Kulturkampf

[Mask]

In a sign of just how useless the legacy media has become in the past 15+ years, the only outlet that has done a full proper investigation of these "Zizians" and hasn't tried to lie by omission is the New York Post, of all outlets.

In fact, the majority of corporate American news agencies don't dare to mention the word transgender.

Have a read, it's a great article.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/us-news/as-zizian-cult-leader-is-arrested-heres-what-they-believe/

[HaughtyFrank]

Edit: actually this is back from 2018 where it blew up because she got hired by the NYT who stood by her despite the tweets.

Kind of a funny time capsule to read articles about why this is actually evil cancel culture while an other NYT employee who got fired for her old tweets is actually good cancel culture 

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17644704/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-tweets-backlash-racism

[D3RANG3D]

Every fucking time! 

[benji]

Coming up on the 10th anniversary of this post:

[Alpacx]

Coming up on the 10th anniversary of this post:

[HaughtyFrank]

[Alpacx]

Dat shift from 2020 to 2024.

[Eric Cartman]

Now, admittedly, histories most famous extreme right wing ideologue groups film catalogue IS mostly in black and white, but...

[Uncle]

Coming up on the 10th anniversary of this post:

read in this voice (david cross)

[killamajig]

RIP HBO 

[DavidCroquet]

[D3RANG3D]

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NepNep?

[benji]

https://x.com/0liviajulianna/status/1892019287545495679

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

[benji]

[Nintex]

[D3RANG3D]

Throw those fucks under the bus!

[Potato]

https://www.polygon.com/tv/526411/murderbot-diaries-alexander-skarsgard

Polygon with a totally Polygon take on Alexander Skarsgard being cast as SecUnit in the Apple TV+ adaptation of The Murderbot Diaries. 

All of which is basically accurate to Wells’ multi-award-winning series of novellas and novels, which started in 2017 with All Systems Red. Anticipation for the Murderbot TV series has been a mixed bag for fans of the book series since Skarsgård was announced. Though the protagonist (technically called “SecUnit,” though it wryly thinks of itself as “Murderbot”) has biologically human parts, it stridently resists gender labels and gendered descriptions. The books, narrated by Murderbot, never describe its body with gender or sexual indications of any kind. Hiring a cis male actor to play Murderbot doesn’t make it impossible to be accurate to that aspect of the books, but it certainly leaves the question of accuracy to that aspect wide open in a way that, say, hiring a nonbinary actor wouldn’t have.

Non-binary actor?

Even non-binary people HAVE A FUCKING BINARY BODY TYPE you retarded Muppet. Male or female. There is no in-between body type. 

Why can't these fuckwits separate their gender fantasies from biological reality. 

For the record, when I read Murderbot, I picture a more feminine body and voice. But that's what's great about reading, I get to picture my own version.

[benji]

How would a non-binary actor make it accurate? A non-binary person doesn't resist gender labels and gendered descriptions, instead they insist on them. Declaring that you have an inhuman gender is a gendered label and description.

[HaughtyFrank]

Seems extra dumb when this is him in the show

Unless the bot gets a human face?

[HaughtyFrank]

[Potato]

Seems extra dumb when this is him in the show

Unless the bot gets a human face?

The character is an Android and does have a face and occasionally takes the helmet off. It's got social anxiety (it's part of the character, just go with it) so it hides behind the mask.

[benji]

And now Trump wants to eliminate it.

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

[Nintex]

I'm starting to think that MAGA will end up being the trojan horse we roll into Russia to tear it up from the inside. Given the state of their currency American billionaires and MAGA crypto bros will just loot and take everything there is much like the Chinese have already started doing. 

Friend of mine used to go there before the war and everything. He went to Soichi and for $100 he could go out with like 10 people and still have money left.

I don't think the broke and crippled Russian men are going to be thrilled to see an influx of MAGA enter into their country like vikings to a ball.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I like how nintenx is pretending he wasn't part of maga

[Nintex]

I like how nintenx is pretending he wasn't part of maga

I'm e/acc and dark MAGA.

Overall while I do not approve of all the methods (i.e. calling Zelensky a dictator) I'm still supportive overall of the policies. Smaller government, pro tech, dismantlling the NGO grift machine, ending the wars. I'm not against that at all. I don't agree with some things and unlike with the left you won't be cancelled if you do. I approve removing all the baby killers out of Gaza and turning it into a crypto Casino with condos. Would I party it up in St. Petersburg? Not with the Putin government, if there was another government? Maybe.

The conservative side of things? Like abortion and everything, not my jam. The LGB thing, well if it remains just protecting the kids against the T's and returns the Male/Female options in video games it has my support. If they start to actually prosecute people that would be bad but I don't see that happening.

Tariffs I'll wait and see what it'll do in the long run. If it leads to everyone scrapping tariffs that's a good thing. The US is hardly the only country with tariffs. I'd rather get our stuff from China even cheaper tbh.

And Trump can troll on the internet all he wants but when it comes to things like Ukraine he should listen to folks like General Kellogg. I was never big on the Russian government but I can see the angle they're playing.

Overall though, this breakneck speed is just how it is in my world of tech and AI. Things change every day. Bringing that into government bureaucracy, which is literally the slowest to change will lead to some bumps on the road. It mostly scares people because they're not used to it and I think Elon and friends should be a bit more mindful of that.

[HaughtyFrank]

I really wonder how she thought this would go