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				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can argue that the money spent on something like this can be spent on other things, but on the grand scale of things, I'd probably prefer the money to be spent on something like this to some other community outreach program.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There's another way to tackle the argument: While amputation can be used as a last resort to try to treat BIID, this is not good. It should be seen as a failure of therapy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I didn't even notice that detail. I gotta say though, that episode was a better Mcnuggets ad than any I've seen.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The new episode of Smiling Friends came out, fittingly, on April 1. Absolutely top tier episode. Maybe the best episode of the show so far. The puppet remakes were nice too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 25, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One argument would be something like: "Even though it may be the case that the heroine addicted degenerate will only vote to make the government give out free heroine, that person is still a human being with rights and it's their right for their interests (as they see them) to be represented in government. The fact that they are crippled by their addiction does not change that."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not reading, but listening to Shogun. Definitely going to watch the show later as well. In case you haven't yet, absolutely read Shogun. It's a masterpiece.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It seems fans were expecting Band of Brothers meets Lord of the Rings in space. Which was never going to happen.




It's not that fans were expecting Band of Brothers with LoTR. It's more that fans were expecting Halo. The show has very little in common with the games. And while the show is about a "Spartan" named "Master Chief" who fights the "Covenant", it's just not Halo. The story has almost nothing to do with the story of Halo. The characters are not the same as the ones from the game. This makes sense as when S1 released, the writers specially stated that they didn't play any of the games.


So for the fans of the games, the Halo show is just another example of slapping a well known name on a show to sell it. In the eyes of the fans, all they had to do was to make 3 seasons based on each of the 3 games, and they couldn't even do that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 18, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The government does lots of things that are not directly coercive. I am sure you can come up with some examples.




Depending on what your preferred political theory is, no the government does not do anything that isn't directly coercive. Everything the government does relies on taxes, which a libertarian or anarchist believes are coercive in and of themselves.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The most likely outcome would be that they both die. The bat guy probably beats the knife guy to death as he's being stabbed. He then dies slightly later of his knife wounds. There's an old saying about knife fights: The loser dies in the street, the winner dies in the ambulance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 11, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Another thing to note which I find a little amusing: The stated goal for these role models is not even to help these lost and aimless young men, but to help protect women from them.


Edit: And that's what I get for not reading the entire post before posting a reply.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm very late on this, but I recently watched Shin Godzilla (on a flight to Tokyo, if you can believe it) and thought it was very good. Spoiler warning for an 8 year old movie. While the plot in the first 2/3 consisted mainly of meetings, meetings about meetings, and debriefs of meetings about meetings, I thoroughly enjoyed it. First, it served as a satire of the endless bureaucracies that exist in politics. One scene that stood out was when the Japanese Prime Minister announced publicly that the disturbance within Tokyo Bay was geothermal in nature 20 seconds before news footage showed the tail of Godzilla breaking the water. Some of the characters even comment on the endless red tape surrounding the event. Second, it served as a suspense building tool. Whereas we already know what's to come (if only by reading the title), the characters are woefully unaware of their situation and therefore completely unprepared. Several notable scenes that were particularly well done are:


The meetings in general early on in the movie. The meeting scenes, especially the ones with dozens of participants, are blocked, shot, and acted very well.


When Godzilla first makes landfall and is shown in full. The grotesque expression and design were very striking, as well as the gallons of blood that flowed from the gills. Something about the eyes is both disturbing and oddly cute.


When Godzilla reaches his 4th form and rampages through Tokyo while the classic theme (originally the Japanese Defense Force theme in the original Godzilla movie) played. This scene really reminded me of the original Godzilla movie. There's a sense of dread, awe, wonder, and doom that has not been present in a Godzilla movie for a long time. This is definitely something that the Legendary Godzilla movies are missing. Godzilla is so often portrayed as a defender of Earth nowadays that it's easy to forget that he started off as a physical representation of the power of the atomic bomb. I have not yet seen Godzilla Minus One yet, but I'm hoping for a similar feeling in that movie.


The Atomic Breath Scene.


All in all, a very welcome addition to the Godzilla franchise and probably one of the best movies possible to bring Godzilla into a new Era. Based on reviews of Godzilla Minus One, it looks like the Reiwa Era is off to a fantastic start for Godzilla.


My Top 5 Godzilla Movies (in no order):


Godzilla


Shin Godzilla


Godzilla vs Destoroyah


Godzilla: King of the Monsters


Godzilla: Final Wars


Honorable mention to Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One thing I always find curious (not really because... well you know) is that only Christianity is targeted. Would Atheists ever put up depictions of Muhammad (peace be upon him)? This type of selective targeting just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 4, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree. The problem is that universities, especially the ones that were represented in the hearing, have not been enforcing this policy. Further, their policy has been nearly the exact opposite. "Silence is violence" after all. So please don't begrudge me a little bit of delectable schadenfreude.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Alternative: If the ban on vapes had not happened, those people would not have gone on to smoke cigarettes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Does that include coffee as well?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 7, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Also funny, since the obvious solution would be for the dwarf to simply cut part of the head off, while completely bypassing the neck.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 19, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's not exactly true. PinYin does exist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are they still saying r-slur instead of retard? I thought the reason they left, other that the admins neutering the sub, was so they didn't have to resort to euphemisms like r-slur


Edit: Turns out it's a macro. I should have expected it from the drama mods


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd put forth that the separation of sex and gender is a lie in and of itself. Furthermore, the people who you presumably want to convince would simply reject your framing of "transphobia". In the same way that it's not "schizophobic" to say that what schizophrenic people see is not real, it's not transphobic to say that trans women are not women.


Of course, I may have misunderstood your point entirely and you were trying to reach an entirely different audience with your post in the first place.