Lurker > ScazarMeltex

It's what they do and what they always do. They exist as a concept to maintain borders, social hierarchies, break strikes, and destroy protests and social movements. That's been the only real constant in their role since they were invented.

They do it reflexively, even if they have no personal dog in the fight. Like how many of these cops really care about Israel, Zionism, campus safety etc? Likely very few, but they will brutalize whoever they're told to brutalize.

If hes convicted, Id expect a gaggle of his harebrained followers would try something stupid in protest. Trump is probably already cooking up his next statement to rile up his fans like on Jan 6.

All it took was for him to urge them all to March on the capitol....

I can refuse, and if Trump wins. It is not the people who refused fault it is literally the people funding a genocide, and are up their asses about it. They think people who care about the deaths of brown people must have been talked into by China or Russia. So brown people are not even human to these assholes Fuck her.

So we have to vote for the ppl who praise Republicans fund genocide and call their Russian bots...or we support Trump, is still what y'all are going with.

Unfortunately, there's an element of truth to it with tankies and Russian bots coopting support for Palestine in order to prop up animosity against Ukraine and the West.

I mean that's clearly a right to privacy, no?

https://twitter.com/mxmimosa/status/1783201990278869414

The internets new obsession with liking women being "gay" is really off. I even saw some shit where one person was "transvestigating" that catfish girl Hannah's bikini area and calling it sus.

Now ban mandatory arbitration agreements

I can only speak for myself, but it annoys me because of how much Fallout just perpetuates bad myths about just how bad nuclear stuff is.

Because unless there is some lore I am missing from just watching people play the games, the world is still mostly a brown wasteland over a hundred years after the nukes fell. Even Chernobyl basically became a wildlife paradise less than 20 years afterwards since it is apparently more detrimental to wildlife to have humans nearby than it is to be in an area made radioactive by the worst single nuclear release in history. The ones that take place in what used to be a desert like Vegas have an excuse because its still a desert.

Its because you used to feel cool and superior having this unique and niche favorite franchise compared to your normie buddies, but now they all like your thing which means your thing is now basic so you aint that interesting.

I mean the new lore the show seems to be setting is that VaultTec caused the war.

I have an alternate for them, and it also has several of the same letters.
GoFuckYourselves

So are homeless people just supposed to die or something

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1782414912272351342

Well, I guess if he just sleeps through the whole trial he'll be well behaved... technically?

So educate me then and bring me up to speed? Not sorry for refusing to just take people I don't know at their word without evidence.

I put fascist in quotes because people have been using it so loosely these days it's becoming meaningless. You're right I know nothing about the 40k community but I'm always going to be skeptical of anyone using that term unironically.

I'm by no means a Warhammer 40k fan. Never painted a model, never played the table top game, and I have barely any experience with the video games. This, to me, seems to be the crux of the issue. The lore up until now from my understanding (outside looking in) doesn't support their existence and the proclamation on twitter that they've always existed is lazy and boarder line gaslighting to lore aficionados of the universe. Instead it really seems like they were trying to easily and quickly meet some kind of ESG requirement to get the Black Rock investment that they got. Ultimately this is something for the 40k fan base to sort out, retcons apparently are common in this universe so I have no baseline on how significant this one is by comparison.

Now to opine on a more general level, the reaction to this news has been very interesting from an outside perspective. I've seen perspectives imply that 40k needs to the excise the "facists" from its fan base who don't support this change which is a very interesting take. Like a lot of nerd fandoms that have gone mainstream over the last 10+ years I've seen it proclaimed that a given fandom is unwelcoming and not inclusive enough and therefore the fandom needs to change to be more so. My question is why should a fandom change to suit outsiders to that fandom? Why is it whenever something becomes more mainstream that the original fans who built it up over the years are now the unwelcome ones that are expected to change or be excised? It's a kind of cultural colonialism that I think needs to be pushed back on. The long time fans honestly are the ones that made sure the fandom even existed long enough to become mainstream in the first place, these fans should be celebrated, not scorned for the commitment to their fandom. Fan bases should be welcoming to new comers but those new comers should be mindful of why it is they wanted into that fan base in the first place. If they only want in so that they can twist it to suit them then they should be made to feel unwelcome because they never really wanted to contribute anything meaningful the fandom in the first place.

TL;DR: OG fans should be celebrated and new comers should be welcomed. Gatekeeping is good though if it keeps out people who don't actually care about the fandom that they are joining and just want to use it as another culture war battleground.

homeless people.

Homelessness in America is becoming a huge huge huge problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/us/politics/ukraine-aid-bill-gaza-johnson.html

Everyone fights me on this, but while Votann has a cool thing going in a vacuum, they simply don't belong in 40k. Should've been their own thing.

Female custodians are a dumb thing that makes no sense that they shoved in because of Amazon. Fans have been clamoring for more attention to Sisters of Battle and Sisters of Silence, and then they do this.

@scazarmeltex do you actually care about 40k or is this reactionary arguing? People can be bothered by the same thing for entirely different reasons.

Because corporations love to run beloved IPs into the ground after they've milked them dry and forced their mandates.

It just seems like you're looking to argue I've said my piece and that's all that matters

Obviously someone cared enough that there weren't female custodes

30 years and there's never been a female custodian until they're about to have a show made by Amazon? Hmmm .

Warhammer 40K has absolutely no problem with female representation, plenty of factions are mixed there's whole factions with exclusively females (ex: Sisters of Battle).

This change was not done for a creative purpose. If I were to make a guess, there's a female custodian playing a main character in upcoming new live-action show.

I wonder if the rumors of Henry Cavill threatening to leave over this are true.

How big is this deck? Are you doing composite? Holy hell. You must live in a high cost of living/labor area.

We should start punishing white collar crimes like this in the US

MAGA cultists are mad at Mike Johnson.
https://twitter.com/DonaldBRouseJr/status/1781749524412637456
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1781732253304815902
https://twitter.com/realpatriot111/status/1781750766077665326
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1781739276520042841
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1781500576372592783

The first look with just the shorter beard was his best look.
No horny

Conservatives thoroughly disgust me in a way I can't easily put into words. This is just barbaric cruelty

There were definitely fat/chubby wrestlers back then, like a Dusty Rhodes, Bam Bam Bigelow, Kamala, Earthquake, Tsunami, etc.

I don't know, my dad had 2 skin colours. Fucking white and lobster, there was no in between. So glad for my Italian side, I got that skin colour while my sister got the Irish though maintained the ability to tan.

I'm under the impression that the jury is majority rule, but I have no educated opinion on it. That's just a guess