What, this post? Maybe because there’s nothing at all that’s new and meaningful in it. The part about 30% women being a goal is, of course, absurd, but it was already known. As for Michelle Khare, she’s a fitness youtuber. She has a series where she does intense special training regimens. You can argue that maybe secret service training should be more secret, and you can say that this is another example of leftists being celebrity obsessed—WOWZERS, MUH FAMOUS HECKIN YOUTUBER TRAINED WITH US—but the paranoid “WHO IS MICHELLE KHARE, I’M NOT SUICIDAL!” line is a paranoid overreaction that reaches far into the realm of the comical.
We seem to be missing the "falls into a coma and dies" part, though. As well as the "universally beloved" part.
Yeah, but the scam is usually to be pretty vague. 'There will be a failed assassination on Trump, he will be hit in the ear by a bullet, he will fall down' is a pretty risky bet, if you're just bullshitting.
Putting aside the options where he's a true prophet OR he's a true believer but he's wrong, scamming something like this is not as risky as it seems, because if it doesn't happen, who would have heard of him? Who would go back and say "Look at this guy, he was bullshitting!" And, even if someone did, who would care? The guy would say "Yeah, I had a dream, I thought it was prophetic, turns out it wasn't, oh well, no one bats a thousand." Then he'd point at some of his other predictions that look good and emphasize those. The other big thing is that in this case it turns out he was really on the money, but that doesn't mean he had to be for it to work. With any assassination attempt that got anywhere near, he could say "look, he nearly got killed just like in my dream," and of course "someone is going to try to kill Trump and make a decent attempt of it" is a much safer bet.
This has destroyed ALL Democrat election strategy as they no longer can demonise Trump since he almost got assasinated.
Why should that stop them? They didn't have any human empathy or sympathy before this.
I predict articles talking about how "it totally is good that Trump wasn't assassinated and that sure would be a terrible shame and we're very glad it didn't happen, but it would make the country a lot better off it it had wouldn't it?"
Their entire existence is because of Civilization
Sid Meier has a lot to answer for.
It might not be a typical leftist, there’s still a slim chance he pivots into being yet another pedo pajeet alt.
If I had to guess, it’s because leftists have been substituting “stakeholder” instead of “shareholder” for at least the past decade as part of their corporate subversion.
e.g. instead of having a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to produce good movies that people like and that make money, leftist theory—embraced, it would seem, by the company itself—holds that Disney has a much more nebulous social duty to “stakeholders,” which could be anyone who might be perceived as being affected by their media in any way, to effect social change. Which leads to the kind of stuff Disney is making instead of good movies.
"Dear Speed, I shall be very lonesome without you, love Lincoln," one read in the trailer. Speed was Lincoln's friend who he had a friendship with since his youth.
If this is the quality of evidence they have, it looks like yet another case of leftists interpreting all close male friendships as homosexual.
Not that I should expect logical consistency from Imp, but isn’t that completely retarded? Women in office/admin jobs is a prime opportunity for them to manipulate men and play office politics/HR harpy (both in his mindset and in more realistic versions of what that actually looks like).
Chattel slavery, or some sort of sci-fi cloning and gene manipulation thing to get rid of women completely are pretty much the only solutions that should follow out of his view of female nature, right?
That doesn’t really sound like Imp at all. I think most of this board is fine with—or at least willing to engage with—the “women are, on average, more emotional than men, more herd-based than men, less logical than men, and probably shouldn’t vote” line.
What Imp says is more like “women are all misandrists who all knowingly participate in a global conspiracy, and should be treated as chattel slaves lest they knowingly and willingly destroy us all.” Which is a totally different argument.
Also, he steadfastly refuses to see race. He’d never throw in that bit about niggers. That’s just a womanly ploy to turn men against each other.
It’s very annoying, it’s absurd fear mongering, and personally, I blame climate change.
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I hope this person is dead.
I don't really like Tulsi, but I'm also not going to doompost a ton if she does get tapped. Are there realistically any good choices that aren't a pipe dream?
Was involved in some cryptocurrency rug pull scam
Is that not just all of cryptocurrency? I could be wrong, but I thought that basically all of it boiled down to either one or two names that are well known enough to go up with something approaching reliability, and then anything outside of Bitcoin and maybe etherium or doge or whatever is pretty much just trying to buy in right when the meme push starts and then get back out before someone pulls the rug.
Exactly. His most famous piece of advice is probably the "clean your room" line, or to put it in its more formal form, "set your own house in order before you criticize the world." His own house is clearly not in order but he keeps criticizing the world, so now what?
The only Brave Trail these people are walking with regularity is the one from the living room to the kitchen.
Not exactly. I grant you that the “controversy” Nintendo was avoiding may have come from the same place, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo bought into it at the time. There’s a definite difference between “whatever, it’s a different culture, I don’t really get why they care but let’s just make a few changes that’ll make them happy so we can sell this” and “I actually believe in this cause!”
Can you link some of this stuff?
I’m pretty sure “whiteness” is the font from which “cisgender” and “Christian” and “Patriarchy” and all the other things flow in some of these people’s minds. Their brains are rotted by articles about some uncontacted Amazon tribe that has three genders or some wiped-out group of Africans that were a matriarchy or whatever, and they genuinely believe that if not for white people, the world would be filled with atheist/spiritualism/xey/xem/polysouled/BIPOC/girlbosses.
So, when you hear them talk about how evil “whiteness” is, all of the rest of Western society is thrown in under that.
Oops, I misread that. Thanks for the correction.
I assume the copyright holder would be the parents now, so even putting aside any political motivations, “hey, would you be willing to publicize the crazy hate-screed your mentally unbalanced child wrote before turning into school shooter?” is probably not a request most people would grant.
That’s not the grandmother. That the politician whose grandmother it is.
I’m sure there are a few cases where what you’re describing happened, but more often a character where you can choose the sex is intended as a self-insert, and the story is also written with that in mind. This is usually expressed through dialogue choices, branching paths, multiple romance options. With some games those differences are minor and with some they’re major, but they’re almost always there (or, alternatively, you get the Pokemon-style silent protagonist, barebones story, customization is in the Pokemon you use or whatever).
In other words, the fact that the personality is perceived as different depending on the avatar is a feature, not a bug. So, when you say “actually, take it out,” you’re not protecting the story/game as intended—you’re actually damaging it.
Not to mention that even if we say “allowing a self-insert is always strictly worse than what you would produce if you redesigned the story to have a specific protagonist,” what you’re saying would still only apply as writing advice for future projects. A remake of a classic game is based on an already finished product that people loved as it was, and as such its artistic integrity is entirely dependent on not fucking with that product.
“Arguing” from the perspective of “actually, you’re the racist” is exactly the sort of “arguing” that the conservative movement has been doing—and losing at—for about 50 years now. Is there ever a point where it leads to saying anything about the actual flaws in black culture, history, or the issues with our great societal nigger-worship?
I know that the Secret Service doesn’t have infinite manpower and that they often fill this gap by coordinating with local agencies to cover things. That said, when such coordination happens, they should be the management and people in charge. I’m willing to believe that it was local PD’s responsibility to have a person on the roof, but I imagine it was also the Secret Service’s responsibility to double check that that was happening.