I was actually reading a book set In the civil war era where this came up. "Uncle" was generally used by the not racist white people in order to be respectful without breaking social taboos.
The actually racist people didn't need to couch their slurs.
Thos CNN editors are going to have their hands full. At this rate Biden speeches will be incoherent angry shouting about how three-quarters of the country need to die, while he stands in front of pillars of fire and racial-pride flags by next year.
This is the way. I have a Kobo specifically because I can drop an Epub or text file on its internal drive and it will just read it. Calibre can manage books offline for a number of e readers, but I like that I can just open random txt files
Every Democrat bill can basically be summed up as "Let's spend lots of money"
This one is no different.
In the very best case scenario, we are governed by people just one step removed from the stoner saying "what if the government printed a quadrillion dollars, and then gave everyone a million dollars? We'd all be, like, Rich man!"
Unfortunately we all know it's far more likely that there is a degree of intent and maliciouness to this.
"I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous." --Kurt von Hammerstein
Honestly, no. Japanese humor is weird. My gut says he's just messing with Goldlewis, but really there is a degree of uncertainty. But the joke is "girl" "I'm a Boy" "girl" "I'm a Boy" "gir- uh, boy" "I'm a girl" the point being that Goldlewis is wrong about Bridget's gender even when he's right.
The good ending also strongly implies that he wants to "come out" as a boy to the people of his village...
Can't really say to much more than that until more info comes out, and considering the reception this is getting in Japan, (bear in mind Japanese barely has words for most of this nonsense) I feel like the next move will be back towards the "I'm not a girl, I'm a Boy." angle. We'll see if Arcsys is woke enough to go against the truth of Japanese companies only caring about Japan.
He claims to be a boy like half a dozen times, but claims that he's a girl once and all the wiki articles are rewritten.
I wonder how many times he'll have to claim he's a guy before they change them back, if they ever do... Who am I kidding, they'll label him non-binary and cry for death upon those who disagree.
https://www.guiltygear.com/ggst/jp/character/bgt/
Key is the end of the first sentence.
男の子である. He's a boy.
I've read the Japanese.
It's a bad ending, and even then it's a joke.
The joke being that Goldlewis keeps mixing it up and calling Bridget a girl, and after the forth time, Bridget is like okay, it's not a big deal.
The confusion comes from the construct でいい "de ii" literally "is good / is fine" in comparisons it's often used as "would be preferable" but from what I can gather from native speakers that's not the case here, it's just お嬢ちゃんでいい "Missy is fine"(it doesn't really matter)
That's what this whole thing is based on. Just that. It's been twisted by localization.
The JP bio also explicitly calls him a boy, so there's that.
Wasn't there one of these where a guy made 30 shitty guns out of steel pipe, then literally used the profit to buy an actual nice gun?
Thus brings up a key point of property law: you can't prevent people from owning things that are simple enough. Hence why no matter how strict you make gun laws you'll still have to deal with a black market of shotguns and blunderbusses and anything else that can be made from common materials. To try and control the materials themselves would be a ridiculous treadmill.
Well, harbinger is pretty clearly a half-vampire or something. Also probably Shackleford II in disguise.
Seems like the Netori plot is getting played straight with the slight caveat that it's possible that Grant is dead, but let's be honest, he's probably not. Honestly, it's pretty mundane, the focus is clearly on the monster fighting, so Pitt pining over the girl was a mild character motivation at best, and an annoying distraction at worst. Certainly not a romance that defines characters or the book. The characters are still big loud archtypes. Convey exactly who they are and what they are about, distinct from one another, but lacking in detail unfortunately. The rest of the world building makes up for it IMO though. Really sort of a video game plot where slightly one-note characters are dragged through set pieces and encounters.
Ah. So you admit that the thought criminals must be purged, commrade.
What of those who have dangerous thoughts that oppose the party? Surely such dangerous people who wish to undermine the state must be dealt with before they act?
/s
You are the worst kind of authoritarian monster. Kindly go fuck yourself.
Transphobia is not free expression, Racism is not free expression, Homophobia is not free expression, Resisting the globohomo hedgemonic order in any way is not free expression....
In order to properly defend free expression, you must defend things well outside what you personally wish to express.
Fuck off SJW.
Creator of sinfest. A long running newspaper style online comic. In the early days it was funny and sexy and cute, and became quite popular. Then in 2011 about 10 years into it's run, the author became incredibly feminist, ripped all the fun and sexiness out of the comic, and attacked anyone who disagreed. Later it became clear that he was a TERF further limiting his audience.
The sidelining of TERFs over the past two years or so has allowed him to pivot away from preaching about the evils of the patriarchy and toxic masculinity and actually become irreverent and funny again.
Whether he's realized the grim future that wokeness holds for artists, or is just butthurt that his particular brand of wokeness is getting cast out remains to be seen.