Because Kurtz has enough moronic fans propping him up and he somehow hasn't had a heart attack and kicked over. When I met him in person at GenCon about six years back he looked like the type of ham planet you'd see rolling around on a Rascal scooter. I saw an actual picture of him not too long ago and he actually looked bigger. I figure the dude is about a two-piece-and-a-biscuit away from having a grabber.
I got introduced to Rush's show during a stint I did at a small-press printing company back in '98-99. When I got hired on there I was supposed to be filling a new position of "electronic documents manager", but what I ended up doing for the first two months was scanning documents to be converted to PDF for printing.
They basically stuck me in a room with stacks of banker's boxes full of hard-copy documents, a PC that was hooked to the network, a scanner with a feeder tray, and a fresh copy of Adobe Acrobat, and told me to have at it. I was bored out of my skull until I discovered mid-day talk radio and started following both the G. Gordon Liddy show and Rush Limbaugh who aired right after Liddy. It was during that time I formed a lot of my political opinions, as I recognized Liberalism for the grift that it was, and started to recognize that all politicians are crooks - you're just voting for the least of the worst.
RIP to the man who got taken to task for discussing that the main cause of vehicle accidents in rush hour traffic was women farding in their cars. May his formerly-nicotine-stained fingers always hold the documents of truth.
The irony is, we ran into hundreds of cases where whining leftists decided to publicly destroy their Harry Potter merch when Saint Rowling got excommunicated for the crime of being a supposed TERF. Same energy, but in their case I'm sure they felt that taking their copy of Philosopher's Stone, their Gryffindor scarf, and every poster they own, and putting the match to them was justifiable. Never mind the fact that JK already got her check for the royalties off of that stuff - she must be canceled out of everywhere because she didn't believe that someone's fee-fees can flip their gender.
Man, the level of cognitive dissonance in these people's heads never fails to astound me. Just when I think it can't get any worse, they find a new set of gymnastics to work into their floor routine.
I've long thought that we need to get back into the business of having mental institutions, for many of the same reasons you listed. There are people that are persistently mentally ill, and no amount of social programs are going to help them because they are utterly incapable of properly taking care of themselves. They need support and supervision, and having some bread line where they can go an get a meal or a free clinic where they can go and get their meds (that they either don't take or sell off for money so they can go get their own drug of choice) doesn't cut it.
The other two examples you listed are just more instances of mental issues. Dude is a sex pest and won't stop doing lewd things in public? That's not being a piece of shit, that's a mental health problem. Drug abusers and addicts are the same thing, if it's progressed into a psychological dependency. Jimmy doesn't need to go down to the methadone clinic on the regular, he needs inpatient care to detox from the heroin and then he needs psych help to get over the issues that drove him to that point.
The long and the short of it is that the state of mental health care in this country is abysmal. I'm not saying that we need to go back to the days of Nurse Ratched and abusing mental health patients just so the doctors can see if some novel treatment has any effect. I'm saying that we need places where the people who need help and treatment can go to be housed for long-term (and even potentially permanent) situations and receive modern health care.
Chicagoland area might buy it, but I'd like to think that the rest of downstate is skeptical enough to not swallow that BS hook, line, and sinker. ComEd and Ameren aside, we have enough smaller local electric co-ops that know you're going to need a hell of a lot more than a wind turbine field or a bank of solar panels to provide enough juice for the customers when the weather gets shitty.
You can just leave "the left" out of the statement, because I think they were meaning "any calls for renewable energy, unless it's nuclear, are trash". Since The Left would never call for nuclear anyway, it's a safe bet that any calls for renewable energy from them are trash.
I can throw my vote of "it was there in the first one" behind the situation where one of the offspring options was "homosexual", as well. I remember thinking it was odd, but it didn't seem to add or detract from the character's stats so I just ignored it. Damn shame to see they went full woke on the sequel, and good on you for refunding it based on principles. If they're going to push their politics in their gameplay, they can push them on some other person.
Haven't really touched Anime in a while, so I'm out of the loop on pretty much everything.
Gaming-wise, I've been feeding my usual Warframe habit (playing, not paying. DE can take their woke bullshit opinions and shove it up their collective ass). Beyond that, I've been trying to get into Total Warhammer, as well as playing indie stuff from publishers that haven't voiced any uber-woke opinions, while working my way through my Steam backlog.
TV Shows - we tend to have older USA shows in heavy rotation around here. Psych, Monk, Royal Pains, Burn Notice, and Suits are frequent fliers. We recently signed up for a Peacock account and have been watching things here and there. Limetown came up on our radar, so we figured we'd give it a go since neither my wife or I had heard of it. I may have to go check out the podcast it was based on, because it sounds like the show itself isn't going to get another season. I'm definitely digging it, though - it has a very "Wayward Pines" feel to it.
I feel you. I can recall watching the original Star Wars (back before they started tacking the "A New Hope" tagline on it) while standing on the backseat of my parent's car at the drive-in when I was a tyke. Pop culture experiences like that are few and far between these days.
Hell, I felt really old when I looked it up. Buffy originally premiered in 1997 - nearly 24 years ago. I can remember watching that with my friends back in college, and it doesn't feel like it's been that long. Now I know how my dad felt when he talked to me about watching the old Adam West Batman series when I watched it with him as a kid, in syndicated re-runs.
Oh, I'm not saying they weren't around back then. I think I can recall rumblings on the fan board back in the day. What I was getting at was her timing. It's awfully convenient of her to jump back on the bandwagon with her story now that Joss is being taken to task over mistreating a black actor, when she could have spoken up at any time before now - doubly so when the #MeToo movement was in full swing and people accusing Joss were crawling out of the woodwork. She missed that clout on the first go-around, so she's going for a low-rent bump on it now that she's hit 50 and not being considered for any roles, anywhere. Sure, her story of how Joss was an absolute prick to her needs to be told, but I really feel like this was more of a tactical revelation than something that comes from the heart.
As much of a wankstain as Joss is, this is just her post-wall self trying to jump back on the #MeToo bandwagon that she missed the first time it ran over Joss, back when his ex-wife had him by the short-and-curlies and was exposing his shit to the world. She can take her B-list self and move on down the road, because she was never an "actress" of any major level of talent and the only thing anyone remembers her for is being "the good-looking bitchy one" on Buffy and the sidekick on Angel, twenty-odd years ago.
Lead female character uses people to get ahead and then leaves them by the wayside once they are no longer of use
Sounds like a majority of "strong, independent women" in the world today that also bag on how how "oppressed" they are by the "patriarchy" and how evil men are.
I think what slew me the most about the show was that for 90% of the series she really couldn't play chess at a grandmaster level unless she was coked to the gills on downers. Yeah, that's the kind of representation I would want if I were trying to YAS KWEEN it up over a fictional character.
Hell, I always thought it looked more like an old-west lasso than anything. Near as I can tell, the logo hasn't changed much since the '70s when it was created.
Jeebus, these people will look for the smallest problem in absolutely anything. If they think the loop around the logo looks like a whip and they're inferring anything other than the fact that saltine crackers used to be shipped in barrels to the general stores across the country, they need their goddamn heads examined, because they're projecting so much that they need their own dedicated VGA cable.
I can't recall what morning radio show I heard it on as it was years ago (might have been the Bob & Tom Show), but I remember a bit where a black comedian was talking with the hosts about how it's rough being on the road and finding a decent place to eat. He was in a smaller city in the Midwest, and the person at the front desk of his hotel suggested Cracker Barrel as it was one of the few places in town. His general reaction was "Say whatnow?" but he went ahead and headed there anyway. Said he was initially a little freaked out over the general decor and whatnot, but once he got sat down they got him taken care of and it was some of the best food he'd ever had on the road. Ended the discussion by saying if he was in a smaller town he'd always check to see if there was one in the area, and eat there.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and say it's the best food ever. At best, it's mass-produced country-style comfort food. But it's damn good comfort food, and I highly doubt they'd turn away anyone as a paying customer unless said person was causing a scene, regardless of their color.
Headline in 30 years: "Female Prostate Cancer Numbers On The Rise" - because if there's one grand truth of life it's you can take all the hormones you want and chop off whatever bits you please, but you can't change biology.
Y'know what people used to get every year? A flu shot, based on whatever the companies predicted the latest mutation in the flu virus would be. Y'know what thousands of elderly and immunocompromised people still died from every year, regardless? That's right - the fucking flu. There's never going to be a permanent vaccine for this shit, because it's going to outpace vaccine production just like standard flu viruses do the other one. This is going to sound callous and cold, but if we'd just let the damn thing run its course, bury our dead, and let the living move on, we'd be well on our way to digging ourselves out of the pit that the Wuhan province created for us. Instead we're still cowering in fear of what's eventually going to become an annual resurgence and letting the government both run and ruin our lives in the process.
Dammit, you beat me to the joke. Have an upvote.
The International Jew was a series of pamphlets that were published by Henry Ford, Sr. back in the 1920s. They're generally considered to be antisemetic.
The Culture of Critique is a series of books that focuses on the theory that "evolutionary psychology provides the motivations behind Jewish group behavior and culture" - basically that Jewish people are genetically geared to be ethnocentric and hostile towards non-Jews.
Sounds like the OP is heading into Jewish conspiracy theory territory.
I was never one to push for homeschooling when I was younger, because as a youth I saw a LOT of weird kids come out of homeschool situations, where the parents would push their fucked-up religious-based teachings on the kids (e.g. young earth theory, dinosaurs bones were put there as a test of faith, etc.) on top of the kids having next to zero social skills due to no interaction with their peer group.
Flash forward and I'm damn glad I don't have any kids, because I'd have been looking into private schools that aren't socialism-infested and facing the prospect of paying through the nose to send the crotch-spawn to them. Now, in a post-Wu-Flu world, I'd be cutting that public shit off the second I saw anyone mention anything relating to critical race theory, colonialism, white guilt, or any other similar bullshit and looking into buying homeschool books.
Basic upshot I've gleaned from other articles sounded like there was some shit in there, like one of the modder's self-insert fantasies around enslaving women and sex with underage females. Granted, that could be hearsay, but I don't think the mod would have been yanked if there wasn't some grain of truth to it.
I currently use a Redragon M901 Perdition mouse, and it's one of the best gaming mice I've ever worked with. It's one of those programmable MMO mice that has 12 buttons on the side in addition to having the usual L/R/Wheel. It also has what I like to call a "double-tap" button that can act as a multiple-click trigger, as well as the ability to switch DPI or program sets on the fly. It also comes with adjustable weights, so you can make it lighter or heavier if you want. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a new gaming mouse.
If they really wanted to address climate change, they'd be holding the feet of the CCP and every other developing chunk of Asia to the fire, because that's where the majority of the pollution in the world is coming from these days. Can't have that, though - that's where all the cheap shit the rest of the world buys comes from. So yeah, let's screw every other first world country in the process. Clown World at its finest.
Hang 'em by their own rules. They wanted the laws for "equality", so what's good for the goose is good for the gander.