I've read the books, but it's been since 2008-ish when I last picked them up. The first part of the story arc kinda glosses over the fallout of the deaths and what would happen when not only infrastructure starts breaking down, but also the ramifications of needing to find a way to safely dispose of the corpses of half the world. After the initial "OHSHI- PEOPLE DED" reaction it jumps straight to the post-apocalyptic side of things, where women have carved up the countryside into their own enclaves. Yorick is discovered, and protection from the remnants of the US government is forced upon him and a geneticist who is charged with figuring out why he isn't dead and what they can do to use his genetics to try and kickstart the repopulation of the planet. I remember the books being a good read, although there were more than a few points where I rolled my eyes at the impossibility of the situation where women effectively "manned up" and tried to rebuild into their own version of a perfect society.
If you have an Amazon Prime account, the first volume of the series is available for free for a limited time under their Prime Reading feature. It's worth a look, even if only to get an overview of the content.
Based musician was based, even if the track did get treated as if it was novelty cut back in the day. Women who are of the mindset that they're high-value (even if they aren't) will be nothing but problems for a guy.
So if I assert that someone else was banned because they asserted that a third user was banned because they theoretically asserted the theoretical mental illness of transsexuals, I'm assuming I'd get banned as well?
Shit, much like the stack of turtles holding up the world, it's bans all the way down!
It's definitely a case of personal time being available to sink into overall inconsequential things that grant small amounts of power, and part of why things like HOAs, schools, and Internet forums attract these people. Nosy, power-hungry busybodies that aren't holding down a job (i.e. retired or permanent housewives) are the type to go for small positions of power where they can lord it over the people that are affected - like in HOAs. When it comes to the Internet and forums, you run into lefitst/liberal types that also aren't holding down jobs and feel like the world owes them everything. They take their infinite free time and weasel their way into being moderators and admins of the same forums, and then lord that power over the casual users, imposing their sometimes arbitrary and capricious rules on a whim.
4Chan has pretty much given up on keeping track of the Rules of the Internet (because good luck getting them to keep their attention on anything for more than a few weeks unless it produces massive amounts of lulz), and the Encyclopedia Dramatica article on it is completely fucked, but I'd say "Any quarantined discussion board on a leftist site will eventually be banned" would be a good follow-up to the general rule that any free public forum will tend towards a leftist mindset unless vigorously defended.
Quoth the reporter:
the recoil rippling through my arms and right shoulder with astounding power.
From an AR15 shooting .223? Are this dude's arms made of solid Jell-O? How the fuck did he manage to lift the damn thing if it rekt him that hard?
Hell, you get worse recoil from the snap-back of the rubber tubing on a high-end slingshot. This dude is obviously a huge soyboy pussy, and anything he says in regards to the firing of any weapon should immediately be dismissed.
Man has a point. Twenty-seven years ago when we were seeing her nips through the cloth of her shirts on the set of Friends she was hot. Now, she's a 52-year-old spinster. The Wall catches up with everyone, no exceptions.
idk why everyone wants to fuck her so bad
File that under "wanting to bang a music star", because being on stage gives a three point bump to anyone's hotness. Hell, just look at ugly motherfuckers like Jay-Z and Mick Jagger - dudes got all the pussy in the world because they can perform in front of people and have charisma.
Off-stage and out of her make-up she'd be lucky to be a 7/10. Go walking through the streets of any major city's nightclub area in FL and you'll find an infinite number of carbon copies of her style, that are likely hotter than she is by an order of magnitude. But you put her on stage, slinking around in a catsuit and slutting it up, and you end up with girls wanting to be her and dudes wanting to fuck her until she makes an ahegao face, regardless of how much of a moron or horrible person she is.
That being said, she's 28 now. She has maybe another three or four before the next hot young thing comes in to eclipse her. Even with proper maintenance she has maybe another 8 years, 10 tops, before she starts hitting the wall. She's not going to last forever.
Because of puritanical morality laws on what can and can't be shown on American TV. You can show people getting shot, beaten, blown the hell up, or any other number of horrific ways to die, but heaven forbid you show a nipple or a butt crack, because that might warp the children's fragile little minds or awaken some sort of lust in the viewers.
As someone who immediately saw the irony in Rage Against The Machine's debut album becoming as huge of a commercial hit as it did, and laughed at the fact that none of the morons that bought it twigged to the notion that they were just as commercialized and capitalist in their neo-socialist conformity as the yuppies and society they were "rebelling" against, nothing in the realm of "punk" surprises me anymore.
While the opinions in the thread are valid, and a damn good recap of the last year-and-change's worth of events, I utterly hate reading pieces that should be a long-form blog post or article in Twitter thread format. Here's the unroll:
I don't really give two shits about the success or failure rates of female athletes in their chosen sport - until they start shooting their mouths off about things like equal pay, equal representation, or other social justice garbage. Same thing goes for male athletes. Keep your mouths shut, play the sport you're trying to excel at, and don't act like you're anything more than an over-paid entertainment for the masses, because in the grand scheme of things your success or failure amounts to a statistic in the record books and not much else in the world.
Yeah, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what FDS preaches. The concept of "find a good, stable man that'll treat you like a queen, and then treat him like a king" is completely alien to them. In a situation like what your man had, they'd do the female equivalent of a "hump 'n dump", but with his wallet instead of in the sack.
You know all of those shitty articles in women's magazines like Cosmo where they talk about "how to brainwash your man into doing whatever you want", "withholding sex from your man proves that you love him", or "how to get away with having a side dude while your main guy pays your bills"?
Multiply that by a factor of 1000 and you're getting close to what FDS is like. They're there to give women tips on how to get as much dick and as much free stuff from the guys they're preying on, all while emotionally and financially manipulating them to the breaking point, and then how to get away clean if and when the guy wises up - or how to best divorce-rape him if he was dumb enough to put a ring on it or breed with her. It's basically the proof that what MGTOW philosophy claims about women is true.
If you're looking for evidence of women who are "finally ready to settle down" after handling more sausage than a Chicago meat-packing plant and popping out four kids from three baby-daddies, you're looking for /r/whereareallthegoodmen - that's where all the busted hos that are hitting the wall but post Tinder profiles like they think they're still worth it get laughed at.
Looks like they got MGTOW2 as well. Can't say as I'm surprised, because if you're going to go after a hydra you have to take off all the heads at once, although when it came to hating on women the OG sub was a hell of a lot worse than the sequel. Regardless, the writing was on the wall for the sub when the admins slapped a quarantine on the sub - nobody comes back from one of those.
Looks like a lot of the subscribers are forming back up over at Ruqqus (which isn't much better than Reddit when it comes to mod/admin fuckery, from what I've heard), and some are headed for goingyourownway.com. Honestly, someone from over there ought to step up and create a .win site for it and get incorporated into the federation over here. It'd be a lot more productive than trying to rely on someone else's platform.
Sheeeit, FDS isn't going anywhere. We all know the clown world admins over at reddit won't touch any sub that allows wahmen to be predatory to men (and their bank accounts).
If they do roll up a mgtow.win, let us all know. Even though I'm married (it's cheaper to keep her), I'll still happily hang out and commiserate with the new arrivals. as the saying goes, MGTOW doesn't recruit, it just greets them when they arrive at the door.
Glorification of the breakdown of mental structure, combined excuses made because they don't want to have to talk about the team members not being able to bring their Adderall to Japan (because Japan doesn't recognize it as a therapeutic drug and they really frown on people using amphetamine-based drugs).
In the case of the latter, it's pretty simple. Take away the legal speed and after a few days withdrawal sets in. But nobody is going to talk about that dirty little secret. Nope, it's far easier to blame it on "mental exhaustion" when the shakes kick in, and then have the MSM cheer about how "it's okay to quit when you can't handle it". Never mind the fact that the whole point of the Olympics is to go out there and give 110% for your country. Appreciation for peak human performance is dead.
Usually if an obit mentions high school at all, it's just a quick "went to Bob Dobson High School, graduated Class of '69" before continuing on to more recent info. The only time you see obits digging that far back for someone who is older than 25 is if their accomplishments as an adult didn't amount to jack shit and they're wanting to play for more sympathy for the deceased, or whoever is paying for the obit decided to get wordy and was willing to pay for the extra lines.
Scrivonaut is on record in prior podcasts as stating he saw Schreier as having put in the work on stories in the past, but in this episode he takes him to task over the whole "I've been working on this story for years" excuse, noting that either Schreier was protecting people over at Bliz by camping the story, or he was basically incompetent on this one because in the past he had published stories in a faster turnaround with less corroborating evidence. I think at this point we're all pretty much in agreement that Schreier's rep is shot to shit.
If there ever was a split, I guarantee you that you'd see the hubs of "civilization" get cut the hell off from the rest of the state in areas that are predominantly red outside of the urban enclaves. Chicago would be expunged from the rest of Illinois, Portland would be cut off from the rest of Oregon, et cetera.
Which would be fine by me, because the one thing that the cities don't have is self-sustainability. Cut off the daily influx of food products to the shops and bodegas everywhere and slap up barricades to keep them from pulling a mass exodus. The liberals would literally eat themselves, because we all saw how well the CHAZ worked out. All it would take is one nudge to push them over into anarchy.
Combination of groupthink and juvenile tendencies. Someone that can elaborate on their feelings on an issue and put them into words will actually do so, whereas someone with a lesser-developed capacity for putting their thoughts into words will try and shortcut the process by using what words they do know. Since the average SJW type is either prone to bouts of infantilism, an arrested development case, or possibly both, they resort to words you'd hear a ten-year-old using and the emotional manipulation tactics of a child. That's where the groupthink comes in. Since they can't form the proper arguments for themselves, they fall back on the tactics they have either seen others successfully use, or tactics that they have been told will work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for letting people in to try new things, but we, as the stewards of fandoms, need to get over our "OMG OTHER PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN THE SAME THING I AM!!!" reaction to the Thing We Like when someone shows the least bit of interest. Let them try it, see if they enjoy it, but as soon as they start suggesting any sort of change to it that erodes the base of what makes the Thing a Thing (like inclusivity, et al) we need to be willing to tell them to go fuck off and make their own thing. That was our problem to begin with - we kept making it easier for the normies to get interested in our geek stuff, and we threw the doors too wide.
As a response, I would highly recommend checking out the essay Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution. It takes a look at how subcultures are created, then potentially get invaded by normies, and then get invaded by people with sociopathic tendencies (like SJWs), leading to the inevitable decay/destruction of the subculture unless steps are taken to keep the culture alive. Sadly, at this point, many geek fandoms are too far gone to be saved (D&D and other well-known RPGs, cartoons, certain card games, etc), so rather than fighting against the inevitable wave of bullshit that the SJWs bring, it's better to move on and start creating new things - and gatekeep the shit out of them.
The whole thing of "...who end up trading sex for a place to stay" completely invalidates the premise that the person who is telling the kid "hey, I can help you get away from your parents that hate you because you think you're trans" is only doing it out of the goodness of their heart. If someone really cared about helping out LGBT youths, they wouldn't immediately land on the notion of "okay, you can stay here rent-free, but you owe me a blowie at least once a day" as compensation for the assistance.
Probably less. Unless there's a female co-pilot on board, you've got planes dropping out of the skies. Dudes behind the wheel of long-haul trucks (or just cars in general) would be running off the roads or plowing into traffic. Every one of those incidents would require fire response to keep any blazes from spreading. There's no way in hell fire and police are at a 50-50 ratio, so they'd effectively have to watch the world burn. On top of that, you're going to have power, water, sewer, and everything else going to hell in a handbasket at the same time. They'd effectively be fucked.
But hey, that's why they want equality in all jobs, right? /S