Skulldrinker
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People in cities are still viciously tribal, though. Tons of them can't get through a casual conversation without mentioning how much they hate Trump, ICE, tech bros, cops, billionaires, conservatives, white people (while being white), rich people, straightness (while being straight), or men, and give you weird looks if you don't join in. And that's if you can even get them to talk to you.
My friend group here, despite being very adjacent to the LGBT community, has no actual LGBT people in it. (At most, It has the occasional straight chick who talks about Queerness a lot). And this isn't because we keep the LGBTs out, it's because none of us are "cool" enough for them; we dont speak in reddit-isms, too much of our conversation isn't about politics, and when one of them does wander in, we dont relentlessly praise their LGBTness like I presume other straight people do, we keep playing D&D. Oh, and the system we use doesn't have Tieflings in it, that's a big barrier. This suits me just fine.
Despite being full of minorities and anti-racists, the neighborhoods are still racially sorted somehow. It can't be the fault of conservatives, since there's none of them here.
Tribalism is alive and well in cities. By comparison, people outside of cities don't quake in performative fear when someone they don't know exists in their general vicinity, they don't constantly screech about all the things they hate, and what LGBT and People of Color that do exist there seem far more willing to socialize with non-queer/non-of-color people without making the entire interaction about queerness or of-color-ness.
Also, HP did describe the Elder Things as Men of a different age, they were ultimately people and more a subject of awe and fascination than horror. He arguably hated them way less than black people.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Have you considered implying that your identity is trendier than it actually is? Any native American ancestors? Maybe use a neopronoun? You can stop using it later and if anyone objects, tell them you're fluid and they're a bigot.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
Back when they first started getting big, it was foreign/third world markets; people wanted the phone to be a computer since they didn't have anything else. Also, simpleminded bigger=better. A small phone might sell in the US or Europe or Japan, but nowhere else.
Now everyone has become a third-worlder in their phone habits.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
Even then, it deserves a 40% for having been turned in.
Skulldrinker
20d ago
I dislike Rian Johnson's writing tone; it's very flippant, very contemporary in a way that will age it poorly, and seems tuned for getting Leftists to clap like circus seals.
Skulldrinker
20d ago
Q was trolling them; calling them violent and savage would get under their skin the most. He's plainly not against violence, he's against boredom.
Skulldrinker
23d ago
Try the Mexican/Puerto Rican stuff. It'll be packed into a brick, not in a can.
Skulldrinker
27d ago
The spike in religion-talk seems to be coming from the small subset of already-religious (in a very meticulous, autistic way) men talking more about it, plus aesthetic posturing about Based-ness. So, the talk is all talk.
Compare red-pill Islam- that's just peddling redpills to the existing Muslim online young men.
That guy who got shot in Kenosha was initially a Local community leader who saw some sort of argument happening in his community while driving and stopped to assist in restoring harmony to his community, then cops tried to assassinate him.
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