2D3D
6d ago
Its all about respectability politics. Cosby had the misfortune of being Wayne Brady without cool factor, a white persons idea of a safe black man. Chris Rock had that edge, the look of a man who if he said the N word wouldn't immediately look askance for white girls gasping at the offence. Its not like Jesse Jackson didn't have the same comments about sighing in relief when it was a white man behind him when walking down the street late at night. Black baptist churches are very open and vocal about the scourge of fatherlessness and crime. Its only white antiracism book clubs that refuse to acknowledge problems in the black community.
2D3D
6d ago
Anyone who generates additional work through paperwork or requests for backup is gonna be sandbagged by his team. You cant have the stereotype of cops being both lazy donut eaters (true) and violent hairtrigger murderhobos (thats the ATF). I believe some forces still use quota systems but smart cops pull over grandma for a chat about cookies to log encounters not needing paperwork.
2D3D
6d ago
"When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong", or if you wanna be spicy its a Boondocks "ni**a moment".
Cooperating in civic engagement isnt monkey dominance games unless you make it one. If your entire culture treats every interaction as a dominance ladder stacking exercise - intra as well as interracially - then the bigger monkeys get called in to enforce the public standards. The lady tried requesting, then it escalated due to intransigence from one side.
The demand for Racism outstrips supply so every possible instance of black victimization is highlighted to portend an overwhelming trend. Youd think with so much camera footage around it would be easier to see all the evidence of antiblack racism published nonstop, but the paucity of such and the cornucopia of antinarrative evidence from Worldstar and Kick show that many of these offenders are being antisocial without any external prompting.
2D3D
9d ago
People are complaining about different H1Bs here. Some are critical skills that USA lacks, some are race-for-talent bullshit, but much of H1B is simple visa abuse like this https://h1bgrader.com/job-titles/pickleball-program-manager-70o5jd4vkz/lca/2024 It isn't a cheaper H1B coming in to replace an expensive US citizen, its a new title stuffed up to get someone in through visa abuse.
Perhaps we should consider that these cheaper replacements aren't replacements, but simple corruption by in-house hiring managers extracting funds from their host organization to bring in new hires for in-group coordination. https://kotchen.com/jury-finds-cognizant-engaged-in-pattern-or-practice-of-discrimination/.com The health of the company is utterly secondary to them, the advantage is to get that sweet in-group coordination in the company to begin with. If the parent organization or even parent country is diminished as a result of this, who the fuck cares, the gora deserve it anyways for colonialism.
2D3D
17d ago
I only know Kirk as the smallface meme of a smugfuck conservatard parodied as dunking on strawmanned liberals. In otherwords, a modal mottizen. Which is why the reaction of liberals to basically be gloating that Kirk is dead is one part personally impactful since I'm not that far removed from Kirks relatively anodyne willingness to entertain novel arguments and impatience with devoting too many brain cells to argue into infinity against categorically bad faith opinions. The end state of that difference in opinion should be 'fuck that guy', not 'cap that fool'. Frankly, most liberals don't really know Kirk either. He's a totem, a standin for Trump and all the men they hate. The bad taste jokes of Kirk dying doing what he loved aren't funny they're schaudenfraude (understandable) escalating into wishcasting for every other conservative to die (bad). Political violence when its social is corrosive to a country. Culture arms races for privileged access cripples any measure of prosocial cooperation. An actual arms race cripples cooperation while also destroying whatever makes the spoils have value in the first place.
2D3D
17d ago
Pornhub should submit IP logs of everyone who watches sissy hypno or BNWO porn. Might be a better precursor for mental illness than tweetscraping.
2D3D
17d ago
Discord is memed as the alt right nazi pipeline but it is also where commies and socialists engineer kaiserreich worlds where communism crushes the british empire and leads to the paris commune ushering in a gay utopia. Many of these people would quite likely lurk or reveal their schizo preferences by going to the nazi side of discord which also overlaps with the nazifur and oh god I have to stop talking about this. My point is that the language is not necessarily indicative of a specific affiliation, but simply a general brainrot that exists regardless of underlying ideology.
Attempts to paint him as trans or groyper or furry seem to miss the forest for the trees: he killed a right wing polemicist that was viewed by the left as an existential threat to civilization, but also an accessible one. Tucker Carlson isnt going on campus jaunts, Trump has a security detail, Shapiro looks like literally every normie around. NPR actually featured an article about Kirk, with clear urgency about the threat. By contrast Fox also talks about how Hasan Piker "America deserved 9/11" is a threat who hates the USA too, but no one shot Hasan.
Things do happen and chuddha has failed his all-ins on nothing multiple times, but false flag accelerationism is where he keeps getting his bets paid off.
2D3D
19d ago
If not them, then who. Thought leadership in the democratic party leadership now is a midget boxing match between Ezra Klein Abundance vs Mamdani DSA and Newsom picking the ball up from Clinton and Obama. In that gaping absence whatever counts as thoughmass in the democrat space is whichever reaches escape velocity without censure or successful clawback. Plausible deniability means the accusations stick as a cloud.
2D3D
19d ago
I agree that Klein didn't condone the killing, as I stated in my parent post. I meant to largely point out that Klein scthick is mainly trying to eke out a defensible progressivism and the new ground he staked as abundance ish deliverism is where hes finding out is shaky.
But jesus those tweets don't help. The replies there are basically "im actually celebrating have have to pretend i'm not".
2D3D
19d ago
I thought only chapotraphouse on the left got purged. Everything else that was axed were either unmoderated dead subreddits or narrative breakers like /r/gendercritical or hell this very subreddit /r/themotte.
2D3D
19d ago
I dunno about that. I think the mental frictional cost of using social media purely off the popular page is so high that you either get off the site entirely or create an account to curate out trash. Anyone who uses reddit but doesnt actually see a problem with /r/politics or /r/pics slop is someone to be wary of for either being uncritical of the opinions presented or too dim to be aware that he is being propagandized.
2D3D
19d ago
Does Klein even have relevance? I honestly dont know if any eceleb outside of titty streamers would gather enough people to care about even harming them. Hasan kicked out Klein for failing to slob Hamas knob, and Hasans relevance is only within that circle of DSA revolutionary cosplayers who hope for someone else to pull the trigger (like whoever did to kirk) so that the dirty work of clearing the way for the chosen vanguard is done without sullying their hyperallergic hands.
2D3D
19d ago
That weird softvoice "and so i think" type of offensively gentle call to action is quite characteristic of ezra klein, but klein wont even have the balls to explicate the implicit castigation of kirk that dowd exhibited. klein is, if anything, a catastrophist who sees the progressive order of his vox days breaking down internally and instead of progressivism drifting towards his chosen island of centrist stability he is finding that the new island he calls home is itself fracturing. there was a email leak at one point that showed klein did have balls to say mean words, so maybe in the background klien and proximates like shor are screaming "dont you all see how fucking bad this is for us"
2D3D
1mo ago
Which just invites the question of why the left isnt using the same weapon against the right. Make its own cartoon memes of how bad things really are for the poor migrants and refugees and oppressed BIPOC.
Why, it may just be that the language wielding elite prefer to wage war on their turf where they can use vague words to shape perceptions using the moral weight of such words asymetrically. Refugee, child migrant, trans children, urban youth, journalist, UN worker. All these terms elicit a mental approximate closer to the stock image photo of what a sympathetic portrayal for such looks like, usually a prepubescent child eyes full of wonder or a do gooder westerner in squalid conditions with a heart full of hope and a belly full of vigor.
Maybe the push from leftist media to scrub images and videos of what happens on the ground is entirely because the definitional warfare breaks under reality and repeated evidence of "17 year old" of certain demographics being statistically overrepresented starts making Noticing more common. Worse if the left tries to pretend something is the inverse, like when Rittenhouse was portrayed as killing Blacks to supercharge the narrative of white nationalism running unchecked.
The Left can't use the low hanging fruit of visual art to its cause, a fruit plucked only by Ben Garrison or Stonetoss in the past but now accessible to every angry person with an internet connection. The meta is shifting, and its not in the favour of the left.
2D3D
1mo ago
I swear you gotta find chinese cultivation literature written by women for women. The guys there are the angstiest most memory addled (literally necessary every female cultivation novels male protag gets hit by pans/trucks/magic/curses every 5 minutes) wangstfests ever. The men will have an all consuming inciting incident that traumatized them and they will have no plan of action (or a ridiculous 2 million step rube goldberg plan nothing in between) that cannot be resolved unless the female acts as the motivating force for them to move forward. After that its just endless emotional traumas and memory wipes to torture the protag and the male love interests repeatedly so the denouement of love declarations can be made over and over and over again.
2D3D
1mo ago
Heroes who suck at their jobs don't get traction from boys. Heroes who have emotional angst get traction from girls even if they suck at their jobs.
Famously, several properties were sustained by women deep into fanfic before it was even a thing. Gundam, Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek are examples where rabid female fanbases saw deep meaning where authors probably didn"t intend it and interest was sustained as a result. It wasn't a girlboss doing girlboss things that made girls interested, it was angsty shit. If girls wanted to see girlboss badasses they'd watch Star Wars and demand to play as Luke while the little brother is Leia being rescued.
Girl protaganists aren't associated with badassery because for the most part girls aren't badasses in real life. Mom may crush it at her rock climbing gym but she still needs dad to lift the heavy rock in the garden. By practical reality observable feats are skewed male, and thats just biology in action. Slam dunks by six foot plus dudes look awesome, positioning for shots at the backline looks lame. Female combat sports are awesome, much more so than male, but thats within the constrained environment. The world we actually live in simply requires physical reality to dominate and thats just what historically we end up sering most of.
I think a bigger problem is that social justice made certain categories verboten to criticize and thus they survive the writers room far longer than they should have. The Acolyte should have been smothered in infancy when the witch chant was proposed, but because the lead was a black woman championed by a queer person no one stood up to say shit this is lame we gotta rework it. By historical analysis most creative works, even ones with straight white dudes, suck. Its just that a mild tilting on the scales can make the sea of suck force bad ideas survive much longer.
2D3D
2mo ago
Why is Palestine entitled to Israeli food? They can't pay for it, and actively stymie distribution of any food that arrives onshore. Thefts are unattributable because Hamas keeps its uniforms only for parades not for enforcement or fighting Israel - which it has largely stopped doing only because its proximate threat is the Gaza clans that now have a chance of fighting for their own slice of the narrow pies.
However you slice it, the governing body of the Gaza refuses surrender yet demands food for its own people from the Israelis it swears to destroy. When Armenia held Nagarno it supplied the enclave, not the Azerbaijanis. Israel ceded occupying power decades ago, yet the Gazans have expected Israeli water food and electricity without any expectation of paying for it even when waging war. If Gazans want to not starve perhaps kicking Hamas out might help.
2D3D
2mo ago
Not to speak for the OP but there a liberating clarity in the proferred societies rightwingers espouse. By material or immaterial benefits being realized by knowing the rituals and paths it at least provides a framework towards which apotheosis can be achieved for at least some theoreticals. If all we have to look forward to is anodyne self destructive indulgence like /r/antiwork mods pray for, rightists would at least want to nuke the swamp before throwing themselves into the woodchipper.
2D3D
2mo ago
Yea the big diff is that rightist postrevolutionaries fully expect to either be dead in the dirt or cracking skulls or someplace clear in the value chain even if its the bottom (this tilled land will be the field for my lords children to feast on!) Circular paperwork is right wing hell.
2D3D
2mo ago
Tattoos are identity signallers more than anything else. If that identity is "basic bitch" good for them for declaring it openly, just as much as "tacky manchild" is an identity. When identity has a barrier to in-group signalling, then it becomes a useful gauge. Shitty gangbanger cosplay tattoos signify generic douchbagginess, a young man with a high and tight haircut and an eagle globe anchor is a boot high on USMC propaganda.
But the real diff is that context matters. In anodyne polite PMC society a brony tattoo is a skin decoration just like a labubu handbag tag. Its when you go INTO the context of where a tattoo holds meaning that the posers true power level is revealed. A Russian with a full chest of tattoos going to a banya better know what the fuck he's doing or he'll be set upon harder than a Mystique cosplayer at comic con.
2D3D
2mo ago
Best mecha anime was Macross Frontier, honestly. Others mentioned Code Geass below as well, which works. Both have good mech animation, good characters, good pacing. Most of the gundam examples have moments of brilliance bogged down by oceans of slog. The ones cited by others have great scenes or episodes and then multiple filler or slogs that just make it unwatchable.
But the true best robot anime ever is Megas XLR. A giant death robot with a hotrod for a head and a hotter redhead as the boss of the mechs 2 idiot pilots? Pure joy.
2D3D
2mo ago
Best anime for anime watchers is Cromartie High. It is near perfect in pacing, absurdity and meta-jokes about anime as a medium to begin with. The english dub is actually better than the sub simply because the ridiculousness of the voiceover heightens the comedy, even when relatively subtle wordplay (rare) is involved. Konosuba achieves largely the same and is a good rip on the extremely tired Isekai power fantasy genre.
Otherwise for seriousness I found Gundam Witch From Mercury one of the best examples of longterm psychological manipulation presented in any medium, all while wrapped in an enjoyable high school drama with good action and decent worldbuilding. Last 2 episodes compressed a season into 2 episodes which is nuts but otherwise it was pretty excellent. A good lighthearted series is Dungeon Meishi which makes an attempt at internal consistency and logical subversion/adherence to fantasy tropes, so its a good time there.
2D3D
2mo ago
Not to get all culture warry, but its really funny that younger girls see how being sexless blobs made their elder zoomer/milleniel sisters 'happy' and decided that being pretty actually might be more fun.
In any case, boo on you all for perving on 3D women. Superior 2D all the way. Mute by default, and now available in near realtime paperdoll.
sots1 was a buggy trashmess with broken damage profiles for their laser/missile/cannon mix. Kerberos had a grand vision and simply couldn't execute. a smaller scope might have worked better but then it'd have lost its magic.
however my own winner for overambitious nonsense is star citizen. it is the quintessential space sim, combining the worst of 90s suboptimal UI with 2000s busywork gameplay loop grind and 2010s predatory monetization. If there ever was a reason why a studio exec was necessary to keep a visionary in check, its anything to do with chris roberts. he shit the bed with freelancer being way too complex for no reason, and then developed star citizen in retaliation to fulfil his luke skywalker starfighter elite pilot roleplay fantasy, a fantasy shared by many a space nerd. whether people actually LIKE flying around in a claustrophobic cockpit in space flipping around the elliptical plane nauseatingly or spending 10 minutes travelling through jump gatea for the sake of "immersion" is secondary to roberts and his fans. what matters is that they get to pretend theyre really hanging out with luke about to take out the death star. a noble enough aim, save for the fact that they made flying a spaceship not fun at all.
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