Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
Top Favorite: XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero.
Second Favorite: Destiny Gundam. (Boy, if you ever need to see a series ruined by a blatant SI/Mary Sue. Poor Shinn.)
I may have a type.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
Personally, I have respect for the people in the past who risked their lives to settle. The modern-day descendants of those people deserve no special accolades. You didn't do shit except get popped out in the right place from the right hole. You're not special because of what they did.
This argument goes both ways. By all rights, what makes modern immigrants special, in that they should be allowed access to America? Access to America isn't some human right, after all.
And I can't help but notice that the Heritage Americans seem to have little to no problem with white people who have only recently migrated, or that they seem to have little interest in the contributions of people who are not white but have also been here a long time.
So?
That's a moral condemnation, not an argument.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
Because thier family and bloodline built the country.
I'm not being hyperbolic, or trying to invoke some sort of higher power or ethos or shared culture, like everyone else. It's just being sensible; People whom have family in America that can trace thier linieage back decades, if not centuries, are looking at a line of people who's decisions and choices and goals have had a massive knock-on secondary effects that have effected the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of others, and so on, and they in-turn been affected by others.
The son who's great-grand father ran for mayor in a town can track down the laws and see what long-term effects they had on it's development. The daughter who's great-great-great grandmother rescued a dying man from the battlefield and hid him from Johnny Reb of the devils in blue and married him, or just nursed him back to health and he went on to kill others. The grandfather that pushed for the first major business in a town, thereby changing the lives of hundreds directly, or the grandmother that pushed for them to head out west on Route 66 to pursue for better fortune elsewhere. The northen carpet-bagger that came down to the South and is the direct reason why parts of the Atlas V rocket and Space Shuttle were built in New Orleans.
(That last one is completely true, by the by. The others are generalities.)
You are presumably sitting in the results of those actions, piled on and on and on by what I would charitably call a unique group of individuals. I doubt the Earth could handle a second America lurking in the wings. We'd probably explode. Possibly literally.
Put another way, looking at it from a business perspective, if you have a buisness with a public IPO and you then conclude 'And those with the smallest shares will have identical voting power as to those with the most', they'd look at you as if you'd lost your goddamn mind.
So that's one arguement.
'But Eyes,' you might reply. 'That's begining to look suspiciously akin to what alot of Europeans refer to Class and Nobility and Lineage and whatnot. Aren't Americans virulently allergic to that?'
And I would reply, 'Why, yes. Yes it is. So I think it would be wise to look at the circumstances and reasons for such a thought to arise and perhaps correct the reason for it.'
But perhaps you're not convinced. Understandable. As they say, you don't pin others medals on your chest.
Though I wonder, sometimes. That blood tells, more than often, that we really are the results of our forefathers than we care to admit.
So! Second arguement.
Let's look at context.
I think it's fair to say that the majority of immigrants to America, up to a certain point, were what we would call settlers. People who risked it all - quite literally - to establish a better life. People with a certain attitude and grit whom were willing to wrestle civilization out of a land that, quite charitably, wanted to kill them, populated by potentially hostile locals that also wanted to kill them and each other, if not both, depending on thier mood. That there was, if you will, a certain gate they had to pass through, be it either via travel or sheer survival or grit or luck or all of the above to become the successful American Experiment.
Nor should we ignore that alot of people - especially during the early 20th century, in the period between 1900-1920 - flooded into the country, and if they could not sucede one way or another, they actually went back. 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor' is just really good propaganda tacked on way after the fact, that even after a large amount of threat had been wrested from the North American continent, there was still challenges to overcome. Modern infrastructure still hadn't been built, and in some places I know of, cities that are now seperated by a mere hour or so could take days to reach, because even up to WW2 there were still portions of America that, yes, really were still wild.
Times have changed. The people coming in now are not coming in to settle. They are not coming in to travel by train or horse or car to remote places to find a quite nest to live out their lives away from everyone else. Why they are coming can be interpreted in as many ways as you like, from the charitable to the uncharitable to the actively hostile, but the idea that people coming now, today, are similar in any way to the people coming to America pre-WW2(and I'm being generous with that for a reason) is utterly ludicrous.
If you wanted me to nail down a cut-off date, if I were feeling cheeky, I'd say 1965 for the Hart Cellar Act. But, no. Realistically, I'd say January 3rd, 1959. Why?
Because that was when Alaska was incorporated as a state. The last of the great frontiers, finally civilized.
No more lands left to conquer.
Look. I'm not going to sit here and say that I agree with the idea of Heritage Americans unequivocally. Though lord knows the past ten years are so have been rather testing for some of my previously held beleifs, so who the hell knows by this point.
But I do think it's silly to completely ignore all the above. Times have changed. The world as a whole is different. We need to adapt to that. How we adapt to that is an open question, yes, but I think it's fair to say that we have a slight problem that needs to get resolved, hopefully in a peaceable manner.
Fair disclaimer: The above was written while sleep deprived, with no references, and primarily because my brain would not shut the ever-loving hell up and I finally gave up and decided to put all this to paper. Maybe now I can crawl off and get some goddamn sleep.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Problem is, if you're not going to shoot BLM rioters, you don't get to shoot J6 rioters. Simple as.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Bad associated optics. Historically, the use of water cannons were used on MLK's protest march through Alabama, and it became viral at the time because of it.
...so, yes, sad to say, Leftists could claim that water cannons are racist with a straight face.
Governor Wallace was a retarded dumbfuck.
Grant_us_eyes
8d ago
Events like this are not unique. If you want another example, here's is a short video of another cop being run over by someone she was trying to detain from the perspective of the body cam.
All it took was 5 to 6 seconds for the suspect to get in his car and run her down.
No, she didn't survive.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
Between Antifa, the John Browning Society(of which atleast one of our mods(former mod?) was a member of, once upon a time), the various upswell of various tranny terrorist groups(That whole Ziz kerfuffle), and given how some of our previous members are going heavily political and associated with LGBT, I'd say it's less than a fantasy and more hedging of the bets.
I can't say anything in regards to Federal agents, but. I mean. We have atleast one popular poster that talks off-handed about working in Washington DC in politics, iirc.
By this point, anything is possible.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
I can't see the comparison. Like, at all.
Mind, it's likely due to my odd little niche of absolutely adoring Blindsight while having an attitude of sneering disgust toward the writer himself.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Nice try, fedboy.
...seriously, this is one of those questions that the last sensible thing to do would be to put word and thought on the matter on some public forum. I give my CIA handlers enough conniption fits as-is.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
Depending on where you're located, there are fast-food chains who offer nothing but these.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
While gatekeeping is typically good, one has to wonder who benefits when they hide there's even a gate to be kept in the first place.
Maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but I can't help but think that political parties shouldn't be taking notes from the Kybalion on how to manage entry.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
Streamers/OnlyFan girls of various stripes tend to be much cheaper than prostitutes/escorts.
...I think. I'm sure someone can trot out an example of a rather ludicrious OnlyFans where the pricing is absolutely stratospheric, but the last time my morbid curiosity led me down that particular rabbit hole, that was my general take on the matter.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
A Peter F Hamilton fan, I see.
(Good lord, it's bad that I remember the book in question despite having been years since last reading it.)
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
If you put a gun to my head and forced me to play Skyrim with only 3 mods, I'd pick Sacrosanct(I like playing vampires, and this is the best mod for that), the Serana Dialouge Addon(probably has a new name - they've expanded that mod hugely since I last played it) and Forgotten Magic redone(which is the best magic mod I've seen for Skyrim, IMHO).
Take that for what it's worth.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
Quite possibly that happened, your picture was shown; your job and height were stated; and you were rejected without being made aware of it. The dirty little secret is that single women who report difficulty finding relationships are almost uniformly super-picky.
Hah. You don't know my mother. No, I'm fairly certain this didn't happen in the slightest. I don't even beleive she has a picture of me to show, come to think...
You are quite correct on the rest of it, though.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
The hairdresser in question was referring to the woman and men in her family.
I bring this up as a point because, presumably, she might very well have single, available family members looking to get married.
At not one point did my mother inquire about this, at no point did the hairdresser in question volunteer.
If you want to marry a hairdresser or woman of that social class, nothing is stopping you going to a hairdresser's salon and trying to find out if any of the women there are single.
Your confidence in my social acumen is staggering.
Grant_us_eyes
17d ago
To be blunt, a lot of the complaints on here are men getting to see what it was like from the female point of view over those centuries of "no free choice for you but men can sow their wild oats and they decide if they finally want to marry at age forty".
This has never been the vast majority of men. You're hyperfocused on the top ten to one percent of men who have the luxury to do this.
Looking back at the past three generations of men on my father's side, not one of them did this, my father included.
The vast majority of men really are invisible to women, huh.
if you're 34 and not married by that age, what is wrong with you?
I've spent the past ten years trying to get together a job and a life that can actually support a family. So far it's been an utter failure, for one reason or another.
why so picky?
No sane woman would want to marry me.
why not get married straight out of high school
I never received any attention from woman in high school.
and have your mother pick your potential spouse for you?
Funny story my family had over Christmas dinner. My mother was commenting on how she was bragging to her hair dresser about how good her two sons are(myself and my brother), referencing all the things we do for her in terms of managing the household and all the special things we like to do one around the holidays. The hair dresser, in turn, apparently regaled to my mother how worthless her various relatives were regarding such things and how much of a pain they were.
And it couldn't help but occur to me, listening to this, that at no point during this entire conversation these two women apparently had, was there the wherewithal or instinct or desire to go 'Hey, I have/you have these two, single, adult men - I have/you have these single relatives, why don't you/I get them together as a social date and see if anything clicks'.
I'm beginning to wonder just how many generations of women have failed their sons by this point.
Grant_us_eyes
17d ago
the man’s ideal is a virgin bride who turns into his personal slut.
I see statements like this, and I recall Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings - who basically went off to war, went through hell, came back, married his childhood friend, and had something like 8 kids.
When society has gotten to the point where you can point at Samwise Gamgee, the literal everyman in a story filled with demigods and suffering, tragic figures, and say 'That's an unrealistic fantasy, stop dreaming', I think we've lost a bit of the plot somewhere along the way.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
I suppose I could cheat by slapping the entire Xenogears OST down on the table and walking away, but if I had to narrow it to a specific track, 'Small Two of Pieces - Restored Pieces' is probably the best of them.
It's definitely a song that has one hell of a payoff.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
Here I thought I was about to pay for my sins of not doing my due dilligance on the Motte, but;
Gretchen Whitmer: Michigan governor kidnap plot case collapses
Fox and Croft were the two I was thinking of. Not acquited, but a mistrial. I find it telling that the initial court for those two were ruled as a mistrial, only to be convicted after a second trial(of cource) and both were given very heavy prison terms - again, of cource - and then denied appeal by a panel of Judges, as noted in your second link.
Of. Cource.
Perhaps I'm being very uncharitable, but I find it difficult to do so in such a case as this one.
Grant_us_eyes
23d ago
Oddly I don’t see the same level of paramilitary organization forming in the right which you wouldn’t think given their greater affinity for gun culture.
The reason for this is that any attempt to do as such is often met with the reply of 'Nice try, Fedboy.'
The Right as a whole is excruciatingly aware of the double-standard of how paramilitary organizations are treated. Antifa? John Brown Society? A-O-Kay, says the Feds. Patriot Front? A right-wing organization of people dressed in anonymous uniforms?
Clearly a fed-run honeypot.
I can't really blame them, going by the long history of treatment by right-wing elements by said fed. Even just recently, with the governor kidnapping attempt, who's conviction of those indicted was actually overturned because the majority of said group was federal operatives egging the entire plot on. And that overturned conviction was reversed by a higher-judge.
Because of course it was.
So. Any right-wing paramilitary organization is going to be quiet, run deep, run silent, and will probably never get talked about unless things get really, really bad.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
I was curious about Expedition 33, and watched a few Vtubers playing it, and I have no problems admitting that my interest in purchasing said game was killed when I saw the random black guy pop up out of nowhere.
Hearing that he gets killed off... Well, I dunno. Maybe I'll pick it up on a 90% off sale or something down the road in a few years.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
Q: You hit me! Picard never hit me.
SISKO: I'm not Picard.
Q: Indeed not. You're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me.
People always gloss over that follow up.
Want to waste 100+ hours on a Top-down isometric CRPG that gives you the option to kill off your party members?
Crack open Rogue Trader and have at it.
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