@WillRicci Modern liberal/left purity culture confuses moral alignment with moral achievement. It doesn't ask what vice should be resisted or sacrifice must be made; it asks which person can be labeled hateful, privileged, bigoted, or contaminated.
Virtue is achieved through denunciation.
@Dm_Cards_@Uncommon_Centss@currydtx YOU are the one willingly introducing the chance of death into the equation. You have zero control over what others vote and functionally 0% chance of having any influence on the outcome beyond getting yourself killed.
This is you:
because many people’s concept of a “complex morally gray” character is usually just a character with a traumatic past and a sassy attitude that’s often mean to others. not a character who’s bigoted, or toxic, or abusive when they are shown with vulnerabilities or positive traits.
I knew a Dutch guy obsessed with American politics. When I asked him why he said his country's politics were just glorified bureaucrats accusing each other of wasting taxpayer money. American politics are about the soul of civilization.
Is it strange to say this series ended so abruptly and out of the blue it doesn’t feel like it’s fully registered to a lot of people that Chainsaw Man is over?
It’s like Fujimoto went “OhByTheWayThat’sTheEndBYE!”
After folks laughed at AOC for not knowing vaquero history, I knew Wikipedia would alter their meaning to fit hers, so I took a screenshot, and they finally did rewrite it. Wiki removed vaquero from 'The origins of the vaquero tradition come from Spain...'
Daily reminder: Nixon wanted to be the American Messmer, constructing a fleet of 1,000 nuclear plants, making American a clean country from then all the way through to today.
If he had his way, we would have defeated climate change AND electricity bills.
The ending of Chainsawman made me think about the times I was happier dreaming of things than actually achieving them. The things I dreamed of are now mundane. Oddly enough I have more now than I had back then, yet I'm the saddest I have ever been.
“The Russian-financed podcasters are fighting with the Iranian-financed podcasters, while the podcasters financed by both Russia and Iran are quiet and waiting upon further instruction. Meanwhile, the podcasters financed by China have been caught using AI-generated academic sources to claim Uyghurs are doing just fine in Xinjiang, in some cases citing apocryphal texts attributed to the Russian and/or Iranian-funded podcasters. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased.”
“Surely we are committed to combating foreign influence!”
“Really, Minister! We’ve found the perfect solution to disinformation: monetization. Now that everybody is on somebody else’s foreign payroll, no one agrees on anything anymore because they literally cannot afford to. Free speech is billable hours. Foreign influence thus negates itself.”
“What appalling cynicism.”
“Yes, we call it public diplomacy.”
if i had a nickle for every time someone pointed out on tumblr how makima and denji are strikingly similar in the way neither of them know how to properly connect with people, i'd have three nickles (which isn't a lot, but it's strange that it happened thrice)
One of the more poisonous aspects of feminism is that it interprets relationships through the lens of a Marxist theory of labor which reduces every act of love and care to an economic transaction