That's an entirely fair position to take, and good advice to give.
They're just Debra Wilson.
I tire of western cultural imperialism.
Eh, there's still a big difference between an irrational belief that an individual feels they have to adhere to, and an irrational belief that an individual forces everyone else to adhere to. That's where the narcissism comes from. You could say there's a bit of egocentrism in someone thinking that their irrational rituals would affect their uncle's health, but it's not narcissism as its understood and defined. It's more of an irrational anxiety and detachment from reality. There's definitely delusion involved in all cases though.
I can see where you're coming from, and thank you for explaining your perspective, but I just don't agree I suppose.
This sentence also applies to people with heavy autism and OCD, among a bunch of other mental illnesses.
In what way do people with heavy autism or OCD demand others participate in delusion? This isn't something that I've observed. Depending on their exact circumstances they may ask for allowances to be made, but that isn't nearly as common as transgenders demanding capitulation to their demented rules, and there's no delusion involved.
Caught red handed. Nice work. It's always nice to have more examples of their lies.
Potentially a good thing for conservative values (and really anyone who hates capital-P Progress for the sake of capital-P Progress) but bad in that it bolsters bureaucratic liability culture, which is not only insufferable but ironically very harmful.
Yes, but it's also a word to describe the opposing ends of a spectrum, which is pretty apt in this case.
What, you mean she's a dishonest bitch (who has mysteriously declined in relevance now that she is over 18 and can no longer be used as an uncriticizeable moral bludgeon by the same people who pitilessly attacked the Covington Kids)?
Who would have thought...
Yeah, it was really self-report wasn't it? Apparently something doesn't exist if it's not on social media, and if you're not tweeting about it you didn't really do it!
I agree with some here that there's a difference between a fence sitter and someone who sees a path between extremes.
I will say that defining your position as being between two (or more) other positions is weaker than having your own position, but the centrist mindset can be valuable, in that it represents a willingness to reject dogma and peer pressure, and judge individual issues on their own merits. Besides, centrists are so universally maligned it probably takes some courage to identify as one.
Still, centrism can be nothing more than a cowardly lack of commitment, or a thoughtless, surface-level understanding of political issues.
So I suppose my opinion on centrism depends on where the centrism comes from - whether it's informed and principled centrism versus a lazy or cowardly take on Current Issue. The former is valuable, the latter is not.
Actually, I think they handled it cleverly. While kicking the assholes out would have been laudable and impressively bold, they were smart enough to realize how kicking out a black couple could cause trouble for them, and are still standing on principle after the fact.
A true cuck wouldn't have complained at all, but they're still standing up for themselves. Now they've got publicity, sympathy, will probably recoup their losses, and they've drawn attention to this shitty behavior in a way that makes it really hard to side with the wedding party, because the cafe owners didn't make any strategic missteps that emotional leftists can latch onto.
Society is getting fed up enough with this nonsense that they'd probably have gained rather than lost business if they loudly threw out the parasites, but it still would have caused a lot of headaches for them.
Over time, battery packs will become much cheaper to replace
Okay, cool, get back to me then and I'll consider it.
Unrealized potential means nothing. If your argument about something's present worth hinges on how good it might be in the future... you might believe you're a forward thinker and a savvy investor, but all you're doing is dabbling in speculation, and chances are you're too short sighted to have the first clue what you're doing.
Me, I'm more concerned with the electric grid's ability to keep up with demand - which it already struggles with. They're trying to push a complete conversion to electric cars when they don't even have the infrastructure for it. And they don't seem to care that they don't have the infrastructure for it. They don't even seem to realize.
Like I said, short-sighted.
With the exception of proven liars and grifters (and particularly heated arguments at times), I prefer to take people at face value about what they claim their beliefs are, rather than tell them what they believe. That doesn't mean they can't be hypocrites, however.
I can't say I have perfect insight into the white nationalist mind but it's fairly obvious they're not as simple as you paint them and I think you're doing yourself a disservice by only allowing yourself to see them as caricatures. The invective gets pretty intense sometimes, maybe you're focusing too much on that?
I read somewhere that Steamboat Willie, and that particular depiction of Mickey, has become public domain.
The accompanying theory was that Disney has lost so much money pushing audience-alienating woke agendas, they no longer have enough on the books to do their habitual lobbying to further extend copyright law.
I don't know how true that is, but it seems plausible.
Let me help you out - answer: the shitbag left.
Well yes, but I was trying to imagine the maladjusted individual who decided this crusade needed to be taken up in the first place.
But the left being what it is, it was just as likely the result of a subversive think tank asking the question 'How can we normalize this further? Specifically, how can we get to the kids?'
That's true. A remarkable amount of leftist effort is used in the denial of how destructive their policies are. It's a pathology of some kind (at least, when it's not a cynical strategy).
Firstly, I don't think there's a requirement in white nationalism to want other races dead. Certainly there are white nationalists who do want that, but I don't think it's a requirement. Surely wanting to empower your own race and have it embedded into the national identity would be the primary requirement, not whatever motives you've ascribed to it.
Anyway, it seems consistent to me that somebody who supports, on principle, a white nationalist identity could also sympathize with the struggle of others to achieve similar ends in their own countries, whether they are white or not. You can want certain kinds of migrants out of your country - or even just curbed in some way - without hating and wishing death upon their race generally. A 'not in my backyard' attitude of a sort.
To add to that, people are capable of holding complicated and nuanced views on complicated and nuanced matters, and that's not even accounting for the varying stages of propganda deprogramming - and information differentials - you'll see even within people who share a movement.
They are not obligated to become the caricature you need them to be.
I don't know you can reach the point of thinking, "wanting to make my country great is antithetical to my worldview" and not realize you're the baddie.
I was just thinking this too. It would be one thing if it was expressly imperialistic, an agenda of conquest, but it's not. They seem to be against the very idea of excellence. It makes them immensely uncomfortable. I wonder why...
Who exactly pushed for this? I don't care how moronic Californian legislature is, this kind of thing doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Who's the angry culture warrior who went into a store and was so offended by the lack of gender-neutral aisles that they had to launch a crusade to make them mandatory?
Who would be so entitled and meddlesome? What goes on in the brain of someone like this? Do you think they're satisfied with their contribution, convinced they'll go down in history as a bringer of change? Or do they already have their sights set on the next wrong that must be righted?
Thereby proving, now and forever, that they are American Idiots.
If a series that is entirely about satire ceases to be able to satirize, that series is dead.
Rockstar have embraced political correctness. GTA VI not only will not be good, it cannot be good. It has ceased to exist as art and is nothing more now than hollow product for consumption.
Because their trust isn't based in logic or empiricism, it's entirely a dogmatic reaction to the idea that they might be associated with those icky, backwards conservatives.
They don't care about or even really perceive science, or the scientific community, as they actually are. They like the idea of science. Actually that's not even fully accurate, it's more like adopt "liking science" as a personal brand because it makes them feel smugly enlightened to do so.
TL;DR the truth don't matter, feelz over realz.
There you have it. Not buying things you don't like from authoritarians who openly hate you makes you a terrorist.
It's not like they could choose not to spend their investors' money making things that they know won't sell... no. Their failure is your fault.
It's equal amounts creepy and cringe that they've invented this fake hairstyle and immediately shoved it onto every black character in every game they can. It's like they're all using the same guidebook, while pretending to be creative.
It's a hideous hairstyle but it's nice to know at a glance which games to avoid.