Kulturkampf

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I can't believe moderation is allowing homophobic slang to be used on Era..

It's giving glizzy season, on god sussy boy

Pause

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-50-was-at-an-18th-birthday-party-tonight-and-was-told-i-was-drippy.902589/?post=124533123#post-124533123

https://level.medium.com/saying-pause-isn-t-a-joke-it-s-gay-bashing-94cd776f2175

It's just as bad when Benji posts GAYTARDED..

[D3RANG3D]

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[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Sneako was hanging out with Nick Fuentes.. Sneako who was recently unbanned off Twitch. 

Guy got what he deserved.

[Polident]

tbh one of the moments I realized was racist (or culturist?) was noticing which people openly had speakerphone conversations on public transit.

Not necessarily a rich thing. Once I was in business class and the Chinese guy next to me was having a loud conversation on speakerphone when the cabin was pitch dark. It is what it is. Which is annoying, but I don’t think it’s malicious.

[Eric Cartman]

RIP Progressivism: 2015-2024

When the history books of the progressive era are written, the Sanders campaign will be the first chapter and the Watermelon Freaks will be the final chapter. 

We were a quirky, but well meaning political movement that started as a push for universal healthcare and better treatment for minorities.

The problem was, we never came up with any mechanism to regulate our worst ideas. Slowly over the next decade, they became more and more ridiculous. Abolish the police is a great example. Or when corrupt Black Lives Matter leaders were literally stealing $30 million using the name of George Floyd, we didn’t wanna hear anything about it, let we accused of being racist. If declaring your gender with no medical transition and walking into a women’s locker room seemed absurd, it would avoid a lot of headaches to just be silent about it. 

Credible progressive leaders like myself were socialized into saying silent, and like a dementia patient, the movement became more and more untethered from reality. 

We became such easy, stupid marks, not just unwilling to fact-check anything, but certain we didn’t even have to debate our ideas with the public. And such, we had no defenses when an actual conman came in to hijack our movement. 

Funded by Qatar, Russia, and China, foreign antisemites took legitimate criticism of a war, and turned it into a full on war on Jews at home. They formed an uneasy alliance with Islamists, and promised that self-immolating our own country would be the solution to all of our problems. Hell, we became so brainwashed that actually self immolating was praised in the progressive culture.

A steady stream of social media addicted personalities lined up to uncritically bleat nonstop hate for Jews. And like the block that crashes the whole Jenga tower, the public has had enough. Everyone sane is fleeing for the lifeboats while the true believers play on as the Titanic sinks. 

The brain cancer is terminal. The patient cannot be saved. Ideas cannot die, and progressive policy ideas will live on. But they will have to wait for a vehicle capable of intellectual honesty and tactics to deliver them.

Damn, Brianna didn't miss on this one.

Naw, she helped orchestrate the creation of the whole "Oh, asking QUESTIONS huh? Pretty fucking sus" / "Criticising something very criticisable? BECAUSE YOU HATE WOMEN" / "Making reasonable points en masse? THATS HARASSMENT, SEALION" bed, fuck her complaints now she's being forced to sleep in it

[Potato]

She's still a cunt, but now she's at least a cunt who sees the error in her politics.

[Nintex]

butt why

[HaughtyFrank]

Stuff like this is always a bit "is this really worth caring about" but at the same time someone at Activision cared even far more than just making a tweet when they went through all the trouble of changing an already finished character

[Nintex]

All mandated by the DEI censorship police at Xbox 

[Uncle]

Stuff like this is always a bit "is this really worth caring about" but at the same time someone at Activision cared even far more than just making a tweet when they went through all the trouble of changing an already finished character

it feels overdramatic to say that you have to point out the stupid shit before it gets to the meaningful shit, but it's kinda true

plus when "one dumb little change" is happening 5000 times across all media, kind of adds up to more than the sum of its parts

[Potato]

Murder simulator = ok
Character with a great arse =/= ok

Video game priorities

[Nintex]

"What Slippery slope? Doesn't everyone regardless of gender, race and background deserve a chance at life and love"
 
I guess you're right. What harm could it possibly do 
 

*12 years later*

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

Well that explains a whole lot of routes Google Maps has given me that made absolutely no sense. 


Google maps is always like this

Normal route
A ----> B

Google Maps

A -^-__ &----~\__
                         |
                    B   |
                    ^- /

[Nintex]

This wouldn't have lasted long with Nintendo's new CEO anyway.
He's a big fan of Fire Emblem. 

Plus that whole Niantic Pokemon Go debacle made Nintendo very angry and the studio that worked on that update is now closed.

[Uncle]

[Ethan]

The alliance kulturwarriors have long been waiting for.

[Potato]

Everyone on both sides of this whole DEI crusade is a complete cock. Remember that.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Color me a little cautious when this comes from the country that's famous for Struggle Sessions.

[benji]

Color me a little cautious when this comes from the country that's famous for Struggle Sessions.

Uh, he said he didn't expect that to happen.

[benji]

The funny thing that he seems to ignore is that China is probably doing this because the West has been complaining about it. A lot of Chinese academic institutions have unofficially setup channels to report this to them because there's so many frauds who are getting published in Western journals and the Western journals won't do anything about it if the "scientist" stands behind the work and supplies more fraud to "correct" the original fraud. But you could circumvent this by contacting the Chinese institutions who would threaten the person into retracting the paper. (Not that this was easy because of the Chinese bureaucracy being deliberately difficult to navigate.) China doesn't care that they're doing this if they never get care, they care that it's giving China a bad reputation when they do.

I don't think this guy is imagining the right kind of "fraud" either because the examples I've seen most bitched about is where the dude never does any experiment and just makes up the numbers and it's obvious because tables won't even sum correctly or whatever.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Rendle]

You can't trust a word that comes out of China. Did you know Tienamen Square is actually a fucking rectangle? Not to mention all the killing

[benji]

[NekoFever]

"What Slippery slope? Doesn't everyone regardless of gender, race and background deserve a chance at life and love"
 
I guess you're right. What harm could it possibly do 
 

*12 years later*

This neatly sums up my experience of the last 12 years.

[HaughtyFrank]

Former Naughty Dog and Rocksteady developer

This one is pretty interesting as he can't just be dismissed as a chud grifter. This is a black developer with an accomplished resume who often speaks out in favor of diversity

Edit in case he deletes

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[Nintex]

You can manipulate peoples thoughts and perception but you can't change what they see with their eyes