He did always come off as a little...strange to me even in those videos. And when he made the joke about "Millennial Dream" in one of the Crap Guide's, I kind of figured he was in that direction. But since I only knew him for those videos I didnt know he was this off his rocker.
When I watched the video and he brought that up, I thought it was going to be yet another group that would do stupid, destructive things like that.
The timing to me also screamed "I am doing this to virtue signal over Harry Potter. And dont you know it's fine for them to harass others because they are so oppressed."
Meanwhile, in the other corner, you have VTuber fans who have been so enraged over what happened with Silvervale and Pikamee going around forming Death Squads and screaming "TOTAL TRANS DEATH!" I am sure you can calm them down like that, Jo.
I am not saying they are wrong in their beliefs, or that they have no place. And I agree that faith is useful (I am a Lutheran after all). But the simple fact of the matter is if you are going around saying that video games are the devil and Anime is Satan, you are going to be losing a ton of your support. Especially since a ton of the people (especially younger) joining the conservative movement for the last decade or so have done it on the grounds of "I dont like SJW's censoring my games, movies, and jokes."
If you turn around and say "Cool. But we are going to censor your games, movies, and jokes for being satanic and ungodlike." Then they are going to say "Oh, so you havent changed since the '90's then" and walk off.
In fact, I would go so far as to argue that a lot of Trumps initial success and popularity is because he didnt overtly pander to Evangelicals.
Yeah, I did. I also saw Nick Rekieta give his "as a lawyer" breakdown of it. And he even went further that not only is it a bad contract, it is a contract that you would never expect to see from people who are so called "friends". Because if you are making a contract with someone who you consider a friend, you would probably want to negotiate in good faith.
Matt Walsh, who has actively lobbied governors and written legislation regarding the transgender issue: "Am I a joke to you?"
Because they think they can do it again but this time they will win. And because Communist dont know how to do anything new under the sun, they think they can only do it by literally recreating the conditions except in the US this time.
They dont seem to realize or understand it is going the same way as the first time, and I can only hope that when we win, the US is stronger than descending into that sort of ideology once it drives back the Commies.
Its like how they want to recreate Gramsci because he (and they) believe that if they destroy the First-Worlders circus then it will make them so miserable they will demand Communist revolution. When the reality is when they tried that in Weimar Germany, it lead to the First-Worlders saying "I think your a little too extreme on the whole Jew thing, but if you turn the Commies into a fine red paste I think I can overlook it."
It could be coming from China for all we know.
Considering they got their razors from China already? Probably a good bet.
I have definitely soured with Daily Wire over the last few years. Ben and Jeremy let their TDS and establishment tendencies lead them to making strange calls that are not helpful or not supported by the conservative base (although more Jeremy than Ben in this regard). Knowles is becoming a Neo-Evangelical like a lot of conservatives Catholics, even though most of the base wants to move on to "Culture War" and economic issues and has ceased to give a damn about religion (especially the puritanical strain that is effectively "Woke but Christian"). Klavan has lost his mojo over the years, I just cant put my finger on exactly what it is.
Wait, I thought she looked familiar! Damn, I never heard what happened to her after she was put in the hospital.
The prosecution case was dropped on 22 February 2022, and the defendants were formally found "not guilty".
Fucking what?
I mean, I am not going to care too much considering what she did and believed. But how in the hell do you get away with that.
For all of what people say about the US being in a bad place, at least we have push back and viable paths back to sanity. The UK and Europe are so far in the sauce they will likely never recover.
US emissions start dropping around the same time as the Shale drilling explosion and the vast increase in the use of natural gas in the US
Environmentalist: visible confusion
Being a farmer in modern times is more about being an engineer, not a laborer.
It's even more mutli-disciplined than that. They have to be economist (to know when to sell and when not), they have to be chemist (due to all of the chemicals in modern agriculture), and they have to be veterinarians (to maintain livestock). They can pawn off some of that knowledge to others, but they need to at least have passing knowledge to do in the field maintenance.
There is a reason that the largest college at my local university is the College of Agriculture. Which ironically has the side effect of making sure the university stays pretty based with students that are actually tolerable.
Also agree with your original point about the Farm Lobby. I have said it many times, and I will always say it: If you tried the sort of shit the Euros are doing to their farmers here in Kansas, the response wouldnt even be a protest. It would be the farmers responding "Lol. Lmao even" and continuing on their day. Then the next day, the Farm Bureau would be breaking down your door telling you that you just signed the death warrant on your political career in the state.
Ironically enough, Dodge is still relatively based. Ford has also started to realize that going all in on electric was a bad move, because they are walking back their electric fleet, returning old designs (like a V8 Mustang instead of Eco-boost). And of course switching to more hybrid designs since the Maverick is selling like its going out of style. Which sucks since I want one and they are still expensive due to demand.
or at least the late Mr. Toyada, I don’t know what his successor is like
If its related to Toyota, their chief engineer was recently saying how the world and the tech is not yet ready for electric cars and they should focus on more traditional and hybrid designs until the tech improves.
Then there is me, playing the game completely ass-backward in a way that would make the Neo-Lib Planner have a stroke:
Anywhere that can be reached by mass transit can be reached by car, with only a handful of exceptions (and even with exceptions, you can get damn close).
Roads built to improve traffic flow rather than infuriate drivers into giving up and taking transit.
Well-funded police that aggressively enforce the law instead of coddling criminals.
Manufacturing jobs available in abundance for those who dont want to be office drones.
Power provided by stable sources like coal and oil, to eventually be replaced by nuclear.
The main college funded and endorsed by the city is a Tech College.
All filthy hippies wanting their "15 minute city" are relegated to the district known locally as "The Hippie Ghetto" (whatever its official name is).
Etc.
I am kind of glad I met my fiancé in high school, so we got to know each other then and grow into the relationship over the years.
And honestly, I think we are in the death throes of it right now. What the blackpilled see as them being increasingly brazen due to an idea they will never lose, I see as desperate lashings of someone who believes losing is inevitable.
Parents are slowly but surely taking over school boards and demanding teachers be driven out or stung up by their toes.
Corporations are axing their DIE departments for fear of being the next Disney.
ESG is being scrapped by Vanguard and several other investor groups because there is literally nothing left to prop it up with and they need money.
The list goes on.
And of course, on this front, they have just made a great deal of enemies, while doing nothing to gain allies. And this isnt just "You disagree with us, so you are our enemy." They have likely created true, genuine enemies, that will do everything to stand in their way and make their lives miserable. And when the Twitter freaks cry to them about how bad it is, their only response will be "That's the point, dickweed!"
All because they couldnt control themselves over a single game. And this is why I have insisted the game was a net positive in every way for our side.
Which I dont understand. I live in a town of about 50k, which I always hear the usual suspects at the local university complain about the fact there is "nothing to do here", other than hit up the bar district near campus.
But for me, when it is winter I spend all of my time indoors on the internet, gaming and watching Anime. But when warmer weather hits, I am swimming in the lake or river, I am biking on the trail that goes around town (which is about a 40 mile round trip), and I go hiking out on the local prairie. And this year, I am planning on going to one of the state parks that has the other large prairie hiking trail.
But no, we dont have any nightclubs with trendy DJ's. So I guess that means we are practically living in the stone age.
Incidentally, exactly what you described happened in the VTuber sphere around the same time. Another VTuber named Silvervale also played the Harry Potter game. She was also attacked and driven into tears. She begged with her abusers that doing things like that will only hurt the cause because "hatred breeds hatred, kindness changes minds".
But she refused to stop playing the game, so they started harassing her more, started harassing the rest of her family, and tried to get her fired by her agency.
So she came back again, said "You know what?! Fuck this, and fuck you, you freaks! I will not be bullied because I wanted to play a fucking game! You lose, you will not stop me, fuck you!" The Twitter reeeing increased 10-fold, but by that point she was done with it and even stopped acknowledging them.
I foresee that becoming the way forward. Especially now that Pikamee retired. I would like to point out, like many others: the last time VTuber fans were this mad, they managed to cuck the CCP. What are they going to do this time, I wonder?
Knowing how many Leftist are absolute midwits, I would not be surprised if it works because “campus” makes it sound “smart” and “forward thinking”, instead of just calling it a town.
And at least from what I remember, they tried moving Left-Wing groups to rural areas. But since there was “nothing to do” and they “didn’t feel welcome” by the locals, they almost all ended up moving back to the bigger cities.
I foresee that happening again.
Even then, if you look at how many people are playing on Steam, it is still around 141k. Which isnt exactly a tiny amount.
But I like it. Nearly everyone here supports Russia, and that is very boring. And most of you guys are being good sports about it (Supremo excepted, but he is excused given his situation), so that's quite cool.
Debates are fun. When it is a brick wall that will never change their mind smashing against a brick wall that will never change their mind, it is just wasted effort. Which is why I dont bother most of the time when it comes to this topic. I just kick back and watch the undeniable video evidence roll in. Give it more time, and I guess we will see who is right.
Which is why this will be my final word, before I go back to largely ignoring the topic on this board.
Stunning and brave, a comfortable Murcan advocating for sending Ukrainian conscripts to their deaths. Doesn't the US give people medals for such bravery?
Their marching seems quite willing. I am just giving them a bigger gun for it.
Very interesting. Yes, not being serious is a great gift.
You clearly dont know anyone with Aspergers or Autism, do you? The "being less serious" I had to be taught was not "Lol, not caring and never meaning what I say." It was "When I say 'I am so hungry I could eat a whole cow', it doesnt mean I am literally going to eat a whole cow." Because until I was taught sarcasm (which had to be done the same way you teach someone a second language), I thought that such hyperbolics phrases were to be taken literally, and would chastise people for not living up to their hyperbolic actions. Because that tend to be a side effect of your brain being wired to think in pictures instead of words. Hence the skill in manufacturing.
This is quite surprising. Because you don't sound blue collar to me. Advocating for corrupt, petty puppet shitholes is more of a white collar preoccupation.
The hell kind of blue/white collar workers do you know. Because from my experience, it is the white collar workers pushing things like Globohomo, saying "Cant we all just get along?", "Guns are so barbaric", etc.
Its us guys in the shop that are spending our breaks watching combat footage, nerding out over their gear, and using the blast furnace and the foundry as yardsticks for "Just how hot does it have to get to start melting that tank?"
Seconded. As much as I like the, shall we call it, "fit tomboy" aesthetic, this whole trend I have seen developing of the "Step on me, Dommy Mommy!" thing is extremely weird to me.
I personally am partial to the one about how all the kids in Ed, Edd, and Eddy are in purgatory.
I am sure most people on here know my stance on the war. Which I feel gives it more weight when I say:
This cringe-tastic bullshit is exactly why any simping you see me doing for NATO comes with a giant asterisk labeled "We will continue our beef later", and whatever Zoomer they picked to run their Social Media page needs to be canned ASAP.
Glad you remembered my line lol
It works because it is memorable. And she is non-offensive enough to Normies that it would probably actually get some of the corpo and journo types to actually have to stop and go "they do have a point."
Knowles hasnt exactly had a lot of good to say about them either. But perhaps he has changed his mind and I am unaware. So if that is the case, I can walk back that part at least.
And it really doesnt matter if Walsh was saying it in jest. Plenty of people thought he was genuine. Doing it in jest is fine when you can make it obvious that is (even I have done that joke in company of Anime nerds). But since he didnt, plenty of people believe he was not trolling, and that is not helpful to anyone.