To my knowledge, it's entirely the former, not the latter...
Hence the whole "secret meeting with coloured smoke to indicate choice" thing...
It's funny, because Iran is just about the only place I know of that deals with homosexuality by paying for gender "affirmation" surgery. It's a huge thing there. Which the left doesn't seem to know how to... Parse.
So the ambassador had better watch out on the streets of Tehran, lest they get snatched and come back... "Batting for the other team", lol.
Oh Iran. The Muslim theocracy that forcibly sterilises its own people and makes the degenerates even MORE degenerate...
Xerxes II would be rolling in his grave.
To quote Wikipedia (how bad do you have to be when even Wikipedia recognises something is off) :
Child euthanasia is a form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or have significant birth defects. In 2005, the Netherlands became the first country since the end of Nazi Germany to decriminalize euthanasia for infants with hopeless prognosis and intractable pain.
"Liberalism", the ultimate destination.
Slippery slope? Try more like a greasy cliff.
/s, or do you actually believe that..?? The downvotes suggest that the majority here... Wouldn't agree.
I enjoyed Hamer's "Lust for a Vampire" (with Yutte Stensgaard), even if it is rather corny...
And a few of those other late 60s/early 70s Hamer Dracula sequels are pretty decent.
There's also "Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde" if you want an, umm... Different take on that story.
"The Reptile" from 1966 is also kind of iconic..? Not necessarily sure if it "good", though.
For a slightly more classic aesthetic, "Nosferatu" the original silent film, and Fritz Lang's "M" from 1931 are both really, really creepy...
This is written from the opposite perspective/"side", but it details much of the same smug condescension from said "elites":
It also, more importantly, details how said elites want to forcibly censor social media platforms in response, because we're all too stupid to be allowed to think for ourselves, apparently...
Much like what Starmer is bringing in, in the UK, as well. Though that process had already begun under the so-called "Conservatives" there, of course...
Having just been encountering (online. I’m not there obviously) and reading about fuckery in NRW and the Palatinate, this is at least something, I guess…
Oh and of course dumb shit in Berlin. But it is Berlin, so that’s kind of a given.
Meanwhile in Aus it really feels like we have lost the plot. Everyone keeps saying “everything is fine”, but it doesn’t feel fine, and I’m definitely not alone in thinking that.
But GDP go up, so all’s good, yeah? /s
Interesting point there - I kind of wonder how that fits into general nihilism and broader just not really giving a shit.
Because I can say from anecdotal experience that after I was diagnosed with a chronic illness, and subsequently got some money saved up, I essentially went on a partying bender for a few months…
Not so much drugs (never really been a fan, either) outside of tobacco products, but heavy drinking, gambling, partying all night, lots of casual sex, etc. And obviously the financial cost that came with that (which I am still paying off!)…
Because I just… Didn’t give a shit, for a while there. Nothing “long term” felt like it really mattered.
Not quite the same, obviously, but I wonder how it fits into the slippery slope thing that you speak of.
My liver (and credit score) thanks me that benders like that were only temporary adventures, at the very least…
I’m also not so skeptical of situations like this occurring.
I’ve regularly met randos in hostels and been convinced to go clubbing with them that night, occasionally with the intention of something sexual (with the women, obviously. I don’t think I’ve ever had a gay male try to get me to go with them), with no prior knowledge. Occasionally that has landed me in some less than ideal places, overseas. So I would honestly believe it.
The only outlier for me is, as you point out, that they weren’t upfront about their proclivities. But who knows, honestly…
I mean, it’s almost certainly exaggerated for effect, but everything I’ve read suggests this is fairly “on par” with the reputation of the place…
It is, however, recommended on many “tourist” lists. Which seems odd, all things considered.
Then again, Berlin is known as a party town, so I suppose it fits that “mould”.
From my understanding of it, the guy either stumbled into the BDSM-fag section of the club (see the Wiki page), or on one of the nights where that section takes over the main hall.
I honestly hate to think, though…
Yeah, if you read the link in my other comment there, it is… A lot. It goes into quite extensive detail of one guy’s experiences in there, and there is some more (politicized) discussion in the comments on the blog post…
Frankly, it sounds like literal torture. Which, given the BDSM theme, is probably the actual idea…
Though in that guy’s case, his companions literally took his phone off him, so it gets even worse than the sticker bit, lol…
Australia’s largest nightclub (Home, in Sydney) also used to (temporarily) take away your phone at the door, but to my knowledge they haven’t done that in decades, and it also doesn’t have the reputation for… Degeneracy that this one does, obviously.
I’ve been to a couple of “gay/fetish clubs” before, with women. They enjoyed it well enough, but I hated it the entire time, lol. So I can’t imagine I would be able to tolerate this one at all…
Ok, I undersold it a bit. This is a blog post of a Yelp review of some straight dude who had the misfortune of ending up in the extra degenerate part of the "club":
There's no photos, but you'll probably want mental eyebleach after reading it, lol.
The comments, however, are entertaining.
Fuck, I can't believe that they recommend this place to tourists, of all things...
Freaks.
Ok, I looked up Miku and this whole vocaloid thing…
All I can say is that I feel old. Old, and very… Over, this sort of thing.
When it stops raining where I am I think I need to go touch grass.
I just… Don’t see the appeal, frankly.
But… Different strokes, and that.
At least one of the “Australian” Mikus I saw was kind of cute, I guess. But yeah, this is really just… Not my cuppa, I suppose.
If it wasn’t the end of Winter (and absolutely shit weather), I would go get a tan myself, lol.
Lol, so for those of you who watched this through (I couldn’t watch it all - the very male voice coming out of the female avatar was a bit too much for me), the Danish Miku seems to be a reference to football (soccer) fans, which, from experience from visiting there, seems appropriate because they are absolutely nuts, lol.
I also note that the Mikus for the two Carolinas are fairly damn derogatory towards those places (unless you actually find those characteristics endearing, I guess), so really, I think most of these artists just hate whitey, full stop.
Side note, what exactly is this Miku, anyway?
Something something WW2. But I think there may have been some before that, too.
See also: Peru, where they hold not insubstantial political power (one notable former President there was Japanese, for example)…
I think there may be some in Bolivia, too, but don’t quote me on that, lol.
I’ve dated two Brazilian women. One, I would describe as “latte-coloured” (lighter than most Indians, etc). The other was very white. Much, much paler than me.
Her ancestry was mostly Italian. But they had lived in Brazil for three generations or so, and she only spoke Portuguese fluently.
I also know some German-Brazilians. They’re very, very white, and honestly, they have about as little to do with Pele as I do with, I dunno, Cathy Freeman or something.
But I guess I should inform all of these individuals that, according to Anglosphere Twitter, they are no longer considered white, lol.
Man, what a fucking joke…
It is very odd how much the whole Covid panic and vax apartheid + gestapo lockdowns has been swept under the rug…
Even people I know really, really don’t want to talk about it…
I didn’t notice this in Sweden so much (where, admittedly, authorities behaved much more rationally), but since I’ve been back in Straya, I’ve really noticed just how hush hush everyone is about all that happened…
Which is interesting to observe. And worries me for the next time something like this happens (Monkeypox lockdowns, anyone? Or EEE or whatever it was in Massachusetts?).
It honestly feels like most people here haven’t learnt a thing, from any of it.
Side note: of all the raving loonies I met in Sweden, the two who were most obsessed with Covid were both Australian. Also three of the five or so “non-binaries” I met during that time. With all five of those coming from the Anglosphere…
We can laugh and point all we want at continental Europe, but much of this shit is extremely Anglosphere-dominated, for all that is worth…
This is a riff on "The Narcissist's Prayer", in case anyone was wondering.
Seemed appropriate to this situation.
Nando’s is Portuguese, at least in Australia…
I assume it’s probably the same chain/brand.
“That never happened, and if it did happen you can’t prove it. And even if you can somehow prove it, it would be a good thing. You just don’t know what’s best for you.” - pretty much this…
Giulia Gwinn? It’s worth watching Germany play for her and a couple of the others in tight shorts alone. “Quality” of the game be damned…
But for the most part, in regards to say, the US, Canada or Australian teams, sure (even if I do watch it).
I don’t think the NSW NPL1 Women's has ever been known for its viewing figures or attendances, however…
Depends on the province. Eastern bits? Yeah, they’re mostly ok. But Sumatra is as scary as almost any other Muslim region in that region… And Java (or parts thereof) sometimes breaks into periods of mass murder in the name of “the prophet”, too
I don’t know enough to know exactly *why, but as I said in another comment, I think it’s at least partly to do with pre-existing cultures on those particular islands, and how late Islam actually reached these places, etc…
Getting a bit historically dubious here, but at least part of this is because Albania, Bosnia, Indo, etc., were on the very fringes of the Islamic world, thus they were never as “radicalized” as the various shitholes closer to Arabia…
This is also why Iran was (historically) much less radical than say, Saudi, and same with Morocco and the Moors that reached Spain.
All of those places had a strong cultural identity even before Islam reached them, and so Islam itself wasn’t able to become the all-conquering ideology it did elsewhere.
In general also: less sandy places = less extreme Islam, lol…
It’s not quite as simple as that.
For example, if you look at Turks in Germany (second/third generation), they are usually much more conservative than, say, Gen Y Turks from Istanbul or Ankara or wherever.
Or the Central Asian Muslim countries, most of which are, thanks to being part of the USSR, mostly only nominally Muslim (particularly Uzbekistan).
Also Kurds tend to be much less religious than other Arabs.
Or Crimea, which is still full of Tatars, who are also very secularized Muslims.
It’s just… Not quite that simple. But yeah, in general, Albania, Crimea, Azerbaijan, Bosnia et al., are much, much less Islamofascist than the MENA countries, lol.
Lefties firebombed churches in Aus (specifically Victoria, as always) and Canada, too, to protest whatever bullshit cause du jour, from "sexual abuse" to the supposed "mass graves" in Canada that were conveniently never found...
And celebrities plus media figures justified and largely even glorified it, which tells you all you need to know, really, about where the West is headed...
The last time we saw large-scale public ransacking of churches? Mao's "Great Leap Forward". Which is also the main precedent for our trend of statue-toppling, which has also become ubiquitous across the West...
Makes you think.