Magusoflight
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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
Sales figures are pretty good evidence of quality of product, but go off I guess
Magusoflight
11mo ago
You clearly don’t read Scott’s own writings I guess
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/criticism-of-criticism-of-criticism
Take a look at what the best and brightest of psychiatrists conference write about for their conferences. Endless woke activist slop. And it’s like this at every single social sciencey conference too, including economics.
I don’t feel like doing research for someone who isn’t interested in asking honest questions though so go ahead and find your own sources
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Ah I see, I don’t really see why the rest of the office needed to get involved though
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
Didn’t see that, got a source?
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
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
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
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
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
I guess if you totally discount immigration that might be true
Magusoflight
10mo ago
He’s unlikable, yes, but that doesn’t make him wrong
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Yeah didn’t China already use technology to create a bio weapon that just recently devastated the globe? What’s to stop them from using AI to design another super virus and then WHOOPSIE super Covid is unleashed my bad
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
I don’t think all women place as much emphasis on looks as you think, especially in other cultures. I’ve seen some baddies with disgusting men
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Someone must be buying them
Non Americans
Magusoflight
11mo ago
No problem. One good way to test if it’s chronic hyperventilation is to get a blood o2 monitor and see if you’re above 98 percent saturation. Or you can simply hold your breath after taking a normal breath and see how long you last without feeling an urge to breath. Anything less than 20 seconds is indicative of CH iirc
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.
Your numbers lacks serious range, stopping around 2011 for some reason. I still can easily see a visual steep decline starting when “don’t ask don’t tell” was implemented, which actually helps prove my point.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/addressing-the-u-s-military-recruiting-crisis/
How bad is the recruiting crisis? During the last fiscal year, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 active-duty soldiers, or 25 percent of its target. This shortfall forced the Army to cut its planned active-duty end strength from 476,000 to 466,000. And the current fiscal year is likely to be even worse. Army officials project that active end strength could shrink by as much as 20,000 soldiers by September, down to 445,000. That means that the nation’s primary land force could plummet by as much as 7 percent in only two years — at a time when its missions are increasing in Europe and even in the Pacific, where the Army provides many of the critical wartime theater enablers without which the other services cannot function.
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
Well, yeah. You have no real argument despite massive evidence being weighed against your position. It’s just neurotic appeals to emotion, constantly.
Yeah, Redditors don’t really reflect the true fan base for, well, anything anymore. surprised someone still thinks that, especially in this space.
Successful? It merely is the best selling of the bunch, which is….not high praise given the pathetic numbers on display:
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.
Judging by the fact no one knows who this character is, yes. Correct.
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?
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