I’m probably not smart enough to fully express my theory on this or even to really fully form it, but I think something fundamental has broken in the human brain lately and it has to do with the barrier between reality and unreality, fact and fiction, etc. I can’t help but notice how the woke especially don’t really see a difference between getting minorities into real opportunities, vs. seeing them “represented” in fiction. If I wanted to change the world I’d focus on the real world and real people but they don’t see a difference really. Add to it the phenomenon you mention, about freaking out over nonexistent characters’ “agency.” Sane basic brain-break is behind the need for trigger warnings and is ultimately behind a lot of left-wing censorship generally.

I trained myself to say ‘Latinx’ without laughing

Don’t sell yourself short! This is an incredible accomplishment that must have taken a ton of work!

Therefore "particular care must be taken not to jump to conclusions about the intent behind someone who has used the gesture", the ADL said.

It’s sad that this disclaimer entails the most sensible thing any woke person or organization has said for ten years. Everyone else would go all soyjak NOOOOOOO “intent doesn’t matter, only impact! If I take it to be a hate sign, then that’s what it is!!!!”

Wasn’t it also the old Covid though?

If one wants to be seen as a serious thinker, one should be able to say in advance what would change your mind on an issue, if proof of that occurrence or condition were to arise. I will concede right now that if there’s ever a town that experiences a temperature in the six digits, I will believe in global warming

And so we’ll be hearing a lot about the past sins and crimes of Italy all of a sudden, in left wing outlets and on social media.

It’s not like that isn’t essentially the constructive policy of most of Latin America. Maybe they don’t literally pick them up and toss them over the border but they sure don’t stop them from going on their own and they sure don’t seem to care what becomes of the migrants, they figure it’s our problem now. And I’m sure they don’t mind all those American wages getting wired into home nation bank accounts and spent in the nations by migrants’ relatives. So yeah, I take that as being the same basic policy!

This is why it won’t really matter when AI takes over all communicative work. Journalists, marketers, etc. have all but run on an organic AI script for the last decade. Just the same old tired stories about why you need to be offended by this thing, or that thing. Even if it’s not offense, it’s the same old phrases (“didn’t see anyone who looks like me,” for example). We won’t miss real writers because we barely have any already. Just semi-conscious brains all pumped full of the same limited thoughts, writing the same articles over and over again.

Edit: Also, an Asian woman named “Ann Lee” would probably get articles about how obvious and stereotypical the name is if she’d been a character in a film!

This quote also girds into the same territory as all the Hollywood types calling fans racist when shitty movies do shitty at the box office. Not as explicit or as angry, but kind of a lighter touch version of it. Still directly blaming and calling out the people you’re supposed to sell the product to.

I guess there’s two interesting things there. One, there’s very recent precedent for adjusting a World Cup based on local climate since they just moved the last Men’s tournament to the wintertime so it could played in Qatar with decent temps instead of boiling desert inferno heat in the summer. That they didn’t adjust this to the southern hemisphere summer just feels like they knew there was no point, since no one would show up anyway.

Two, it’s telling that he’s begging a host country’s people to come out. The World Cup generally pulls in rabid fans from every country on earth. If you’re down to begging people from the local area to kick in a few bucks, you know you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Edit to add: Infantino is woke as shit as well. It shows through a bit here with “do the right thing” by watching women’s sports, but when Qatar kept getting called out for being awful in all the ways Qatar is awful, including exploiting migrants and hating gays which you’d think wokesters would hate, he said all these white countries have bad histories so they can’t talk, and I know all the woke retards at my school cheered when he said that.

“Mxny unsold seats!”

I always love when people go the extra mile with their insane statements. In this case, it’s mostly boilerplate but the “get raped TWICE” is an interesting touch. Well, anyway, enjoy the thread deletion and ban.

“Time blindness”

Not everything needs a name lol, even though if I’m understanding this cunt correctly, I could probably claim to “suffer” from it myself. But you know what I do, I just still make myself get to work on time by any means necessary. I don’t demand special favors for the fact that I can be a space case as to time. Like, I’d be embarrassed to ever ask for special treatment like that.

It’s fair advice to consider where the chain of command goes behind any source or outlet, when gauging how credible the story presented is. But honestly? Even if this was the worst possible thing, a cynical propaganda story put out with a distinct purpose of harming the station-owner’s enemies, I’m not sure it’s even necessary. Hardly anyone is on the writers/actors side in this debate. Normal people are just watching stuff on our streaming platforms and not giving a fuck for a bunch of entitled assholes who don’t do real work for a living, just because they’re up against some other entitled assholes who don’t do real work for a living. Sure, I occasionally see some Very Online lefties claiming solidarity, but I’d bet 90 percent of Americans are in the range between mild disinterest to outright apathy to “fuck em all!”

If it weren’t for the fact that innocents are harmed by this stuff, all the tortured logic and desperate attempts to switch and alter language and such would be funny

We didn’t need to cover this specific issue to know these freaks don’t give a fuck about babies (or children generally, born or unborn)

Well said, especially the opener about it being a matriarchy despite not being all run by women. Look at how woke typed want people to act, it’s always in a female way, regardless of whether the person is literally female. Look at what wokeness promotes and emphasizes, it’s always stuff that can be analogized to the things individual females want on an individual level. It’s all about how things feel rather than how they are, all about social conformity, all about personal attention, all about the mean-girling discussed at length by others in this post.

Every single step of the auditions is totally blind. They entirely won on merit.

Of all the absurdities of the clown world decade (and counting!), for me the wildest is how much of the left has just explicitly abandoned any belief that meritocracy is good. Not disagreement on whether a meritocracy exists or doesn’t in a given context, which can be a fair argument, but outright rejection of the idea that a meritocracy is even desirable or worth fighting for. A blind audition process is the perfect method for assuring there’s no bias in selection. But then they WANT bias in selection when an unbiased process doesn’t give them the results they want?

I am not a woman but from talking to them, if they get really, really honest about their experience, the people telling them they have to doll up, or that they’re weird for wanting to do science or woodworking or other “male” pursuits is… drum roll… other women. Often, their mothers have a lot to do with it, since naturally mothers come from an earlier generation and what women are “supposed” to do and be is changing rapidly. But as Bill Burr points out in his famous WNBA routine, women like to tear each other apart and then blame men for the result.

Great analysis. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about these kinds of techniques, and how people hide truth or smuggle bad data past people’s attention (and I’ve posted a few times about such things lately). That kind of bullshittery is all over the media these days. Thank God there are still people out there who ask the follow up questions, or take a second look at the methodology, etc.

This has the feel of what is becoming a pretty standard trend: a “girl” thing will be hyped to all hell, be all over the news for a hot minute, turn out to suck ass, be nevertheless defended vigorously by The Movement, and then be forgotten again in a few months.

Ghostbusters 2016 is perhaps the classic example, but more recently we’ve seen this trend with She-hulk and Velma. For tv shows we can expect to go through it again with each season, of course. But Barbie has already been hyped to hell and is all over entertainment news, and it sounds like stage 3 (turns out it sucks) will go live soon as people start seeing it. Expect social media SJWs to be all over the algorithm defending it and then for it to be forgotten by September!

It’s been 2.5 years, most people probably have a new phone since then even if they weren’t concerned about the government seizing it. If they still have the same phone AND failed to delete stuff that could incriminate…

Specified “hetero,” and also terrified to give the “racist” a racist line to say so chickened out and wrote a description on his shirt. So the explanation is, some rainbow person was seething and whipped this up to cope.

Good catch with the alternate title, OP. This headline is a great example of sneaking a losing argument or bad fact through under cover of a winning argument or more palatable fact, which is a common technique of the bullshit artist. Want sympathy for your dudes, but they make six figures on average? Camouflage the statement in a comparison to someone who makes a lot more! “Execs make exponentially more money than us” is an easy emotional appeal nowadays, so most supporters won’t even do the math here.

This guy is so deluded if he thinks he’d be a good spokesman for the left. He is massively unpopular even among the semi-woke or averagely-woke, since even a lot of wokies don’t think trannies should compete with women. Plus the longer he stays in the limelight, the more opportunities there will be for all his fucked up past behavior and traits to become more mainstream.

Edit: but then again, “don’t interrupt an opponent when he is making a mistake,” so yeah, put yourself out there king!