Yep. It wasnt really directed at you, it was directed at the people being like "we are all doomed, and the only way out is to hit the big red Fedposting button!"
History shows that you can only cheat the vote for so long before the will of the people manifest, and its usually worse for you than if you had just let things happen and change with the times (see also: Gilded Age United States).
Finland - Blind Channel
Wait, what the shit?! I have listened to a ton of Blind Channel and if you asked me to give their nationality, just based on their voices I would have thought British. TIL.
Italy usually sends in pop singer types so for them to send in a metal group is out of left field.
Probably not as much as you think. There is a growing list of metal bands coming out of Italy recently (Wind Rose, Frozen Crown, NanowaR of Steel, etc), so it makes some sense that they will pick a metal band.
As for the main point, I agree with the statement that this is just more proof that people are waking up to the attempts to control them by the global elite. But I disagree that you cant vote your way out. They just did. It may have been a silly, unimportant thing, but you better believe it was rigged to get the outcome they wanted, only to get stomped on by the will of the people. Because the powers-that-be seem to have forgotten Machiavelli's greatest warning: as a ruler, you should never, EVER, become hated. Because when you are hated, the people will do utterly retarded things if it means they can make you bleed, and will actively begin to defy your rule.
Well, the defiance is starting. Hope you all had a plan B.
Like I said, I think its a case of people who have been in the fight too long and so they have started seeing enemies everywhere. I absolutely understand it, but at the same time I would expect people on our side to be a little more mindful of the fact that the journo types have a bias and its usually not right, for better or worse.
It was a few months back (around when the 1.0 update dropped) when some games journo types were praising the game and the journo brought up some things like "black Athena" and "Zag is Bi" and other of the usual talking points, so some people on both KIA's were saying that it must be a bad game. To be fair, there were more people saying it was still a great game even if the SJW journos were praising it, and that they were basically looking at it through their own lens and it was not accurate. Just something that I saw and was kind of annoyed by.
No, most of the bitching I saw was that Athena and Ares were black. Nevermind that none of the gods had natural skin color (Hades is red, Artemis is green, Poseidon is blue, etc), its not even a natural shade of black skin. Specifically, Athena is basically obsidian black (like the paintings on pots) and Ares is kind of an ash grey. There were also some complains that Aphrodite looked kind of masculine, but I honestly dont see it (some blocky-ness, but again its fitting with the overall game design).
Beyond that, I thought it played extremely well, the fact there was progression between runs is something I wish more roguelikes would do, and I actually LOVED the story of it. So I chalk it up to some people being too nitpicky because they have been hit so much they jump at every shadow.
Replace Redo with Goblin Slayer and this is the same for me. For me personally, Redo is a bit of a line too far. Let it exist, I am absolutely not contesting that, but it is NOT my cup of tea in any way so I didnt watch it.
Although I will admit that I had a weird opposite reaction one, where the anti-SJW types complained about it but I dont think it deserved it. That being the game Hades, which is hands down on of my favorite games ever, but when I saw people complaining, having played the game myself it came off as massive amounts of nitpicking.
(I dont really get what you said that caused so many downvotes)
That attitude is also not a solution. Vengeance and resentment won't do a fucking thing, and will help rally the ignorant and uninformed against the right.
I think we are making the same point and I just phrased it poorly. What I was getting at is that, what Trump said was true: He had to teach the Right how to win. And while a lot of the actual political class are either refusing to go along (your Liz Cheneys and Romneys), a lot of them are being dragged kicking and screaming along by the now "Mad as hell, Wont take it anymore" base. And those who refuse to get with the program are slowly but surely being purged for those who will fight. Because I guarantee you that it is no coincidence that the 2 biggest funded people in the Republican party (and IIRC, the House in general) are Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Its also why we have seen more and more states start to actually pick up the torch and fight back with laws that give both the Left and the Feds the finger, and there is really nothing they can do about it. The coalition that the Left has relied on has also started to show as the different identity groups have started started fighting over power, because to put it simply, there can be only one "Most Oppressed Victim Group" and the power that comes with it. I would go so far as to argue that the reason that they are losing their previous hold over the Hispanic population is for exactly this reason.
And all of that has thrown their momentum off. Additionally, I was listening to Michael Malice interview with Dave Rubin, and I think he brought up an interesting point that in the Rights favor for the near future. For perhaps the first time in political history, and certainly the first time in recent history, it is the Republicans who are the ones being fun, since the Left is now in the throws of a highly puritanical secular religion (Wokeness) and its driving away many people who do creative endeavors and sending them to places like Texas and Florida. And this will potentially cause a Bandwagon effect wherein people WANT to join because everyone else is. Meanwhile, the Lefts cultural institutions are running on nothing but momentum that is petering out as more time passes and they become more and more openly hostile to the average person.
That said, I do wonder about the viability of what I have seen people called the "Dexter Doctrine", the name people are giving to the phrase of "Cancel the Cancellers." I feel like hitting back at them is warranted, or at least not saving them when the Cancel Mob comes for them. But at the same time, that may just be Hyde talking, because Jekyll says that may be a poor idea that has significant chance to backfire and turn off normies.
To add further to that, I would argue that part of the reason that they are experiencing problems is because a significant chunk of the Right (the grassroots at least) IS starting to take a "Dont get mad, get even." attitude toward the Left, and are starting to put their foot down. And like you say, this is not an attitude they are used to and dont really know how to deal with. So they default to the only tactic they know: "The beatings will continue until morale improves." And obviously, this doesnt actually move anything in their direction, and is just making the bear angry.
Same. I generally prefer a more modest look like the one on the left and find it infinitely hotter than the stripper-esque look of the middle one. I also prefer full plate (with the proper boob plate, natch) over the chain mail bikini look.
In anime there are a lot of hot women... who are competent at what they do.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that, unless the anime/manga is up front about being wank bait from the beginning, the fact they are competent is just as important as their looks. Back before 'Rona, I went to an anime club at the local university just to shoot the shit and we would watch new anime every semester. One of them that we watched was Fire Force. Everyone loved it and thought it was great...except one character, named Tamaki. The girl on the team that, when she activated her fire powers, turned into a cat-like form and fought that way. At first, people liked her. It didnt matter that she was usually walking fanservice in most of her scenes, getting into situations like dudes accidently grabbing her boobs or getting stuck face down in her thighs. When the action actually started, she was actually fairly competent. Not the best fighter of the team, but one of the better ones.
But then, after a certain episode where she needed to be rescued by the main character, she was literally moved to desk duty and becomes nothing but fanservice. And most people in club started to move away from liking her toward Maki or Sister Iris, both of whom also had their own moments of fanservice, but retained their competency.
And as for myself, when I looked over my personally kept Waifu list, the overwhelming majority of them on there are women who have the looks AND the ability, and I have turned my nose up at more than a few other instances of waifu-bait because the only thing going for them was their looks, so I was not interested.
Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer. Also, you seem quite liberal with that report button, so I dont see why I am supposed to be offended or scared by this fact.
I mean, this scheme sounds like it hits the same problem with trying to get the guns from the US citizen: friendly states (and cities) will go along with it, but the second they leave New York or LA, they will be met with hundreds of millions of angry rednecks saying "Hippy hoppy, get off my property!" Because maybe (MAYBE) a few years/decades ago you could have gotten most people to go along with that, but with the increasing hostility toward both the government and the elite class, I think people would rather be penny-less than give the government so much as an ounce of their gold and silver. And its not like we out here would be starving, since most of us have the land (or access to someone who has land) to grow our own crops and hunt our own meat. Not enough to maintain some mega-city, but enough to keep our kin going, and since everyone knows everyone in a small town, it will go back to "You are one of us, so we will help you." And this is before you get to states like Texas and Florida that will refuse to comply, much like they did with the COVID Passport idea which pretty much killed the idea in the US outside of the usual suspects.
But I suppose, like you said in other threads, the elites are actually retards who got handed the keys to the castle (or as one of my favorite villains put it, "Like children playing with a nuclear weapon"). So perhaps that is why they are pursing an idea that is doomed from word go and they are too stupid (willfully or otherwise) to see that it will fail. And their greed and lust for power doesnt help in that regard. But history shows these types can not keep their power forever, and when they start to do stupid shit is when it all comes crashing down.
You spoke of needing to know history, and we have already seen things like this before. Again, the titans of industry who made the Gilded Age what it was also thought they were unstoppable. They had entire governments in their pocket. They openly bribed officials at practically every level of government. They hired PMC to destroy their rivals and to shoot their dissenters in mass numbers. And they openly flaunted the law. But corruption and bribery can only do so much to keep your people in power to protect you when literally everyone hates your guts and will do anything, retarded or otherwise, if it means they get to make you burn (incidentally, this is why Machiavelli argued that becoming hated as a ruler is something you should avoid at all cost). Time may have changed, but this fact has not, and I stand by my theory that the likes of Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerburg will go down in history as the modern day "Robber Barons", with Elon Musk taking up the spot of "Peoples Champion" like Carnegie did.
And how do you get people to go along with that? Because where I live, there are places that still refuse to accept anything but cash, and would sooner barter than use credit cards (never mind digital money), and people around here still mostly card for the convenience, but are also extremely uptight about the idea of digital money (if for no other reason than “Government is the problem”).
If it means anything to you for finding out what he is arguing, he is the resident unironic fascist. Just in case you are wondering why all of his post scream [fedpost things].
I have seen you bring it up several times now, so I have to ask:
What this “digital wallet” of which you speak and why is it better for the powers that he than the current system? But I do agree with your larger point that the so called “masters of the world” are enjoying short term highs, but in the mid to long term the duct tape, superglue, and chewing gum will stop working and history and the world will not be kind to them (much like the industrial titans of the Gilded Age).
Knowing how much Musk is up on the internet culture, I GUARANTEE you that he did this purely because he knows it drives these people up a wall, and they can do literally nothing to cancel him. Well, beyond seething on Twitter that is. But as we have established, I doubt he cares.
Minor correction, but we were actually just barely a state in time for the Civil War. Our statehood was on Jan. 29, which was a few days after the first round of secession, because many of the Southern Slave states that had been blocking our statehood were no longer there to do it.
But yeah, Kansas gets overlooked a lot in the Civil War due to the fact that we were out of the way enough to not see any major fights. But as you said, we contributed one of the largest armies as a percentage of population of any state, and IIRC we also suffered the most civilian casualties as a percentage due to said Confederate revenge raids. The Sack of Lawrence was so brutal it got the Confederate government to suspend its guerrilla program. Officially, because it was not the sort of brutality they had authorized. Unofficial, I want to believe they heard the 1st Kansas screaming “Do you bastards have a death wish?!” in the distance and feared for their safety.
Pretty much.
When people compare us to the Roman Empire, I think a lot of people forget that Rome lasted WAY longer than its Republic period. Hell, I would argue Rome's Golden Age wasnt even until after the Republic fell.* And much like Rome, America seems to have this unnatural ability to survive events that have killed other nations, and come back stronger. And I truly believe we will do it again.
As I saw someone else on here put it, you dont get Reagan without Carter. Here is hoping that Carter in this context is Biden.
*/note: I am not saying that I believe America will become some global empire like Rome did. But the country may be changed for the better in response to the issues we currently have, like Rome before it.
We have already seen the backlash beginning. Texas just had some elections, and in every race that progressives were running in, and anywhere that was pushing Critical Theory, saw them get absolutely smashed. 70/30 in favor of “our” side. And the Hispanic-heavy counties continued their move toward the anti-woke side. And while there are a lot of some young people, there are also a lot of anti-woke young people who are starting to fight back. And we see all the old institutions losing their power. Hollywood is dying. Celebrity culture is dying. The Dems are losing their hold and the Republicans are being taken over by the populist anti-wood types, whether they like it or not.
There will be pain. But rather than being depressed and saying it’s all over, we need to stand up and say “I have not yet begun to fight!”
None off the top of my head, but they exist since Bleeding Kansas is one of the causes of the Civil War. A lot of it is stuff I learned just from living here, doubly so because I live in the Eastern Kansas, which is where most of the fighting happened. I actually live near the Beecher Church (the abolitionist who brought the guns in). And yes, this is the same Beecher family that wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.
Lets also not forget that due to the fuckery of the slave states and Buchanan, we here in Kansas were shooting each other over the issue before it was cool.
You think the accusations of voter fraud were bad in 2020? We voted on whether or not we were going to be a Slave-State or Free, and some counties that only had 20 residents saw over 1,000 votes because of people crossing the state line from Missouri to vote and make us a Slave-State. Pierce (and later Buchanan) just wanted to ignore the very obvious fraud so that they could put it all behind them and get it over with because, like you said, they didnt want to deal with it. Hell, Pierce went so far as to call the Free-State government in Topeka "insurrectionist" against the "true" Slave-State government in Lecompton.
But we decided that this was the hill we were going to die on, and started bringing in guns. Then when the first shot got fired (ironically, by the Pro-Slavery side, much like what would later happen), we started fighting, and fought like mad against the outsiders trying to overwhelm our state. It only stopped because us Kansas digging in our heels and fighting back had caused some other Northern states to start having some "dangerous" ideas and so the South had to start focusing on the National level instead of dealing with one state. Didnt stop the fact that we were locked out of the US Government until the succession happened because it was only at that point that there were finally enough votes to get us in as the Free-State we were supposed to be.
And of course, during the Civil War we were on the receiving end of several revenge attacks by the South, because they directly blamed us as the cause of all of this, since we had the utter temerity to not just lie down and take it when they cheated.
Ah. I am not in Texas so I had only heard through the grapevine that it had been voted on to allow it recently, and now they are already back tracking. I thought it was a referendum that did it the first go around as well.
Whats even more insane is that they had voted to legalize these same encampments in 2018, and are now banning them again because it got out of control. Showing that even if it is extremely liberal, it is still Texas so people have some common sense.
Also, with all of the other things around the state that that saw Dems and the Progressives get absolutely curbstomped, I think the idea of "Blue Texas" was just found dead in a ditch. And with Florida now solidly Republican for the foreseeable future, it will make it that much harder for the Dems.
Good point. There was a Country artist I liked growing up named Keith Urban who was Australian, that when he sang you couldnt tell. But when he did interviews he had an EXTREMELY thick Australian accent. It was kind of jarring sometimes because he could seamlessly change between them too.