is basically that.
You can use it to say things of note, but nobody does, and it seems to have only developed to obscure the fact that someone has nothing to say.
A gun free zone ensures only law abiding citizens within it will not have guns. The entire idea is silly. Signs that tell people not to skate and grind in some areas don’t even work. Why would ‘no gun’ signs? Speed limits don’t make people not speed. In CA most people don’t really stop at stop signs all the way. Almost all public notices and declarations don’t work as intended if they’re not notices that prevent immediate harm to the reader.
I’m in CA in an area with the strictest gun rules and we have the most gun deaths. Richmond out here has the most gun deaths by capita. Oakland’s on the top list too. Some kid in Berkeley of all places was caught trying to do another school shooting right after the last big school shooting. Think it was the same weekend.
Telling people not to have guns doesn’t help people looking to commit crimes with guns.
There’s a desperate need to appear ‘informed’ now that I’m not sure existed before. Most people know less about what’s going on than ever now because we have less time to do that and most people are consumers now anyway. I almost never hear anybody making a proud political stance in public that has any idea what’s going on. Not in the sense I disagree with them but in the sense that they’re obviously repeating a headline they read on the can.
What was the context for the dance number? I’m not feeling the fear.
They’re voting on how they feel about how another nation handles things, and how they decided to handle things like Europe always has. If they support the overturn than they hate how they’re handling it. If they don’t, they also hate how they’re handling it.
One of my neighbors here in CA wants to move to the UK so she can be ‘free’. I then informed her they have more abortion restrictions than we do.
Some lady tried arguing with me about abortion being banned and then brought up the wage gap and I just laughed. That’s a huge example of lying that people still cite. Any entry level statistics course disproves it.
I think most people are like me now where they don’t bother to read that stuff and only hear others talk about it because any time we look into it, it’s as made up as it appeared.
I completely understand taking moral issue with me being okay with leftists murdering an innocent child of their own, but the Foucault argument doesn’t really work because him having had children isn’t why his ideas became influential to other people’s children. Speaking of Foucault: it is kind of weird than any time you look into a leftist ideal, they’re creepy deranged pedophiles that often lived a life of unemployment and child rape. We’re going around taking down statues of Jefferson but praising people like that?
More on the topic: I don’t believe children are blank slates and have over time taken to seeing people as family lines and units. I agree that killing an unborn or newly born baby is murdering an innocent child in most cases. In this context, however, I am okay with that because I see it as self castration if someone is willing to do that in many of the cases we find of someone using it as contraception in a way that’s now said with deranged pride. I think the most morally righteous and respectable person in most cases would be willing to upturn their entire life for their unborn child, provided it didn’t ruin the life of the child in the process and make the effort pointless. That person would not abort their babies. More people like that will have kids. Less people that are somewhat the opposite over time will have less kids. I see that as the long game and a viable way out of this mess we’re in with few great alternatives being put on the table.
In some ways it’s also self domestication. People I think shouldn’t breed are going to breed less than people I think should breed more. I look a crazy and deranged obese blue haired ham planet in the eye asking to kill her own child to end her family line, and I say “thank you for your service.”