I'd say its more weaponized ignorance. He knows what happened and why. He's a current racist that doesn't want past racists cast in a bad light. His ilk define critical race theory as being critical of racism and they don't care for it.
I'd say its more weaponized ignorance. He knows what happened and why. He's a current racist that doesn't want past racists cast in a bad light. His ilk define critical race theory as being critical of racism and they don't care for it.
When I grew up we bullied gay children until they killed themselves. I'll take cancel culture going too far over that any day.
It started out a term teenagers on twitter used for when one of them discovered racism exists and corporations want to make money. Then conservative adults discovered it and started saying it instead of "the gay agenda."
Hearing actual senators use it is so embarrassing. I'm waiting for when they form the no cap caucus.
The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can't really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.
Light? That you?
Tankie is a term British communists used against other British communists who didn't oppose the USSR invading Hungary in 1956. These days its pretty much any Marxist-Leninist.
Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.
And how do you expect us to do that, revolt? Because it turns out elected officials are reluctant to make significant changes to the system that elected them from which they profit handsomely.
Just because something is a social construct doesn't mean it isn't real or important.
How the hell was Johnson a communist?!
You got down voted but you're right. Tankie is the new form of commie after that fell out of favor. Western "champaign socialists" (another term I hate but it kinda applies here) use it to criticize people from countries that actually have had socialist experiments. Most of the leftists globally are not western and would fit under the standard western definition of tankie. But if you've never come close to overthrowing your own government, are you positioned all that well to criticize someone elses revolution while you sit comfortably in the imperial core?
Poor countries face challenges that rich countries can't imagine often from western interference and revolutions are an ugly business. No Castro was not Santa Claus but he was a marked improvement over Batista.
In the twisted heart of people like this is that they genuinely believe in their inherent superiority. White people persecuting black people is just the natural order of things. Accusing them of atrocity for that is racist, like making fun of a black person for their hair. He just can't come out and say that.
I seriously doubt he feels guilty.
Billionaires aren't really citizens of any country. They're kind of small nations unto themselves.
Dictatorship at the time didn't mean necessarily authoritarian, it just meant government. Someone always dictates however they may be elected. He felt the people dictating should be the working class.
Yep, and once you platform enough nutcases no one else wants to be associated with or listen to you.
I can't help but wonder who he was sending videos of himself smoking crack to? Why would a grown man even take a video of themself doing something illegal? I don't care, he's not any part of the Biden administration, its just bafflingly stupid.
Two jewish men are sitting on a bench in Israel reading newspapers. One of the men, reading a newspaper in Hebrew, notices the other man is reading a newspaper in Arabic.
"My friend," he exclaims. "How can you read that trash! Don't you know its all lies?"
The other man puts down his paper and replies, "I used to read your newspaper and I'd get depressed. Its all bad news. Now I read this paper and it makes me happy. We run all the banks, we run Hollywood, soon we will take over the world!"
Old joke
Elden Ring?
I think with media people tend to watch critics review entries that they can't keep up with and they adopt some of their habits. The thing is someone who plays every game is going to notice any aspect that's been done better before and point it out as part of their review. But the more positive reviewers will state that they did enjoy the game and that part seems to get lost sometimes.
I could spend an hour telling you things I didn't like about Tears of the Kingdom. Its still probably the best game I played this year.
The weird thing about analog horror is that its now being done by people who never experienced the art that they are imitating. Sometimes their interpretations are lacking.
AAA also tend to spend a lot on celebrity images and voice acting. Which is weird to me. I don't think anyone bought Cyberpunk just for Keanu Reeves.
A number also took private flights. Unless you happen to live where its taking place you have to possess the means to afford travel, a place to stay, and potentially legal fees to attend a protest. You also, as you said, need to be able to afford the time off work. This restricts most protests to college students and PMCs with a few locals thrown in.
I dunno. I've never been very conservative but I'm a white man who spent much of my life doing blue collar work in small town Missouri and people make assumptions about such a person. Did people tell me they thought minorities were inferior? No, not often, but they were assumed to be lazy, or dishonest, or criminal (often by lazy dishonest criminals).
The thought that they had been better off as slaves than they had been in Africa, or that George Floyd got what he deserved was pretty common. And many of the people I worked with were black, some of the people who held these views would have called them friends; but they never would have acknowledged them as equals, not if they weren't around. It was just a sort of tribalism that no one really explored or talked about it.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm sure your lived experience is different from mine. But people like that may not be as rare as you think.
The sex scene in Zach and Mirri Make a Porno between the two main characters highlights that they actually love each other.
They said the Soviet Union was the biggest threat to the western world. Now they're supporting the ghouls who devoured its corpse.
Rob : You're a total paranoid.
Alvy Singer : Well, how am I a para-? I pick up on those kind of things. You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, uh, "Did you eat yet or what?" and Tom Christie said, "No, didjew?" Not, "did you", "didjew eat?" Jew? No, not "did you eat", but "Jew eat"? Jew. You get it? Jew eat?
They played around with making an AI generated episode of black mirror but it wasn't good enough to be compelling.
Well, nazbols exist but I can't say that there's enough of them to really qualify. Maybe in eastern Europe? I've heard its a more common ideology there. I wouldn't really call them leftists though
I watch a lot of warhammer 40000 videos. From lore to battle reports. I've never once played a game.
We're not making anything. All the profit goes to American arms manufacturers.
Fuck, the wanted to hang Mike Pence.