Yes, done right, it really could be a deathblow to the Democratic Party. And I don't think you can play this move and succeed without at least a few of the factors that I'd say are currently in play.
Identity Politics is a big thing now. A big, big, big thing. Between Ibram X. Kendi and Richard Spencer being in agreement and the Democrats fearing attacking ACB will look like attacking and accomplished woman and their meaning in current political context it's fair to say Identity Politics is a major go. Trump sure as shit didn't put that hellspawn into play. Nor is he racist. Which makes this play a fair bit hypocritical, but valid and playable in the current climate: The left hoists them up as victims, scream the President needs to do things for them, well, he's generally been doing things that are good and advantageous for both those groups and in ways that are within his legal power.
I'm a anxious type, prone to feeling bad and wanting to help, and five years ago I would've said I was "Somewhere in the middle on the left, maybe closer to the center." Of course, I knew a lot less then, but regardless my mind tells me if you want to argue the oppression of black people in modern America... OK, well, not by the Federal government (though we can definitely discuss the war on drugs and their effects on the black community), but mostly, it's the Democrats. They're the oppressors. Between the pushes for abortion and Planned Parenthood, their cultural control, all the major Democratic run cities and all that comes with that, well, it's not hard to see why anyone living under that would feel oppressed. In that sense, Trump is taking responsibility and saying "Hey, these guys fucked you for countless decades, wake up, pay attention because it's the other guys who are helping you out. Sorry we failed to kick the Democrats out for decades, but not on my watch." Of course, that's glaringly biased in favor of Trump but it also feels kinda true. It's also unfair and race based, and he can only get away with it because he's trying to help all the people in those fucked over Democratic run areas - which is what a President should be trying to do.
That's just my head cannon on this, anyways. Of course it's also clearly to get more of the black vote, or hell just discourage some black people from voting for Biden at least. I don't think this would've flown pre-2016, and it definitely wouldn't have flown in the 70s, 80s, 90s or 00s. But today? Yeah, sure, I can bend in that direction given the political context without feeling my values have taken a beating, but heh, I might just be justifying it to myself the way people can justify anything :)
Have more faith, Yoshida is involved. It looks more serious, and more like an Ivalice type setting, and given it probably won't be out for a few years this has to be some early gameplay we saw. We'll likely see other characters later, but your points on the multiple party member thing is legit - they've been shying away from that in various forms for a bit, but they really seem to have gotten a good method of controlling multiple characters at once in FF7R - though they left the AI of the non-controlled characters dumbed down I think, for reasons.
I don't know why you're getting downvotes either?
Personally, I half-like Aaron Sorkin. I like his dialogue, the witty stuff and walk or talk. But he, like most lefties seems to be permanently blind to the actual law, or the Constitution or anything like that.
It's also weird that the left still has this hard-on for him given that pretty much every main character on the West Wing would be considered a far-right or far-right "adjacent". I could dig up probably ten examples of things West Wing characters said, put them in say Ted Cruz mouth, and they'd call him a fascist.
The left essentially feels like "Government is for us. And that means it does everything we decide it does, we DICTATE to it, and it does what we dictate." Fucking thank god for the electoral college.
Those people who just avoid news and social media are generally much happier people - they're also the people who refuse to educate themselves enough to know what's even going on. They've relegated it to "It's nastier politics, it happened in the past, it'll happen again, it's kinda bad now, I know that I can't say anything good about Trump or wear a red hat, OK, that's all I need to know, I'm going back to my life now."
It's part of how amazing America is. Really. It can be this polarized and still 50% of people won't vote. As long as they're not aware of how the bad shit is affecting their lives and can pretend it isn't, then it's all fine. And for them, they go work their job, continue on as if nothing major is happening - because it really isn't happening for them. America is such a place that this much bad shit can be happening and people can still get away with ignoring almost all of it completely. There's something so unique and amazing and bizarre about the American experiment that it's just enthralling.
Haha. 2 weeks. Remember 15 days to stop the spread? It'll be Trump winning on election day, and even after mail in is counted, he'll still win and they'll just pull shenanigans for the next 4 years saying "He's not really supposed to be President, you see judges ruled the wrong way on this issue with 1,580,293 votes in 14 states that would've made it a Biden victory! He's illegitimate!"
Pretty much every single medical fact we have points to it being totally safe to vote. Not like, mildly safe, but virtually no different from almost any other time. It's just more bullshit DNC bullshit. But if he wins massively on election night and says so, Twitter or FB or whoever will just go "No, we have to ban that, that's not true, we have to wait for the mail in votes to be counted because that could change things." Outside of 2000, every other election was called on election night, and I don't believe the left can fabricate enough mail-in-ballots for Biden and not get caught. The biggest trick the left has played on America is to trick it into seeing no Presidential candidate in god only knows how long is as popular as Trump. Instead, the Trump fans fear being cancelled or whatever bad shit happens the instant you say you're voting for him.
It's Stupid-Gaslighting.
You have people in the media who truly believe that Ben Shapiro is alt-right. He's a generic conservative and an Orthodox Jew. You have media who says Trump is a fascistic alt-right dictator - and believe it. You've get the whole grouping of people who swear Trump is an evil monster of death and destruction capable of nothing good - but read one of his quotes and attribute it to Obama, and they're all like "Wow, I really love that, see why can't we have that?"
The stupid, the uneducated and the useful idiots all believe what they're saying. It doesn't matter that it doesn't match up with reality in the slightest. It doesn't matter if you show them direct evidence disproving their lunacy. They will say and write whatever they want, and people will believe and form a view based on this bullshit.
So yeah, it's essentially Stupid-Gaslighting. Then you need to toss in the actual bad faith actors who are running with it. I honestly don't see how a Democrat gets elected to the Presidency in the next decade, maybe the next two decades. No one is going to forget this - rather, it'll be an inversion of the past. In the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and to a degree the 90s you really did have to worry about random acts of violent from far-right people. It wasn't normal or regular, but it was definitely a fear people had and there are examples of it. Now, all these insane people we have today? They'll become what the far-right was in those decades. Leftist extremists trying to blow up police stations and leaving manifestos about how the police are the true evil and so on. Hopefully we're better at dealing with them.
You get it. ironically, Eric Weinstein on Twitter pointed out recently that we tend to break up monopolies because they end up being bad things. But the government has a monopoly on violence and it's been better that way for many places (i.e: they have armies and police that work within the law)
They were anti-tyrannical government during the lockdown. I don't think it falls under tyranny to stop rioters - that's literally something the government is supposed to do.
His interview was basically boiled down to "I'm worried about civil war! Maybe that was the shot heard round the world? Yeah? YES? YES? YES!!!!!!" with nudging and winking.
He's the stupid, real life version of John Doe from Se7en, except he wants a civil war based on a race war. And idiots keep fucking falling for it.
It's more sad that this guy liked Reagan but feels a need to note "I'm not a Trump person!" Goes to show how far shit has really slid down the slippery slope over the years.
This is true. Didn't Poland or somewhere in Eastern Europe just ban LGBT+ theory stuff in universities?
Honestly, I think it's a sort of win/loss - depends if they want to jump in and do actual real gender studies. We've already got a bunch, but that shit is all fucked up over here. As a result, we're probably actually behind in legit study of gender - good chance for the places not infested with SJWism and intersectionality and CRT to sprint ahead.
I'd actually really like actual gender studies. I like people, how they work, what they want, etc. Yet there's no way they'll do it right now. It'll be years until we get back to it outside of a few places where it can currently happen. Now's the BEST time to be a Gender Studies major, because the nutjobs are getting the boot.
Election is 60 days away.
You will see more bullshit in the next 60 days than you've seen in the last six months or even year. Anonymous sources will spike even more. Trump will be so bad he'll have starved people, murdered people, destroyed the rest of the world's view of America beyond repair, dug up George Washington to have sex and defecate with the dead body.
And they'll tell you it's all true, and you must vote against him. That's all there is to it. Virtually nothing they say is true or related to reality. It's an entire narrative they've built that makes no sense and is huge - and since it's not real and just a narrative, it's not stable at all and can do nothing but crumble into nothing.
Remember: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn had a debate like a week before their last vote. The media played it as nearly 50/50, that Corbyn was doing surprisingly well and just go out there and vote Labor! Then they voted - and areas that had been Labor for 100 years turned Conservative. The US is going to do the same - but even more extreme than those crumpet lovers! :)
That's one potential outcome.
Even in today's America that outcome is not likely. When you're aware of this stuff, it feels that way. Trump's about to landslide in November, and social media and the Internet aren't real life. Real life is currently encountering BLM and Antifa insanity and not liking it very much, and Trump's got a huge surge in the polls, and that's not saying jack shit about the silent majority.
The issue is how are we going to deal with the fallout, because even when proven wrong, even with the majority of the country against them, they will only double down. Then again, lots of arrests going on now, so we'll see.
This is actually really disappointing. I'm hoping there's a reason to it, like generating interest and then they'll all be put up or something. If it's just Joe going "Yeah, give me the cash and you can keep certain episodes off Spotify, and I won't invite Alex Jones or whoever else." then that's the biggest sellout I've ever seen. Joe's going to have to respond to this, and I've got more than enough faith that there's some kind of reason behind it that I can accept and is rational. Because leaving Youtube for Spotify, pointing out to the shit Youtube pulls, then get the same thing on Spotify? That'd be disgusting.
I 100% agree with this. I honestly could care less who it is. I care about if they broke the law. That seems to be about a billion times more likely on the Left, so I expect a ton of them to be in jail. Yet it never happens. It just doesn't. Durham report really needs to line things up.
Here's my thing. The left is bonkers. Even if you have a chain of evidence a mile long, ten hours of video of clearly illegal activity, if you've got all the records and everything - they will just say "It's Trump going after the people he doesn't like."
They'll just skip right past the wait, this is clearly illegal, here's all the evidence, here's why it's against the law, here's all the legalities, etc... They won't accept any of it. They'll practically start a race war when felons with lengthy rap sheets commit crimes, resist arrest and are violent. How the fuck does this die down when one side has completely left reality?
Yeah, we all know the far-left hates Andy Ngo. Saw someone say it the other day, and I agree, if there's any remote sense of justice Andy Ngo 100% deserves a Pulitzer for his reporting. The level of conspiracy theory required to believe Andy Ngo is a bad guy would make Alex Jones say "Fuck off".
I remember watching The Newsroom back in like 2012? 2013? And seeing the mockery of "citizen journalists" and things like that, and it kinda made sense to me. Today? Fucking thank god for citizen journalists.
I think most people avoid looking at this stuff. I think most people who look at it, and are given basic facts (i.e: one resisted arrest, the other didn't - plus there's a lot more reasons and details), come to the same conclusion.
We're just screaming at the people who inhale propaganda like a bag of Doritos at 2AM. That's one battle. The other battle is the empathy of people who are barely aware or have any information and just get their good nature taken advantage of. Those people have to stop voting for the same things that cause the problems they feel empathetic to.
This just flat out isn't a woman thing. It's a bad person thing. Common wisdom of the day is that women are always right by virtue of being women - even if they're wrong, they're right. Too many morons believe this.
There are bad people. This is a bad woman. And most likely mentally ill - because it takes someone seriously deluded and mentally ill to behave and act like that. But to paint it as a women in general thing is bullshit, just the same way feminists try to #AllMen or whatever.
I don't think I disagree with that, though I've only given it a bit of thought. What struck me when I read what you wrote however is how the right communicates. The right will often call the left evil - specifically because of let's say more mild forms of the banality of evil. The left only hears the "evil" part - they don't understand the thought that goes with it - and I've managed to sway some leftists when having to explain it, step by step. But others are more true leftists, they want authoritarian government to enforce things and those types tend to think freedom and liberty is evil. I also think of them as the type who would be freed from slavery and then go "Wait. Sure, I was a slave, but they fed me and clothed me, put me back!" -_-
I don't lean that way. Pure evil is something else. It really does feel like the banality of evil though. Like the evil done by people who are too self-centered, egotistical, have-to-be-right-no-matter-what.
It says he's 26. Maybe after he keeps getting voluntarily humiliated by defending the worst positions possible and has open and honest dialogues, he'll grow. Until then, he's just a moron that makes it easy to bash on far-leftism.
I imagine a good number of them are. But some are actual people. They believe the stuff they're saying.
I like Tim Pool's video from last week with Brandon Straka, as Straka does a pretty good job showing how he believed the media stuff, he hated Trump, wanted to hate him, had all these reasons. The difficulty he faced internally by educating himself that forced him to change his mind... I don't think many of the typical, average lefties who listen to the MSM have that.
Haha, that's one hell of a way to look at Instrumentality in Evangelion ;) Gendo certainly thought that way.
Vaush is inherently mentally compromised. He's weak minded, his ego is small, he can tell when he's having the shit beaten out of him verbally while trying to defend his insane ideas - he just keeps reaching, trying to sound like he's smart enough to keep up and never ceding a point... And the result of never ceding a point is that he comes out with lynch mobs and communism. Because he puts the collective above everything else. That's how a "mob" because "they're just witnesses, man! Why would you run from witnesses?"
I had to stop watching and take a break, because I couldn't imagine a person saying those things. It was hard to believe.
I like the first reply. It's just kind of blase mean enough. If you give them the benefit of the doubt, that woman is generally saying "Hey, we do care about these things - you guys thinking we don't care about them is really a reason we don't like you because we do legitimately care."
Not curious enough to check her post history, but makes me wonder if she's one of the "feminists" who is utterly unaware of say, Suzanna Danuta Walters, Roxanne Gay, and the plethora of actual feminist leaders who are very much going "No, we fucking hate you because you're No-Vaginas. That's right, you have no vagina and that makes you bad, you fucking No-Vagina!" types.