Magusoflight
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Magusoflight
10mo ago
I’ve sometimes heard that the left wing takeover of corporate America is a hollow one - they don’t REALLY cars about minorities, just look at umm their Middle East twitter accounts! They care about $$$ and aren’t true believers
I found an interesting counter point recently.
https://upstreamreviews.substack.com/p/high-republic-low-sales
This is what a corporation that has no idea what their audience is about, but does in fact know clearly what it’s ideology is about.
I’ll summarize the link but you really should read it for yourself, it’s astounding how bad Disney gets the Star Wars franchise: for instance, the books need to be (in addition to all the old touchstones of diversity etc) ANTI WAR. And then there’s the characters, who are somehow all androgynous.
The sales figures reflect an enormous lack of interest of enthusiasm. But it doesn’t matter for Disney - they get to spread the Good Word of gender ideology and anti fascism/anti traditionalism.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Can someone steelman why “pride” is still necessary? Seems that you can be gay, bi or trans and it’s more than accepted - there’s a huge increase in kids claiming lgbt status so if there’s stigma it’s not apparent anymore. At what point does it make sense to call a moratorium for social movements that have lost their purpose? What are the “victory conditions” for what homophobia is considered no longer a major issue?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
He had an open warrant for punching an elderly woman in the face. Also he had 44 prior arrests. Also multiple people have come forward to say he had tried to victimize others in crimes that went unreported. This is unsurprising, most crime is unreported, so anytime a criminal gets caught doing something, it’s safe to assume he has done it multiple times before. This means Neely probably victimized hundreds of people already, through acts of trying to kidnap a teen girl to trying to push people into the tracks (attempted murder). Thus the marine was fully justified in using non lethal means to subdue the threat. The fact he had an anomalous reaction, likely to due to drugs and an unhealthy lifestyle like George Floyd, isn’t the marines fault in the least.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
You’re wasting your time, people on the motte are very blackpilled and demoralized to the point they can’t see a win as a win.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Reading Sotomayors and Jackson’s dissents all I can think is: “this is an excellent example of why affirmative action needs to be banned”
Magusoflight
11mo ago
He used the appropriate level of force. People forget it wasn’t just him - he had help from two black men who also thought this guy needed restraining. Are they guilty of aiding in murder? Why is no one calling for their arrest? This is a rhetorical question - I know exactly why they aren’t
Magusoflight
10mo ago
From your EEOC link:
Use of tests and other selection procedures can also violate the federal anti-discrimination laws if they disproportionately exclude people in a particular group by race, sex, or another covered basis, unless the employer can justify the test or procedure under the law.
This effectively makes it illegal to use IQ tests since by their very nature they will discriminate based on race.
“Oh but you just have to justify the test under the law!” Great! Give me just one example of a company successfully doing so, after being sued. Remember. The process is the punishment, therefore sometimes the is can be technically allowed in practicality they are illegal - which is how leftist lawfare works
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Since the military has made gays openly serving a policy, how has their organization been doing? Have gays been rushing the fill the recruitment numbers? Or are they in a crisis to find anyone who even cares to join their organization?
Maybe there is a reason for this fence that has existed for thousands of years. Or you think you know better than all your ancestors?
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Everyone is pro eugenics. Just ask them if a brother and sister should be allowed to copulate and bear children
Funny. I’m a regular /r/MawInstallation participant, and I’ve mostly heard good things about the High Republic.
Yeah, Redditors don’t really reflect the true fan base for, well, anything anymore. surprised someone still thinks that, especially in this space.
The follow-up to this condemnation of the rollout is…an argument that the first book was actually successful.
Successful? It merely is the best selling of the bunch, which is….not high praise given the pathetic numbers on display:
Maybe 2021 wasn’t the best time to release half a dozen books.
Yeah, why would the middle of a pandemic when everyone is stuck at home be a bad time to sell books?
According to the fans, yes, Zahn “did it right”. Money talks. Shit walks.
- If the tits aren’t out, she can’t be a good Jedi, hmm?
Judging by the fact no one knows who this character is, yes. Correct.
Er, third-rate talent operating on a budget.
Lol, Disney is operating “on a budget”. Yeah, a billion dollar marketing budget.
This article has made you really angry. Why? Did you enjoy the new Star Wars and it’s abject commercial and cultural failure feel invalidating to you?
Magusoflight
10mo ago
This incident might then divide the whole office along racial lines
??? Racial?
I don’t see how local pride events have influence in other locales - this sounds like an argument for a “pride bus” simile to a “freedom bus” in civil rights era
Magusoflight
10mo ago
We have no comparisons to other books released at a similar time.
Ah so you didn’t bother reading the article. Cool.
The original Thrawn Trilogy sold 15 million as of 2014. And then, after the Star Wars Extended Universe was jettisoned by Disney and Kathleen Kennedy, it went on to sell five million more copies. A new boxed set of the original Thrawn Trilogy released in May 2022 has sold 13,031 copies by itself.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Well, yeah. The vast majority of social scientists are actually just activists who use their profession to push their political agenda forward. This wasn’t always the case, but the trend has always been there and it’s accelerated to the point that these departments are completely taken over, and quite frankly need to be burned to the ground before any real science can once again take place
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Actually from a legal perspective you’re wrong - helping restrain someone so that they can be more effectively executed makes you an accomplice. Once again, I ask why no one is calling for these people to also be prosecuted, when Chauvins fellow officers who didn’t even touch Floyd all got heavy sentences?
Magusoflight
9mo ago
It turns out they mostly don't want to be stuck in racial ghettos and seen as seperate from the majority.
You sure about that?
Does the Australian police collect racial crime stats by any chance?
Magusoflight
10mo ago
We actually already have pretty good evidence which option works best here. Economic analysis shows that the productivity of high ability people goes up almost exponentially when in close proximity to other high ability people. This is an example of what is known as a “network effect” the flip side of which is when we put antisocial criminals together in a prison we accelerate their criminality. Like attracts and works best with like.
According to these principles diversity is a major obstacle to innovation and productivity. No one demanded that the Manhattan project be more diverse. Somehow a highly homogeneous team of male Hungarian Jewish geniuses pulled off major innovation, if DEI existed back then we would probably have never developed the bomb.
Anyway, hence we need high ability people together to get the most out of them. That’s if you actually care about society as a whole and not myopically focused on the welfare of a few antisocial criminal underclass cultural groups.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Sales figures are pretty good evidence of quality of product, but go off I guess
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Like, what figures were they expecting?
I guess you missed the part where the previous expanded universe series sold TENS OF MILLIONS of copies.
And no, selling a few thousand books isn’t “very good”. Like, cmon.
alleged billion dollar marketing campaign
“Alleged”. This isn’t a law court, this is just a fact.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
I guess if you totally discount immigration that might be true
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Danes and western immigrants to Denmark are, on average, positive contributors to Denmark during their working years. The same is true, though less so, of "Other non western". However it turns out that the controversial group of immigrants - MENAPT (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey) - are net negative contributors at every age.
A breakdown by country (for countries with at least 5000 immigrants to Denmark) is provided and the result is exactly what the far right would predict: white people, Indians and Chinese make good immigrants and contribute positively to Denmark. The average American benefits Denmark to the tune of about $12k/year, the average Indian a little bit less. The average Somalian costs Denmark about $18k. Thais, Vietnamese and Filipinos are net neutral.
This is why I always found it strange that there is a corporate argument for lllegal immigration - that somehow this improves the economy and business of European companies. Maybe, but the taxpayers are big losers ultimately, having to foot a massive bill that will inevitably result in either an increase in taxes (in already the most highly taxed countries in the world) or (more likely) a decrease in quality of services. It’s a lose lose situation.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
If you can’t see what’s blindingly obvious I see this “umm source please?” as nothing more than rhetorical
Magusoflight
11mo ago
So you think Penny’s intent was to kill a homeless person on the subway that day? Interesting. What evidence do you have for your belief?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Didn’t see that, got a source?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Sounds like it could be chronic hyperventilation syndrome. Look up
Buteyko method and papworth method for ways to treat this. It’s strongly linked to anxiety as well.
Twitches sound kind of like benign fasciculation syndrome as well
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/shows/meetthepress/blog/rcna90023
Apparently there’s been a big drop in conservative support for gay marriage, all in the space of a year.
I think this says a lot, mainly because it’s a point I see brought up by a lot of the blackpillers in this community “look, look - even conservatives support gay marriage now, there’s no stopping progressivism”.
Well, what now? Apparently the left has pushed too hard and too fast and it’s turning the GOP away. Being LGBT isn’t seen as some harmless thing anymore, especially when it seems being “tolerant” means accepting gay drag nuns on crucifixes. The parodies are no longer a parody, and grooming children to accept gender ideology seems rife in schools even in deep red states.
Recently I read about a Muslim city in america voting to ban the pride flag. This is just one example of the incoming shift and realignment being forced by progressive extremism becoming more forcibly mainstream
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