Not that we couldn’t kinda guess already what her opinions were of Christianity, but I still want someone to leak that manifesto so we can see how she chose to phrase those opinions. There’s still some daylight between “well I had a gun and there was a window, so…” and “I don’t like Christians and I’m gonna target THESE Christians” and “I want every Christian to die.” I’m gonna assume it’s more toward the latter end since why else would they be so fucked up about releasing it?
the Empire of Lies. It may not be catchy, but it's true.
I’d give at least a benefit of the doubt that it sounds cool in Russian. I once heard the original Russian version of their phrase “trust but verify” and it fucking rhymes. “Doveryay no proveryay.”
Should have cast Nick Cannon
Wait, he was evil but played by Donald Faison, a black man? That wouldn’t have lasted.
The original novel is only like ten years old so… of course it didn’t have a tranny. It wasn’t trendy yet!
he hated people who wouldn't drivy Chevys but he just instantly accepts a trans person
Haven’t seen it but this is so on par with Hollywood’s magical thinking. Literally no one has any negative thoughts about genderspecials unless they are clearly the villain. I like art portraying itself as realistic to actually reflect reality, even if it’s uncomfortable for people who are always one day without validation away from suicide.
The number of dull people I've spoken to that really enjoyed the direction that Rings of Power took the franchise is disheartening.
You don’t think lines like “a ship floats because it looks to the light, a stone sinks because it looks to the darkness” are amazing, Nobel Prize-level writing that speak to modern audiences in exciting ways?!?
But “non-binary” doesn’t take as long to type as “person with a mental illness, huge levels of attention-seeking narcissism, or both”!!
Why? Because six weeks passed and a formerly progressive, stunning, brave, “love this so much,” “this is necessary and important” show is now considered problematic under the ever-evolving SJW standards?
Why did they draw the bad guy as a progressive Gen Z woman?
Haha sometimes you just have to let your enemies know you see them. (Hello, Virginia!) Great British wit in this one.
And in other contexts, insisting “genocides” are happening to them (most prominently, we hear this from trans activists), so they can eventually justify their actual genocides as being responsive to the “genocide” against them.
LOL and an airport police unit was involved. Little faggot did the same crime as before, I’m guessing? That’s okay, he’ll just plead out and avoid jail time. Fuck, he has to, there are no non-binary prisons! It would be a hate crime to house him in any prison, better drop the charges and send they on them way with the Family Guy genderspecial privilege of “just do whatever you want all the time.”
You can technically say this move by itself doesn’t prove the left is into child porn and child sex abuse, but if scoring political points and silencing your opponents is more important to you than stopping child porn and child sex abuse, to the extent you’re moving agents off the one to do the other, there’s only the tiniest bit of breathing room between you and a person who is into child porn and child sex abuse. And I suppose someone somewhere in the decision making process, someone pretty high up, must be a legit child abuser or apologist for child abusers, or this decision would have been vetoed somewhere along the chain of command.
I think the most annoying thing in journalism is the “as he and I were sitting in a ______” trope. Doesn’t have to be a Washington office, I hate when journos feel the need to describe the bar they met the subject in and what they were both eating/drinking. Just absolute slop writing that I suppose functions to remind the reader what incredible access the writer has and how important that makes him for normies like you.
Maybe just a bite taken out of the right-hand side, the part that is still the original rainbow design? It would be just as symbolic as the addition of the trans/minorities triangle that has already pushed the rainbow to the right a bit.
“Fat activists,” but not too active obviously, or else you run yourself out of the category.
I don’t really even understand why Jews fall into this trap. The “anti-racist” SJWs hate the shit out of them. Like, viscerally hate them. I’ve heard one growl at the mention of Jewish people once. Others have pointed out how Jewish people can complain about whiteness “from within” when convenient or claim to be a minority when convenient too. It works both ways, though: the SJWs might tolerate them they way they tolerate Asians when convenient, but will turn on them in an instant when THAT’S convenient. After the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting SJWs put out “What about black shooting victims though?!” articles and said they don’t care because “Jews are like, ‘hyper-white.” Jews are dumb to even fall into the “good whitey who writes books” market, they could write 100 books and they’ll still be targeted. The only question will it be because they’re hyperwhite or because today is a day the SJWs are mad about all those LGBT-friendly oppressed brown liberals they think the Palestinians are.
“It’s not about protecting minors, they just hate trans people!!!!”
(Passes law that only bans minors from transing)
“They hate trans people!!!”
I was a journalist for ten years. I did my level best to be objective but I had my weak moments where I let my views and desires impact how I told the story. I have all the necessary experience to say I know how easy that is to do, and how common it is when the journalist does NOT have the compunction toward objectivity that I had. No journalist is perfect, but some try, while others make no such pretense. Now think about what kind of writing drives click$ and you’ll get an idea about which kind of journalist tends to advance up through the ranks and become a “known” writer who a majority of the country might read.
I share Obama’s lament, honestly I do! But he cannot help trying to imply that somehow the issue is with the readers/viewers, that they refuse to look at objective sources. The issue is that there aren’t any, that the media companies know exactly what they’re doing, and they don’t care. The media companies could choose to elevate and promote the journalists who may fail to be objective sometimes because they’re human but who ultimately remain committed to objectivity and try to uphold it. The media companies do not choose to do that. So on top of the fact that some people are shitty non-objective writers, there’s actually an incentive to be that way! The LAST people at fault are the consumers! We’d read good journalism if these chuckle-fucks would put some out!
I forgot where I saw it, maybe on the tweets where the leftists were ranting about a video of high schoolers filmed in 2002 (“EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO WOULD HAVE CALLED ME A FAGGOT!!!”), but wherever it was, someone pointed out that if you reduce an online activist down to their core, you find someone who never got over their high school experience. That seems to be the difference between a gay person trying to get through life, and a gay person screeching about a 20-year-old video on social media and (to the OP point) demanding every character on TV be gay: the former has gotten over any bad shit that happened in high school if any, while the latter has not. Insert “trans” in place of “gay” and it’s probably the same.
I’m actually looking forward to reparations for exactly two reasons: one is the one you mention, where like lottery winners who are suddenly rich, a lot of recipients will blow through the gift and of course we’ll be told why it’s white people’s fault, but that will not convince many people. The other comes earlier, when they have to have the big fight over who qualifies since they’ll have to put a limit somewhere and some black people won’t be “black enough.” Honestly, reparations is a better issue for them strategically if it remains a pipe dream: they can pretend all black people will get it and they can portray sensible resistance to it as super racist bigotry. When it actually passes, the unity of “the black community” will come apart real quick.
Actually, add a third entertainment: watching the spendthrifts whining to the smart recipients, who saved or invested their gift. You’ll have losers and activists telling the investor black people that they have a racial responsibility to help out the spendthrifts, that they “aren’t really black” if they don’t spend the money on the spendthrifts, etc.
Honestly, I understand resistance on fiscal and moral grounds and I’m 100 percent against reparations. But I consider them about 90% certain to occur in some form now, so I’m going to take my fun from them when they happen.
The people clamoring for it are the kind of people who can’t go twenty minutes without being “seen,” “validated,” “represented,” whatever the fuck buzzword they choose in the moment.
“If you’re frightened of being attacked, maybe consider that it’s your own fault” is a hell of a gateway drug toward arguing for totalitarianism.
I mean, I suppose you have to distinguish yourself from the front-runner or else your run is pointless.
…I mean, Pence’s run is pointless regardless. So go off Mike, do whatever.