PZK [he/him]

This would create quite an evil mouse. I imagine the risk here is that the mouse would break free and run away with the ring and bring it to Sauron.

Edit: Someone already beat me to it.

=Assad

=Zelensky

Everything is political, not just when your views are challenged.

I see what you mean. Fortunately the labor market in the US is very much in favor of workers at this point and barring a major depression, its probably going to be like that for many years because boomers are retiring and leaving faster than the Fed can try to squeeze the labor market into submission.

Disagree. There is nothing that says someone needs to be subjected due to trans acceptance. I do not feel threatened by, or feel that my “privilege” is being attacked by the existence of trans people. They want to exist and be accepted and I don’t see this as an assault on my existence. For the record am a cis male. I know I lose nothing by accepting trans people.

What you described is what they believe will happen. Their minds are always in a place of believing that someone needs to be losing.

As a tangent for the sake of example: I recall during the George Floyd protests that white people flooded gun stores to buy guns because they seriously thought that black people were going to come into their neighborhoods, drag them out of their houses and kill them. They think this because that is what they would do in their place. Its a silent admission of knowing they fuck minorities over and they have a right to be angry. They were scared of being casualties in a race uprising that they assume has been brewing because they know how they treat black people in America. They also assumed black people would just indiscriminately murder people because they see them as animals and not human beings. I was blind-sided by the entire white-panic mentality and one of my black friends had to explain to me why the lines were so frenzied and long at the sporting goods store.

The same goes for trans people and the gamer throwing a crybaby fit about being reminded that they exist and people respect them. They don’t understand them, so they hate them, and assume they… or someone else is working to undermine their lives. It is a lot more premeditated and sinister than you think. They want these people to disappear. Trans people make them scared. They worry they will have to question their own identity or sexuality which their culture has told them to strictly adhere to and demonize deviants. It does not look like it in the video, but the gamer dude raging about pronouns is utterly terrified of them because he has been propagandized and programed to do so.

Its built on layers of punditry and propaganda that all feeds off of their basic human instinct of fear. Their reactions and solutions are reinforced by western civilization. They believe they would be undermined their privilege because that is what society teaches them, and not reality.

I believe it simply comes from them believing that these people are destroying their country. They see trans acceptance as proof they are losing the culture war which they feel will have political consequences for them. It isn’t going to affect them but they have been told it will by every pundit and cultural convention they are familiar with. At best they see it as strange and the ground is moving from beneath them. To put it more simply, its fear. They don’t understand it so their reaction is to hate and destroy it because it signals societal change.

Everything is zero-sum game to them. If someone is getting more recognition and rights, they believe it means they themselves have less.

It was awesome back in the day. Its clunky but still fun today. While it was a little campy during the cutscenes, it was actually supposed to have a more serious tone than RA2.

It also answers the question of what if Stalin didn’t stop at Berlin.

If the source isn’t negative about China, or doesn’t cast them as the villain in every scenario, it must be propaganda.

But naturally, the opposite is never propaganda.

I am in the US… so…

Though I think the fervor has died down because it is normal now with what the average person perceives as not much change because the borders are not moving.

How are you supposed to keep them from passing on the cost of taxes to their tenants?

You have to realize that they still “own” a limited resource that lends them power to leverage over others. The only way you make this abuse go away is to have the people collectively own the land. Any accommodating regulations you place on landlords will only be temporary until they are worn down and removed.

I have been enjoying pop os. A lot more plug and play than I was expecting.

*Me saying a fairy tale scenario that will not exist under capitalism.

*Reality standing behind me.

You can’t and wont deliver a long term solution for “middle class” people by working within that system. The goal of capital is ultimately to have as few as people as possible, with as much power as possible. Any middle class you are talking about will become lower class and poverty class with enough time. It absurd that you can look at the current system and believe that it would ever deliver on your promise. Believing that it would work with an uncorrupt government is trying to say that there is an “ideal” version of capitalism out there and we just need to do that.

You are looking at the only version of capitalism that exists. Any regulations, safeguards, and safety nets will be corrupted and withered away eventually because the people and institutions that supposedly uphold these ideals will be rewarded for doing so. You create a competitive class system and you are shocked and outraged when people cash it out to gain, or maintain their social class to avoid becoming lower class.

They can’t. I guess the game is over.

What are liberals supposed to do if they can’t just label something to dismiss it?

If you really think that bots are this effective, then why don’t liberals create their own bots?

If you think they don’t work then what is your problem with them?

I keep seeing the claim that their are bots everywhere when liberals encounter something they disagree with… yet they have not been able to program their own chat bots to counter them?

Surely liberals would recognize this advantageous strategy and flood the internet with their own bots. Because we know that it couldn’t just be them stepping outside of astroturfed reddit, only to find their ideas are not as popular as they we led to believe.

I suppose they will just keep labeling people uselessly when encountering conflicting evidence.

Reaching levels of copium not thought possible.

“This should be higher.” “Savage.” “Doggo.” “Raises spork.” “Russian bots are really active today.” “CCP shills.”

It would be even better if it said “and to the right.”