HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
11mo ago
Yet, there are those who wish to cross the Rubicon, to feed the flames and let the last cinders burn, until nothing remains.
HalloweenSnarry
1yr ago
I'm gonna second this and add that I think there's a lot of great art coming around right now, of various degrees of relevance to current social issues, but a lot of it is in other media like anime, video games, and web video, and not merely familiar things like music and film.
On the topic of music, though, HEALTH's new album Rat Wars is shaping up to be something quite special; check out "DEMIGODS" and "ASHAMED."
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
Yeah, I suppose it's hard to say if Mulvaney would really have just been more of a one-off thing or the prototype for a new marketing campaign.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
I think Warhammer video games, of all things, shows that the "shotgun" approach can work.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
But this wasn't always the case, and there are (presumably) parts of America where this still isn't the case. I don't know how you decisively debunk the "the cruelty is the point" viewpoint when it comes to what Republicans have managed to get implemented when they had the opportunity.
Why the criticism of TikTok as a sample source? I'd imagine it's actually less vulnerable to sampling bias than Twitter, being that it's stupidly-popular. Now, granted, I'd use it more as a finger on the pulse of what's popular with the younger demographics, but still.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
I suspect the stakes simply haven't been raised enough. If it were to come down to dire circumstances like either of the World Wars, where food is tight and industrial nations are reduced to stamping crude submachine guns out of sheet steel, then luxury beliefs will have to be outcompeted at some point.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
In addition to the other comments, would Greenwald not be a good arbiter of what Russian shenanigans look like, even discounting the inaccuracy of "Greenwald laundered the emails"?
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
Or is Japanese homosexual pornography also heavy on high-pitched nasal squealing ?
No, I suspect it's more along the lines of OH MY SHOULDER
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
If being gay requires sexual experiences with another man to solidify, then wouldn't there have to be some first gay man who has sex with a handful of boys? In which case, what man seduced the first gay man and made him gay?
Well, I do remember a comedy skit audio where the premise was that one caveman was curious about butt stuff...
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
Alas, I think your argument here reaches a plateau in momentum; trans rights advocates would probably say, "well, duh, because trans people aren't respected by mainstream society." They have the plausibility-shield of "trans people don't spontaneously end up dead because of hormones, but because of social rejection."
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
Another is that I read that women often support FGM in societies that practice it, which is quite shocking if you come from the narrative that it's always specifically men who are imposing such abhorrent practices.
I mean, surely moms go along with that program, not unlike (and I raise this example merely for the sake of one angle of similarity, not claiming these are the same thing) how progressive moms are the ones who support their kids transitioning in gender? Probably still coerced by the fathers, though.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
Okay then, tell us why we shouldn't demonize Hitler? Because even eliding over things like the Holocaust or the near-conquest of Europe, if you take the most overly-charitable view of Hitler, all you see is a guy who riled people up, picked fights his country couldn't and shouldn't have, and then proceeded to lose so badly that he didn't even have the courage to face his people about the loss, let alone the wrath of two superpowers coming to tear down his government.
If anything, even National Socialists wouldn't (and didn't) want to identify with a loser, and there are indeed few things as bad as being seen as the loser by history. Even Confederacy aesthetics and revanchism from American Southerners is pitiable by comparison--Nazis only have copium.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
Didn't Parler suffer a data leak? Maybe that influences the decisions, if it's the same staff that oversaw the breach.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
I suppose China turning its back on Russia would be far-fetched, but I can imagine that if the two states were to ally, they would not even come close to being equivalent to 1.5 Americas. The Chinese readiness for war is still such that they might be capable of something, but the West has proven that China is very welcome to fuck around and find out--and maybe China won't, since the political costs of being smacked on your pizza hands over Taiwan are probably too dire to imagine.
HalloweenSnarry
2yr ago
At least Wayne regretted The Conqueror (and probably not just because it possibly gave him lung cancer).
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
nobody gets more than 1/220 of the fault if nothing happens, which isn't a lot of fault.
Eh, I think the more that a bill's vote becomes a close thing (or is forecasted to be a close thing), the proportion of fault for a given congressperson can rise in accordance with how decisive their vote could be. At least, this is how it works with both legacy and social media.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
My possibly-naive guess: those clusters were being used for crypto-mining before that took a nosedive a few years ago, and weren't just sold off.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Oh man, I think I saw the trailer for that, and it looked like the kind of crappy 80's cheese I love.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I imagine this is likely to come from OnlyFans-type sex workers, who have a different dynamic to brothel employees and club dancers.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Wait, really, everyone just changed their tune about this? When did that happen, and how?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
So, the difference is pretty much down to how much a state is considered to be contiguous/coterminous with its people, rather than being in a separate and implicitly-adversarial relationship?
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I think the wrinkle in your model here is that the ones in power in Ukraine don't have much to gain from escaping. Unlike Russian oligarchs or Chinese millionaires, they probably lack in things like Swiss bank accounts, American anchor babies, or British summer homes (or what-have-you).
This whole framing of "elites choosing to wipe out their own population" is so bizarre to me. Maybe it makes sense if one imagines oneself as a dictator wanting to knock out two birds with one stone (ridding oneself of troublesome populations and killing as many of the enemy as possible), but I imagine that no leader truly views things in such cynical calculations. Sure, every medal on a general's lapel is someone's son, but at the same time, it probably gives no leader any great pleasure to know that their constituents' lives are spent doing something necessary.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Yeah, I suppose this probably does describe, say, the A-10.
(And now to wait for the shitstorm to hit...)
Unfortunately for you, you can still absolutely wring a "compentency crisis" headline from this, assuming the plane in question was a Boeing.
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