houses of lawmakers against granting vote rights to foreigners
Foreigners voting seems obviously insane. Can you explain a little more? Does this mean something like “non-natives could never, ever get full citizenship,” or is it really as crazy as “temporary residents should vote”? If it’s the former, and the question is over whether the person married to a Japanese citizen, who’s been living in Japan for years and such should be allowed to vote… I still think the answer is probably no, but I get why it’s at least a debate. Arson would, of course, be an extreme bit of leftist terrorism, but I understand why the issue could be on the table.
If it’s the latter, and there’re groups applying pressure to let anyone living in Japan vote, that’s the kind of crazy shit that even deep blue cities in the US have only started doing on a municipal level relatively recently. I’m stunned things are so bad in Japan that there are houses being burned down over it.
Maybe it could perch on top. Would look funny.
In this case, the actress is black so it might be less “I see green as black” and more “I’m too narcissistic to detach myself from the character.” Of course, it could be a healthy bit of both.
So, one of the things that happened while the character was in hell was that they were magically converted into the opposite sex? I feel like the subtext here isn't exactly pro-trans, although I'm sure they don't see it.
Also, I believe Slatzism is on good terms with RFH and the editor of a radfem-leaning news site (reduxx), so the potential for conflict of interest is obviously there.
Sure, maybe, but even if you rewrite his comment to be something like "women don't understand self-defense strategies or the tactics for implementing them," then you still end up at the point where whether they understand any of that or not doesn't impact the fact that black men are—on average—correct to identify as the largest threat.
Women don't really understand fighting IQ, actual strength, tempered aggression, strategy,
If they did, would it make a difference? No amount of “fighting IQ” and “strategy” (unless we’re counting being adequately armed) would make them able to stand up to a black man or white man who was really willing to attack them, and in terms of likelihood of using untempered aggression unpredictably or for relatively small reasons, I think they’d be correct to be more worried about black men, on average, than whites.
Sure, but is their behavior not a largely inherent trait? Or at least (without debating nature vs. nurture and genetics), the tweet is saying it is. It just says “black people and immigrants do X.” Not “when they behave badly,” not “at a disproportionate rate,” not “obnoxious black people and immigrants do.” Literally just “black people and immigrants.”
Now, I don’t have a problem with people saying that. I think it being removed for rule 16 id retarded because I largely think that rule 16 itself is retarded. But, I don’t think Dom is incorrect in saying that it does violate that rule even though I think he’s wrong for having that be a rule.
Even if we don’t need to be extremely worried about China, I think it’s probably good to act as though we do. Competition spurs innovation, but security breeds complacency.
I take the position that if you have a story to tell and you feel it needs a specific kind of character—and most stories do—you should go ahead and design that character however you see fit in order to suit your story. But you also should be aware that the character design you choose sends signals to people about you and your story, so make sure you can live with the consequences.
Naughty Dog is sending a signal that this story is yet another anti-white, anti-male, ant-beauty DEI story. They’ll get the audience they’re courting, but it may not be as large as they’d like. On some level, I have to thank them for signaling so blatantly that they haven’t changed and that I should continue to root for their collapse.
It's not as if they can blend in with the Chinese.
Even in the most benevolent reading, where there’s no conniving or conscious malice or inherent traits that make this group difficult to coexist with, even if we say it’s just an organized group of people that could be almost any ethnic group naturally acting to defend their own culture and interests… you still have to reckon with the fact that this organized minority is wielding influence in such a way as to dismantle and push aside the culture of the majority. At best, this “multicultural” system is the people least willing to suck it up and let other people have things getting catered to for eternity, at the expense of everyone else.
If you do not enforce norms, someone else will.
Oh, yeah, I was in group two as well. I think it was a bit naive, but what can you do? Sometimes you're wrong, and I've definitely learned at least some since then.
TFA reaction was basically split into three groups:
Group one basically hated it flat out. Correctly diagnosed all the problems. I think this was probably the smallest group at the time. In retrospect, they were also completely correct.
Group two was lukewarm on it. Acknowledged problems, but also held out some hope that the second part would retroactively fix problems with the first by explaining certain things—Rey’s power, the backstory for basically everything—etc.
Group three just uncritically enjoyed it, either because they were lefty feminists, enjoy pacing and spectacle over consistency, were blinded by love for the brand, or a bit of all of the above.
Then TLJ happened. It not only dashed every hope group two had, it also did other stuff that was even worse than failing to fill in the gaps of the first movie. It was so bad it pushed some people from group three into admitting group one was right. It still had fans, of course, but not enough. However, had TLJ been awesome, I think it could have gone the other way and converted people from group one and group two into being complete fans. TFA may have put a couple cracks in the foundation, but the franchise wasn’t doomed until TLJ chose to take a hammer and chisel to those cracks rather than fixing them.
But is it Jew^fag or fag^Jew?
I doubt it was AI, but I’m pretty sure “Rev. Racist Man” is a satire account.
I'm currently 13 seconds into the video, and I have to ask: is this guy gay? He sounds gay.
And? Yeah, it's funny that you can arrange four of the fag flags like that, but it's utterly retarded to use it as an actual argument. Much less evidence of "hypocrisy," which has always been the right's weakest, most irrelevant "gotcha" even when it's at least vaguely true.
On the interior features? I think he means the motors that are making the screens and door move.
It feels like going into a restroom in a slightly upscale restaurant. Nice surfaces, clean, but still very much a public restroom.
"I invented this improbable and stupid reading of your argument. Will you defend it, or will you admit I'm right?"
Yeah, problem is that's working off the CURRENT paradigm, that only lasts another one and a half months.
Well, the situation we're talking about is unfolding right now, and coups tend to move fast one way or another. What other paradigm would be relevant?
At the most fundamental level, it's streaming but instead of a webcam you use motion capture and an avatar. Technically speaking, anyone that does that—and the avatar can range from very simple to very complex, in any number of art styles—is a "vtuber."
In the context it's often used (including in this post), it refers to a loose collection of several talent agencies and their associated streamers, as well as various independent streamers that have connections with them. The agencies are predominantly (maybe entirely?) Japanese, and the industry some loose parallels/crossover with Japanese idols (which are sort of like pop stars crossed with models).
Someone else could probably give you a better rundown, but those are the basics as I understand them.
Maybe that’s when the levee broke, sure, but the flood had been building for decades before that moment. In an alternate timeline where we don’t get Obama, the timing is possibly different, but we do still get woke stuff, I’m almost sure of it.