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17hr ago
I think you're taking this far more personally than it was intended.
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19hr ago
neither the 'church crowd' nor the 'country music crowd' expects a general shunning of the gays, although there are plenty who do not want the gays around their kids or wouldn't personally befriend one.
Right. Judging by attitude towards gay marriage among Republicans, I can't imagine there are many ordinary conservative Americans who think that gay men should be shunned or ostracised. But I imagine there are quite a few who personally have no gay friends, don't want to have any gay friends, and would feel uncomfortable if their girlfriend or wife was close friends with gay men.
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19hr ago
Are you familiar with the subreddit I was referring to?
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20hr ago
I would genuinely love to know how they met, and if she was a fan of his music beforehand.
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21hr ago
Oh sure, I don't doubt that's true in some cases. But in my personal experience, back when I was active on Tinder, the girls I saw with "swipe left if you're a Tory" in their bios weren't limited to the alt girls with dyed fringes and piercings (who one might reasonably expect to have a significant number of gay or lesbian friends in their social circle), but also included plenty of girls who looked like, for lack of a better term, Stacies, and who I would strongly suspect had no close gay or lesbian friends. Frankly, some of them looked like the kind of straight girls who would be loath to invite a lesbian friend on a girls' trip, out of fear that the lesbian would try to get in their pants.
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1d ago
Sorry, I should have specified that I was talking about Irish fishermen. Even going a few miles off the west coast, if you fall in the drink you will probably freeze very quickly.
Thunberg is probably asexual, or at least calls herself that, but if she does end up settling down with someone I'll be sure to ping you. If she does it'll most likely be someone just as autistic as she is.
As @omw_68 notes below me, Thunberg's recent pivot to anti-Zionist activism demonstrates that she isn't really the diehard environmentalist she presented herself as for her first few years in the public eye. I was tempted to say she's really an omnicause activist, and @omw_68 chalks it up to her being a grifter, but I don't think that's quite right. I just think she's an intensely impressionable person, who seamlessly adopts the opinions of anyone in her vicinity she perceives as high-status. As a child, her parents told her that climate change was The Thing, and she took that to heart; having been taken in by a crowd of leftists, she's been persuaded that anti-Zionism is The Thing. What this means in practice is that Thunberg's opinions are entirely contingent on those of whoever happens to be in her immediate vicinity. I don't find it remotely implausible that, in the next few years, she might meet and fall for a fellow Swedish autist who is fervently opposed to Syrian migration, and seamlessly adopt his opinions without any subjective feeling of discontinuity or hypocrisy. I can't imagine she felt any sense of discontinuity when she pivoted from environmentalism to anti-Zionism (because it's. All. Part. Of. The. Same. Struggle, as omnicausers would have us believe).
The other possibility is that she grows up and belatedly develops an internal ethos of her own, her worldview no longer beholden to the vicissitudes of fate and happenstance. I wouldn't bet on it: I think she has at least one more pivot left in her.
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1d ago
I'm not really sure if that's true. There are probably lots of devout Christian men in red states who are making significantly more than the national median and who wouldn't tolerate their girlfriends/wives being friends with gay men.
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1d ago
True – and I suspect the population of heterosexual women who would be more than willing to cast aside their assorted gay best friends for the sake of a committed relationship with a smart man with a lucrative profession would be significantly higher than you might think, and certainly higher than one would naïvely expect based on how many women put "swipe left if you're a Tory" or similar in their tinder bios.
but not a full-on white nationalist who believes women are second class citizens and that abortion should be illegal.
Agreed, I should have said "No woman is going to turn up her nose at a man for having conservative (as distinct from far-right etc.) political opinions from her, provided he ticks enough of her other boxes."
Hypothetically, I think one might be surprised by the number of women who would be willing to overlook a man who was a literal neo-Nazi provided he was also smart, handsome and made decent money. But this is a hard thing to demonstrate, because most neo-Nazis (if /r/beholdthemasterrace is anything to go by) are none if those things. After getting out of prison, Varg Vikernes (hardly handsome and probably not especially wealthy) managed to find himself a wife who bore him eight (!) children – maybe she already shared his political opinions, but it's possible she didn't.
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1d ago
And note the shifting of the burden of responsibility. It's not that the man made no secret of what kind of man he was, and the woman willingly overlooked this inconvenient fact because she got lost in his eyes. It's that he was actively deceiving her about the kind of man he was, and she had no way of knowing until after it was too late.
My mum told me she'd heard that, if you end up in the north Atlantic, you're pretty much guaranteed to freeze to death in a matter of minutes. Being able to swim would just prolong your agony.
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1d ago
This seem almost unfalsifiable. I might as well say
No company will ever fire someone for being direct and outspoken, provided he is good enough at his job.
That just seems straightforwardly true to me. If you add enough value to a company, you can get away with being direct and outspoken (and a great deal worse). That's just a true factual statement.
By the same token, you'll sometimes see girls with lines in their Tinder bio like "if you're a Tory, swipe left" or whatever. But in terms of revealed preferences, I think the number of women who would refuse to date a man whom they otherwise found highly attractive solely because he held conservative opinions is vanishingly small.
No woman is going to turn up her nose at a man for having different political opinions from her, provided he ticks enough of her other boxes. If a woman says "I matched with this guy on Tinder, but when I found out he was MAGA I ghosted him" – I mean, yes, that's the sequence in which those events transpired. But you didn't ghost him because he was MAGA: you ghosted him because you didn't find him attractive enough (not just physically, but also in terms of charm, sense of humour, financial viability etc.). Claiming that she rejected him for his political opinions is just social desirability bias: she would have been more than willing to overlook the exact same opinions if expressed by a more attractive man.
It may sound like I'm calling women shallow, but I'm really not. Men generally don't pretend to put a big premium on political compatibility with their romantic partner: the social desirability bias in men's case comes from attempting to downplay how important youth and physical attractiveness are to them. Plenty of men will claim not to care about looks and to just want to find a nice, normal, down-to-earth girl they can hang out with, but in practice will put up with a great deal of crazy behaviour from their romantic partner, provided she's young and hot enough.
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2d ago
I will never understand people who say that Nolan is a competent director of action films. Nauseating disorientation =/= excitement. Paul Greengrass has a lot to answer for.
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2d ago
Some of the filmography on Gilligan's new project Pluribus possibly surpasses the lows of Breaking Bad, this scene in particular where Carol is on the rooftop reminds me of The Room; the green screen is executed so sloppily that Carol outright does not have a shadow. Then there is this, which is somehow even worse.
Jesus Christ, you weren't kidding. I have seen AI slop which looked more convincing than the latter clip.
The other day, I was telling herself about the spree killer who targeted massage therapists in Atlanta. Being that most of the victims were Asian women, initial reports understandably characterised it as a hate crime targeting Asian people. But when the perpetrator was arrested, he went to great pains to explain that he didn't murder those women because they were Asian, but because they were vile whores leading him (and other men like him) into temptation.
There's something darkly amusing about a man who will freely admit to being a sex addict, to deliberately targeting physically and economically vulnerable women for violence, to blaming women for his inability to control his own sexual appetites, to despising prostitutes and sex workers, to being a murderer – but I'm not racist, guys!
As a confirmed Breaking Bad hater, I have read the AV Club's "The case against Breaking Bad" article many times, as it articulated almost everything that I disliked about the show, including its cinematography. Even fans of the show have acknowledged how silly the "Mexico is yellow" thing is, but this was the only source I've seen that criticised the overuse of jitter cam, something I found really annoying and distracting:
But even in the look of the show, clichés abound. In Breaking Bad, the sky over Mexico is always yellow. Much of the show, including its quietest moments, is afflicted with an unmotivated camera shudder that will date the show as badly as the excessive use of zooms dates many films from the early '70s.
Once this was pointed out to me it became hard to unsee. Last October I compiled a list of "classic" horror films I'd never got around to seeing, including Black Christmas. I did enjoy it (if for no other reason than my enormous crush on the young Olivia Hussey – my word, just look at her), but that specific thing where a character delivers a line of dialogue accompanied by an extremely slow zoom-in on their face is such a 70s trope, and almost always comes off as incredibly corny and immersion-breaking. You rarely see it in movies made before or after the 70s.
Yeah, I saw it for the first time a few years ago and felt rather underwhelmed. If compiling a list of my Spielberg films it certainly wouldn't crack the top five. (I did enjoy it more than Close Encounters, though.) Definitely a film which fell victim to the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" effect, where it's hard for modern viewers to appreciate how inventive it must have seemed on release.
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2d ago
I would advise putting criminals who began claiming to be trans-women after being charged in a separate facility from both cis-man and cis-women
Why?
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2d ago
I'll ask again: is it your contention that anyone who visits Israel for any reason thereby becomes fair game for assassination, in perpetuity? Is that what you believe, yes or no?
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2d ago
So in your opinion, anyone who visits Israel for any reason thereby becomes fair game for assassination by terrorists, in perpetuity?
I like Israel
I find that very hard to believe.
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3d ago
It’s a good bet that a lot of the young adults visit Israel and probably did birth right tours.
By this standard, any Muslim who has ever visited Mecca is fair game for assassination at the hands of someone who lost family in 9/11. Is that the standard you endorse?
Do go on.
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