The way I see it, there are two possibilities.
- They're liars who control everything
- They're incompetent morons
It's both.
They don't need 4D chess, they control the propaganda apparatus, oversee a docile population, are protected from the consequences of their mistakes, are unfettered by decency, and have decades of experience knowing which lies work to stymie their constituents and disarm their enemies - it's the one area in which they are competent.
But ultimately it won't save them, because while their influence is great, it has limits where their hubris and incompetence do not.
a perfect storm of indescribable arrogance
Perfect description.
The smugness is the worst part. I don't have any 'At least they're well-meaning's left in me because they've had ample opportunity to have a single rational thought about their beliefs and policies, but they always, always choose to double down on self-congratulatory idiocy instead.
How many vaccinated Americans needlessly perished, 'Doctor'?
Lots of unprecedented moves from this 'administration'
The UN is completely worthless and I don't care what they say. The problem is that our governments want this too, and they'll take any pretext they can get. They want to hand over authority to unelected, international organizations so they can use 'international consensus' to absolve themselves of responsibility for tyrannizing their own citizens.
I don't think gay people existing is bad.
Neither do I, but I see a big problem with the imposition of a destructive dogma that may not be rejected or even questioned, and which has the overt goal of replacing truth with falsehood, strength with weakness, freedom with control, and healthy people with mentally broken, physically butchered drones.
She is simply black now. That's only ever a one way street, because making her white now would be - gasp! - racist whitewashing! It's the true meaning of 'Once you go black you never go back.' It's a ratchet, and it's designed that way.
Imp, did you know that more than one thing can be bad?
Hahahahaha! It'll be pride year every year eventually, they can't help themselves. 24/7 pride, here we come!
I know there are IQ and mental differences, but I think you'd be surprised by just how much positive change could be accomplished by actually holding them to a standard and not constantly enabling their worst behavior. Again. Same with women.
Blacks in the UK (except for recent third world immigrants) are much more civilized than blacks in America, because their culture isn't a festering pile of shit and they're not being enabled by insane leftists.
It's kind of annoying because you know they're leaving out content so they can do a special rerelease later. Atlus isn't as bad as some companies but they've still taken a few ranks in Soulless Corporate Scummery. And they've started censoring content in the west, which does not endear me to them.
But with that said:
This has people I guess losing their fucking minds calling it misogynistic and "heteronormative" or other crap about how they're gonna boycott Atlus and not buy the game and yada yada yada.
These people have destroyed gaming and society at large, so it gives me pleasure to see them take a loss, however small and imagined.
No that's communism. Humanity has no natural predators so nature gives us a recurring contingent of utterly evil fuckwits to keep us in check
I would settle for a society that doesn't worship them, does hold them to account, and doesn't use them as a political wedge and a lynchpin for the eternally spinning wheel of grievance.
Same with women.
Confession, I have mixed feelings about games that require you to redo shit when you die. On one hand there should be a failure state and consequences for failing, so you're not just casually strolling through (as he says) a guided tour. But having to redo large swaths of content sucks, man, especially as you have less time available to you. It's not particularly fun even if you have lots of time; it often causes a hard stop to your gaming session because you just don't want to do the same shit again right away.
So this guy is correct, by and large, about how games are being dumbed down, stripped of challenge, and turned into guided tours. But on that particular point it's hard to find the right balance between punishing failure and valuing the player's time. Kind of like how it's hard for horror games to find a good balance between presenting an actual threat without there being so much of a threat that the player becomes desensitized to it through repeated failure.
Gaming is definitely in a bad place right now, and the constant push for mass appeal, in difficulty and other areas, is the chief cause. That and microtransactions.
There are people who truly believed 'What we do in our bedrooms is none of your business', but those people weren't necessarily progressives - just people who had an opinion on an issue. Because your characterization of progressives is correct. The ideology requires hypocrisy, mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance to even function. We're fully in agreement about that part.
I think you're attributing too much intellectual honesty and competence to them. Some of them are calculating revolutionaries who have an entirely clearly view of their own twisted morals, and are merely acting to enforce them, but many of them are intellectually dishonest hypocrites. They're trying to satisfy emotional needs or they're just brainwashed by contradictory nonsense and think they're 10x smarter than everyone who disagrees with it.
They don't want their own toys. They want your toys. They'd also be happy with destroying them. Just so long as you don't get to have them.
I have never met one who wasn't fairly open and vocal about this exact thing.
Really? You haven't met a single woman who doesn't openly talk about genociding men?
Honestly, I'm sure a lot of them parrot it just as a nonsense feminist rhetoric, it doesn't mean they're actively colluding to do it. They will however support by default anything that makes things better for themselves at your expense.
The hypocrisy comes from the dishonesty. They never hold a consistent position, it always shifts and it's riddled with doublethink. They don't have a solid definition of evil and virtue.
Because they didn't ever believe it
Many did believe it, and many still do. I'm sure there were some cynical subversives who deliberately pushed a soft sell to get their foot in the door and push further, but the sad truth is there are a lot of people who are just perpetually addicted to grievance and base their entire identity on their activism.
Progressivism needs to always be making 'progress', sitting still is bad and horrible and ignorant and conservative. It's a political ideology of never being happy and always needing to push change, and of making problems where there are none. Plus a lot of them are complete NPCs who slavishly worship the overton window and only acknowledge Current Thing. I'm convinced most of the people pushing for this shit now would have been shocked by it back in the 90s.
I'll just bring back the old Auron MacIntyre sign tap: it's not hypocrisy, it's Hierarchy. They believe they know better and we're ontologically evil for opposing them.
Oh, but there's plenty of hypocrisy still. It's important to note because it demonstrates very well how devoid of merit, honesty and rationality their little ideology is.
Being consistent on the 'any action against the ebil right wingers is justified' thing doesn't make them not hypocrites. The hypocrisy and doublethink is a fundamental part of their belief system and it's why, while it can be victorious, it can never be successful.
Imp isn't right. The western world is absurdly gynocentric, which we all pretty much agree on, and the synchronized, clownish coddling of women is leading to our ruin. But that doesn't mean that women are cartoon villains actively colluding to genocide men, and it certainly doesn't mean that women are the one and only problem we face.
Also, 'If something is bad when your enemy does it to you, it's also bad when you do it to them' is a good rule of thumb for when you're trying to make peace - when making peace is possible. The people who claim to be pro-kindness and pro-democracy and pro-love-winning are completely on board with this sort of thing being done to white people and it's especially noxious that they refuse to understand simple concepts like conciliation and diplomacy.
I don't think I made my point very well (or at all). I'm just trying to say that actions they loudly denounce as immoral don't suddenly become moral to commit against people just because they're white.
Yeah, circumstances matter and actions that would be reprehensible against an innocent person minding their own business are justified against someone who has a gun pointed at you. But that's a rational position, and these people are not rational. In fact, they do everything in their power to destroy rationality. They're pragmatic insofar as they'll do what it takes to destroy you, but they reject pragmatism beyond that, there's no goal except to further advance the cause of irrationality and they won't stop until civilization is destroyed.
So I guess I'm saying 'Fighting my mortal enemies with any method I can' is an honest position, and 'It's okay to do this to white people because [Leftist bullshit]' is dishonest, petty, and irrational, especially from the mouths of people who have denounced exactly the same thing when it was different people doing it.
Now split it into boys and girls and see how much higher the number is for boys.