ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
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ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
I will still prefer ME2 for leaning harder into the sci-fi angle with its characters; Legion, Mordin, and EDI (but mostly Legion, and the fact you don’t have him from the start of the game is unfortunate).
I think a lot of character writing in ME3 was actually wasted solely because, if you’re a standard RPG player and saved everyone in ME2, you miss a lot of additional writing.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
Like calling your daughter Dolores.
That only applies if your family name is 'Haze'; 'Lolita' actually used to be a common-ish name back in the 1930s, like 'Adolf' was.
were the pathetic last-ditch force
But the fact remains that they are still treated and used as a force, for the motherly "don't kill my babies" reflex obviously no longer applies to them, and pragmatically because their combat effectiveness isn't negative. (Again, this is the entire point I'm making.)
If they were still young enough for their mothers to discourage their children from fighting a war they've already lost, that would be one thing. But they're not.
Child soldiers are the disgusting last resort of a faction that has no meaningful right to use violence.
Factions, like those who form them, are allowed tantrums over stupid things that they don’t have any right to be upset about. In the cases I've named, throwing their children's lives away is that tantrum (as distinct from the Africans, where the context and circumstances for child soldiers are significantly different).
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
It's interesting to note how since the dawn of settled civilisation, there has been a clear understanding of the reciprocal nature of rights and responsibilities
The industrial revolution destroyed the specific socioeconomic/sociobiological niche for men and offered no replacement.
It did not do the same for women.
The more automation replaces one gender more than the other, the worse it gets for that gender- if you want to see how that ends, look at how we treat teenaged men, who have been completely replaced in the workforce to the point society considers disenfranchisement a moral imperative.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
Ooh, looks like Netflix has released "Cuties: Boy Edition". I guess they understand their audience pretty well, and this time they even got free advertising from at least one world leader, so clearly they're doing something right.
We mostly see our dashing police walking intensely towards things while talking about whatever. They don't talk about the plot because there is no plot; they're just cameramen so the audience can see the porn. In the most intense episode, their existence is only implied.
With that in mind, let's look critically at the antagonist. He's cute, but not cute enough that the audience would start feeling anything positive towards him or anything uncomfortable like that (contrast, say, Will in S1/S2 of Stranger Things, purpose-built to be that way). He's made up to look a bit younger in the third episode, though that can be excused by what happens to him in the first, and the audience needs to understand that he's barely legal/fair game. If he acted or looked any younger that would be a harder sell, though this does happen a bit later on.
So let's get into it. We start off pretty strong in the first episode- men with guns sexually humiliate him (or rather, he humiliates himself) in child-coded ways, first by pissing himself and then what happens at the station. Him being forced to strip naked in front of his father (y'know, in case he's hiding a bruise under his cock), and his reaction thereto, is pure fanservice, especially since it's revealed about 15 minutes later that his doing so is completely superfluous to the case; they cut to the video tape and treat it as an open and shut case, which it is.
The second episode is more of the plot happening before our brave cameramen- we see a Stunning and Brave Black Woman #Resisting (£Resisting?) the police [so your vanilla oppression scene], they talk about how the place smells like masturbation (guess they were out of teen spirit that day), and they track down the guy with the Unloicensed Knoife (apparently the antagonist had to borrow one, but I think that was mostly padding). Most of the plot-relevant details are not explained; we're just supposed to know who Andrew Tate is and what incels are. Also, haha, Boomer tech illiteracy- good thing our Ace Detective didn't send the horny heart to his wife, that sure would have been awkward.
The third episode is where the real action happens. The antagonist is made up to be a bit younger in this scene and acts significantly more childish, too (we were told he actually had half a brain, but I guess that was just to set him up as a credible threat; I would have expected a freakout over needles in the first episode far before any of what happens in that room). We see that, ultimately, all the woman has to do to take [sexual] advantage of him such that he commits to her is to bring him some candy sprinkles, wear a lower cut top, and park those tits nice and close (despite her likely being "too old", responds our antagonist to some blurry photos). Maybe he'll pick up a chair once or twice, but he will ultimately commit.
I spent the last 24 hours watching true crime documentaries on 2x before I watched this and couldn't help but notice that nobody in actual interrogations (even when they're interrogating particularly young criminals, and the young criminals themselves) does this. They don't tend to be that sexually charged either. This is 100% "womanly wiles" territory, and takes place in the guise of a therapy-but-not-really session.
At the end we find out that the killer gained a liking for his nemesis, in sort of a messed up Stockholm syndrome kind of way.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Actually, the same is true for said nemesis; my read is that she felt a little guilty about having enjoyed that exchange, which is (I believe) why she has to calm herself down at the end, but maybe I'm reading too hard into it.
The fourth episode is just "everything bad in this show happened because of Men and Their Tempers, daughters are better than sons, the computer makes them evil". Slow-pitch by comparison.
No climax (beyond "I'm changing my plea"), no point (beyond "incel bad"), and no meaning (the means, motive, and opportunity to the driving event are not dealt with in any detail and the victim is a Mary Sue); sounds like a pretty typical yaoi to me.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
The issue: it's entirely fictional and doesn't represent anything real.
As I will get around to expanding on in another comment, this show is purely pornographic.
I want to revisit my point 6. A boy is at least one order of magnitude more likely to be murdered by his mother than a girl by an incel (though both happen extraordinarily rarely). [Paraphrased] Should we treat women just as badly as we do men?
I get that this is rhetorical but the answer is "yes, obviously, their rules fairly".
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
The demand for violence from the hated demographic far exceeds its supply.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
Why would anyone show this to their own children?
Because it reinforces more or less every destructive cultural lie told over the past 100 years. The audience for this is parents (typically mothers) who are very concerned about what media their children consume, yet are too stupid or otherwise high on Morality to figure out that this is what they need to be defending their sons from.
I have never seen a piece of media that is so clearly a psy-op.
It occurs to me that the anti-Adolescence is a media that:
- (1) Encourages young men to do things that, statistically, lead to attracting women
- (a) imagining themself as the boy, physically exploring a woman
- (b) making the boy feel valued for that and not taken advantage of
- (c) making [women] think they're missing out by not doing that
- (2) make women interested in boys who look or behave like the boy protagonist, by associating the boy with promise and inevitable future value
- (3) has [1A] being conducted by a woman of high attractiveness
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
how a 13 year old boy is being treated like an adult
...that's because 13 year old boys are adults, and human beings understand that more or less instinctually. Yes, usually we'll give some or other reason to pretend otherwise, but how we say we treat them vs. how we actually treat them is always different (and usually completely self-serving, in the older party's case) so we know that's a lie.
We expect 13 year old boys to take on adult responsibilities for social order yet grant them none of the rights that come along with that, which is how we justify absolutely bizarre things like "boys who are statutory raped are still liable for child support". Executing that age group for capital crimes is the historical norm- and let's not get started on the Volkssturm or Hamas' choice of soldiers.
It's mostly the women who encourage that, by the way- just another asset to be used up in warfare. Human doings at their finest.
Things were better for 13 year old men 150 years ago as the balance of right and responsibility was a bit more even; it's only within the last hundred years where they lost their rights. Of course, the same is true for men in general, it's just naturally far more pronounced in a population that can't fight back as effectively.
just to make the city more affordable
Repealing the ALR- you know, the thing that'd solve the problem more or less immediately- is coup-complete for the same reason dealing with the homeless is: it's what the average Vancouverite (and Victorian) votes for.
I don't think this is going a popular proposition amongst the majority of citizens
It's not popular amongst the majority of Vancouverites, who vote to have more homeless on the streets because [reasons]. Once you leave the city, the viewpoints tend to become a bit more realistic.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
"Men and boys, from a very young age, are influenced by hardcore online pornography and The Manosphere(tm) to [among other things] see women merely as sex objects" is a vital component in the origin story progressives tell themselves.
And indeed, most men have "been exposed to hardcore online pornography" (translation: they, or someone they know, typed "boobs" into the Internet) by this age. They're not going to tell you that, though; it's one of those things adults are weird about, and they know that.
No mechanism for how this actually happens is ever expanded on beyond mumble mumble sexual novelty, but whether or not it actually makes sense is generally irrelevant.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
Get them out doing useful things, competing in sports or other activities.
But that is not Safe.
Give them male only spaces. They’ll be fine.
But that is not Equal.
And if you pay attention to what kinds of messages young men gravitate to, it’s messages exactly like that— calls to purpose, to doing hard things and building something worthwhile.
But that will mean men will think themselves entitled to the fruits of that labor rather than paying women their fair share.
That is not Consent.
If you worship these things as Goddesses, and many do- you don't generally get elected without professing your belief in these things- you cannot fix this problem. Only by rejecting these Goddesses can you solve the problem.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
"Incel" is just a catch-all term for "dissident"; it makes far more sense in this context.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
The killers are just plain evil and they kill someone at the top of the liberal victim hierarchy.
That's the motte; "man bad" is the bailey. If you have the power to fight in the bailey, why retreat to the motte?
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
Liberals seem to be low key against this?
Which liberals?
If you mean progressives, they hate it. The claim it devalues women is trivially correct and everything progressives do is downstream of this.
Actual liberals are generally too busy watching porn to comment.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
the nation of Canada is one consequential urban corridor containing 50% of its population (Quebec City -> Toronto)
Which is why it should be its own country. They have very little in common with those outside there and everything they do is destructive to those outside of it.
That is how it should be.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
I do wonder how much that's uniquely Canadian vs just being a feature of parliamentary systems.
Uniquely Canadian is an oxymoron. Also, this is a design feature of Parliamentary systems.
Canada is hardly a one-party state.
Canada in 2006 was not as harshly divided urban/rural as it is now. The ultimate problem is that one specific hyper-urbanized area is able to dominate Canadian politics to the detriment of everyone else, so if it votes as a bloc (and it does far more often than not) for any variety of reasons there aren't any moderating factors (no law, no bill of rights[1], no separation of powers) to slow them down.
Actually, that's another design feature of Parliamentary systems, since the entire reason that system exists is to let London do exactly that to the rest of England. You don't vote for an MP and who they are is irrelevant (again by design- wouldn't want individual members being accountable to the public or anything); you vote for a party and that's it.
[1] Before you say "but the Charter", I will remind you of Section 1, which exists to nullify the entire thing and make it more of a polite suggestion than anything that can be used to defend oneself against government overreach.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
and ended with her issuing a number of demands which certainly wont be met by Ottawa
It wouldn't have mattered what she said
Carney will almost certainly represent a lowering of the heat relative to Trudeau
lol, no
but Albertans were about to confidently have their champion and that is now ripped away from them. When a people who see themselves as victims have their hopes dashed is when they are most dangerous
One can only hope.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
All of the nastiness of American progressivism, none of the checks and balances that keep it mostly talk.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
After all her whole interview was about supporting Pierre.
It would be easier for AB to get policy goals accomplished were its people represented in the Federal government, something they haven't been for a long, long time now. Liberals don't listen to anyone outside of Toronto, and it shows.
But I don't think there's a future for Reform parties in this country and yet another CPC loss/Eastern aggression + economic cataclysm might start convincing people of that.
Meanwhile the liberal party has done a fantastic taking the sails out of Pierre's campaign by replacing Trudeau and cutting the carbon tax.
They have not cut the carbon tax when producing goods, only when consuming them. So the price of gas will drop a bit (and as the US shows, this is important enough for them to draw down their strategic reserves for) but that's about it.
All the Liberal party has to do for Easterners is be "their guy" (and being a fresh face doesn't hurt) if they perceive they're under some kind of threat. Only if they're not will they consider voting for what is, from the Eastern perspective, a foreigner.
Also,
the CPC's public strategy
Danielle Smith is not CPC nor federal, nor is her provincial party named the same way. Canadian politics work a little differently.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
1mo ago
if Quebec also secedes, then suddenly we might have two or three highly developed nations to our north
I mean, it's funny you call Quebec highly-developed, but anyway.
A secessionist movement there is going to have to be smart enough to consider Montreal a lost cause, or at least neutral ground (it is not a French city by voting pattern). Their failure to do this last time is the reason why Quebec is not today its own nation- too attached to the Provincial borders.
Canadian nationalism has been the province of the right since being disowned by the woke left and their captain Trudeau for the last decade
Post-nationalism is nationalism for Eastern Big City Canadians. Being interested in the whole country's growth rather than invested in holy crusade against it is indeed a "right-wing" thing though.
Ideological alignment is one thing, but question the sovereignty of my country and insult the flag that I served under and you’ve made yourself an enemy.
Your desire to get credit for putting your life on the line for people who hate you is understandable.
The Flashpoint Archive might have you covered.
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