Its also my high school sweetheart, and the exact nature of how we got together is so convoluted and relies on so many coincidences that if you made it into a Hallmark movie, people would say it is cheesy and unrealistic.
For me, the issue is that there is a lot of it that seems so intuitive that I cant explain how it works, because it would be like trying to explain air. They also feel like there needs to be certain things in the relationship that are usually the sort of things that come about from the corruption of the culture.
I have found the usual sticking point is related to sex. Because it has been so forced into the culture and corrupted that, to some people, if you dont get it on at least once a day, it means your relationship is in decay and will collapse. And when I tell them that for us, while sex is nice its not the end all, be all, and we can get plenty of emotional fulfillment by just touching and holding one another, they start treating us like we must have the fortitude of a Buddhist monk. Even though for most of history that was exactly the attitude of most husbands and wives. And then the issues seem to grow out from there, and leads to cascading issues down the line.
And of course, a lot of them do nothing on actually building a relationship, giving and taking with their partner to make both of you happy, and doing what you can to start a family to continue it onward. And so they are shocked when it all comes crashing down in months or a few years at best, because they confused lust with love.
To be fair, it has turned into that only for a single group of politically charged people. In my neck of the woods, everything still is the way it has always been. The last Thursday in Nov, and the 4th of July, everything shuts down, flags adorn every pole, and everyone gets together and celebrates their families and their nation. And if any bitching and moaning occurs, its directed at people like those in the OP picture.
IIRC, the Dwarves are supposed to be Welsh, in terms of attitude and industriousness.
Men don't, women don't, rightists don't, leftists don't, authoritarians don't, libertarians don't. Nobody does except sometimes religious zealots, but they normally don't even know why what they are doing works.
The moment I realized this is when I realized that my fiancé and I seem to know how a relationship works and creates that old standard of love, but we are both Autistic and therefore literally dont think like normal people.
We have been together for almost 11 years now with few fights (and none over anything major or long-term), and have hit that point where we literally can not conceive of life without each other in it. And when people ask me what our secret is that makes this work, I cant tell them because my thought process is so unusual they cant conceive of it. And when I do try to explain or say things that we do with each other, they look at me like I grew a second head.
Thing is, just how vicious are these particularly leftists prepared to be?
The answer is probably "very."
If for no other reason than the fact that they are so dumb they dont know the meaning of "quit while you are ahead."
Remember, the Fabian Society a year ago tried to pass along to their acolytes, through friendly media, that the Culture War was supposed to be over, because the Right was actually starting to fight back and was making things hell for them. And how did their acolytes respond? Overwhelmingly, by ignoring them, doubling down, and making it backfire even more on them.
And I have seen plenty of Leftist looking at their tools being taken away and taking that personally to start airing dirty laundry of their overlords and try to whip up the mob against them.
In effect, they have created their own monster that drives forth on its own without having to be told, as long as it can find a target to eat. And that may well be their undoing in the end.
In other news, now that actual money has to be put down, it turns out companies dont really care about paying their tithe to the DIE cult to indoctrinate their staffs.
As vast layoffs have been hitting a variety of companies (especially tech focused ones), data suggest that the first ones being laid off have been the Diversity and Inclusion branches, as well as deep cuts to HR departments. The DIE cult has tried to go full mafia and say "Well, if you get rid of us, we will make your company look bad." but said companies have yet to respond to their threats.
Essentially every single lawyer I watched said similar things.
Maybe from Law-Tube, which isnt necessarily wrong. But I did see my fair share of lawyers who said the defense wasnt terrible, it just wasnt flashy. But it worked for the particular area it was being done in.
And perhaps those accusations about Barnes are "he said, she said", but he has had enough moments of being an arrogant ass that I can believe it (although like you pointed out below, perhaps that just comes with the territory).
I have a hard time believing any of them would ever try to spin it as "yeah some of us were being political hacks and were slowly forced to acknowledge he was innocent."
Have you not been paying attention to the Left over the last few years? They would absolutely do that, because it would give them cred in their own circles. If the juror he was worried about was actually a raging Leftoid, you know damn well she would have done exactly that, and then turned it into a point about how the US is inherently racist. While jurors speaking off the record about what happened during deliberation is also "he said, she said", the fact none of them have tried to make a big deal about it even a year later tells me its at least has weight to it.
I'm not a lawyer, so would you be able to explain what aspect of his jury selection philosophy is controversial?
I am also not a lawyer, but these are the things brought up by one that I saw pointing out how his theory doesnt work. Specifically, there are two major issues with it:
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Both parties get a say in selecting the jury, and if you are trying to use demo-analysis to stack the deck in your favor, basically the only way you can do it is if the other party are so smooth brained they will let you get away with it uncontested, which is extremely unlikely. And the second the other party picks someone who go against your preference, now you run the risk of a hung jury or losing the case. And if you do get that far, the other party can try and pick at a weakness of your demographic, or even use it against you in appeals ("my client was denied a fair trial!").
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In short, juries are too random to guess what they would do based on just the demographic data. Every lawyer has that story or has a friend with the story of a case where they thought that they had the perfect jury, a friendly judge, and a rock-solid case, only to lose with the jury because one of them just got a bug up their ass over something completely random that you could have never planned for.
See my response to the other post. TLDR is large ego and Dick measuring with the other Defense lawyers, while refusing to believe they knew what they were doing.
The TLDR version is that he demanded to be the face of the case and withdrew his resources when he thought they were disrespecting him. He also refused to listen to the other Defense attorneys when they said that they knew what they were doing and had argued in front of that judge and local juries. He also insisted on his whole jury selection theory that is actually a fairly controversial idea that is highly debated if it even works (hence why they didn’t trust it). And we have since learned the jury was on Kyles side the second they walked in to deliberation and just wanted to look at all evidence again before making their ruling (rather than his theory of political jurors).
So he is not as smart as he seems, at least outside of Constitutional law.
Anyone who still trust Barnes after it came out what he did in the Rittenhouse case is not paying attention.
They are taking that one black Samurai Oda Nobunaga had and trying to pretend it means there were millions of them, aren’t they?
Yep. My Discord server I am on with my friends (most of whom are uninitiated normies) is mostly filled with tags that are memes, funny quotes, or in-jokes.
Like the other comment said (and I guess my initial info was wrong or unclear on), it looks like McCarthy will be Speaker and Scalise will be Majority Leader. Like I said, not great, but it could be much worse. The House at least has less RINO's in it than the Senate, so I think them playing obstruction will be fine for the next few years.
Good to know. Scalise I still think would have been the better choice, but McCarthy is....not terrible I guess? He is more steadfast than McConnell, but he does waffle a bit too much for my taste.
Pelosi hands McCarthy
Actually, initial reports that I saw are that most of the House GOP (including a lot of the newcomers) are leaning toward Scalise rather than McCarthy to be Speaker.
Which I think would be a good choice. He is kind of in the same vein as Cruz and Rubio as sort of "MAGA Missing Link". Where they were/are Neo-Con types, but they have enough political intuition to see where the wind is blowing and ride it to their own power by following the waves. He has also generally been pretty good at call out the Left and the Media for their bullshit and knows better than to let his guard down around them (I am sure being shot and nearly killed by a raging Leftoid has nothing to do with that).
As someone who runs on that side of Reddit, it is both hilarious and concerning how hardcore they are getting over it all.
Weeb is the one that would be at the top of the bell curve there.
Like I said in my original post: They are effectively the Anime equivalent to the Gamer stereotype.
They are the kinds who are always mixing Japanese in with their English. They obsess over Japan even if its ignoring stuff that is historically wrong (they are the kind who argue that the Katana is some sort of super-sword when in reality it is inferior to most European swords from the same time period...and both are inferior to polearms). In extreme cases, they are the kind that go around with the hentai jackets on. And they are usually fat with titanic amounts of BO.
But much like with gamers, they are actually a smaller portion of the fandom than you would think since most Anime fans are just normal people. They are just the loudest and most obnoxious, so they are the ones who get made fun of.
Definitely consider it my main source of non-gaming related entertainment at the moment. And I will fess up that I do have some weebish tendencies. But the hardcore weebs who do all of the cringy bullshit and scream about how much they would rather be in Japan while screaming broken Japanese? They need to shut the fuck up.
I, for one, am glad to see them dispelling the notion that they are doing what they do because they are porn-poisoned coomers.
I am honestly at the point where I am more annoyed and disturbed by the Blackpilled than I am the Left. At least I know the Left wants to kill me, so I can plan for that. With some Blackpill types, I am half expecting them to stab me in the back because my continued resistance is preventing them from feeling the sweet release of death (after all, I should be as miserable as they are).
Meanwhile, the Left are entirely able to be defeated, because they and their corporate aligned masters are fucking dumb and are making decisions now that defy even basic logic. Unless of course you think you are an untouchable god who has already discovered the secrets of the universe (which they do).
I have pointed it out in a few threads now, but I will continue to because it is so bizarre of a self-own to me. According to a business podcast I was listening to discussing Disney’s current money woes, they were talking about how Florida is apparently in talks to build a high-speed rail network between its major cities. So of course, in Orlando, they asked for bids from the major amusement parks to have a direct access rail station built. Disney’s response was to scoff at the idea of a bid, and say that if anything, the railroad should be paying them for “driving traffic” on the line. Needless to say, they lost the bid to Universal.
This wasn’t even a woke or politically motivated own-goal. Disney just thinks they are too big to fail, and are now panicking that it isn’t working. But if you asked the Blackpilled among us, they would have told you Disney was unbeatable. Meanwhile, Disney is over there saying “Hold my beer.” It just took time.
Another thing I havent seen brought up a lot (even by Styx in this video) is that the Republicans actually performed rather well at the local level. They flipped a lot of State Supreme Courts, they won a ton of school boards, and while they struggled with governors, they picked up governors in some pretty important places (for instance, I think Lombardo in NV will help it be in play come 2024).
This should help make it so that the Feds have to keep running around putting out bushfires instead of actually expanding their tyranny, and that is assuming they can even do that since a lot of states are starting to tell the Feds to piss off, like DeSantis telling the Feds to stay far away from his elections he was conducting.
I stand by my theory that we are essentially living an echo of the late 1970's, and we just witnessed 1978, where the uniquely unpopular Carter managed to hold the House and Senate despite overwhelming pessimism about the direction of the nation (between race riots, Socialism on the march in the US, intense government interference, and ChinaThe Soviet Union ascendant). And what happened? A movie actor came walking in, became the most popular president in US history, and ushered in an American Golden Age, while reducing America's greatest enemy to a pile of ash on the heap of history.
Now that said, I still think DeSantis is the smarter choice for 2024. But IF, and only IF, he is able to Out-Trump Trump. He has done plenty of good work as Governor, and shown he can even do better than Trump in some areas (like Executive appointments that actually listen to him and are dismantling the Woke infrastructure). But if he starts letting the GOP get their hooks in him and start whispering in his ear like Wormtongue, then he will be less Ronald Reagan and more Boris Johnson.
Also, insert obligatory "Fuck blackpillers"
We had no idea how many bombers they had, meanwhile...Venona chronicles...Hollywood...New York Times...Civil Rights Movement...anti-war movement...anti-nuclear movement...FBI...
Incidentally, this shit is why I am not as blackpilled as all the others on here. We went through all of that, even up to the point that in the 1970's you had Carter and the Dems all but saying they were going to surrender the Cold War and pave the way for the Soviet future and allow America to fall, and even keeping the House and Senate in the 1978 election (sound possibly familiar?).
And what happened? The American people shook themselves out of their stupor, said "FUCK! THAT!" And elected Reagan, who not only became one of the most popular presidents in US history, he gain a jump in approval when he joked that he was going to nuke Russia because "Commie Scum, LMAO". If you look at US History, we seem to actually do this more than you might think and seem to keep bouncing back from situations that have killed greater nations (something, something, Bismarck's quotes about America).
So why shouldn't I believe it will happen again, with the right amount of work.
Isekai is fun
I know it can be. I think I have just been funned out on it after watching too much, and seeing a lot that was basically just "Author self insert with completely OP powers and a harem of women throwing themselves at him."
I know I have heard of plenty that would be fun and break that mold. I just have other stuff I am more interested in higher up my watch list at the moment.
I second Konosuba. I also agree that yes, it does behave more like how me and my friends actually play DND (doing dumb shit that shouldnt work but it does anyway) than most other Isekai does.
I have noticed the same thing. Every time I hear ethnonats complain about how there are no people having kids, and the kids they do have are being Trans. Then I go out in my town that is one of the largest in the state (about 40k-60k depending on the time of the year), and I see kids everywhere. I hear people talking about their kids and their families. The boys I see still like cowboys and guns. The girls I see still like dolls and princesses. And that holds when I travel to everywhere except the big cities in the state (and even they arent as bad as anything I have seen out of New York or California).
It also applied when I went on my roadtrip through the Plains last year (SD, WY, CO), which is also where I learned that Covid didnt exist the second you stepped outside of anywhere the Dems controlled. Because the only two places that I saw that even gave the mildest of a damn about masks was when we went to Mt. Rushmore (and that was still pretty mild), and Estes Park, CO (which did heavily enforce). But when I was in the Dakotas and Wyoming? I straight up forgot Covid existed for a few days.
And I dont see that changing any time soon. And its why I still think the US is worth fighting for and refuse to get blackpilled. Because the second you leave a Leftist stronghold and get off the internet, they cease to exist and the America I always loved abounds.