Every death is gruesome and over the top because it was never going to matter.
I like that he brought back The Magic Order characters to be a part of this when that’s exactly a summary of their entire book already.
do remember part of the reason why we had this hard left backlash to what we had in the 80s and 90s is because trying to use the government to enforce your ideology leads to dumb shit that we're fighting against from the left.
I’m not sure that that’s true. Remember, most of the leftist thought we’re dealing with now can be traced back to various bolsheviks and marxists and communist academics and revolutionaries and the like. That shit started bubbling under the surface way, way before the 80s and 90s. It seems more accurate to suggest that the left successfully captured academia and much of legalism sometime leading up to the 60s. That’s why they managed to get the campus protests (riots) and the Civil Rights Bill, which indirectly has made much of leftism unchallengeable, passed at that time. Their unrest continued into the 70s as the Weather Underground (among contemporaries) and consequences of integration, among other things, played out.
Conservatism in the 80s and 90s was just a pushback against this stuff, but if anything, its fault was in not going far enough. Leftism sunk away from the public eye for a bit, but it stayed alive in the various influence circles they had created and corrupted before. Patronage networks, lawfare, and political influence saved people like Bill Ayers and later Susan Rosenberg, allowing literal far-left terrorists to influence high levels of government. The right did not conserve its own temporary power nearly as well.
It’s easy to say “rightward overreaching allowed for the left to grow in popularity,” and there’s maybe some truth to that, but one should also remember that the left has been on a long, long campaign which the right ultimately has failed, at every turn, to effectively quash. One in which they do remember their allies and fight to retake lost ground, while their opponents do neither and pretend it isn’t happening.
In defense of this DLC, I think the base game already did a good job of filtering the target market down to exactly the people that would like this, so they’re just making more of what their three customers want.
While I agree with your caution in general, it sounds more like Rekieta’s problems are self-manufactured by hedonistic vices than by anything that would make it a cautionary anti-doxxing tale.
how the drunk swingers hot tub stream was a bad idea,
Really? But it sounds like nothing could go wrong!
Being an obviously duplicitous shill is actually a resume enhancer at the Daily Wire.
"The peer pressure is immense and in those moments a woman can feel under tremendous pressure to comply, to be accepted."
Now, obviously, you could disapprove of a wet t-shirt contest particularly for any number of reasons, some feminist some not. You could even go all the way in the other direction and—channeling what I imagine Imp might say here—call a wet t-shirt contest a plot by women to manipulate men by showing off their assets.
But you could paste that specific objection onto almost anything. Going to an amusement park with your friends and riding a ride you don’t want to. Doing something frightening like a rope swing into a lake, or the high dive at the pool.
A large part of being mature is learning how to resist peer pressure and set boundaries, but another large part is learning when it’s okay to step out of your comfort zone. Never experiencing pressure is unrealistic; resisting bad pressures and minimizing your exposure to bad pressures is appropriate. People who say stuff like this want the entire world to be responsible for their choices instead of themselves.
I, too, guessed it would be another “women and minorities most affected.” Arguably, given the involvement of Catholicism and the more recent… political climate… specifically, I should have anticipated this.
Oh, right, I forgot they did that.
Ah, yes, a Spanish person is most likely to have that name in the US. And when I go to a farm, I should expect to see zebras, rather than horses.
Even beyond the obvious doctrinal issues, Islam didn’t exist until 610AD.
That fits with their worldview, I suppose. They think that men always had all the power (this is debatable; women have always been able to influence men), and that this happened for no reason other than that men are physically stronger and will always use that advantage to oppress. Therefore, if you reset the timeline but make woman the more powerful sex, it makes sense that men would end up enslaved.
It doesn’t really fit with the part feminists often tack on, where they say women are more enlightened and wouldn’t do that, though. I guess that’s technically an improvement over the “if only women were in charge, there would be harmony” sunshine and rainbows bullshit?
sympathy with the French Revolution
To be honest, that doesn’t exactly sound good either.
You may be experiencing some selection bias if your examples are all celebrities, but I can’t say I have enough experience with them to know.
opponent Nathan Vasquez
It’s Portland and the replacement has a non-White last name, so I’m assuming he’s not much better.
Take a deep breath and let that pure Bombay air fill your lungs.
This is probably the subtlest way I’ve seen someone tell a person to kill themselves.
Based on who was running their Discord and their response being a double down, I would say that while what you describe may exist, the truth in this case is probably that Trench Crusade was never a greener pasture in reality. The aesthetic and concept is cool, but I assume it has always been made and run by leftists.
Well, if you’re going to pirate it, surely it was already available on various emulators, right?
No, there’s no purpose to engaging in good faith with you. But it’s irresistible to point and laugh, sometimes.
Why would god make girls feel horny at around puberty yet girls are forced to wait to get married until their 20s.
Putting aside everything else, “surely God wouldn’t allow us to feel things He didn’t want us to act on” is contrary to pretty much every religion I’m even passingly familiar with. Doesn’t matter if it’s Islam or Christianity or a variant of Buddhism, controlling and overcoming sinful desires is a cornerstone of basically every one. That’s such hilariously bad theology that an equally ridiculous material equivalent would have to be as dumb as being in the ballpark of “why can I feel cold if evolution didn’t intend me to die of hypothermia?”
they'll immediately follow you around and hit you with spam downvotes and are clearly all coming from the same place.
No, you get downvoted when you post stupid shit. You also get upvoted when you post good shit, but no one is accusing you of running a self-promotion botnet for those. This is that same issue of you being unable to conceptualize that maybe, just maybe, real people have real reasons for not liking all your opinions.
You are one of the most active users on here, and your hot button of calling people "ConPro spammers" is well-known. Have you considered that just because you don't recognize a username doesn't mean they don't recognize you? Because of how forums work, any active, consistent commenter will be read and recognized by more people than they regularly read and recognize in turn.
I think they're raising reasonable concerns, given the things you sometimes spin out over. Your inability to understand this criticism as anything other than a brigade of people who have no investment in the forum hating you personally, rather than taking issue with things you've said and what you think should happen to a space they participate in, only underscores their point.
I think DoM would spontaneously combust if he asked the ConPro mod team for advice.
I think changing it to "A lot of Yasuke Incidents" is better. "These" is redundant in the sentence.
I might suggest looking for short-story collections that multiple authors have contributed to, then checking to see if the people you enjoyed have further works in the genre. I don’t read much pure horror, but an author I do read (Larry Correia) skirts the genre line sometimes, and has contributed to one or two anthologies you might find interesting:
Space Eldritch 2: The Haunted Stars (apparently, this one is the better of the two Space Eldritch anthologies)
Shared Nightmares
V-Wars: Night Terrors (I believe V-Wars has multiple anthologies and comic books, but I didn’t like the setting enough to look for more).