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The expert this country has had enough of. Once and future psychologist, semi-professional classicist, elegiac satirist and multilingual miscommunicator.

[The Critical Thinker @criticalhitsTV]

Credit to synthetic man in his review of 007 First light. I found this bit very interesting because it's important to not just take note of the overt propaganda but pay attention to the more subtle ones as well.

So in the game the ppl below are the two chess finalists. You'll notice one of them is a woman, harmless I'm sure many ppl will say. There's never been a #1 ranked female chess player or #2...at most one female player has reached #8 and ironically she reached her highest rating of 2735 the same year the man she beat retired. He was old, having maintained his rank for over 20yrs.

Why's this important? Because one of the many rhetorics pushed in this 007 First light game, and you'll see it in GoW as well, is this idea that women can do anything men can do. Yet they can't. The open chess tournament is free for both men and women, yet women don't enter it after years of crying sexism. Once they got in and realized they could not beat the men, they then said they deserved a separate tournament just for women. Now obviously chess isn't a physical sport so why would that even be necessary. It would seem segregation is quite fine, so long as it benefits the women.

So in 007 First Light, the engineers working with Q are mostly women, despite that not being reality. The chess finalist includes a woman, despite not being reality and the best Spy in the story is a woman, despite that not being reality. Take note of these subtle changes, not just the ones they shove in your face. The subtle changes are more dangerous because they're the easiest to dismiss as "it's not a big deal"... until it is.

[FLORENTIA @florentiafl]

Πού τα έμαθες αυτά τα ωραία και επιλεκτικά;
Γιατί η παγκόσμια ιστορία τα λέει αλλιώς. Θα μου πεις τι ξέρεις εσύ που κυκλοφορείς με παρωπίδες...
Με βάση τη λογική σου, κάθε επανάσταση στην παγκόσμια ιστορία (η Αμερικανική Επανάσταση κατά των Βρετανών, η Γαλλική Επανάσταση, οι εξεγέρσεις κατά του φασισμού) ήταν "παράνομη", επειδή στράφηκε ενάντια στο κατεστημένο δίκαιο του εκάστοτε κυρίαρχου. Η ιστορία όμως δεν κρίνεται με βάση τους νόμους του τυράννου, αλλά με βάση το δικαίωμα των λαών στην αυτοδιάθεση και την ελευθερία. Η Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία ήταν ένα κράτος κατάκτησης, όχι ένα κράτος δικαίου.
Μάθε να ξεχωρίζεις τη δομή της βίας, κάτι που ξεχώρισαν όλοι οι ιστορικοί εκτός από εσάς.
Υπάρχει τεράστια διαφορά ανάμεσα στις πράξεις ενός οργανωμένου, θεσμικού κράτους και στις πράξεις άτακτων, εξεγερμένων πληθυσμών.Οι οθωμανικές σφαγές έγιναν με κρατική εντολή, κεντρικό σχεδιασμό και από τακτικό στρατό!
Και αισθάνομαι ντροπή και αηδία όταν να διαβάζω ότι η σφαγή 20.000 αμάχων στη Χίο ήταν "διοικητική ενέργεια"...Η Χίος δεν είχε καν επαναστατήσει ενεργά· ο πληθυσμός της ήταν ειρηνικός. Η απόφαση του Σουλτάνου να σφάξει και να εξανδραποδίσει ένα ολόκληρο νησί δεν ήταν "καταστολή ανταρτών", αλλά συλλογική τιμωρία, τρομοκρατία και εθνοκάθαρση.
Θέλει να σου παραθέσω και άλλα; Μπορώ γιατί είναι γραμμένα σε χιλιάδες σελίδες και πηγές επίσημε των ξένων διπλωματών της εποχής. Και μάλιστα καλό θα ήταν να το κάνω για να δείξω πόσο πολύ είχαν σοκαριστεί από την οθωμανική αγριότητα...που μόνο εσείς δεν βλέπετε!

[Nick @ParvumPrincipi]

Nope thank you. Stop being racists to us Greeks first.

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

This is staggering –

Of the 369,000 jobs the U.S. Labor Dept. says were created since last year, nearly all - 348,000 of them - went to women, and only 21,000 went to men.

Basically, that means 94% of the net employment growth in the U.S. went to women.

Ninety four percent!

[🍃☘️🍀卂乙乙ㄩ尺尺卂🍀☘️🍃 @AzzurraS4]

PLEASE BOYCOTT THIS TRASH!!!!!

[I know things @polemios]

@1Ancient_Greek Χαχα, υπάρχει και άλλη Κωνσταντινούπολη; Αφού το όνομα της πόλης ήταν Βυζάντιο. Αν, βέβαια, εννοείς την αυτοκρατορία, ήταν η (Ανατολική) Ρωμαϊκή.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

@clashreport Isn’t Turkey literally occupying part of an EU country!?

[I know things @polemios]

@MBanonFdZ https://t.co/9Iu5ZQYEYo

[SirD 🇺🇸 @Sir_Dammed]

Let me also quickly summarize, and address, the incoming arguments against what I've said (aka them moving the goalpost from "you just hate women!" to "this is why ur wrong!"), just to demonstrate how predictable these people are.

"the face scanned actress isn't wearing makeup!"

Okay, and..? This is a fictional video game and people greatly prefer characters that are attractive: make the character look presentable, much like the actress makes herself look presentable in daily life. Also, the character looks markedly worse than the actress even without makeup.

"the character is supposed to look older!"

Okay, and..? She can look older without being made hideous. You know this, I know this, everyone's knows this. Again, it's fiction: so make her presentable. This is what customers prefer, and they know this. There is one reason, and one reason only that the character is hideous in appearance: left-wing ideology.

"she's a warrior and it's prehistoric, it makes no sense for her to wear makeup!"

"Realism" is just an excuse that left-wing ideologues use to excuse their politicization of the hobby. Again, players prefer attractive characters. Always have, always will. The decision to not make her attractive is ideological, and politicizing a hobby about fun/escapism is dumb. You also don't need to add makeup to female characters to make them attractive. That's the fun thing about fiction: real-life restrictions don't exist. GoW is entirely fictional. "Realism" has never been a valid excuse for doing things that lessen the quality of your product. Do we need to see her taking routine shits as well?

[I know things @polemios]

@HellenicEchoes Graeco-Roman!

[I know things @polemios]

@saou0345 Because they equate "men admiring a beautiful woman" = "misogyny".

[I know things @polemios]

@HellenicEchoes That's debatable. Academic consensus tends towards Bronze Age Trojans being Luwian (another Indo-European people). Aeolian Greeks colonised a largely abandoned site at around 750BC.

[SirD 🇺🇸 @Sir_Dammed]

Let me also quickly summarize, and address, the incoming arguments against what I've said (aka them moving the goalpost from "you just hate women!" to "this is why ur wrong!"), just to demonstrate how predictable these people are.

"the face scanned actress isn't wearing makeup!"

Okay, and..? This is a fictional video game and people greatly prefer characters that are attractive: make the character look presentable, much like the actress makes herself look presentable in daily life. Also, the character looks markedly worse than the actress even without makeup.

"the character is supposed to look older!"

Okay, and..? She can look older without being made hideous. You know this, I know this, everyone's knows this. Again, it's fiction: so make her presentable. This is what customers prefer, and they know this. There is one reason, and one reason only that the character is hideous in appearance: left-wing ideology.

"she's a warrior and it's prehistoric, it makes no sense for her to wear makeup!"

"Realism" is just an excuse that left-wing ideologues use to excuse their politicization of the hobby. Again, players prefer attractive characters. Always have, always will. The decision to not make her attractive is ideological, and politicizing a hobby about fun/escapism is dumb. You also don't need to add makeup to female characters to make them attractive. That's the fun thing about fiction: real-life restrictions don't exist. GoW is entirely fictional. "Realism" has never been a valid excuse for doing things that lessen the quality of your product. Do we need to see her taking routine shits as well?

[SirD 🇺🇸 @Sir_Dammed]

Let me quickly summarize the new God of War Laufey controversy, but without any straw man arguments such as accusing people of "fearing women."

>western game studios were politicized thanks to activist employees and activist investors.
>some people passed the litmus test, so they understand that politicizing a fictional hobby about fun/escapism is bad.
>some failed the litmus test so they write off criticism they do not understand as "hate."
>some agree with the agenda so they write off criticism they dislike as "hate."
>underneath it all is a leftist ideology that believes attractive female characters = sexualization, objectification and misogyny... and an obsession with "diversity and inclusion."
>enter western game developers deliberately designing female fictional characters who are ugly.
>people rightly point out that she's ugly. other people get mad and incorrectly assume that means we're calling the actress ugly: we are not.
>also some people find it a bit weird that a game called God of War, which has been about Kratos, The God of War, is back-seating him for a new woman.
>some speculate that this is the result of the aforementioned politicization, because pattern recognition and the left-wing activist obsession with "inclusion."
>the God of War developers are based in California.

The end. Hope this helps.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

They'll cancel something with genuine potential like this, but keep pumping money into Rings of Power for season after season. Madness.

[Adilaris @AdilarisGallant]

It's not a limit of hardware, that's a lie they tell you to insert their feminist slop. This is by choice. Asian games have no issue rendering real beautiful women, and mgs4 came out on the Playstation 3 way back in 2008.

Characters on 2 decade old hardware look better than the ones western devs are making today even with all the horsepower and tools at their fingertips they didnt have back then.

This is an industry run by activists and karens, looking to force their fake morality from the top down; and when the games lose money, they'll have no one to blame but themselves.

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

Boys are behind at every level of education, in every area, at every age, and in every country in the west, with a few small exceptions.

You might be reading this for the first time, but this is not a new thing.

In fact, boys have been quietly falling further and further behind girls for more than 35 years, and now, are even further behind in education than women were 50 years ago.

Yet, if we ever do hear this discussed, it’s only to suggest that ‘boys need to try harder’.

But that is not the problem.

Boys are trying, the problem is, the way school educates and grades children, systemically discriminates against them.

We saw this when the UK cancelled exams during COVID, with the so-called ‘girl bonus’.

Where girls that were performing equally well to boys, now through the lens of teacher assessments, suddenly rocketed ahead.

We saw the same when we transitioned from the objective exams of O-levels, to the subjective assessments of GCSEs.

And we saw it again, when the OECD documented the same teacher bias across more than 60 countries, stating the gap “had little to do with ability”.

Yes, it’s true.

Teachers (of both sexes) are biased against boys, and until that changes, nothing else will.

So – who will dare talk about systemic sexism against boys?

What do you think?

~
Talking with Big Bros podcast https://t.co/khUUdp2NAP

Education gap data
https://t.co/zvDgX9yHSA

[I know things @polemios]

@stoneoreye There are clear signs of Cluster B personality traits in this woman. She is obviously incapable of deeper-than-surface emotions, true attachment, and views relationships from the prism of how they are beneficial to her.

[Ελεύθερος Πολιορκημένος 🇬🇷 @AleaJactaEst101]

Ουδείς Γερμανός τολμάει να αμφισβητήσει το Ολοκαύτωμα.
Αντιθέτως, οι Τούρκοι όχι απλώς αρνούνται κάθε γενοκτονία αλλά πολλοί επαίρονται κιόλας.
Αυτή είναι η διαφορά ανάμεσα στα πολιτισμένα κ τα βάρβαρα έθνη.

[I know things @polemios]

It is a desperate attempt to decouple Cyprus from the Greek world by hiding behind a dictionary.

[I know things @polemios]

Why does a retired military admiral care so much about Greek semantics? Because this is a geopolitical tactic. Turkish nationalists aim to convince their domestic audience that the Rum of Cyprus have absolutely no ethnic, genetic, or historical connection to the Yunan of Athens.

[toparlanın gitmiyoruz @toparlanvegitme]

🔴Cihat Yaycı:

◼️Rum ve Yunan aynı şey değildir. Kıbrıs adasında yaşayanlar Yunan değildir.

◼️Yunan, Helen demektir. Rum ise Doğu Roma İmparatorluğu'nun tebaasıdır.

◼️Güney Kıbrıs'takiler Yunan dili ve Ortodoks kilisesinin etkisiyle kendilerini Yunan zannediyorlar.

◼️Hâlbuki Yunan değiller.