racism/white supremacy of archeology?
I actually wouldn't be surprised at this. The idea that it's racist/imperialist/whatever to have artifacts from third world countries, even if they absolutely would have been lost or destroyed if a real civilization hadn't saved them in a museum, is actually fairly mainstream even amongst actual museum curators. I look forward to Indy breaking into museums to steal artifacts and bring them back to wherever they came from, where they can immediately be destroyed or sold. "It belongs in a museum" is seriously a line that would be considered 'problematic' today.
In some ways, the French are Canada's blacks. A minority that identifies more strongly with itself than with the country as a whole, and which has permanent perceived grievances against the rest of the population based on things which are historical at best, imaginary at worst. They demand and receive very significant preferential treatment at the expense of everyone else, some of which ultimately works against their own success. They even have their own fairly successful political party, though in the US of course that's the democratic party. They even had a left-wing terrorist arm.
I can only imagine how much more intolerable they'd be and how much more they'd get if their skin was dark, too.
The fine for knowingly having unprotected sex with someone, while you have AIDS, without telling them so, is the same as the fine for not wearing a mask in public in New York, and probably at least California too, at $1000. They seriously think AIDS and the wuhan virus are equally dangerous.
Biden explicitly stated during the primaries that he was going to pick a woman VP. After the decision to make this election about race and the BLM riots, it was pretty clear he was going to pick someone black, too. There aren't a lot of black women to choose from.
Whoever wrote that is wrong. Loli is short for Lolita, but Lolita definitely comes from the extremely famous 1955 Nabokov book.
The term "Lolita" is used to define a young girl as "precociously seductive." It is derived from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which depicts the narrator's sexual obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl named Dolores, for whom his nickname is Lolita.
And the middle ground is double bladed safety razors. You treat them pretty much like disposable razors when shaving, but they're a lot cheaper and I find give much better results. The blades shape is standardized, so you can buy them from any of a hundred different manufacturers.
Women don't even register for the draft in the US. And if they did, any woman who didn't want to serve would just get pregnant, and I guarantee no society on earth has the balls to make women get an abortion and serve anyway or put them in prison for dodging the draft like they would a man. There's just no way humans will ever treat women as disposably as they treat men without undoing programming built in and reinforced over the past billion years of sexual reproduction.
Well, it's an ad, so what it actually points to is an advertisement agency deliberately going out of their way to cast interracial couples for reasons that have nothing to do with the personalities of the actual people involved.
But as to your point, probably a different chart, but yeah, I saw some statistics from a dating site that tracked every race's interest in dating every other race, and every race had a significant in-group preference, and a significant preference against black women. Except blacks, where they cancelled out. Basically, the races don't agree on who's most desirable, but they do agree that black women are the least desirable.
Just keep in mind that the microswitches powering the click actions in either the buttons or the wheel can be replaced. They're standard parts you can buy off aliexpress or ebay, they cost less than a dollar a piece, and it's not a big deal to replace them if you've ever used a soldering iron before, and even if you haven't, it's definitely still doable if you watch some videos first. On a cordless or cord-replaceable mouse, if you can replace the microswitches every few years when they wear out, and there's no disintegrating plastic on the wheel or elsewhere, one nice mouse you like should last indefinitely.
Not music, but I'll tell you an unintentional counterculture game: the most recent Deus Ex.
They tried SO HARD to make it into one big allegory about racism, how the augmented humans are oppressed and abused and everyone hates them and it's just not fair and everyone's equal, only the reason why they're hated is that, at the end of the previous game, they all got infected by a virus and went on a murderous insane rampage and almost destroyed civilization. So the hate and fear is entirely justified. So the unintentional message of the game in reality is "Even if a group of people almost ends civilization and may do it again at any time, if you dare to notice some groups are more violent than others, even if it is literally every single one of them, you will still be painted as a monster"
Two of the members were removed over texts and social media posts that made threatening comments toward political officials, Pentagon officials said. They declined to specify the exact nature of the threats.
If they don't quote it, it was harmless or at worse analagous to things democratic congressmen say about republicans every day.
I haven't played 3 nor do I bother to follow the gaming press so I don't know what they're saying about it, but I like 1 and 2. The missions are big and complicated and have a lot of moving parts set in interesting locations or events, and that and the game design is highly conducive to replay, by not just including a lot of ways to do the main objectives, but allowing player-created replacement objectives and a rotating developer-designed "event" objective you only get one attempt at per cycle. You have a lot of options to move around in that space, plan what you want to do, and execute it, and that freedom inside a complicated environment is what hitman games excel at.
My biggest criticism would be the super-elaborate set ways to do the main objectives. Stuff like there's a guy who's attending a test of a new automated turret gun, so you can find a picture of the guy and use it to train the gun to shoot him instead of the dummy. They're kind of funny to watch I guess, but they're often really contrived setups and you definitely have to do exactly what the designers intended to make them happen. They feel less like you're using your own creativity to solve a problem and more like you're just walking down the path the designers made for you. This is made worse by the hint system they have built in to point them out, which really leads you by the hand to do these specific kills, but on the other hand if you turn that system off, they'll often rely on specific objects in kind of random spots that you'd be pretty unlikely to find by accident, like a bunch of circuit boards in a box in a tree that was dropped there by a crashed delivery plane- sure enough you hear the guys talking about the plane, but good luck finding the box in a random tree in the forest without turning guidance back on.
But that applies specifically to the elaborate story-based ways to kill the main guys, there are lots of ways to do it through your own inventiveness too, and that's the gameplay I play hitman games for.
So, yeah, I like 1 and 2, and certainly don't regret buying them. 2 is a minor improvement on 1 but they're definitely the same core game. But just try the demo of 2. The free mission is the smallest, most boring map and acts as a tutorial for the real game, but all the mechanics are in place, you can buy a single additional mission for $15 if you're still on the fence. There's no reason to play 1 or 2 first for plot reasons, since the plot in the hitman games is not what any sane person is playing it for and it barely exists in the first place. But on the other hand they're good games in their own right and, assuming 3 is a minor improvement over 2 like 2 was to 1, and 1 and 2 are obviously cheaper, there's no huge reason not to play them either. Considering you can even play the hitman 1 missions in the second engine if you own the right pack, that's the way I'd go.
yelling fire in a crowded theater
This phrase was made famous by a supreme court decision about free speech. It was an analogy then, too. The ACTUAL speech that was being restricted was pamphlets protesting the draft in WW1, not yelling in a theatre, and that decision was rightly overturned a long time ago. People always quote it when talking about freedom of speech, but the fact that it's most famous use was to justify outlawing speech that should have been legal really makes it's use fall flat.
Alas, the Chinese are very good at espionage. I suppose it's the whole "subdue your enemy without fighting" taken to its logical conclusion.
Not helped by the fact that a lot of the western world absolutely refuses to acknowledge that this happens, and calls anyone who does a racist. China is brazenly acting in China's best interests, but in the western world, it's considered borderline far-right nazi-ism to put the interests of your own nation first, and the result is a cold war where only one side is even showing up.
For "Strongest Anti-SJW Stance" I nominate ARMA 3. An expansion for it came out this year so that kind of qualifies, and I like it a lot as a game, for reasons I could go on about for a bit if anyone cares, but for "Anti-SJW", it's got no female models in it. It is as far towards the sim side as FPS games get so it takes realism seriously, and it's audience is almost exclusively male, and the people who actually do the things depicted are pretty much exclusively male, so they never put women in it, despite the SJW brownie points they'd presumably have won, and the 0 sales it would have gotten them. The artists and animators spent their time doing stuff that mattered to the people who actually play the game instead.
The only alternative I can think of is Kingdom Come for the developer telling SJWs that no, he will not include blacks in a game about medieval Europe. It's also a few years old at this point, and I never tried the "A Woman's Lot" DLC, so it's possible they caved.
I was really talking in terms of german federal law, if Steam is liable under whatever law, then I guess they've got to do what they've got to do, it's just a pointless law to begin with, because porn will always be accessible.
so that children may not access pornography.
If these morons think there's a single child in Germany who can't find porn on the internet if they want to, they should be put on respirators because they're too retarded to be trusted to keep breathing on their own.
Which part? Because the professors writing the two letters in the paper, the girl murdering her boyfriend after, and everyone treating the men like scum as they were guilty until proven innocent was definitely Duke (though the last part is obviously standard). The broken glass and room that didn't exist part, I guess?
That was a different one, in California. Duke Lacrosse was a crazy girl accusing a lacrosse team of raping her, immediately after which a ton of the faculty wrote a full page advertisement in the local paper saying the story was true and Duke was full of misogyny and racism. The departmental makeup of the signing professors breaks down pretty much exactly as you'd expect, and if you didn't know the girl was black, you could figure it out by the number of signing African American Studies professors. The story received significant national coverage. Pretty much everyone involved acted like it was definitely true and proceeded to do their best to destroy the lives of the accused and anyone vaguely near them. This was all before any sort of investigation, because evidence is just the tool of the patriarchy. Then it ends up the location she claimed it happened in didn't exist, the guys couldn't have possibly been there, and there wasn't enough time for it to have happened. She went on to stab her boyfriend to death (Who must have been the stupidest man alive) a few years later. The professors who signed the first newspaper letter calling a bunch of innocent men rapists then went on to write and publish a second letter saying they weren't sorry and Duke was still full of racism and sexism.
Anime traps did more to normalize ladyboys in 10 years than their activism accomplished in 50.
I genuinely had no opinion on trans anything ten, maybe at little as five years ago. Live and let live, I figured. Today, I know they're all quite mentally unwell and have high co-morbidity with other mental illnesses, they're mostly or all sexual perverts, and they're mostly power-hungry wanna-be-tyrants who want to jail anyone who doesn't agree to play be the rules of their fetish fantasy. Oh, and they want to make it as easy as possible for vulnerable kids who would outgrow it when they hit puberty to get as fucked up as they are, and make it illegal for their own parents to stop them. And this change of opinion was almost entirely due my exposure to trans activism. So almost anything has done a better job with trans relations than actual trans activists.
There will never, ever be a day when 50% of the casualties in combat are women, or even close. The last Iraq was was around 3%. We're struggling to even pretend to be slightly fair here and require women to sign up for the draft, I guarantee society doesn't have the guts to force those women who are drafted to actually serve in roles as dangerous as men at the same rates as men, and I absolutely 100% guarantee society will never have the nerve to make pregnant women serve. Which means... any woman who doesn't want to serve can just get pregnant And then even get an abortion after a month or two, repeat as necessary. And that's assuming they can't get out of it by just failing a few physical tests that a man wouldn't get away with failing.
Any woman who doesn't want to serve will always have a way out, and the percentage of society who is even willing to admit that isn't 100% fair will always be miniscule.