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philosoraptor
6m ago
But I, like Kirk, was in an environment where I was never going to run a serious risk of being ostracized.
Are you seriously trying to suggest, at this of all times, that he wasn't running any risks?
ABigGuy4U
6m ago
It reminds me of the disappearance of Jean McConville, or some of the other similarly sickening incidents of the Troubles. The attitude was there too. Stopping your car to jeer at a soldier as he bleeds to death on the road. I think about Northern Ireland a lot lately.
WandererintheWilderness
7m ago
As corny as it sounds, appealing to people's better nature, taking the moral high ground. Don't go on the attack trying to look for ulterior motives and ideology behind the cheering - just call out the cheering as unkind and inhuman at the rawest level. The approach should be to shame people into self-reflection within their own consciences. "This? This is what you want? This is righteous? Are you sure? I don't believe that. I don't believe that deep down, you or anyone decent can believe that. We wouldn't wish it on you or anyone on your side. Truly we wouldn't. Please don't darken your own hearts by going down that road." Above all else keep the clip in circulation, with all its visceral, disquieting pathos. The idea that Charlie Kirk Is Dead can be thoughtlessly celebrated, but the actual sight of it - no, not unless you're a sociopath.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
8m ago
I just picked up a couple of games on the recommendation of people I work with: Hell Is Us and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge. TMNT is great, albeit pretty challenging (the third level is a huge difficulty spike and I got frustrated enough that I haven't played since). But difficulty aside it's exactly what you would want from a modern take on the TMNT arcade game of old. They added a decent bit more depth to the combat and a ton more characters to play (Splinter, April, Casey Jones, etc), plus the pixel art is beautiful.
Hell Is Us is... yeah IDK yet. My colleague pitched it to me as having a lot in common with the puzzle solving in Tomb Raider, but it doesn't quite feel to me like it has that vibe. There is puzzle solving, but so far the most prominent element has been the combat and the creepy supernatural horror atmosphere the monsters add. The basic premise is that your character is trying to navigate a world torn apart by religious civil war and see his parents, when he runs into the otherworldly monsters and... that's about it so far. I'm only 2 hours in, and the storytelling is very sparse. They seem to be going for a minimalist Souls approach to storytelling, which is very much not my jam. The game is also very proud to not have any sort of navigational aids - no markers, no map, just a compass you can consult to see which direction you're going. I can understand why they do that, but that is also not really my jam (in particular the lack of map, which I do not like at all). But all the same, I've been warming to it slowly and we'll see how it goes.
Though both of those games are getting set aside in a week, when Trails in the Sky 1st comes out. If you're unfamiliar with Trails, it's a moderately well known, long running JRPG series (like 12 or 13 games at this point) which is known for all the games having an interconnected plot. They have their smaller arcs so you can just play one arc without going balls deep, but it is kind of special to play since the very first game and see returning characters and plot threads from that far back. It's also unashamedly traditional JRPG fare, and it's become my Final Fantasy replacement for that reason (because FF is too busy trying to appeal to new audiences to bother making games their long time fans enjoy, and yes I'm bitter). Anyways, this game is a remake of the very first game in the series, and by the demo it looks to be a very faithful remake (exactly how I like them). So I'm looking forward to that one a lot, and all other games are going to get dropped when that comes out.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
9m ago
have you tried Beware of Chicken? My wife and I love it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9m ago
Look at that graph. TFR drops from 1800 until 1940 (with the 1935 to 1940 drop being smaller by far than the 1930 to 1935 drop), then goes SHARPLY back up until 1960, falls again as sharply until 1980, then goes slightly back up and down. There is absolutely no evidence for your position; you've got less than nothing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12m ago
Yeah, it's not an ambush at all. He invited them to attack his prepared position, that's not an ambush.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
13m ago
What are the best completed cultivation novels in your mind? I started reverend insanity off the rec of @self_made_human but wasn’t feeling the evil MC vibe.
I’ve read coiling dragon, I shall seal the heavens, cradle, and mother of learning and liked em all. Tried out Warlock of magus world but it’s a little too silly for me so far.
Any thoughts?
philosoraptor
14m ago
That's not a debate, that's an ambush.
In what other ambush scenario does the side that's supposedly being ambushed get to decide whether, how, and when to engage?
Bleep
18m ago
Israelis generally likely wouldn't, but Netanyahu and co use Hamas as a justification (especially to their domestic opposition) to refuse to negotiate in good faith let alone negotiate a longer-term political solution to the conflict, e.g., a two state solution which is the preferred and endorsed "solution" by the overwhelming vast majority of the world for many decades and, at the time, a sizeable portion of Israelis. Netanyahu and co can claim they have no "viable partner for peace" as long as Hamas is in control.
It's important to remember, Netanyahu and co very nearly lost that battle when Yitzhak Rabin was elected PM in 1992 on making peace and who genuinely engaged in dialogue with the Palestinians to work towards a lasting peaceful political solution with the Oslo Accords and Peace Process. Or he was until he was assassinated.
Additionally, Netanyahu and co think of Hamas as not being particularly dangerous; Israel would simply need to go in and "mow the grass" from time to time to keep them beaten down.
So they constantly serve as a placeholder who murder any upstart rivals and prevent a more palatable (to negotiate with) group coming to the front in the Gaza strip as well as prevent a united group across the Strip and the West Bank.
lurker
20m ago
I've asked for evidence of being a groyper from people saying it and usually they just stop talking at that point. Only one guy actually gave any reason at all and it was that no true leftist would write any of that on the bullet casings and it's obviously a right winger false flagging. Suffice it to say this reasoning is utterly unconvincing.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
27m ago
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
31m ago
If you want to understand Donald Trump, imagine your normie grandfather having a power fantasy about being the super-model banging billionaire who saves America with Common Sense and Not Being A Loser.
chooky
37m ago
Silksong, from what I can tell, seems to be explicitly designed to avoid much of the power creep of other metroidvanias, including Hollow Knight, hence the paucity of damage and health upgrades. But it may be that I am very dumb - I got through almost all of Hollow Knight before realizing that the nail upgrades even existed. (I do have the first needle upgrade in SS; getting the second seems like it requires quite a bit beyond merely beating Act I, which I have done.)
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
38m ago
Have you actually seen anything specifying "neonazi"? Everything I saw in the news had just a generic statement about "an extremist group" and "still unclear about the motive".
Soteriologian
47m ago
It takes time for deep incentive changes of this sort to percolate. It wasn’t intended as a subsidy for childlessness, nor was it perceived as such.
But it nonetheless is.
It sounds sort of like you want to slot this into something like trolling or outrage bait? I don't think I agree with that if so. Yes I don't care that he's dead. I love that he's dead. He was evil! That my enemies are incorrectly modeling my behavior and, were they only to change how they treated me, sounds like something that I would want to believe if I knew my participation in an activity was irresponsible or unjustified. Passing this responsibility onto others, especially onto my enemy, sounds ideal. You made me do it is tried and true.
because it has a significant risk of Streisanding the idea of actively supporting assassinations among people who currently don't support them
Personally, I think this is already out of the bag, among all manner of other things that make one a leftist, fascist, good, or bad. The left-coding isn't for the benefit of or in response to the right. The left-coding is and -- rather than something new -- we should consider this a resurgence of an old meme the left has relied on and used to great effect before. I suppose the right could try a 4D play and reclaim calls to violence (doesn't go well for them) or attempt its own social media-gov't speech restriction on behalf of conservatives which also doesn't go well.
I agree nobody should want to will something into existence or exacerbate it. A vicious, more violent left benefits some. What appropriate response do you have in mind?
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
51m ago
A fired shell casing was inscribed with “notices bulges OwO what’s this?"
Don't cite the Deep Magic at me, witch. I was there when it was written.
Lying is an effective political tactic.
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Numerous lies were told about the events of Jan 6th to cement its political significance. These lies later collapsed, but the significance has largely remained. That was a win for the liars.
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People earlier this week pointed out that the guy who broke into Pelosi's house with a hammer admitted himself, on the record, that he was motivated by batshit right-wing conspiracy theories. At the time, right-wing bullshit about his motivations flew thick and fast, and while I didn't take much of it seriously, neither did I receive the correct info and had assumed since that it was just a random crazy.
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Consider the Birther conspiracy theory. That was, by all available evidence, also a lie. People believed it because they wanted to believe it. Believing that Obama was a contract demon who could be banished by speaking the correct secret words was vastly more comforting than believing they'd lost the election, and so a lot of people believed it and actively worked to get others to believe it too.
Dean
Flairless
56m ago
Party-sanctioned killings.
Hard-left states regularly create deliberate distinctions between the party and the state, to the degree that when the two contradict, the party is prioritized. This allows non-state party organs to act freely and against state elements during times of internal control tensions, such as when state capacity is weak, or those in charge of the party are trying to purge party elements within the state.
DiscourseMagnus
57m ago
There seem to be a lot of particularly vile people making hay right now by asserting that the assassin was a groyper as though they had evidence of it, often outright lying to do so.
Soteriologian
59m ago
For all the people making clownworld asshats of themselves, the ray of light for me is the shooter’s father. It sounds like he, perhaps with the help of someone from their church, convinced the shooter to not kill himself and to turn himself in.
There were so many other ways to handle that: stay quiet and let the government handle it, disown him, tell him to go ahead and kill himself, etc.
Imagine the strength it took to say, “You will not kill yourself. You will not run. You will submit yourself to the authorities and face the consequences—and if that means your very life, so be it.”
I have my issues with tradcons, but at moments like this, there is a radiance that is almost blinding to gaze upon.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1hr ago
You should try that at a funeral. Get video.
That's the mistake theory explanation, yes. People think this because the conflict theory explanation- where when pressed, they pretend it's a game, then pretend they weren't serious, then attempt to remind you their inherent moral worth deserves your leniency, then make it clear they know exactly what they're doing and proceed with the destructive thing anyway- is just not something humans have evolved to deal with.
We don't accept explanations of
just following orders"actually, I'm just retarded" from the right[0] for deep-seated biological reasons. That we accept them from the left[1] (also for deep-seated biological reasons) is actually a big deal.Not that "involuntarily attending a school shooting" isn't a viable way to political power (David Hogg), but I very much doubt that if you get shot like Kirk was, you'll be enjoying anything after that (much less political power).
[0, 1] For rightists, being retarded is never believed because, as human doings [or in modern times, people more aligned with human doings], it's strictly an evolutionary malus (stupidity is a detriment to executing your will) so any assertions you were retarded accidentally are naturally looked upon with extreme skepticism. For leftists it's always believed because, as human beings [or in modern times, people more aligned with human beings], being able to convince human doings to taking pity on you is an evolutionary bonus (feigning childishness is an enhancement).
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