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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
59m ago
It's actually still bad to be a Nazi (or fascist) even after being called one a whole lot, even if by very powerful institutions, even if over long periods of time.
Can you break down what "being a Nazi (or fascist)" is supposed to entail here? If you mean "wanting to gas the Jews" I agree, if it's "losing faith in liberalism" or "wanting out of the multi-kulti salad bowl", I'm not really seeing the badness of it.
It's also actually still bad to be a commie, even if it's the chic, avant-garde, fashionable thing that all your friends are into.
I even disagree with that. I believe that given human nature communism is doomed to turn people evil, but there's nothing inherently bad about believing in the superiority of centrally planned economies, or something.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Thank you. I know what you mean, when my brother in law died my wife was so despondent that she wouldn't even eat. I had to beg and cajole her just to get her to take a few bites of food. Thankfully she is well past the worst of it; she has moments where she feels sad but she is also able to enjoy life more days than not. And I guess in the grand scheme of things a year(ish) isn't so much time that you would expect everyone to be completely back to 100%. It'll just take more time for the wounds to heal, I guess.
I'm sorry to hear about your situation as well. Having had front row seats to watching an addict circle the drain... I wouldn't wish that upon anyone. I think there's something uniquely awful about seeing a good person get their brain hijacked by the addiction, because you know that the original person is in there somewhere, and you want to see them come back out again. Hopefully your wife doesn't blame herself; that is one of the things I have to keep trying to encourage my wife on. Reminding her that she did everything she could, and that she isn't at fault for the choices someone else made. Good luck to you and yours, man... I wish your family a speedy recovery.
Browser
1hr ago
Master of None was a solid early Netflix original even if the later seasons went off the rails in an attempt to atone for his sin by centering random POC lesbians.
IMO the episode with the parents in the first season one of the better affective.
Browser
1hr ago
Islam is a religion of peace and has only had somewhat contentious interactions with any other faith or civilization in the last 100 years as a direct result of colonialism and Zionism. How dare you suggest otherwise
ccc
1hr ago
your argument is basically 'no u' with a bit of effort
I was trying more for "bad things are bad"
You said it's okay for people to go from being regular conservatives to Nazis because people kept calling them Nazis. This is implied by you deflecting any attempt to put the blame on them, and by you putting all the blame on the people overusing the word.
It's actually still bad to be a Nazi (or fascist) even after being called one a whole lot, even if by very powerful institutions, even if over long periods of time.
It's also actually still bad to be a commie, even if it's the chic, avant-garde, fashionable thing that all your friends are into.
Anyway, I think you're onto something that shame is broken. It used to be an effective way to make people behave. Now, with the Internet, it's too effective. Only the shameless remain. Everyone else keeps their head down. That's why the inmates are running the asylum now.
So I guess this post may be as pointless as yours. Here I am, shaming you for shaming them for shaming others.
Can you be redeemed? or do I put you on a mental list forever of "partisan rightoid who blames the left for everything"
Can I be redeemed? or do I go on a mental list forever of "partisan leftoid who pretends not to know things"
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1hr ago
Rex is unimpressed with BATCHED IT.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
My opinion is all these folks should exit public service, if they are in it, for 5 years or so, to mature.
In a perfect world, where this is a society-wide norm, maybe.
sockpuppet2
1hr ago
What base rate of private group chat leaks should we expect and why? Which groups are most and least likely to have leaks?
TK-421
1hr ago
I barely remember who this guy is, does it really mean anything if his project tanks?
I argue yes. This is the Culture War and who gets to make cultural artifacts with massive amounts of money involved is a major front.
It's my assertion that Ansari is a good measuring stick precisely because his offense was relatively trivial. If the film succeeds, MeToo in the mainstream narrative is effectively dead. If it fails, at a minimum Ansari is the new line. The film itself is allegedly around average, underperformance is likely a strong signal from the distributed voting mechanism that is ticket sales that doing as Aziz does is still verboten. Doing better than bad would also be a signal. Producers and distributors react accordingly. The media environment changes.
JarJarJedi
1hr ago
The thing is, my workouts if anything became less intense than I did for the last few years - more emphasis on the resistance training than cardio than before - not related to the weight loss effort, just a coincidence that I switched a month or so prior. But I tried to do diets before (keto, zone, etc.) and it never worked. I mean, if worked for a short while but I was miserable and couldn't sustain it. This regime I think I could sustain pretty much indefinitely if I needed to - though I probably will try to relax some of the limitations if I reach my weight target.
I know 5.7 Hb1Ac is not too bad, but it had been creeping up for a while (and other issues been popping out too) and given my genetics, I'd rather not play with fire here.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1hr ago
I believe I speak for much of the community here when I say the answer to every one of your questions is: ”Yes”.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
2hr ago
Episode I was almost entirely a waste: it introduces Padme and Anakin, and shows Palpatine gaining power. Nothing else in that movie was important for later films.
There are a couple of other little bits - starting Anakin's apprenticeship under an inauspicious star, with him too old and Obi-Wan barely even a Jedi, and showing that this is The Old Republic and things are expected to End Well. The second of those is very important, and is the big obstacle to any attempt to integrate TPM more closely into the prequels. You could extend the romance, and possibly even some of Anakin's time as a Padawan, into TPM, but the main plot mostly has to be standalone because it has to End Well.
ser
2hr ago
this is insane, I may know you. We invested in a healthcare startup in Miami that's not doing too hot. Small world.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
2hr ago
I was the one who wrote the Hasan post and nowhere in it did I allege that Democrats approved of or condoned such behaviour. Twitch drama may be lowbrow, but it is undoubtedly culture war. Hasan's bad behaviour - not just rhetoric, mind you - reflects only on himself.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
If my brother has gone crazy then it is my duty to do something about it, whether or not my neighbor is dealing with his crazy brother.
I'll take another stab at this, and try to answer the point you were actually making. Going with your analogy:
- If I run into my crazy brother and my neighbor's crazy brother kicking the shit out of each other, knowing that either of them is crazy enough to turn on me if I come close, or hell that they might even team up against me, if I get between them, oh and there's my neighbor watching the whole thing from afar, not make a single movement or giving any hint he will help, but expecting I will do something about it, do I still have a moral duty to intervene?
- If I run into my crazy brother kicking the shit out of my neighbor, but the last 3 times it was the neighbor's crazy brother kicking the shit out of me, and the neighbor's intervention consisted of saying "ok let's go home now" after his brother beat me to a bloody pulp, do I still have a moral duty to intervene then? In this analogy we are assuming there's no police or higher authority to appeal to.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
Is there any particular reason you're posting about this, and then ignoring anyone who raises points that make your entire thesis look it relies on manipulating information, if not outright lying?
Yeah, there was a time when people would discuss it so often, the more left-leaning mods decided to ban the entire topic for a month. Partly a result of 1-2 posters having a hobby horse, and partly of the more left-wing posters not being satisfied with making moral arguments against it, insisting that it must be false, and stepping on rake after rake in the process.
Most people are happy to leave well enough alone, if you don't press the subject.
anti_dan
3hr ago
I am team: "This is different, and is still kinda bad."
My opinion is all these folks should exit public service, if they are in it, for 5 years or so, to mature. There are plenty of jobs at advertising agencies for Coca Cola, and THOSE companies should vigorously recruit these fellows because that is what they would do in a free market based on their comedic stylings and ability to understand the dark comedy of the modern youth.
Then in 5 years these bad jokes should be forgiven and they can do whatever.
This is, of course, a very high standard in comparison to the left, but it is what I prefer. Unfortunately, it also requires leftish cooperation because most ad places are run by the exact sort of people fake-outraged by this. So they kinda have to give up something to be reasonable.
anti_dan
3hr ago
I do, at the end of the day the individual actors are responsible for themselves. The average non Nazi conservative is not a Nazi because some other conservatives who are not them are Nazis. Many conservatives have actively condemned the growing nazi problem even, I linked some in the post!
Have any of these people even been credibly accused of being Nazis as opposed to making jokes that offend people who are always on the lookout for Nazis? Its not a joke for me to assert that I have been hearing warning about the "growing influence of Nazism on the right" since I was in 4th grade, and likely the only reason I dont remember hearing about it before then is because I was not listening. To quote the personality who helped found this forum in his better days, "You are still crying wolf"
This also isn't, by contrast, people openly calling for Nazism, nor is it high level politicians calling for political violence, or materially supporting it. It is basically an assortment of group chats by low level people. So we are trying to match like for like, when in reality we are matching pawns with queens.
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
The arguments I've seen are "he says they're good with money, which is stereotyping", and "he's encouraging people to hate them, both by generic bigotry and by doing things like recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which made a lot of people angry and therefore more likely to attack Jews."
The first one seems more than plausible (Trump, a bog-standard bigot who agrees with stereotypes? Say it ain't so!), even if it's a bit milquetoast; the second is... IMO one hell of a reach.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
3hr ago
That said, one person's "ragebait" is another person's outside-the-local-overton-window argument.
I expect that a post consisting of four twitter links and a "doesn't this prove all my outgroup are just the worst?" would invite a warning for being obviously boo outgroup antagonism. Like, I can imagine a post talking about Hasan Piker's scandal over torturing his dog and how doesn't this prove Democrats have a psychopath problem? But I can't imagine the community norm thinking that was a good faith contribution.
Failing to engage in good faith is another matter
More concerned about this as a consistent pattern. If it's on the radar, I'm happy enough.
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof
That looks like the lead-in to a statement you'd see from someone pro-Palestinian on Reddit, which does not usually line up directly with the far right (who I believe want everyone in the Levant to lose).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Goes back WAY further than that, to the days of Muhammad.
I'm not sure what if any music that Romero actually has composed for the game. The music they've revealed, including the main theme has not been credited to any composer and if Romero composed it I would think they would be loud in their marketing about that.
Furthermore, of the music I've listened to only the menu theme sounds vaguely Romeroish.
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