I did Masters' research on this well more than a decade ago, how diversity injection is best used to break up unions and solidarily of a workforce leading to a cheaper and less demanding human resource to be used in greater excesses. Even back then, basically all the research was in basic agreement on this, "yup, you want to have employees at each-other's throats over their low pay, not at your throat, so you do lots of diversity initiatives!", it was standard knowledge. It also reduced productivity, but most workforces were overstaffed a bit anyways so a bit of lost theoretical maximum didn't really hurt.
Employees worried that there's a gender or race pay gap don't worry that you're paying them piss-all, and they don't trust their coworkers so they won't unionize as readily.
This was BEFORE Occupy Wall Street, mind you, so the sudden obsession during that for the Left to be race-and-gender-baiting isn't really mysterious, it's simple injection of a philosophy that they knew worked really well to sabotage and break down the movement. Alas, I don't think the Powers That Be realized just how effective their agent's sabotage was, given the damages it is causing now.
RFK has a horrific health injury as an excuse. Kamala changes her accent several times a day if need be, she's able to control her voice, she actively chooses that tone.
Japan's low crime rate comes from an aggressively monocultural society. Adding "diversity" will increase crime rate, not lower it, even in as token an effort as animated cartoons.
Look at the shounen anime this season: Work hard, nose to the grindstone and you'll do well, just don't make waves (Healer is the strongest). Do make waves, but only to harshly as possible harm those who are societal dissidents (talker). It is more important to fit into society than to be strong (dragon rebirth).
All their youth-oriented shows, even if they're harem ecchi wish fulfillment, still echo and repeat a sentiment of "a strong and stable society is more important than individual merit". It's not their preached message, just subtly in the background. Hell, Arifureta is all about one guy being the bestest strongest ever, but the last entire story arch is about taking down a kingdom ruled on such a premise, and reaffirming that the MC's an outlier, that society shouldn't run on his systems. They actively celebrate societal cohesion and monoculturalism, because of the myriad benefits it brings them.
Even if that platoon was the 1st Drone Strike platoon, where all the platoon does is sit at computers pressing buttons to initiate or not initiate drone strikes, well... The top Starcraft esports players are even all bio-male. I can see wanting to m'lady the women, I can see grasping for a theoretical singular edge case where probabilities align to allow an outlier... But on-average, platoon vs platoon combat? That's peak delulu.
The police is siding with whatever group is the most likely to do the violence, as long as they aren't White.
You don't need the second part of that sentence. Whites are basically the most placid, pacifistic, nonviolent "group" out there, so they're just naturally on the bottom of the totem pole. Canada had a whole-ass riot and capital city takeover by whites, and the biggest complaint was food shelters were losing business because the truckers were giving away food to the homeless.
They'd push it even if it only had a yaoi couple side-characters in it.
Just look at Cardcaptor Sakura. Because that IS the series being described: Some young girl being put in fetish outfits by her best friend (who likes to film it) while her older brother and his gay lover watch over them.
And they love it.
Clearly tourist tastes. Everyone knows 6th was peak cinema, the best blend of surrealist humor and inside references to the past 3 cours, it was a love letter to the franchise! 7th was just a lousy cash grab, the series wrapped up nicely.
They should sit through the cold open, first 50 seconds of episode 1 of "A Little Sister Is All You Need" (this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS9tp-TuJtA ), have it pause right before the 3rd-wall-break of the editor asking "what the fuck is this degenerate shit?", and asked their opinions on how the show will progress.
Anyone with any opinion at all there is welcome, any views as to the story progression. Anyone who simply blindly castigates the scene/series/medium should be filtered out. Anyone who either accurately predicts a fake open or who instead just wants to know the story about the resurrected girl should be welcomed with open arms.
I'll never begrudge Japan for that. If anything, more people should be thinking that Christianity looks cool.
They need to just make new superheros.
Well, they would, but every time they try, they fail. I wonder why... Japan manages to do it every single season, so it can't be the market that's at fault, market's working just fine...
The kitten isn't alive either, so it works as a comparison.
Just explain to the kid that kids are very much like dogs and cats, so they can't walk alone in the parks anymore.
That's a debunked conspiracy theory. And even if it was true, it would be a good thing.
"Water and hydrochloric acid are the same thing, because both of them are clear liquids! They both even have oxygen in their ingredient lists! Checkmate, drumpftards!" -The NYT.
And we're over-eating that poison.
Nah, that's just a good ol' original O-G comma needed there; it is(n't) linking two sentences, not a list.
While it is an excellent way to kick elderly retired people onto the streets, to kill them off, and lower the overall age of your population... It also helpfully only allows large megacorporations to operate, with the government's blessing. Corporate-assisted socialism... What was the word for the party with that philosophy again?
Oh right, the Fascist party. The word gets bandied about so much I almost forgot its original meaning! Literally Norway.
Did you get to see Vivian James among the spookable guests?
You think too small. Due to the lack of definition, they can add a thought-break clause and go Child Sexual/Assault Material. In which case they can, keeping the acronym and even words the same, quietly shift it to tar designated targets who do something like enjoy violent video games (which expose children to assault).
Neuro wouldn't be so wasteful, she'd at least ask the human to contribute his iron and calcium deposits to the Swarm development factories instead of just going off to seek Canadian Healthcare.
"A Madness Of Angels" is interesting, as it is written in first-person-perspective, of someone who is both 1) from a different morality worldview than ours, and 2) actually insane. It's Modern Fantasy rather than Near-Modern Sci-Fi, but there's a reasonable amount of having fun trying to figure out what's happening not in a whodunnit way but in a "peel back the perspective layers" way, which is kinda-sorta like a "peel back the reality/dream layers" way of Inception.
That stated... It's first-person free-writing. While you definitely get used to it as you read it, it's NOT an easy or light reading to get into at the start.
NOTHING.
While there are works that have improved in the transition from print to screen, they are VERY few, and VERY far between.
If the illiterate mongoloids can't read a great work, too bad, they're left out. There's tens of thousands of amazing works of literature in languages I cannot read, I accept that, if I really wanted to access them, I could learn those languages.
The showleads bragged about having never read the source material. So yeah, it never did get an adaptation, instead there's some new random tale that happens to share a name because naming things is hard.
Steam was founded on the concept that piracy was a service problem, not a price one.
Steam had best remember those roots. People are willing to pay, and to pay good money (as proven by Steam itself), for a reasonable gaming platform that shuts up and distributes games. But they're also quite willing to engage in other platforms should that one no longer be a service they may freely enjoy.
The ADL, the SIC, and the CIA can winge all they want about it, there's no illegal content. And if there's nothing illegal, they can fuck off. It's a platform (in the regards of operations as to what they're complaining about), not a publisher. You don't go to the phone company to try to make them curtail "hateful content".
Isn't this the guy who shot that chick in the face because he was pissed off, and then defended himself by saying someone else loaded his gun so it was totally legal and somehow that defense stood?