What you've got there is "charitable." This was definitely not that.
There's "damning with faint praise," and there's backhanded compliments and there's condescension, and paternalism, and white lying, and all sorts of ways to technically say nice things, while the real meaning behind the words is critical. The difference is in intent.
Thing is, this "praise" of Trump's toward Biden was in the middle of a bunch of other communication Trump was putting out, that was certainly the furthest thing from kind. In context, there is no way the intent was in any way charitable. This snippet was specifically curated to make it sound this way, though, because philosohomo is a huge faggot who only does one thing.
I don't get it. You appear to me attempting to make the case that it was simultaneously actual praise, and calling it backhanded. These ideas are not compatible. Something is not "close to praise," either it is, or it isn't. This clearly wasn't.
It's good that you (unlike OP) acknowledge that it wasn't. Because that, as I said, is retarded.
Painting it as actual praise is retarded.
When someone says "Aw, that's so good...for you," I hate to break it to you but they're not actually being nice.
DAN's the MAN.
It's a good thing you didn't try then! Actually hearing holes in your argumentation when they're pointed out to you, and then addressing and attempting to patch those holes, is hard!
What in God's Green Earth does your post title have to do with the post in the link? There's literally no relationship there whatsoever.
Then you reply first to your own post.
What even is this Op-Ed bullshit. You're the worst.
Gee, I can't imagine why people aren't persuaded by your stunning revelations.
It's an eschatonic and Malthusian death-cult, wearing a Mr. Rogers sweater with a pin on it that says 'I'm the empathetic one."
I don't get it, and have never understood how anyone could be fooled by it for a moment. The whole idea's goals are full of death, and the means to do it is blatant, flat-out piracy. The mildest form involves brainwashing children, the other end of the chain is sending the Government to mow down men, women, and children who've simply tried to stay off the grid.
Satanic evil from the ground up, is what it is.
Gotta say, that's not much of an incentive. Like I said, they can literally look down at their own dick, and think about their experiences with their dick, and it's going to be pretty hard to convince them that they're impaired and the people who raised them harmed them grievously. If they have children, they can think about their dick, and how that dick has basically one purpose, which is to produce children; then look back and forth between their dick and their children, then look at you, who's telling them their dick don't work because their parents are monsters, and...
Surely, you see at least a little why this argument ain't working.
Well, look what you're offering, and look what you're asking.
As you said, the payment for agreeing with you is that they accept, basically out of the blue, that their parents "maimed them at birth."
What you're offering, the boon and reward, is that they can observe their dick, which they can literally look down upon, tug a bit, and say "Seems fine to me," is actually mutilated.
What's the incentive in this scenario?
So either this is totally what it looks like, and it's some sort of grudge killing then remorse to the point of suicide, or somebody killed subject A and subject B, then made it look like B killed A then topped himself.
With literally no information (which is weird), like, not even a statement by police or a co-worker or something, nothing other than "hopes and prayers with the family," I have no idea what to think.
The surface details stink, certainly.
Shouldn't be that shocked though since you're in here passionately defending the notion that な and んな are virtually the same.
LOL, and the whole reason for this whole clusterfuck of a sub-thread that started with you violently fucking a pretty good joke right up the b-hole, is your passionate insistence that NO NO NO な and んな ARE SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAT IF YOU USE ONE INSTEAD OF ANOTHER, PEOPLE WILL TREAT YOU LIKE YOU FLICKED A BOOGER ON THE EMPEROR, even though ん is literally the softest of soft "n" sounds, without even a vowel, tongue stuck to roof of mouth, and not even so much as an exhalation of breath involved.
You are fucking silly.
One of the reasons why I usually like this board is because people don't have meltdowns like this lmao
One of the reasons why I usually like this board is that most of the time, people can take a joke without going all hyper-weeb, all HANG ON FOLKS I GOTTA LOT OF SUBTITLED ANIME and if they do happen wander down weeabo lane, they're typically self-aware enough to at least feel a little bit of shame.
Here you go with false equivalency: Saying that the dif between speaking "onna" and "ona" (as I've said, a fraction-of-a-second lingering on a soft consonant), is basically like speaking the difference between "ka-wah-ee" and "koh-wah-ee" two clearly entirely different vowel sounds. Two entirely different mouth-shapes to make the sounds, even. And you have the brazen foolish stones to bitch at me about "false equivalency."
"Similar energy?" What the fuck does that even mean?
And worked up--I'm responding to your fucking essays trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. I'm not worked up, I'm just irked because you and idiot B had to waddle your WELL ACKSHUALLY asses into the middle of a good joke and fuck it up with this pedantic (and wrong) faggotry. Nobody cares how many swords you own, nor the difference between a katana and a wakizashi, if that's where you were going next.
Dude, you want to talk false equivalence, look to yourself.
We're talking a consonant sound that is either 1/8 of a second, or 1/4 of a second. With a difference like that, context is everything. It'd be like hearing someone from India pronounce the first "r" in "February" or the second "c" in "Connecticut." You might incline your head slightly, but probably wouldn't even be sure you heard what you thought you heard.
Speaking of strawmanning, your entire position here is one, in that you're pretending this is some earth-shattering difference, when in fact it's barely discernable out loud. There is zero chance a native speaker is going to be all NANI!?!?!?!? or, since you hate "straw mans," that they're going to, in your words, "look at your like you have 5 heads."
What I haven't heard talked about is the physical location of corporate HQs. They tend to be in cities, blue-culture cities. Their employees commute--usually from no more than 45min-1 hour away. Therefore their white-collar labor pool tends to be very liberal. People who start off not-liberal and move to within one of these bubbles tend to conform over time. Then, over time, through either purging/screening and converting people, the HQ culture becomes 100% pozzed. Then policy and HR supervision rolls out from HQ and germinates the tributary locations.
"But do they call me ‘McGonagall The Bridge Builder’? No! They do na!”
Yeah, except they won't, because the difference is in letting the 'n' sound hang for a fraction of a second longer. I really doubt they're going to give you the Invasion of the Body Snatchers howl-face and scream "I THINK YOU MEANT JYOSHI, FILTHY GAIJIN" at you.
We're talking about a name here, spoken. Also, jesus christ absolutely murdering a wonderful joke.
"YOU THINK YOU'RE BUYING AN *ONA-HOLE THERE, WHITE BOY? I THINK YOU MEAN *ONNAHOLE LOL."
Okay. I'm not sure any time in the history of anything has saying that someone sounds like a "fanboy" been anything other than frank dismissal...but right, willing to look past it.
If this went as I described, I'd respect it too. It reminds me of talking about the television show Lost in its first season. They had this character Sawyer, who was clearly set up to be the "bad guy," the antagonist, to all the primary characters. I said to a forum that he was the only one I found tolerable, and was met with "What? But he's such a jerk. He's so mean!"
I responded with "Yeah, but look at who he's mean to. They're all huge assholes. It's okay to be a jerk to assholes."
Harmon has been a garbage man for years, and he's been on the press circuit explicitly talking about his garbage vision for the studio. Reading between the lines on all these recent hit-pieces on Roiland, it sounds very much like Harmon stuffed the company full of his partisans. I find it funny all these "whistleblowers" basically describe Roiland's seemingly bad behavior as out of the blue, while simultaneously narrate him getting pushed out of his own creation.
Then, of course, comes all the microscopic scrutiny of every text of his they could get ahold of, going back years. It's basically an Alec Holowka situation all over again, and I bet they'd love the same outcome.
Okay. I don't know how exactly describing someone as basically an engine of perpetual rage against his co-workers is "desperate rationalizing fanboy defense," but Okay.
This was 95% about predicting conditions within the studio--almost nothing about Roiland. But okay yeah totally rational way of viewing the post sure.
The "Sirona" bit is magical, considering "ona" is Japanese for "female" or "girl."
"Sir," synonymous with "Mister," "ona" for girl.
So: "Mr. Girl."
Mr. Girl with the linebacker voice. Magical.
This DAN guy--I like the cut of his gib.
Remarkable. This article, read properly, makes me respect Roiland more, and at the same time feel incredibly sorry for him.
In the most urgent haste to make him sound monstrous, instead, if you examine the actual described behavior (while ignoring malicious interpretation of intent or intrinsic character) he was a simmering kettle of barely-contained contempt. Then, mysteriously, and correlating perfectly in time with the degradation and decline in quality of the show, he was a boiling cauldron of open contempt (when he couldn't avoid them).
Everyone knows the saying "If when going through your day, everyone you encounter is an asshole, then the asshole is you." This blows that apart:
What if literally everyone involved in this entire industry is an asshole? How much a mind-fuck is that, and yet I have no trouble at all predicting the truth of it. I would bet a thousand dollars that each and every one in that studio--okay, maybe some at first, then more, then half, then a majority, but eventually all--of those dogfuckers are complete and utter degenerated trash humans.
I hope he takes enormous bags of money out of it, disappears entirely off their radar, and retires to a nice conservative, Baptist town in Florida. I hope he goes to church and meets a nice girl. All the ghouls can slowly strangle their happiness and their sanity clawing and climbing over each other for the scraps left behind.
My experience agrees. I was a cool northeastern liberal who several "men" came out to, and literally all of them had a "formative experience" in their 8-12 years with an older man that "helped them discover who they are."
Met more of same, as I got older. Literally all of them. Literally every single "gay" man had been fiddled with by an older man.
This is not an idea that is spontaneously generated by humans. It is an incredibly rare aberration, than then can be taught: Is my analysis.
In vulgar terms, and without the trappings of modern manners: It's an abomination that propagates itself through pedophilic fucking.
I am not okay with Gay. Gay is not okay.
Sure, I worked a couple years at Circuit City, which was cool and fun, until they changed the incentive structure so you couldn't make money except by hocking their utterly terrible extended warranty plan.
Worked for Egghead Software too, while it was in deep shit. I worked a Christmas there, and we could barely get inventory. My days were spent manning a store with bare shelves during the busiest part of the year, assuring people we'd get what they wanted "next week," and tomorrow and tomorrow, but never today.
I also worked for a latex mattress factory that literally exploded then burnt down to rubble a few months after I left for college. Made national news because it was some kind of environmental catastrophe. It was a naturally dangerous sort of factory, since a latex fire is very hard to put out. The plant had had a huge fire while I was there--coincidentally on a day my girlfriend came to visit me--and while middle-managers ran around trying to play hero, I decided the best course of action was to take my gf to a 3-hour lunch. That formative incident helped prepare me to recognize what all the covid fuckery was about.