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But she is the first Black American, Asian-American and female VP, right?
Jeebus, they'll try to take any sort of "first" they can, won't they? Funny, too, how "Indian" now counts as Asian, but "Asian" only counts as POC when it suits them.
I've known about the phobia for several years - back in the day it wasn't uncommon for people to post shoops of tits with lotus flower holes in them on 4chan's /b/ or /x/ boards just to skeeve people out. While I'll give the writer credit that holes where there aren't supposed to be holes can be unsettling, for it to be so triggering that you can't look at a damn sunflower without being triggered is just being mentally fragile. They need some exposure therapy and to learn to get over it.
As the author said, Trypophobia isn't recognized by the DSM-5, so they're shit out of luck for getting their therapist to get them an official diagnosis. They're also apparently unclear on the division between a general sense of unease versus an actual, crippling phobia versus something you can just get the fuck over.
I've seen plenty of trypophobia-triggering pictures over on 4Chan back in the day. Most common one is the shoop of a breast with lotus flower holes in it. That's the kind of shit that is unsettling - holes where there shouldn't be any. In this case? The holes are supposed to fucking be there. It's air-flow. It's cooling. Sure, they could have put in a grill vent with slats instead of a mesh grid, but that's an aesthetic choice. If she's that fucking triggered by it, then fine and dandy - that kind of pussified reaction isn't the people we want to be gaming with, anyway.
It doesn't "target black customers", it targets people that are unwilling to understand that paying $100 for a pair of sneakers doesn't make them on the same level as a pair of Oxfords or Brogues in terms of dress wear. It targets people that think wearing their LeBron jersey instead of a suit jacket is perfectly fine for dinner attire. If said people just happen to be POC, then I don't think it's too much to ask that they educate themselves to proper social attire for a given eatery or event. I'm not going to expect to walk into a black-tie event looking like I just stepped off a basketball court, so why the hell should they get a pass?
So what's it going to be, then? "Jane Bond"? Fuck that noise. The Bond franchise just became "Generic Spy Movie #437".
Back when they were bandying about going POC for Bond, Idris Elba's name came up a lot. I could see that. Dude has the gravitas to play 007, and although it still would have been more wokeshit I would have been willing to give it a watch.
This? You've basically got "Black Black Widow". I really hope that theaters are back open before this thing releases so we can have accurate box office counts on this shit as it goes up in flames like the Hindenburg. Just gotta brace yourselves for the "The New 007 Is A Woman - And That's A Good Thing" articles and other similar bullshit in the meantime.
Not looking good for Trump right now, with Michigan and Wisconsin both trending toward Biden. I fully expect the next few weeks to be a shit-show of challenged counts from either side, regardless of win or loss, and an even further shit-show of smugness on the Left if the initial call is for Biden. I can hear it already, "why don't you just accept it?", "He should step down NOW", "Faith in the Electoral system restored", et cetera.
Reminder: SJWs project like a pre-COVID multiplex theater on a Friday night. Whatever they're accusing you of, they're most likely guilty of, themselves.
As the saying from the southern part of the US goes, "I can put my boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits."
I haven't watched anime in a long time but it's still been sad seeing how woke the Western anime watchers have gotten.
It's not that Western Anime viewers have gone woke, it's that the SJW clique invaded the production side of things and forced the wokeness into official dubs and subs, so if you want the non-pirated versions you're stuck with their shit. The old-school weebs are still furious over Funimation and other houses' IdPol insertions changing scenes, and in some cases entire characters personalities. Unfortunately, they get dismissed as incels and other similar trash insults designed to invalidate their opinions, and the bullshit continues. Anyone who wants to get away from the Cult's garbage is basically going to be forced to bootleg the content or learn how to speak Japanese.
I suppose they could paint them white with red crusader crosses.
For when you absolutely, positively need to bless the ever living fuck out of a target.
Nah, it was more of a "sneaky bastard" aristocracy. Those of us in the conservative side of the tech sector have been pointing at Twitter, Facebook, and Google as being a problem for the last decade, if not longer, but nobody would listen and take us seriously. Everyone was too addicted to the money they were making off of those three entities, so they just let them slide, gaining more and more power and influence, until the dam broke on something like this. Every last one of them should have had their safe haven rights revoked a long time ago, because they have long since moved into the realm of editorializing, and both Facebook and Google should have been broken up from their de facto monopoly positions.
Now we're at the point where it would literally take an act of congress to do so.
Man, this shit is exactly why you don't send the originals anywhere and keep a copy for yourself. You ship the copy and you don't let the originals out of your fucking sight. If the originals are required to be produced, you only do so under strict conditions with fully trusted and vetted people in play.
If this wasn't a sting operation by Fox then they're fucking incompetent.
Feminists: MORE WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER!
ACB gets confirmed
Feminists: NO! NOT THAT KIND OF WOMAN!
What's even more ironic is that after they took it down that deranged cretin John Walker Flynt threw out a tweet thanking them for doing it but still promising to not support the Girl Scouts. Just goes to show you that as a corporation you should stand by conservative values, because if you ever bend the knee or apologize it still won't do you any good against the woke crowd.
I wish Cruz would do more than just run his mouth on anti-woke and anti-left talking points. Yeah, he brings the fire with his based commentary, but then nothing ever comes out of it.
This PSA is about as useful as the "lessons" they used to run as the end bumper to cartoons like G.I.Joe and He-Man. What's sad is it shows just how far Cartoon Network has fallen.
On top of that, they don't get the idea of the bond of brotherhood that forms between guys that are friends. Case in point: Captain America and Winter Soldier. That's a pairing that spawned a million slashfics, all because they don't get the concept of guys who are in wartime together being willing to die for each other. Nope. In their warped heads if one dude cares about the welfare of another dude, they must be gay.
Even money says it's just as many straight women pushing their gay fetishism on the character, simply because the character was done up as being manly-yet-sensitive. Considering the fact that most of the gay slashfic and yaoi comics on the internet are produced/read by straight women, I'd call that a sucker's bet.
In this world, there's a few things that humans have been super good at, and among those have been figuring out new and interesting ways to wage war, and figuring out how to conquer those who were weaker. If someone other than the Europeans of the exploration age had figured those out sooner, then world history would have turned out differently. Article's author needs to get over herself. If it weren't for colonialism and migration for better living circumstances, her ass would have been born in whatever country her ancestors came from.
Projection, DARVO, and gaslighting are the name of the game when it comes to SJWs and and other virtue-signaling asshats. Any time any of them pops up screaming about how young-looking anime girls are pedophilia, superhero costumes are sexist, or any other number of "offenses" that don't bother your average human being, it always starts me wondering what skeletons they have in their closet (e.g. propositioning minors over Snapchat, assaulting members of the opposite sex, kiddie pr0n on their hard drives, et cetera). In the majority of those cases, it's eventually been borne out that the ones that screamed the loudest were the biggest creepers in the bunch.
Seriously, we have yet to have a single dude go assassinate Hitler
That's because they keep killing each other off when they get back there because each of them wants to be the person to claim they did it. Idiots need to get their shit in gear and just do it instead of fighting amongst themselves.
"Again"? Hell, they don't understand why or how he won in the first place. They're still butthurt that their queen won California but lost the election because they don't get how the electoral system works. They think that because the hard-Left swerve after Obama didn't do it, they need to swerve harder and further to the Left. They won't learn from their mistakes and can't be taught to be responsible for their own actions. The youth of the party are like a bunch of immature children who think that stomping their feet and screaming at the top of their lungs will somehow make it so they get their way, because that's how they've been catered to all their life. The elders of the party are either a bunch of entitled elitists who think their champagne socialism and limousine liberalism shouldn't apply to them, or they're a bunch of lazy, do-nothing, non-thinkers who act like they're entitled to the handouts their government has provided to them their entire life simply for existing.
I sincerely hope that there is a complete and utter landslide victory for Trump come end of Tuesday, one that will confirm him as winner without any confusion over any "battlerground" states, because otherwise we're in for a shit-show the likes of Bush v. Gore never even thought of.
Rabble Rabble "Gender Gap", Rabble Rabble "Sexism", Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble. I'm sorry, but if you showed me a dude who was going to be going into a residency for vascular surgery partying it up in a banana hammock down in Cabo, I'd be somewhat disinclined to vote them in to the program, too. Yes, people wear swimsuits and go on vacations. Doctors, too. But as a profession that is held to a higher standard of decorum, I'm not exactly going to put my faith behind someone who is a prospective M.D posting vacation selfies all over Insta and Twitter to attention-whore it up.
My go-to game is still Warframe, woke as the dev team may be, but I'm looking into diving into Yakuza Zero as I'm starting to get bored with the grind and lack of working new content of the former.
Beyond that, I have a massive Steam backlog, so I'm not exactly hurting for both indie and AAA content to work through. Maybe if I get an itch for non-pozzed sports I can break out Blood Bowl or Mutant League Football, or something like Windjammers.
Valid. I mean, these are the same people that got used to changing the hay in Sarah Jessica Parker's feedbag, so there's no accounting for the public opinion on beauty.
They are, but citing sources that Reddit and the leftists that run it don't like will get you kicked out, because if they can't discredit the sources they'll get rid of the dissenting voice.
Man, I miss the old days when Reddit was mostly cat pictures, goofy memes, and "The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight", with the seedier side still there but only if you go looking for it.