Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
The people watching that car chase began laughing and clapping in reaction to what they were seeing
That's either an insultingly implausible lie, or insane enough that it has to be true.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
They couldn't fire us, we quit!
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
moderate conservative
That's part of it, though, isn’t it? Most people I see celebrating lump him firmly into the far right. Not saying their perception is correct, but that's where he lines up in their view.
... Don't ask me what they'd consider a moderate conservative to be; they might very well say there is no such thing, or that it's someone with the social views of circa 2018 Obama.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
The News mods were doing their damndest to trim that while still allowing discussion, though - I recall them putting a temporary lock on the thread so thay could catch up with all the reports.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
it will involve one side who wear their allegiance sometimes literally on their faces, and one side who is invisible and everywhere.
I mean, a lot of MAGA are also very visible, if not more so.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
How much of that improved cancelation capability is due to social media, online visibility (by choice or by callout) and the melding of "US culture" into one big category?
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
who names their kid Vox Day?
I think his real name is Theodore Beale, or similar.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
I'd consider Vox Day more influential than Jim
Is Vox Day still relevant these days? I haven't heard much of him since Rabid Puppies and that one alt-right comic book attempt.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
I think I recall loving the movie, and then hating the final scene/ending.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
an oppressor/oppressed framework
I mean, how did people not see that "racism is power + prejudice" basically pattern-matched to bog-standard anti-semitism? Was it that they didn't want to think it might turn against Jews? That this time, it would be used righteously despite being almost word for word how anti-semites justified hating a small minority that they thought were privileged and had control? (See also: Men Kampf)
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Lyndon Baines Johnson
I'd wager most people most vehemently opposed to Trump aren't very familiar with Lyndon "Big Dick" Johnson. Those I've made aware have immediately pivoted to it being a matter of policy instead.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Honestly, that's a good question. I have no idea how the president generally picks the top flag officers, or if he usually just lets a military board/his aides recommend someone and then says "yep, sure, I'll trust your judgement and nominate them".
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
To me the more productive comparisons to Trump are more like a Latin American strongman, or perhaps like Jonah Goldberg's metaphor of Trump as a Mafia boss.
I've also generally considered that the best comparison. I've also thought that, at least in his first term, all the Hitler hysteria locked the Dems out from the opportunity of a lifetime: they could have had most of their wishlist if they'd just been willing to swallow their pride, flatter his ego, and let him take the credit. "Hey, President Trump, how does 'Trump Rail' sound? How about the 'Trump National Wildlife Refuge' or the 'Donald Trump Saves America' pro-union bill?" Other than the things he was opposed to on a personal level, like offshore wind, but even then I feel like they could have made an offer and gotten a deal done. But even if any of them were willing to work with him in the first place, once he's Hitler, there's no crossing the aisle.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
in your mind, they mostly knew they were going to die but just cooperated anyway.
I assume you also think that every account of a prisoner being forced to dig their own grave is implausible? For instance, surely this old man was just blatantly lying about the atrocity he committed because it would make the victims look... better? Worse? I have no idea.
In an interview with the BBC, Réveil recalled the reaction of the German prisoners when they were told they were to be shot.
"They knew what was coming…. They got out their wallets and looked at (photographs of) their families. There was no crying out. They were soldiers," he said.
"They were shot in the chest from a distance of four or five metres."
The prisoners - 46 German soldiers and one French woman collaborator - had been ordered to dig their own graves in the form of a long trench.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Machine-gunning them in the streets would have presented a host of logistical problems
I cannot recall where I read it, but as I understand there were early mass shootings (more organized than just in the streets, basically rounding them up first), but there was found to be a significant psychological effect on the soldiers doing the killings.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
I mean, if we went to war with China today I'm sure some Chinese-Americans would feel themselves falling under a cloud of suspicion.
That's already kind of happening, at least in the Cleared communities. It's very difficult to not notice how many high-profile cases there are where it's Chinese-Americans selling out to China, and how few of any other ethnicity selling out to China (if you're vaguely white, you sell out to Brazil via a peanut-butter-sandwich information transfer mechanism).
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Man, and I thought the Walker & Hawkes version of those were a bargain at 20% the price.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Rodents in general are a surprisingly common furry species, if not up there with the stereotypical dogs, cats, and dragons. FFIX's Freya (tbf, a white rat species) had a big impact on people. I'd say anthrofying them gets away from some of the real-world equivalent's grosser behaviors
There's also been a trend on the internet for a while (thanks to people with pet rats) that obviously everyone knows that rats are lovely and clean and smart creatures, and only the ignorant associate rats with those old stereotypes these days".
I feel like there has to be a word or phrase for that sort of "this common knowledge thing was wrong/inaccurate, but there's been a bit of an overcorrection in the opposite direction".
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Romance is not a physical desire/need, though, in the same way that food and sex are.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
I think C.S. Lewis got it right:
You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?
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There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
What I'm trying to do is see if anyone on the internet who isn't a self-hating leftist that might be considering another reasonable explanation outside of it just being the warrior gene assumptions that a lot of people on the right like to grab onto.
I'm sure as hell not a self-hating leftist, but to me it seems far more reasonable to blame this on upbringing and environment social group than it does genes. If race hadn't been mentioned, I probably would've assumed he was white, because that's my default mental image of a pro wrestler. Granted, I haven't followed the scene in years, so I'll freely admit it's based on wrestlers who are all retired at this point, I'm sure.
My point stands: I don't see any reason personally to consider this a "race" thing rather than a "son of a pro wrestler" thing, even if "not all wrestlers" (for instance, based on reading Mankind's autobiography, I'd have been very surprised if one of his kids pulled this, although I'd not have been as surprised if it was an anecdote about his own youth).
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Of course the image is real, it's really there in front of you, really shared by you for me to see, and it really exists. Saying it's not real is like saying political cartoons aren't real: technically true but missing the point. This is depicting something real in a way that's fictional
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
leading crusades
Wait, which UK underage girl led a Crusade?
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
using small provoaction in order to garner "disproportionate" attention that can be then captured and used for propaganda.
That's also pretty much the classic Palestine-Israel conflict at play.
What if they said they had been going to whitehouse.com?
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