The bottom line is that he doesn't want to finish Winds of Winter, and he feels like he doesn't have to. He's just too much of a pussy to come out and say it.
I saw a study that showed that looking both ways before crossing the road reduced pedestrian fatalities. They spent millions on that one, too.
Sikhs were the originators of all the demands for special treatment for religious minorities in our countries. Before the Muslims or anyone else, they were the ones demanding that uniform codes change in our militaries and police forces so they could wear their turbans. They were the ones demanding to be allowed to carry kirpans on the job in workplaces that wouldn't allow anyone else to carry weapons. They opened the doors for all of this shit.
Hence it is not in their interest to acknowledge the difference between fantasy and reality.
I still maintain that there's something especially nefarious about Twitter, and the whole "microblog" model. It's probably a confluence of factors: the like/retweet model feeding into people's need for instant gratification, the bewildering pace of the conversation on those platforms making it difficult for people to actually think about things instead of just constantly react, and the mandated brevity which just eliminates any room for nuance.
All of these things together just create a platform that distills retardation into a purer and more virulent form. Gab may have a different political bent, but that doesn't make it any more productive when it comes to the exchange of ideas.
I disagree. The Twitter model encourages users, official company accounts or not, to spout exactly this kind of unfiltered nonsense.
IMDB: Memorable celebrity face-slapping moments from this year's Oscars
MSNBC: Trump wears blackface to Oscars, physically assaults Black man in unprovoked hate crime
BBC: We hereby retract our coverage of this year's Academy Awards and apologize to any BAME audience members who were offended by it
RT: Zelensky's appearance at Hollywood summit overshadowed
CBC: Climate change is out of control: Will Smith's blood boils live at Academy Awards
Pink News: Willa Smith is a woman: how slapping a cis man in the most womanish way possible is the best way to announce you're transitioning
It really just proves that Twitter itself is not the problem. The Twitter model of social media is the problem, and it's just as cancerous on Gab as it is on Twitter.
Feminists have been loving the refugee waves up until now, because they have been almost exclusively comprised of fit young men from parts of the world where men are still allowed to behave like men. And even though feminists will never admit it, that's what they find attractive.
Feminists were all for welcoming refugees for as long as the refugees were exclusively the kind of people the feminists secretly wanted to fuck, but as soon as it's the other side of the coin, suddenly it's problematic.
Some of them do until you see one deliver a limp-wristed slap to another one on national television.
Well they're really earning their Pfunding aren't they?
Lauren Southern on suicide watch.
I'll take this one.
Back in the first half of the 20th century, the rate of criminality in black communities was barely higher than the national average, and black communities had highest rate of two-parent households in the country.
Enter the government with its family subsidy programs, which were effectively designed to subsidize single mothers and incentivize women to kick men out of the family unit. Because black communities tend to be lower-income, many women found that they could make more money off of the government than they could with a working father in the home. In the space of two generations, half of black kids in the US grow up without a father present.
Fatherlessness is the single biggest predictor of criminal behavior in young men, more significant even than race. So, ultimately, yes, feminism and women's entitlement is largely responsible for high crime rates in black communities.
I don't know what everyone's making such a big deal for.
He got in one little fight.
Hopefully his mom doesn't get scared, because last time she made him move in with his auntie and his uncle in Bel Air.
So your proposed answer is to just kill him before he even has a chance?
You tryna get him banned again?
But he will also definitely be fighting on the front line in Ukraine at exactly the same time, single-handedly machine-gunning a dozen Russian soldiers and holding a cavalry bear's jaw open while he lobs a grenade down its throat.
No, women are stoopid would be "gender comprehension gap"
"Gender knowledge gap" is Wikipedia saying "Women are lazy and can't be bothered to learn anything"
The anime to tranny pipeline is a real thing.
There was a time when I would have felt sorry for him for having this done to him over the one topic about which he happens to be right.
Now I have as much sympathy for him as I do for JK Rowling. They sowed the seeds. They can reap the girldick hurricane.
Quite aside from the diplomatic consequences of this escalation, it's also worth noting that sanctions don't work. They never work. They didn't work on Cuba, on Iran, on North Korea, on Venezuela. They haven't worked on Russia up until now.
It's a sign of the sheer conceit and delusion of globohomo that they actually think the populations of these countries will rise up in revolt against their leaders because they can't live without our shit.
Some of the short story compilations are pretty good. Tales from Jabba's Palace and a couple of the others. A lot of those stories don't tie into the greater narrative: they're just sort of slice-of-life snapshots of the Star Wars universe.
Another thing to look into is Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy, telling some one-off stories about Han and Chewie in the years right before he meets Luke. Those were written back in the early 80s, right after the first film came out, and they were great.
I grew up on the Young Jedi Knights books, and when I was older, I think I read the Thrawn trilogy all the way through maybe a dozen times as a teenager. That was the best of the EU, as far as I'm concerned.
NJO was awful. I've never been as invested in Star Wars since I put down the ninth NJO book and decided I just couldn't do it anymore. The stages of grief that most Star Wars fans went through with Disney Star Wars, from denial through anger through bargaining to the end result of not giving a shit: I went through all of that already with the NJO. I was already pretty much alienated and disengaged years before The Force Awakens came out.
The way they treated the deaths of major characters, including characters who'd been built up as the sort of "next generation" of Star Wars heroes that would fill Luke's shoes, only to be snuffed out like they never meant anything, pissed me off to no end.
On top of that, the Yuuzhan Vong had no place in the Star Wars universe. Up to that point, Star Wars was the perfect blend of sci-fi and fantasy: a futuristic, high-tech universe centered around a fundamental, mystical Force that holds the whole thing together. To introduce a species of James Cameron-inspired BDSM fetishists who weren't affected by the Force didn't just disrupt that integrity: it demolished it.
And for what? What audience were the Vong supposed to appeal to? Adults? No, too childish. Kids? Well, if that was the target, that's a little suspicious. Warhammer fans? 40k does the whole grimdark thing a hell of a lot better.
The only people the Vong were designed to appeal to were the resentful, impotent, angsty teenaged Millennial edgelords who were already burgeoning sexual fetishists, and who eventually grew up to be exactly the sort of nihilistic wokists who are now on a crusade to subvert every cultural phenomenon that used to provide people with a sense of inspiration and moral direction. I would argue that Star Wars isn't just another victim of that phenomenon: it was the first.
When was the last time you interacted with teachers? These days, they're all 20-something millennial/zoomers who've never matured past high school themselves.