@eksejoey@ohfold@Gerrt__ He’s a better technical rapper but he’ll never make a song that comes close to March Madness, and this is as a huge fan of both.
@rosethaaartist The passing of the torch to the next generation always happened naturally through younger rappers coming up and becoming popular. That’s not happening. And I’d posit the youth is still running the culture bc they’re the one listening to older rappers instead of their peers.
@GradeThis@lastchalice@dragonage@EA Yep. Difference between being a character and caricature. The fact that Taash was genuinely unlikable (like how they didn’t respect the Necromancer not wanting to be called that childish nickname) was disappointing. I was genuinely hyped to see them do something interesting.
No. They know the truth. They just know that pretending they don’t carries benefits. Gotta stop banking on them being dumb and start realizing they’re simply complicit.
We are living through a moment where a group of people do not just disagree, they do not even acknowledge a shared fundamental reality.
There is no common frame of reference, no mutual set of facts from which discourse can even begin. They can watch the same video, from multiple angles, and walk away convinced they saw a completely different event.
They exist inside a narrative so deeply entrenched that to question it, to even acknowledge a contradiction, is to commit some sort of ideological treason.
This is a deliberate, conditioned immunity to contradiction. It is a cultivated resistance to evidence. They have developed a mind so thoroughly welded to its chosen reality that it will alter, discard, or fabricate whatever it must to maintain coherence.
They can be shown, in real time, the unraveling of their worldview, and they will patch over the holes with fantasy rather than face any doubt whatsoever.
Politics has turned knowledge itself into a partisan weapon. The expectation is no longer to seek truth, but to defend your team at all costs.
There is a lingering obligation to have an opinion on everything, to be informed at all times, to adopt the correct stance. And so, they improvise. They adopt prefabricated opinions handed down by their faction. They fill in the gaps with instinctive loyalty rather than demonstrating any semblance of independent thought.
The game is rigged, and they know it. Two parties, two choices, two sides that everyone is herded into, and neither is worth the loyalty demanded of them.
But to acknowledge this would be to admit powerlessness, to admit that they are trapped in an illusion of choice. So they cope. They retroactively justify their allegiance by turning their side into something righteous, infallible, and necessary. The alternative is too terrifying.
It is a coping mechanism turned mass psychosis. And it is escalating. When reality itself is dictated by allegiance, when loyalty outranks reason, when every fact must be bent into submission to fit the tribe’s chosen narrative, the outcome is inevitable: war.
When factions exist in separate realities, they cannot coexist. They cannot negotiate, they cannot reason, they cannot even comprehend the other side as anything but a threat.
This is irreconcilable. We cannot function like this. A society cannot sustain itself when its people are no longer individuals but ideological husks, possessed by abstractions, fighting battles for masters who do not even know their names.
You are not your faction. You are not your party. You are not an extension of a collective mind.
The moment you outsource your thinking, the moment you allow yourself to believe that your side must be right because the alternative is unbearable, you have ceased to be an individual. You have become another interchangeable pawn in a game that does not need you to think, only to obey.
Wake up. This war for reality is not one you want to be drafted into.
@lastchalice@dragonage@EA I couldn’t get over the writing. It lacked conflict. I also think Taash was a disservice to non-binary people. We’re more than brooding teens. Combat was fun. I got 60 hours in before I quit. Felt like they were afraid to tackle anything substantive beyond skimming the surface.
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.
As a Jewish American I still support this 100%
@TheTennisLetter Tennis players used to be allowed to be emotional, competitive, and real. Now, everyone’s pushing this politeness agenda like they aren’t human beings. The WTA was full of women who were damn near mortal enemies on court. Heaven forbid they feel something after a tough loss.
@RandomLolTwat@black_nerdist@bigintheusa@BenStiller@LWCnewswire So if there’s no “reason” for it, the cast should be white? There doesn’t need to be a reason for a white cast, but there does for a Black one? Why can’t there be Black people in a movie for no reason, or are white people the only ones exempt from this arbitrary reasoning?
@ZenNicCage@stannic_xo@ArmandDoma Because capitalism can upscale vehicle manufacturing much easier than breeding millions of horses that require food and upkeep.
With advertisers pulling out and more…obscure…ads appearing, what’s a better way to pull in more advertisers than artificially inflating the engagement of the irrelevant ads flooding the platform by making it impossible to vet the veracity of said engagement? How oblique! 😦
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