It's kind of amazing could be that poorly written when they, by their own admission, 'threw the japanese script out.'

I really enjoyed SoA, but I remember the script/dialogue was terrible. I chalked it up to a bad localization, but this is not what I meant

Women's suffrage was a mistake.

Hypocrisy is one of the central planks of the DNC platform.

MTG is imperfect. I don't think she is controlled op, she was just the first to ride Trump's coattails and say outrageous shit to get publicity.

She still engages in insider trading.

She still doesn't accomplish much beyond pissing off dems.

For every media flytrap like MTG and Boebert there should be five hard-working MAGA-ites quietly fighting the good fight.

Almost no one can troll the media AND get shit done. Trump is special in this regard.

TERFs are enemies, yes, but at least they have a consistent framework. Hateful but predictable.

These goddamn progressives without any sense of honor, integrity, or shame are cancer, though. Hypocrisy is a virtue to them.

Interesting note about Dawkins: he is generally regarded as the progenitor of the modern atheist movement/revival but has come to conclude that for most people religious belief is a bulwark against something more sinister.

I feel the last few years have really proved him right

I really wonder if he didn't tweet this very carefully curated message on the advice of counsel, so that he can more easily deflect in the future.

"Oh, i contributed, but i was really just a fly on the wall in hindsight. I couldnt have known the ramifications. I wish I could take it all back..."

Bright side: these are the same internet warriors that post shit for attention all the time.

I daresay this midwit doesn't have the balls (metaphorical or otherwise) to do anything like this.

Yep! I think I saw that before I clicked on the Jon Stewart thing, too.

So when that episode started and they had this lady formerly of ABC on, my interest was piqued. But she never really admitted guilt (saying you were 'part of a system' is a cop out) and showed the same blindness that liberals seem to have on self-inflection.

Yep - nailed it. Torba is still looking at symptoms and not looking at causes.

To be fair, you can seem pretty smart pointing out symptoms if you have a good but incomplete heuristic.

Society over the past 100 years or so has been obsessed with playing God. First it was Eugenics which died after WW2, but the mental side of it never stopped. Think about MK Ultra.

The goal has always been controlling people. On a micro scale this works but it breaks down on a macro scale. At that scale, people will often just take the path of least resistance. Sitting down, watching sports and pigging out and consuming latest thing IS the path of least resistance right now.

But Torba is correct that is a path right to hell.

My favorite one recently (and the only one I watched, and even then I scrubbed through) was the one about media manipulation (fake news). It tried so desperately to gloss over the fact his co-host/producer left ABC after being a corrupt piece of shit producer for over a decade.

It was surreal. Yes, you get it. Media lies to make a narrative. They will ignore things that don't fit the narrative. Your producer RIGHT THERE is admitting her guilt!

Oh, no, wait, you are trying to hold her up as some moral authority? Her career was the reason you wanted her for this job? Oh, Christ.

Glad to see they apparently dropped the act after this.

I think Project Veritas hired a former CNN producer or something similar... but at least they addressed that and tried to extend that olive branch to their audience by letting the guy explain.

Jon Stewart's show is poorly veiled propaganda in comparison. A ramshackle confessional for some of the jaded/guilty career propagandists. Of course Liberals still won't "get it."

One silver lining: it will be very clear when the GOP has been purged of RINOs and grifters:

Mitt Romney will officially switch to democrat

Best case scenario: gigantic red tsunami (they are kind of going to have to let this happen. You can still steal some important races, but you can't steal 300 of them) and a LOT of freshman republicans prove themselves to be feckless RINOs whose job is to obstruct obstruct obstruct... and nothing happens. No investigations, no new laws, just the old circus.

Enter 2024: Patriot/MAGA party time.

I know, I know. Impossible.

I imagine most products of the american education system never had the talk about casualties vs fatalities in their history classes.

Too busy watching feral children slap each other in front of a disinterested teacher barely hiding their alcoholism.

ever in history

Disagree -- because the most corrupt pieces of shit got buried under the latrines before they were historically significant.

What we're dealing with here is unprecedented.

Its almost like there is an underclass in society, primarily made up of one race, that routinely commits violent crimes against others.

Thank goodness places like NYC got rid of bail and have equity-minded sycophants in the DA's office. I wouldn't want the good law-abiding citizens of these blue enclaves to live too comfortably.

Can confirm: have been notably more coherent after a fifth of vodka.

I call a lid the next day too though.

True.

I really enjoy traveling, and Russia has always been fascinating to me. I'd love to go to places like the Sakha Republic in Siberia -- and those people ethnically look closer to Mongolians than Russians.

It's so suspicious how different they both are -- its origin raises some eyebrows as well.

You forgot the quotation marks I used.

It's the same phenomenon in which females in sports journalism appear much hotter than they actually are ("Pressbox hot"). Among world leaders, Ardern is young and female.

She's repulsive to me, just like AOC is... but you can't deny the fact that she's a much more attractive face than... Merkel ever was, or Thatcher ever was.

The shills can't handle the idea that the WEF uses "attractive" feminist women to push their agenda because

1. Feminists can't think beyond or before the present.

2. They're useful idiots and astoundingly easy to corrupt. You just plant the seed in their head and they hamster wheel justifications.

I think that's your point, anyway.

Right, but this is one of the biggest incongruencies of the whole thing going on.

Virtually everything that progressives across the world push is contrary to human nature.

You can't understand evo psych or even basic social psych and think "aha communism/socialism will work." You just can't because you know human nature is the X factor that makes those systems fail eventually.

I guess the useful idiots are useful for a reason. I don't think Ardern up here has any idea that she's helping walk humanity off of a cliff.

"Look, we gave you Rose. She even kissed the black guy. And think of all the character development we had with her -- her sister died! And... uh... she doesn't like war!"

I remain convinced that someone at the head of these globalist regimes is versed in evolutionary psychology at a doctorate level.

It's amazing how they always put a woman between the public and something really unpopular.

What's the ideological driver of taking over and destroying entertainment franchises?

More and more I think this is related, primarily, to the breakdown of the family structure/community/moral framework in the the West.

Everything is a subversion. Everything is deconstructed. Nothing has meaning or framework because we've thrown the baby out with the metaphorical bathwater. I don't think it's a conspiracy - that is, I don't think anyone ever sat down and decided to do it.

This status quo is just the path of least resistance given the sociopolitical climate. This is what 'the people' want to see, even if it's trash.

Remember that game Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy? I know it's become nothing more than a speedrun at this point, but -- if you take the time you actually listen to what the narrator says during the game, it kind of accurately answers your question.