Tyler O'Neil at PJ Media (one of the 80% wrong idiots) sez:
Even so, the actress should not have shared the post. While cancel culture can get ugly, there is a crucial distinction between targeting someone for his or her Jewish ancestry and targeting someone for his or her political views. Holocaust comparisons like this truly are offensive and deserve opprobrium.
He gets shredded in the comments.
You heard it here first, kids! Killing someone for their beliefs is A-OK!
Maybe your upbringing was different, but mine (in public schools) was "college college college college college college" until I finally dropped out of high school in the first days of 12th grade.
My grades had been cratering from 2nd grade on.
My parents were very surprised.
Aside from one conversation about what I was going to do outside of school, that was the end of my parental education talk. That convo consisted of me saying, well, I can do car mechanics, so maybe I will take some classes, and my dad (who worked at a truck transmission manufacturer) said, "but those guys are all gearheads," which I took as advice, and didn't go into it.
My parents were and are the biggest normies in the world, who believed everything they were told. They had a (round) kid, and a square hole marked "Education," and they kept hammering me into it until the mold broke. By the time the hammering ended, I was completely allergic to any kind of formal education.
They were useless.
The thing is, the schools knew I was failing, but a government school has one fatal flaw. If I finished earlier than the other kids, they told me to sit down and shut up and do nothing. Well, guess what lesson I learned?
But doing nothing is an acceptable outcome for a government school, so long as you stay in the building. That is a purely materialist viewpoint, and it is very common to government. ("Did you fix poverty?" "Well, I spent the trillion dollars you have me, so I must have." Hey, it's something you can count, isn't it?)
My parents had few options for private schools. A more thriving private education sector might have given them more options earlier. They sure had no clue, and I don't think they could have home schooled me for a minute.
America has the most expensive education in the world, for terrible results.
Just outlawing government-owned schools (outside of West Point and Annapolis) and returning all those property taxes and state lottery money and we could easily afford private education.
(State lotteries were dubbed "a tax on people who suck at math." An interesting idea, but making them pay for school would probably me more helpful.)
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Fuck the NFL. I never watched sports, so I can't stop, but other people can.
I just read about Pullman's atheistic/Gnostic His Dark Materials movie. It did so badly in the U.S. that it got no sequel. Sadly, they made a TV series, but the BBC is bleeding out, so that may end.
Says that the book made him depressed so he stopped reading it and made his own movie with the same title.
No, apparently the Heinlein estate had control over the script, so Verhoeven was unable to damage the script. He therefore filmed the script in a parodistic, over-the-top mode to try and discredit the ideas therein.
I believe the Daily Show was the outfit that made explicitly criticized it as fascist, calling Neil Patrick Harris' character "Doogie Himmler."
No. They Live was directed by John Carpenter, Starship Troopers was directed by Paul Verhoeven.
But both are rabid Lefties who will go to their graves denying that their candidates can't want to introduce gulags and reeducation camps to "Amerikkka."
However, if everyone isolates regardless of symptoms, the deadliness of the virus has little to no impact on its ability to spread, so only its infectivity will be affected. We are guiding the virus to remain deadly and become highly infective.
Ugh. You're right.
I've watched the first 5-6 episodes, and it appears to be, on the one hand, the lower officers who are "truly for the people," while the senior pols/officers are all incompetent/corrupt hacks, and on the other, two commanders saying, ah, yes, the enemy is doing X, which I realized they would do while sunning myself on the beach as a 12-year-old."
Does that crap get better?
As for military anime, nothing in my mind is superior to Yōjo Senki, AKA The Saga of Tanya the Evil. I recommend the novels (very well written) or the anime. The first episode is bait; it is exciting, but offers none of the depth that the later episodes so. I would recommend you watch the first three eps before deciding whether to watch the whole thing.
Worst (but certainly funniest) way to describe Tanya: "loli Hitler." (Understandable, though, Tanya definitely scores as a high-functioning Dark Triad type.
Best Way: "Yōjo Senki is a magical girl anime where the girl is an anti-war Patton mixed with an atheist Man For All Seasons; an Invincible Hero on the battlefield but a Failure Hero in the rear echelon."
Given this retweet:
https://twitter.com/KetaMeanGirl/status/1356311615520468994
I would suspect a right-wing troll in academia (rare), or a leftie with a sense of humor (rarer than hen's teeth).
It is interesting that the poster seemed intent on taking down Han supremacists who insist that China made all her culture herself, which could be an anti-racist who is actually able to see racism outside of white people. (Unobtanium rare.)
You are. Instead of a black person saying "we wuz kangs," I put those words into the mouth of a white (i.e., Indo-European) person purely for the humor of it. I'm not sure how you would find this confusing, unless you read my post with an unbreakable expectation that any post here could only be mocking blacks (or Hoteps).
A long tweet storm about Indo-European charioteers and Early, Early China:
tl;dr - There's either two theories to subscribe to regarding Chinese civilization. Either:
a) it was the only Bronze Age civilization to develop COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY from the rest of the world, with all similarities being through coincidence or convoluted transmission.
b) like literally every other major civilization around it, it was founded by a similar stock of Indo-European steppe people that invaded India to its South and Central Asia to its West.
Occam's Razor.
Cry more.
I am not as down on women as TheImpossible1. (That would be difficult indeed, sometimes I think he's gone full Twink Supremacist.) But nevertheless: they are different.
How should we replace the 19th Amendment? Dunno, offhand. But I think we should.
And jack the voting age up to 21 across all states and local elections, too.