I'm skeptical of the actual viability of "A.I." (probably more of a buzzword rather than actual A.I.), but many companies are increasingly seeing AI as a holy grail. I think the default expectation is that tech companies and other companies will lay off the diversity hires to save money, but I honestly don't believe that.

DIE initiatives are so deeply entrenched in Western companies that I firmly believe that they will lay off the competent workers and keep the diversity hires on-board, competency be damned. This is especially true for all of the H-1B Visa pajeets. They will view AI as a way to contain any competency shortfalls and will continue to pursue DIE in the workplace. Cheap labor Pajeets will continue to replace competent workers in tech and their will be a greater push for diversity hires in every department.

I'm being overly-pessimistic here, but I don't see how A.I. would lead to the downfall of DIE initiatives in any capacity.

The Video Game Awards for 2023 (like every year) was a big nothingburger. Trailers highlighting how bad gaming has gotten worse not only with woke shit, but also the lack of gameplay in the majority of Western developed games and their trailers. It’s fucking awful.

Geoff Keighley desperately wants to become a Hollywood big shot and it’s really pathetic… But the thing is he is merely a reflection of the game industry at large and the talentless hacks who have taken over and want to make movies instead of games. Games media and Game Devs are complaining about the lack of focus on devs, and I just don’t give two shits about the plight of game devs.

They created this monster by being embarrassed of their own profession and transforming the industry into a complete and utter joke. They were all spineless cowards who allowed the woke plague to come in and ruin the industry at best, and at worst were completely complicit in the industry-wide brain drain and woke transformation of video games.

When I hear about studio layoffs, I just shrug because nothing of value was lost. When I hear about entire studios shutting down (in the West), I feel nothing, if not perhaps a satisfaction that these studios self-destructed. 

I don’t care about these game devs, because I know they hate my guts and don’t actually care about video games.

The same mindset applies to the vast majority of indie games that are either made by dipshits who couldn’t make it in Hollywood and just see gaming as an alternative outlet to make movies, or woke leftists who don’t have a single creative bone in their body. The fun indie games are buried in a sea of lifeless/woke copycats and walking simulators.

This clown world has made me completely unsympathetic to the plight of most workers overall. Good job elites, your diversity and inclusion plan of division worked. I really don’t care about any of these people.

I've always known that indie gaming was a cesspool of leftist scum, but there were at least a decent amount of games that tried to have some semblance of good gameplay,. Now though, the scene is absolutely dominated by trannies and faggots in the West. The Nintendo Indie Direct epitomized this perfectly. Sure, we had Shantae and Blade Chimera (a game made by a Japanese developer, if I recall correctly), but everything else was just derivative shit. They showed the creative director of some walking simulator "hiking game" and the creative director is an ugly tranny with the squeakiest of voices, of course. It's just a perfect encapsulation of how bad indie gaming in the West has become.

Every other game was some variation of a "cozy" game (like Animal Crossing, but nowhere near the appeal) or a walking simulator with some leftist drivel of a "story." Characters are obnoxious women or minorities, or are degenerate looking furries. The vast majority of games are some variation of roguelike/roguelite, with either farming, crafting, or deckbuilding inserted. Souls-likes are frustratingly common among metroidvania games, and the vast majority of them are some variation of Castlevania Symphony of the Night with Dark Souls (as though they are copying and pasting some kind of gameplay template from somewhere). None of these games try to do anything deeper in terms of gameplay and any "gimmick" is forcefully inserting a different genre that adds nothing to the experience.

As technology becomes easier, more and more lame faggots take over who really don't give a shit about video gaming (they treat games like movies) and just want to make some woke nonsense with as little gameplay as possible. We are at the point where trannies and faggots are the norm rather than the exception, and gaming is completely suffering as a result. What few good indie games coming out compared to the shit, is basically just slightly better than ratio of "good" AAA games to slop AAA games, and it's pointless to pretend that indie gaming is adding anything to the industry other than decline.

These days, Western indie developers shouldn't be seen as talented individuals who wanted to strike out on their own to do their own thing. They should be treated as incompetent leftists who are so awful that even AAA studios refuse to hire them. It's pathetic to see how open and proud these Western indie developers are with their faggot lifestyles, and the games they produce are all soulless and creatively bankrupt.

One thing I have noticed is how prevalent the hustle culture has become among Millennials. LinkedIn is a hotbed of narcissism, and Twitter has a ton of self-proclaimed business superstars who have made money by having companies entirely dependent on using foreign labor and providing shitty service for customers. It's quite appalling how often you hear fellow Millennials go on and on boasting about their own "successes" or try to sell themselves without an ounce of honesty.

The hustle of creating "passive income" means that we are going to see a lot of sociopaths becoming landlords and doing the bare-minimum for those who rent from them, and the quality of services will continue to decline across all companies as there is no value in providing a good service, merely making money. The decline of quality we have seen from the boomer generation onward (yes, that includes you, Generation X, you aren't exempt from being self-destructive narcissists like your parents and your children) is going to ramp up significantly.

Some people will say, "blame the system, not the person," but for god's sake, eventually someone has to stand up and refuse to operate as basically a scam artist. For as many supposed "leftists" there are among Millennials, they sure have no qualms about taking the worst aspects of human greed and using that as their core business model.

Am I over-exaggerating here?

Whenever the LatinX debate comes up, I will always see the fence-sitters like Moistcritikal try to play the anti-woke card of making fun of LatinX while simultaneously playing the woke card of blaming the creation on White People. Central Americans try to chalk up LatinX to being an invention by Whites, but it's all just a fucking cope. All of this LatinX shit has been pushed by people (particularly women) in their own countries for decades and now the second and third generation Latinos in the US have latched onto the idea and are trying to push it in corporate and academic environments in the West.

This isn't a White invention and while the idea has most likely been inspired by Marxists in the West, there is no way in hell that non-Hispanic Americans took the time to create new guidelines for Spanish when they don't even know the difference between the Cuban and Puerto Rican Flags. If the LatinX initiative wasn't pushed by Hispanic diversity hires, then it wouldn't have gone anywhere at all.

A common piece of life advice I see is "work in trades" instead of going to college, and while I think there is certainly some value in exploring alternative paths rather than going into debt for a dime-a-dozen degree, I do wonder how the advice of working in trades proliferated. It is career advice that sounds good on paper, but is also not as cut-and-dry as the comments would have you believe.

I'm sure it started from hearing random folks who supposedly work in trades are making great money, but the concept of working in trades becoming pushed more and more by the redpill community seems a bit suspicious to me. When did the sentiment of working in trades start to become more common? Was there a particular person or organization who made it more popular?

I think it is important to understand the origins of "popular" sentiments in order to truly determine whether there is an ulterior motive. For example, the common idea of "there aren't enough people in STEM" isn't really true, it's just a claim made by industries to pressure Congress into allowing them to import more cheap labor.

Could there potentially be a larger interest pushing the idea of working in trades as being a lucrative career path? Perhaps it is far-fetched to assume that there are greater forces at play who have an interest in convincing people to work in trades, but trades play a crucial role in maintaining a functional society, and without these people, the current status quo would fall apart. Glorifying trades would upset the status quo of "intellectualism," but appealing to male pride and honor and appealing to the men who see the futility of modern society is a viable means of ensuring that men remain working for a system that thinks lesser of them.

I'm not saying that working in trades is bad or that going to college is better. Working in trades is very admirable, but it is also important to be mindful that there is no surefire pathway to wealth or a fulfilling life. Neither STEM or trades may be the gateway to success that is pushed on the internet, and it is important to consider the path you take based on the circumstances you have been given.

The most prominent spectrum these days is the gender spectrum, but the absolute absurdity of the idea of a gender spectrum pushed in medical fields should make us question the validity of a medical “spectrum,” particularly with Autism.

I genuinely think that Autism is rampantly over-diagnosed, and has created a paranoia within the population of whether they are “normal” based on very loose parameters.

If gender spectrum is seen as a joke, why do we still place the concept of the Autism spectrum on relatively a higher pedestal?

To be frank, I’ve never watched WWE or any of those wrestling shows, but the one thing I’ve noticed is that soyboy YouTubers love it, especially soyboy/tranny Brits. Now I’m starting to notice that Warhammer 40K (and I don’t even play Warhammer 40K) is becoming the next “niche pop culture” phenomena, where leftist/normie YouTubers and social media influencers are going to obsess about Warhammer 40K with child-like glee and then turn around and talk about how important trans rights are and how women should be space marines too. I understand that people can like things without agreeing with the in-universe politics, but soyboys have a way of turning what they like into weird faggot festivals.

DeSantis signed legislation mandating the use of E-verify systems for employers with 25 or more employers and now latino truckers (who are most likely illegal aliens who are illegally employed in the US) are protesting it and encouraging other truck drivers to protest as well. The amount of people threatened by this mandate should be a signal for how broken and corrupt our economy and country are, but rather it is being pushed as a leftist humanitarian crisis that can be summarized as, "those poor migrants won't be able to be exploited for the cheap labor they provide!"

When I used to live in California, there was a bakery whose employees were largely illegal aliens, and after those illegal aliens were deported, rather than paying better wages to attract new employees, the bakery just decided to close its doors for good. The US has become a country that depends so much on illegal aliens that businesses just can't afford (whether they genuinely can't afford to or they are so awful at managing money that exploiting cheap labor is the only means of keeping their business afloat) to hire actual American citizens.

If any actual attempts at curbing illegal immigration are made, the left makes the same argument every time, "how else will you keep prices cheap," or "who else is going to work these jobs?" If a labor shortage occurs because nobody is willing to work for the pathetic wages offered, then the left takes delight in how "dependent" companies are on exploiting the labor of illegal aliens and tries to argue that it is "good" that illegal aliens are here being exploited. All these people complaining about wanting higher minimum wages and then turning around and arguing that "if we hire actual Americans, then the prices of everything will increase!" What the fuck is this Machiavellian bullshit?

Years ago, I thought they were arguing these points because they thought that they were appealing to the right, but it's pretty clear that they genuinely think worker exploitation is a good thing.

I’ve noticed that whenever a piece of fictional media is touted to be “female-led” in terms of the creative team, oftentimes the characters are very much stand-ins for the creators/writers and reflect them in ways that don’t necessarily fit the setting (assuming the setting is not based on a location from the creator’s childhood, which tends to be the case). Even for non-female led projects, it is pretty easy to identify when a character is written by a woman vs a man (Outer Worlds has a character named Parvati that was basically a self-insert that the writer, Kate Dollarhyde proudly bragged about, for example), as they all speak and think from a modern day lens, regardless of whether it is appropriate for the setting or for what the character should be.

Contrast this with male writers who are able to write men and women from different perspectives in a way that attempts to match the setting, and I can’t help but wonder if the ability of perspective-taking is a masculine trait, which could also explain why modern entertainment runs into the issue of incompatible character identities within a setting or very unimaginative characters and settings in general. I expect this to become increasingly common as more and more women (and men embracing feminine traits) enter entertainment industries across all mediums.

Though perhaps this is an issue of increasing mental illness across the board instead. A YouTube video by David Stewart about how terrible of an idea writing a character as genderless is brought up a different perspective, that increasing mental illness (autism in particular) could be a cause for the inability of people to identify with characters that don’t look like them (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-i_2kRnSsX0&pp=ygUNZGF2aWQgc3Rld2FydA%3D%3D)

I’m not sure whether there is a definitive explanation, maybe it is a combination of many different factors, but I think it isn’t unreasonable to theorize that women are less capable of perspective-taking compared to men in general.

These third person cinematic games have basically killed the games industry. They encouraged an incestuous relationship between Hollywood and video games, made everyone complete graphics-obsessed WHORES, and have allowed dumbass, libshit writers to dominate the direction of gaming. The worst part is that these cinematic games have such simplistic appeal that the casual crowd will buy these games in perpetuity.

I can’t be excited for GOW Ragnarok at all because I know the story will be full of leftist garbage and the gameplay will be just as shallow, rigid, and constrained as it was in GOW 2018, and it annoys me to no end that GOW 2018 is still revered as this masterpiece in such a fanatical manner… Even with so many flaws, criticizing the game is seen as a sin for some reason.

Whenever I see people hoping for a Fallout New Vegas 2, it’s depressing to realize that the Obsidian that made that game is effectively dead. The writing talent is long gone and have been replaced by women and trannies who are barely functional psychopaths. I know the diversity and inclusion rhetoric plays a huge hand in how people are selected, but why do these studios have a knack for hiring the most degenerate, low effort people imaginable to work on a part of the game that basically molds the structure and tone of the entire game? It’s just so bizarre how all of these writers that are being hired are all basically identical in terms of them being leftist, social media obsessed, and barely functional people who are most likely a nightmare to work with.

For decades, the right built itself on the idea of the private sector being some efficient mechanism that should be completely uninhibited and that the market will punish bad actors on its own through the power of customer choice. The right (at the behest of corporations) told us that the private sector is somehow more trustworthy than the government, and that the private sector is a rational construct dictated by the free market, rather than a barely held together clusterfuck run by human beings just as irrational as those in government. So we let the "free market" dictate the direction of the US, and that has led to the vapid society we see today. The free market eliminated jobs that didn't "require" college degrees, the free market made college a more important institution, the free market made teaching a low-paying, undesirable position and cultivated the ideological conformity we see in colleges and public schools today. National identity is non-existent and what little cultural identity we have left is being rewritten to be whatever corporations decide is palatable.

Whenever we hear companies go woke with products, it is always the same cucked response, "Just don't buy it! The market will respond and customers will just go somewhere else." "Just don't buy it," while good advice on the surface, generally is just a dismissal of concerns and telling people to shut up. It's not an act of defiance, it's an act of submissiveness, preferring to let the mythical "market forces" solve the problem for them, which overwhelmingly never happens. If those responsible for a failure in the market are too ideologically blind to actually understand or accept why that failure happened, then nothing will change, and those same people will move on to another company and infect all other companies with woke bullshit. By endorsing the complacency of "trusting the free market," we are just allowing the SJWs to destroy our culture, and then reshape the corpse of that culture into something that fits their ideology.

Cancel Culture is a very milquetoast way of describing the damage leftists cause (and the corporations that enable this). It’s not unreasonable to refer to Cancel Culture as economic terrorism. The goal is to intimidate society by publicly destroying a dissident’s life in the hopes that either the mob will kill them or that the dissident will commit suicide due to having every traditional economic opportunity taken away from them.

My parents have definitely been scared by the “pandemic” and are super excited that they are able to get the vaccine next month.

Predictably, the question becomes, “when are you going to get the vaccine shot?” I’ve told them about my concerns with the vaccine back in November, and they seemed to agree back then, but it appears the COVID panic has grown into paranoia for them since then. I live in another state for a job, so I have told them that “I’m young so they aren’t giving vaccines out to my demographic yet,” though that excuse isn’t going to last. Honestly, we’ve been planning for me to visit them, and now it seems as though they are at the point where they won’t want me to visit unless I am vaccinated like them.

I’m standing my ground on my refusal to take the vaccine, as the risk outweighs the benefits in my opinion, but I think that my refusal will be the turning point of my relationship with my parents. It’s absurd to think that not taking a vaccine for a disease with a 99% survival rate would be what causes my family to not want to see me in person, but their fear of COVID (they are under 70) might be strong enough to where they give me that ultimatum. I hope it doesn’t come to that point, but I’m bracing myself for it. Most likely I will be seen as paranoid and being ridiculous, but I would rather not submit to that pressure.

Make no mistake, I’m not looking for advice, I just wanted to give a little backstory to my question to the the forum. For those of you who are skeptical of the vaccine and plan on refusing to take it, are you already seeing the relationship between your family, extended or otherwise, strained because of this? If the vaccine question hasn’t come up, do you foresee your stance on the vaccine causing your family to think more negatively of you or strain the family relationship?

I’m not a professional or expert (though frankly experts and professionals these days are increasingly useless), but I would advise those skeptical of a vaccine with less than a year of development to stand your ground on this issue as a matter of your own personal health. The pandemic has shined a blacklight on the nature of those in power around the world, and to place absolute trust in these institutions would be unwise. Stay strong in your resolve!

I've been hearing a lot more about inflation concerns and how inflation would benefit those with a lot of debt. Of course, that benefit would depend on whether their earnings would match the rate of inflation, which means it would really only benefit those with flexible revenue streams and not those with fixed yearly incomes, so this really only leaves those who have become incredibly wealthy through debt and large businesses.

Democrats are really trying to spend as much money as they can it seems with more and more trillion dollar plans on top of the yearly budget, so it seems increasingly likely that this plan not only tries to appeal to those easily persuaded by freebies, but is also intentionally destroying the economy in the interest of the wealthy elites, which most likely includes many of the politicians currently in office, so that they can pay off the exorbitant amounts of debt that they have used to get that wealth. 

 It's just astounding how reckless the silent generation/boomers have been in destroying everything their predecessors built. They will never own up to their mistakes and instead would rather take the whole system down to stay afloat for 5 minutes longer than the rest of us.  

Link to archived article: https://archive.is/YK1lL

It looks like Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been selected as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. While I do not know too much about her, it appears that she is a very strong supporter, based on this video, of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and has urged other African countries to be a part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.

This initiative is a debt trap that gives China leverage over the countries they give billions in loans to for construction projects that are primarily done by Chinese workers. China used this leverage in 2017 when Sri Lanka gave up ownership of a major port and 15,000 acres of land to China. This ownership by China will last 99 years.

Ngozi's home country of Nigeria owes least $3.1 billion to China, though in 2020, Nigeria and China came to an agreement of a $17 billion loan for Nigeria. Much like the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom, whose home country of Ethiopia owes China $13.5 Billion as of 2019, I fear that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will serve and protect China's interests first and foremost, and will obfuscate any illegal economic activities done by China.

It should be noted that Ngozi became a dual citizen of the US and Nigeria back in 2018, but her ties to Nigeria will most likely coerce her to place China's interests above the interests of the US and its allies.

It should be absolutely clear that China will use America's dangerous obsession with Social Justice to push forward Africans from countries that owe billions to China into leadership roles within the UN and its agencies. These leaders will act as proxy agents of the CCP.

On a surface level, it makes sense that they want public schools to be reopened, but really, it just shows how hypocritical some of these conservatives are, like Ben Shapiro ("shocking," I know). For years conservatives have been lamenting the public schools as a source of leftist indoctrination (which I agree with), so shouldn't conservatives be more vocal about the value of home schooling? Or would having students be home-schooled (which generally a parent wants to be there for) shine a greater light on a problem conservative politicians and pundits want to ignore?

Home-schooling should definitely be more utilized compared to public schools, so I don't understand why conservatives in general aren't looking a gift horse in the mouth?

At this point, I have no faith that leftists will wise up to see how they are being manipulated into canceling people who the elites/media call "white supremacists" or "Alt-right" even though it is pretty clear that they are falsely labelling WallStreetBets groups as "White Supremacists" or guilty of "Hate Speech" with no evidence whatsoever. Most of these leftists probably don't care that they are being used because they think it gives them power.

Regardless, I'm really tired of the people or groups that aren't leftists constantly trying to defend themselves by saying how "awful and hateful those Alt-Righters are!" They aren't convincing any leftists or corporations by condemning those groups, they are just reaffirming the arguments of the leftists. They are too indoctrinated to see how pathetic their defenses are when they acknowledge the leftist narrative.

It's like Ben Shapiro when he constantly says how he is the "# 1 victim of Anti-Semitism." The people he is trying to placate don't care that he is the "victim," they just want him to grovel on his knees and continually disavow, leading to his followers to repeat the same condemnations because they don't want to be seen as "racist" or "bigoted" by Ben himself. Maybe someday these people will grow a spine and just ignore the claims of people being White Supremacists or say "Why should I be responsible for who does or doesn't support me?"

As much as I really don't want to say it, there is a high likelihood that Biden will become the next president, which will most likely mean that China will be more assertive in becoming the dominant economy, unless something big happens in the U.S. where change is done (highly unlikely that many people will try to do anything about it).

Assuming everything goes according to plan for the globalist elites, I predict that the American entertainment will primarily focus on China as the main demographic for their movies, games, etc even more so than currently, while the properties that are smaller in budget and/or not popular (and most likely would never be popular) in China will be made into entertainment that solely focus on minority (primarily black) characters. For all potentially profitable IPs, China will be the main setting and/or the main characters will be Chinese, and the glitz and glamour of the conventions like San Diego Comic Con will be removed from conventions in the states and focused in Chinese entertainment conventions exclusively. As we are already seeing, minority characters are taking on the mantle of classic comic book heroes. I foresee this continuing, with these entertainment companies fully willing to lose money on Western-focused mediums, seeing the losses as justified in exchange for good PR by the media and the growing minority community that likes terms like "Latinx" and other woke appeasements. Of course, all of big budget films and TV shows will be made with China as the sole market, so black characters will be minimized as much as possible. They will become fully confident they will make even more money with Chinese-focused mediums and thus offsetting potential losses. Overtime, the American market will stagnate thanks to wall street extracting America of its resources and thus corporations will make America a secondary market that would no longer be profitable, instead becoming a market purely for accruing brownie points and diverting attention away from unethical dealings in China while American politicians pretend that the United States is still the dominant force.

Most of these predictions are probably not really predictions as this is already happening now, but I only see it getting worse if American continues down the path it is going right now. Where do you all see the market focus going, assuming nothing changes?