It's like that old Boondocks comic. Paraphrased:
Why does everyone always go after violent video games instead of gun dealers?
Who would you rather start shit with? Video game developers or a guy with a warehouse full of AKs?
They need to put in "work" during their shifts. They can do that going after trivial stuff coming from people who won't fight back. Or they could actually try to be effective at the cost of riots, mass murderers, beheadings, bombings. They're government employees looking to do the least work, with the least risk, to get their paycheck and go home. Muslim violence works in Europe.
To be fair, their politicians set them up for failure anyway. Imagine being a patrol cop trying to deal with a mob of violent thugs when your government won't even allow you to carry a firearm to protect yourself. Way easier to go "investigate" mean tweets from someone who wouldn't dream of striking you.
Its super common in manga/anime too
I always assumed family businesses are still more socially relevant in Japan. You teach your kid your trade in the expectation they take over for you as they get older. That wasn't rare in the West either before everything became corporate.
The "speck" line isn't even the biggest problem.
I mean, look at the design of this thing.
And the people, the smart people, the scientists and the engineers who came up with the idea that if you build something that looks like that, you're gonna see the sun, and you can see the Moon.
That is an absolute cargo cult brain. She subconsciously thinks it's the appearance of a telescope that gives it function. All those "smart people" realized that a round tube, some white paint, and a few dials mounted on it lets you see the sun and moon.
It's not risky at all. She'll just go after Trump/Vance for being white rather than focus on her own race.
If she tries to go full "fellow black people" it could below up in her face, but attacking whitey is 1000% safe for a Democrat.
Clarkson's Farm is enjoyable if that kind of content is your cup of tea. You're not going to get anything woke in Clarkson's vicinity. Though watching someone deal with Bongistan red tape will raise your blood pressure.
It's probably all related. Finding out the degrees of all the causes and effects would require actual scientific study and "the science" is only allowed to find permitted results these days.
Surprised there hasn't been a push of "low T is a good thing" articles. Or maybe there was and I missed it.
I don't think it's simply a matter of population distribution.
Society is so saturated in media and advertising that the concepts of sexual attractiveness are becoming more abstract. Think about the way that women find wealth sexually attractive. Wealth is not even a secondary sexual characteristic. Now consider how absolutely fake today's image of an attractive woman is. When the male population has been programmed to be attracted to makeup, extensions, fake eyelashes, fake tits, and fake ass... it starts to not matter who they're installed on because it's the fake elements themselves eliciting the attraction.
Then you have feminism encouraging women to act like men, removing a social differentiator. You've got physical characteristics that are less specific to women, social characteristics that are less specific to women. "But only women carry children." Okay but now everyone is just getting pets because prolonged adolescence and phobia of responsibility has rendered a generation incapable of seeing themselves as adult enough to raise a family, removing that from the equation.
That's bad enough but then you take into account the huge advantages that women are given legally that makes them hazardous.
In light of all that, of course we're seeing the shifts we are. The less women have to offer and the more dangerous they are to interact with romantically, the more fuckable the cute twink in a skirt becomes. And the window keeps sliding.
it seems like anyone involved in online politics is gay.
Traditionally masculine men aren't spending their time terminally online.
And recently there was also another "British" guy in Japan called "David Atkinson" who tweeted , "Is there any evidence that black slavery was not widespread in Japan?"
Is there any evidence that David Atkinson doesn't currently own slaves? I eagerly await him proving a negative /s
Imagine you're standing on a beach when the water recedes very very far. Do you yell "tsunami" at everyone in range as loud as you can? Or do you go up to each of them, strike up a conversation, and slip in "what are your thoughts on high ground? Personally, I think it's a good policy."
They sperging out because they're in a perpetual state of thinking that we're already teetering on the point of no return and they're panicked. If that's rational is an exercise left up to the reader but that is why those posts go the way they do.
His examples of Eastern websites look just like Western ones did in the 90s and early 00s. It wasn't until relatively recently that the minimalist flat thing became trendy. But this guy choosing to use login pages as the examples of Western design is really disingenuous.
Screenshots of the Yahoo homepage 1996 - 2016. Changes in design are interesting. So is the invasion of ads.
https://mashable.com/feature/yahoo-history
Mostly driven by technical improvements up until 2006. Then it gets "decluttered" with a creeping emphasis on what other people are watching/reading. Then the "popular searches" starts moving up in emphasis. Then it finishes 2016 with a third of the page being ads, then "trending," and then [artificially] surfaced articles about politics and entertainment. In 10 years it went from a tool, a directory service, to something designed to push curated narratives to you.
Attacking from behind, attacking 2+ against one, attacking someone on the ground when you are standing, attacking someone who is incapable of defending himself
I think some of those might already be escalations in degree or to aggravated assault. But the charge really doesn't matter when you have a Soros-appointed DA who is going to let them walk regardless of the crime.
Yeah. I'm also a little wary of the these headlines until the content of the messages comes out because I remember my teenage years on things like IRC and no one knew how old anyone else was.
Whenever someone says "texted a minor," I wonder if it's grooming or a direct message like "ops are on the warpath tonight. watch out," or just shit said in a channel with hundreds of people because it's still technically texting. Given the context of this one, there's less benefit of the doubt because pattern recognition exists, but I trust Internet rumor mongers only slightly more than the mainstream media.
the Slim Shady song "Wasn't Me."
What kind of retard makes a pop culture reference while questioning someone in congress while you were making an otherwise good point? Then what kind of mega retard confuses Shaggy with Eminem?
it's a bit of a mess
Putting it lightly. SoctaticMethod1 is right. If I wasn't already this far in, I would have bailed. Irregular also had a really weak season. Which is a shame because it started out as an interesting universe.
I liked Loser Ranger, but was pissed off by people online constantly comparing it to The Boys as if they invented the idea of public-facing "heroes" being the bad guys. The key difference here is that it has a protagonist instead of "everyone is bad" navel-gazing. D's a fun MC.
Are we in the same universe?
I'm not making a quality comment on any of these but just last season off the top of my head:
- Irregular at Magic Highschool S3: OP, knows it, secure, popular, insanely competent.
- How to Love Your Elf Bride: OP, knows it, confident, albeit clueless about women
- Slime Isekai S3: OP, knows it. Created a nation-state because he thought it would be fun. Beloved by his people.
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy S2: OP, knows it. I can't adequately explain how self-confident and unreasonably competent that motherfucker is.
- Loser Ranger: Despite "Loser" being in the title and having every in-world reason to feel he's a loser: is not a loser and quite clever.
How about you provide a couple of recent examples of the series you're talking about? Are you only watching the mandatory couple of "In another world but stuff" that come out every season? I'm just not seeing the "loser MC" thing as that broad of a trend lately.
Even if all that is true, it doesn't change the desire.
Young men still want families. Everything you cite is a new layer of obstacle impeding that objective. You can still want something while foregoing it because it's not practical or safe. They may not be starting them, but they still want them.