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Botond173
1m ago
Corporations are greedy and bad. The concert organizers didn't think through a lot of basic logistics and pretty much just sold tickets for attendance and not much else.
They also chose a venue (a defunct air force base) completely unsuited for such an event in the July heat (concrete surfaces everywhere and no shade anywhere, pretty much no foliage at all). Security was also wholly undermanned and undertrained.
Gaashk
3m ago
Fair enough, it just seems somewhat at cross purposes with the dream of convincing all of your relatives to spend time there in comparison with, say, orchards.
non_radical_centrist
6m ago
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-a-quick-overview
Seems pretty relevant
Botond173
6m ago
I can see that you already received multiple responses, so I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned the legacy of the Nu metal genre as a factor. The view that it was all basically a directionless, destructive and embarassing outburst of American suburban middle-class White male rage an toxicity was probably a view shared by hardliner feminists from the beginning, but it wasn't adopted into mainstream culture roughly until 2021.
non_radical_centrist
7m ago
I've volunteered at my local small town's annual founding festival, which has small events and games like a pie eating contest and an auction, if that counts
Hyperion
15m ago
Resident Evil 5, too. That one got criticized even at the time, but these were before Obama's second term when things really escalated.
non_radical_centrist
15m ago
Probably that's entirely driven by irrational gamblers and the fact the bet maximums and fees make betting against 3rd parties, even if it's a sure thing, not worth it when the odds are already that low.
orthoxerox
I realized I can change my flair color to Barbie pink
19m ago
Your assumption is absolutely correct.
Gaashk
21m ago
I genuinely want more content in an Ethiopian setting. They had a really interesting civilization, with good aesthetics, that's underrepresented in media. On the other hand, I don't play this kind of game, so my opinion doesn't matter much.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
21m ago
Even him winning 45% -- which I think he's likely to do -- would be a solid and profound rebuke of the attempts to use weird lawsuits and criminal trials to bring down a major political candidate.
Can you explain this logic to me? Surely the point of underhanded maneuvers is no more than winning the election, which only necessitates winning the marginal voter without losing your base. Successfully accomplishing your goal by a comfortable margin does not seem like a rebuke at all, it seems like a strong validation of the strategy.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
24m ago
My point exactly.
Despite any pope-knifing, AC2 was more controversial for its DRM than for its politics. This was objectively more reasonable than today’s squabbles.
RegularlyExpressed
28m ago
I still find it disgusting that the media does not give any coverage to the Darfur massacres, Perhaps it is because Hamas is a 'legitimate authority' so attribution can be satisfied, even though Hamas lies more than North Korea does.
Arabs and blacks seem to occupy equal positions on the progressive stack, so most journalists aren't particularly animated by the former massacring the latter.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
30m ago
Always scroll down, never scroll up. Up is evil down is good
--Zardoz probably
2rafa
32m ago
Most boomercons were never as anti-Trump as is now sometimes claimed. They didn’t like it, but many still voted for him.
The most obvious element is that it is very dangerous to stand up in public and discussion Jewish overrepresentation.
I appreciate that but that's true or any minority in the UK . How secure would your job be if you tried to discuss Indian overrepresentation? Or black overrepresentation at the other end? I'm not even sure Jews are overrepresented in the UK. I can only think of a small handful of political figures/journalists. Alan Sugar I suppose?
Beyond that, I think that the continued mawkish emphasis of the Holocaust in my country is mostly down to Jewish activism; it was horrible, but it happened hundreds of miles away, in a totally different country with whom we were at war, seventy years ago.
I'd want to see evidence of that. I'm sure Jewish communities appreciate it being remembered but the Holocaust is emphasised far more IMO in order to underline that we in the UK were on the "right side" of the war, against the indescribably terrible Nazis. It's basically our crowning 20th century achievement! Compare that to our relationship with WWI, where even though we won and didn't lose our empire immediately afterwards, the main sentiment towards it is almost one of national regret that our incompetent (in the public imagination) leadership frivolously threw away the lives of so many young men. Could you imagine any piece of media depicting the role of UK in WWII similarly to how it is in Blackadder goes forth?
And yet we are spending 100m of public money in 2024 to pave over a park in Central London so that it can be turned into a Holocaust memorial*, even rewriting our own planning laws because they forbid it, and heavily implying that the only difference between Britain and Nazi Germany is that the anti-semitic fascists happened to turn up there and not here.
I haven't heard about this, so would be interested in learning more. Did this happen because Jews were clamoring for public money to be spent on ruining green spaces in London? I'd assume this is far more likely to be the brainchild of the sort of public sector worker who put Hadiths on the display board in KX, and likes bringing up the Holocaust so they can claim that it's imperative we don't allow "fascists" (i.e. anyone opposed to immigration) to get into power, because clearly we're only ever a hair's breadth at most from what happened in Germany in the 30s.
Beyond those two points, I have no idea what influence is going on behind the scenes. I hope not too much, but I am not so naive as to think that a group with disproportionate influence is not wielding it at all. Thus my desire for transparency.
So apart from not being able to discuss the influence of British Jews, what is the main influence of British Jews (beyond that they're probably up to something)? It's not like they even affect our relationship with Israel that much, tied as it is to American foreign policy in the region. Most of the media left of the Telegraph is pretty relentlessly hostile to Israel, and it's hard to imagine a group with much influence allowing London to be taken over most weekends by thousands of people chanting genocidal chants about them. If anything increasing Muslim immigration is likelier to play a far larger role in affecting our geopolitical stances in the future, and Indian immigration has already led to a member of that group being Prime Minister (the Jews, despite having been here much longer, haven't had one since Disraeli). It seems like Jews are one of the least influential groups in the country.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
44m ago
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self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
58m ago
Honestly, I'm impressed you manage to be so productive, considering all you mention.
I write the most when I'm drowning in work and responsibilities, it's a pleasant form of procrastination. But in this case, I have a legit fire under my ass, I can't afford to fuck up the one good thing I've got going haha.
I did a while ago, recommended to a friend too. "I'll take a look" - never did, flaky bastard
Why, thank you. If I had a Patreon, I'd bump you up to cameo in novel tier, but since I don't, I'll just hand that to you for free. If you do actually want a character to show up, just let me know and I'll make it happen.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
59m ago
When you are weak it is best to avoid antagonizing your enemy.
Granting for the sake of discussion that Reds are "weak", it seems to me that all Red Tribe victories in living memory have come from actions generally characterized as antagonistic, and no valuable victories have ever been delivered through actions generally characterized as cooperative or conciliatory. Further, given the state of the culture war, it's hard to imagine how this could possibly be otherwise. Many, many Blue Tribe actions, especially in the last decade, seem to me to be strongly antagonistic to the point where a response is fundamentally necessary to retain even a modicum of legitimacy for the existing system.
The worst case scenario is that the bureacracy would just say "no" to Trump's orders, precipitating a constitutional crisis.
What's driving your definition of "worst case", here? Worst case relative to what?
I believe the current system has been engineered by Blues to be incapable of providing redress for Red grievances. It doesn't matter what elections we win, what laws we pass, what norms we follow, what processes we engage with, the output is always failure for our goals and values and victory for those of Blues. If that is the situation, then how would precipitating a constitutional crisis make things "worse"? We've already seen the normalization of organized political violence nationwide, universal violations of fundamental human rights, the partisan weaponization of the security services, and the complete collapse of rule of law. What would a constitutional crisis add to those problems?
I am perfectly willing to see Trump die in jail. Trump is by no means irreplicable, and his value as a martyr could easily exceed his value as a President. It seems obviously worse to me to see the numerous catastrophic abuses committed by Blue Tribe be cemented into durable norms, as was done with their abuses in previous generations. Playing nice for fear of the consequences of conflict is exactly how we arrived in our current predicament. It is past time to fight fire with fire.
That's not magnanimity. At best it's baseline, normal behaviour. If you find that to be impressive coming from Trump, that seems like a meaner thing to say about him than even most of his leftie foes would say (and I say that as one of them, at least by the standards of this place).
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