Yep. Kickstarter has a long history of being pozzed. Fuck 'em.

I agree! The ADL is a hate symbol!

Good.

Is it really "popular" if it's required? The sheer, fucking, hubris.

For example, most atheists treated escaping "religion" as they would a cult, and built their entire personality on being "better" than it. Yet when wokeness came around, they fell completely and easily to a brand new cult that even the simplest of thinking could have helped them avoid.

I don't know about "most" here. The Atheism+ movement originally got a lot of pushback... just not enough, as it turned out.

Y-combinator and their ilk should focus on what they actually know: tech. I wouldn't trust them with literally any other topic.

I don't want to catastrophize, but I fully expect a Cambodia-like death-spiral in our lifetime. The elite, media, governments, and law are all whipping up a frenzy of vengeance built on entitlement. They have no idea about the monster they're creating in order to garner clicks, or sway voters, or whatever other short-sighted end-goal they're pursuing at any one moment.

With social media acting as an amplifier for confirmation bias bubbles, it's only a matter of time before things spill over. At this point, they're either pretending they don't see it, or are doing it on purpose. Either way, they won't be spared by the rabid maniacs that they've spawned.

That's about the only consolation I have in all this.

That's not really a rebuttal, though. Decent women that strive to be a partner rather than a parasite exist. I mean... good luck finding them, but they're out there!

Oh man. Gender quotas. I didn't even consider that. If they push DIE into the sports themselves, then every team will need to be comprised of half and half or be ineligible. It's only fair, after all!

Exactly. The best way to prove someone wrong is to give them exactly what they asked for. I'm all for this! And after women are basically shut out of all sports because they just get absolutely dominated, they'll say that women need a separate space because of patriarchy preventing them from winning.

Rinse. Repeat.

But at least afterwards, we can point to the time they let everyone compete together and say "You already tried this once, and look how it turned out."

Three months! JFC

That's definitely the correct analysis in the current environment. Hell, with online classes and the like, our whole educational paradigm is ripe for a complete reorganization all the way from Kindergarten on up. Homeschooling "pods" seems to be what things are converging on currently, so you get the benefit of social interaction and results over scores, but don't have the potentially toxic instructor-led mechanism that has corrupted our existing institutions.

But if anyone comes to me today, I'd not only tell them to steer clear of college, I'd tell them to run as quickly as possible in the opposite direction. It didn't used to (or have to) be that way, but we've reached a degree of Dogma Capture that the entire field of higher education is a lost cause.

Go into the trades. Auto mechanics, electricians, welders, plumbers, etc., are largely immune to this because all of those things require actual work to accomplish, so the Woke tend to avoid like the plague. You can make pretty good money, too. Or teach yourself coding and just start applying; having been on hiring teams, we want results and problem solving skills more than credentials.

Beyond that, I really feel for the current generation. Y'all are getting screwed hard and with no lube.

I feel like I dodged a huge bullet by graduating from college in the late 90s. A couple of my professors were woke-ish, and it annoyed me to no end, but it wasn't nearly as pervasive. It's so much worse now, holy shit. Were I in the current generation, I wouldn't go to a college or university these days if you paid me.

Well, assuming I would have been able to see through all of the social programming the current generation experiences by the time they reach 18. Given how I was back then, my bets would be on "Nope, downtrodden, give up." Hell, I barely made it out as it was.

Of course terrorism works. Why do you think we have Rittenhouse being tried rather than being lauded as a hero for protecting his community? Mob Justice, in whatever form it takes, rules. Mob Justice is just another form of terrorism, by threatening harm unless you do as they demand.

But the real issue is that The Left capitulates because they falsely believe Islam, BLM, LGBTQIA2QLMNOP+ have legitimate grievances against society at large. As the Mommy, it's their duty to make things fair again. What we're seeing is the result of feminine conflict avoidance and nurturing behavior baked into society through all of the equality measures over the past several decades. They've completely lost the balance and now must right every wrong, real or perceived.

That's why CRT is a thing. It's why equity is now a thing rather than equality. Nurturing has its place, but once you're an adult, you must be independent to be free. This is diametrically opposed to the Nanny State, because there can't be any "fairness" with independent actors and emergent results. We're basically Mommying ourselves to death.

Now compare that to what China is doing right now.

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

It's like they chose STD as the abbreviation on purpose.

“Star Trek Embarrasses And Degrades Itself With Every Scene"

FTFY

It's not $600 transactions. It's all transactions on any account with over $600 in it. That's a world of difference.

I won't lie, I chuckled a bit at the name "tater thot".

This is the answer. All of them. All of them are gay. Some future version of every single character from any medium ever conceived that reaches any kind of popularity will be recast as gay.

Something tells me "she" is going to catch a shiv unless in protected custody for the entire stay.

Real human beings exhibit some kind of misery upon the loss of a loved one, and you'd expect some kind of tearful reunion upon seeing them again. But Anger? Constantly? For years? Who are these people?

This is why news agencies have staff. He needs to hire "a guy" to infiltrate them or otherwise get up-close footage during riots if he wants to do that kind of reporting now.

Gotta love an ideology where the response to disagreement, even from a member of the oppressed group, is "no u". Begging the question is a logical fallacy for a reason.