Sort-of source, during the mass influx of players into ffxiv from wow, i hesrd over and over again how this 'weeb shit' full of catboys was a shockingly good game
so as far as I can tell, what they're saying is that the only way to prevent the destruction of civilization as we know it by ongoing climate change is with socialism, communism, and cat boys
And on the subject of Bangaa and Nu Mou, while I'd love to have more monstery races, I do get why all the races are very humanlike. Cuts down on the work of modeling and texturing for gear and such. I'm just glad they're there in NPC form at least.
I would have bought that the original had catboys if only because I know a bunch of alt-right-ers fighting with each other that anime/weeaboo-ism inherently leads to trans* and pedos // but ALG is not alt-right they're just classic neocon thinktank so
Flash Bastard
: omgosh yes we have no idea if Ben Garrison is secretly calling Trump a fuckwit sometimes because he certainly does it on accident but \:|/
I mean, way too many US "conservatives" think that "acknowledging the needs of others in the community and not purposely making their lives worse" is tyranny, so it's still pretty stupid
suCCubus
: I'd say it depends whether you mean meme in the colloquial sense of construct an internet-meme that's fun and also makes a kind of sense (what I think we were talking about), or the more technical sense of meme as an infectious thought easily passed from person to person
Princess Emily
: I suspected it was probably going to turn out to be an edit, but also the right has people who yell about Jewish Space Lasers, so there's really no credibility threshold left there
Yes that was my argument about memes, wrt internet memes leftists have a tendency to be unable to summarize talking points into pithy one-liners because we aren't easily infected with mind viruses
Just as I appreciate the utter failure that is Right-wing "humor" I appreciate the utter failure that is leftist ranting and trying to brainwash an audience for no one "memes"
I mean they kept it pithy but the "problem" is the audience again. Right-wingers won't get it/care, left-wingers already know it from books/reality. It's a good meme, but it's not really ~meme-y~ insofaras 1) duplicable 2) light nonsense -- WHICH is the other left-wing problem, dark humor isn't universal and you have to know it to get it
I do think there's danger in believing we are inoculated from "mind viruses"/propaganda/a cult mentality. That is a good way to ignore the way that these things are subtle and seep into/pervade every day life and come from all sides, not just right wing and that even "left-wing" is itself a spectrum of ideas, some not great
No No I'm sorry, that was a joke on right-wing America being antivax. I'm in no way immune. I fall for it all the time. I did with Afghanistan (though not Iraq) and I constantly have to verify etc.
I mean in my defense I was only 14 so it wasn't like I knew George W. had outright SAID IN ADVANCE that his father squandered his chance with the previous Gulf war to be a two-term president
I just knew that he was firing every single general who told him "Don't do it, and if you REALLY REALLY insist on it, you're going to need a draft and at LEAST 30k more soldiers"
I think anyone under the age of 30 deserves the excuse of just not having lived enough years to really grasp what was going on politically or historically on that
........like in a Rommel-esque sort of "you did bad things for bad people but at least you drew the line somewhere" kind of way, not a "poor woobie" way.
Nah, I was 16 at the time and I don;t think even if I had been 26 I'd have understood fully. I came from a household that was politically neutral, and honestly I suspect that's the majority of people
Well I knew enough that I started boycotting CNN 2002 when they mentioned 250,000 killed in Darfur on the bottom ticker and then I spent 2 hours trying to get news about that while they sent Wolf Blitzer and co. on Spring Break. \:|/
like "If we don't do torture we'll never be able to protect our innocent people at home. You do want to protect people at home, don't you?" isn't too hard to dismantle by itself
but if you have multiple authority figures say that to someone who wants desperately to believe in their leaders, and their cause, and who's already inured to doing Bad Things For Good Reasons...
it's really hard to question that argument without casting doubt on all the other things they're emotionally attached to, and nobody wants to question whether the bad things they've done were really for good reasons
I do think, as I said, he was 100% committed to Law & order (as his view of morality) and that he definitely didn't want American soldiers to be killed pointlessly
I kind of suspect he didn't really want anybody killed pointlessly even if he was pretty comfortable shifting them over into "acceptable cost of national security"
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nooooooo he was prettttttttyyyyyy okay with non-Americans dying (see again: Darfur, oh and Reagan selling weapons, and George Bush senior)
hrm... I mean it's not like a talked to him about it, obviously, but I always kinda got the vibe that he was more "eehhhh well I can justify it to myself this way so if it's what my boss really wants..." than "yeah sure idgaf have fun"
I can forgive being so insanely dumb about Ukraine he was like "We need to give them GUNS AND AMMO :V" when they specifically were like "we have a fuckton of that from the USSR remember? We need food and fuel T_T"
my guess is that he did what he could to minimize foreign casualties within the bounds of what he was authorized to get done, and then described it to himself as saving those lives, rather than condemning the ones written off as acceptable collateral damage
I mean there is a lot of "If I don't, someone worse will--" when it came to Trump and Hitler too \:|/ I'm not saying Powell was def. evil I'm just... he definitely wasn't good
...I feel like McCain was perhaps prone to getting his actions confused with his legacy, and prioritizing imagined impacts on the latter over the former.
He wanted a woman to run against Obama in case Obama didn't pick HRC as running mate, and ON PAPER Palin's team got the word in advance by like 12 hours and super fudged the sheet on her so that she looked like the best candidate on paper
yeah but from his (hypothetical) point of view why does he need to, he's been told by his Math Nerds that she's the best chance to win so what else is there to discuss
I was actually willing to hear McCain out until Sarah Palin ended up on his ticket. And then I went '...sir you have a VERY high chance of dying in office and I don't want her anywhere near the presidency.'
(And at this point I have serious concerns about her quitting her elected office halfway through her term. She'd give up federal office if she got a better offer.)
(Much like my problem with Mark Sanford isn't that he had an affair on SC's dime (well, sort of that) so much as 'he fucked off to Argentina for a long weekend and didn't tell anyone where he was going or who was in charge while he was gone.')
so... that's what I mean, really, that he was willing to write off bad ideas in the present if he thought they would somehow position him to outweigh them in the final analysis, hence confusing actions with legacy
...I kinda suspect there's a lot of that sort of thinking among officers, tho. I mean I imagine it would be hard to be an effective military officer if you can't stomach "do something sketchy right now because you're confident it's going to pay off in the long run"
Well, yes, but I suspect that's also that he was one of the handful of Actual Conservatives left in the Republican Party and wasn't particularly into death cults or obvious total nonsense.
man i feel like i distinctly recall a time you could have actual disagreements with republicans about policy without it being like, โyou actively want to cause people harmโ
but these days anyone still willing to call themselves republican are in direct support of white supremacy and fascism and is happy to just let people die for the sake of politics so :V
ranting and trying to brainwash an audience for no one"memes"just that it makes it a lot easier?same thing