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Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

What does your girlfriend have against minimum wage workers?

nothing. I just don't think she would like it if I dated someone who was working minimum wage in their 30s

I don't think my girlfriend would like it if I did that

PMarth2002 posted...

I'm not entirely sure what ska is tbh.

I think the easiest way to think of it is "fast reggae" or "punk rock with horns", though it actually predates both ska and punk rock

okay this one is pretty funny

he's a pretty good jazz singer too

https://twitter.com/alexqarbuckle/status/1623765360133414914?t=aSzb9krQSvlL7jBM5pxSkQ&s=19

hockeybub89 posted...

How noble of you. Protecting the innocent and changing the world by calling people weirdo children for playing a video game. That will surely overthrow our fascist politicians and defeat transphobia within the next 2 years. Keep up this energy when people buy video games that further China's goals. But I forgot, every other frivolous purchase that funds evil is okay because "We're all hypocrites and they didn't initially create the IP! Maybe!" The transphobes could own every publisher and developer, as long as they didn't create the universe a game is based on. I guess we're lucky that bitch Rowling is the only bigot even tangentially related to the video game scene, or else people might have to boycott video games that are actually interested in and get called weirdo children if they don't!

this gishgallop is completely detached from anything that anyone has said about this. you should probably learn to engage with peoples' actual words instead of making things up and pretending they said those things instead

You are welcome to clear up my misconceptions of your beliefs on certain things. It can be a PM if you'd rather keep it out of here.

I already have. multiple times. develop some critical thinking skills or something

hockeybub89 posted...

You've been going "derp. weirdo adults" at anyone who doesn't hate Harry Potter the entire time.

that is not the same as what you said. please do not conflate them.

JK Rowling being a worthless piece of shit doesn't make it okay to heckle people for being childish or nerdy or whatever for liking something you don't.

it's not "for liking something [I] don't."

Keep that shit in the past. Don't co-opt stupid conservative mindsets.

I agree that Harry Potter should be kept in the past, and I am not co-opting stupid conservative mindsets.

And I didn't lie.

okay then. stop perpetrating lies just because you believe they're true or whatever it was you were doing

hockeybub89 posted...

Bro, you think anyone who doesn't hate anything you deem childish is a "weirdo still super into it". I'm the most happy and carefree person in the world compared to people who think like you.

no I don't. that is a lie. you made that up.

Maybe stop denying genocides before you choose to share opinions about... literally anything and expecting anyone to value what you say.

I would really appreciate it if you would stop lying about me or otherwise taking things drastically out of context.

hockeybub89 posted...

I agree she's shit. You know far more than I do. I can't even say I was ever part of the "fandom". Just giving you some heat in what wasn't supposed to be such a serious topic. But I guess we're never going to be able to mention Harry Potter ever again without people at each other's throats.

it really isn't possible to talk about the series anymore outside of the context of the bigotry of its creator or the weirdo adults who are still super into it

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children's lit in general tends to be full of corporate sludge

I read all the books as they came out. they're fine as children's books but it's real weird when adults are still into it

Smashingpmkns posted...

We should probably just accept that people were even shittier in the past

okay, the rest of the post is fine, but this part is just blatantly untrue

Gritty posted...

Our capitalism

i think it can work with proper regulation but we wont have that with gop

"proper regulation" needs several large asterisks. capitalism requires an exploited underclass to do the work. "proper regulation" generally just means more of that underclass is outsourced to poorer nations

HylianFox posted...

Given the zeal with which the American right is currently targeting books such as The Handmaids Tale, the cultural left should be extremely cautious about championing the censorship of literature, particularly when that censorship is driven by business prerogatives rather than idealism. The Dahl controversy will inevitably be presented as a debate about culturea principled stand in favor of free speech versus a righteous attempt to combat prejudice and bigotry. But its really about money. Ive written before about how some of the most inflammatory debates, over cancel culture and wokeness, are best seen as capital defending itself. The Dahl rewrites were surely designed to preserve the value of the IP as much as advance the cause of social justice.

yeah, I've made this point

the article's pretty good

EmilyWillis posted...

i googled this and i found an article that i didnt get to read cuz cookies/ads where the director denied this

any solid proof? cuz gif i posted she's damn busty lol

I've heard about this -- as far as I can tell it's an urban legend

I don't think my girlfriend would like it if I did that

I don't really like Toriyama's art style

Geno4LoveGeno4L posted...

She saved Afgan lawyers from the talibans, hundreds of them. How many lives did you save?

"drunk driving may kill a lot of people but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so who's to say if it's Bad or not,,"

am I thinking of someone else, or was it Rebel who got really mad if anyone pointed out that veganism on its own would not actually stop climate change

TheGoldenEel posted...

The big overarching boss villains would all be from the Kirby franchise

Earthbound would be another interesting source.

legendary pokemon could work too; at least with the way they're (often) portrayed in the anime

Trickfinger posted...

https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1624996869654056960

believe it or not, that screenshot does not disprove what I said

I thought this was going to talk about actual transhumanism -- which can actually be an interesting discussion -- but this is dumb shit. AI as they currently exist are very much not conscious

I don't know if I've ever worn something from Patagonia. there's one near my workplace though, and the people who work there seem cool

Supersex420 posted...

Well that's because it's incomplete

What is incoherent

And drizzt, Joel and dolo are definitely a trio of users

any three users can be said to be a trio of users

SHRlKE posted...

The guy who wrote the books it was based off was a massive homophobe.

was? so he's dead? or he changed?

Supersex420 posted...

Elaborate please

the game is incoherent

I entered this topic knowing nothing about it and somehow I still know less about it than when I entered

that was one of the worst movies of all time lol

a few possibilities that come to mind:

"is this the krusty krab?"
"no, this is patrick"

the troy and abed bit where they're imitating the others' voices to mock them and it turns out they can hear them through the glass

White Power Bill yells "white power!" and stabs Gob. Gob collapses, weakly gasping out "I'm... white"

the recurring bit in Archer where the show switches quickly between several different conversations happening simultaneously, forming a complete sentence with one or two words from each conversation

Princess Caroline's tongue twisters. (I know a couple other characters have them at various points, but it's still very much a Princess Caroline thing)

honestly I would probably just fall into the chocolate river and drown

thronedfire2 posted...

TC is America, we'd never destroy another country's relics

lmao

Jennywentnorth8 posted...

I like sour shit A LOT so I am sure he would be like "And here is a vial of my Wonka Shock Juice! Be careful though, make sure to only put ONE drop on your tongue! We haven't...tested what happens when you use more than that" and then my dumb ass walks up thinking "I ain't some bitch who can only handle a drop" , downs the whole vial, and I pucker so hard my ass hole retracts itself halfway into my own body so I have to limp out the front door half my size lookin like knuckles from the "do you know dey way" meme while they sing oompas sing some shit about how pride comes before the fall and now that im so short and round with a stomach full of my own ass that was my final fall since I am so low to the fucking ground I can't fall anymore

now THIS is a POST

Smokex288 posted...

My point Still stands though, in contrast to the number of games that exist, there's not that many trans characters in games. So to Hate on one that does include one is silly.

okay who's your main

Smokex288 posted...

Well I can't think of another

that's a you problem

bigblu89 posted...

While I agree that it's probably a relatively insignificant number when compared to other issues in the country/world, "People shouldn't abuse the government assistance programs" shouldn't necessarily be considered a right-wing talking point, and should be just considered something that should be fixed.

it is objectively a right-wing talking point though. it doesn't need fixing because it isn't a problem. they made it up

bigblu89 posted...

But the question is, how far "left" does one have to be in order to be "ok".

Like, if you're in support of Government assistance for anyone that needs it, but want to punish those that abuse that system, I've been told you're still to "center' to be one of the "good guys".

that's because people "abus[ing] that system" is not a statistically significant problem that actually merits addressing, while other things are.

Antifar posted...

Also a fair point. Much of our media (and media consumers) are good at framing and perceiving debates in terms of tone without engaging with substance. Anger on the left gets painted as the same as anger on the right, and the actual facts of what's being yelled about don't get through.

I feel like this has to be related somehow to the conflation of having a couple vague positions on social issues that aren't completely horrid (e.g. "I support gay rights") with actual meaningfully progressive or left-wing politics

man people on this board have really dumb and incoherent political ideas