Chocolate Teapot posted:

I find the contrast of an admittedly well-drawn picture captioned with "urgh loving muslims" pretty loving hilarious myself.

ArchangeI posted:

It becomes clearer when you realize that they don't mean western civilization as a cultural construct of values and ideas but really white people.

divabot posted:

Someone who wasn't a public homophobe was outed as gay by an escort they hired, and Gawker considered writing about this to be in the public interest. It seems to have reminded both shitlords and SJWs why Gawker are really pretty lovely.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

That image is what GBS actually believes.

Klaus88 posted:

I'm honestly not sure how you could make WWII less tragic, especially if you take the view that letting the Soviets have free reign of Europe is a bad thing but one way to do that would be give Frederic Porsche free reign.

Antivehicular posted:

Also, I like how searching for "birth control" gets exactly one result, in the context of mandatory birth control/opt-in reproduction, and instead we get a ton of talk about how to make sure that poor people (because why even pretend that the poors aren't genetically inferior, right?) never even have sex. I guess the concept of high birth rates among low-income populations largely being a product of insufficient access to reliable birth control and family planning support, not the proles being screaming Morlocks who demand MORE BAYBEES, is foreign to these guys. (Much like how the concept that a real, effective "eugenics" program focused on ensuring that a more society-positive outcome for each generation would do way better by investments in education and social/health services to help parents and children towards positive outcomes than cultish worship of the PRECIOUS ESSENCES of the rich, but y'know.)

Prism Mirror Lens posted:

Posting in this Dhalgren discussion for some username mileage Apart from his fiction, his books on writing are really great, by the way. (Although his NAMBLA opinions are... uh... a bit offputting?)

Does this guy actually know what glib means? Not that it's not accurate in describing sad puppies writing...

DarklyDreaming posted:

Same reason anyone becomes a libertarian. They have enough to live well but want more and believe they'd have it if those fuckers stopped stealing their poo poo.

Hate Fibration posted:

I've seen the same thing from right-wing people, talking about "anime marxists." I think it's just that anime-avatars tend to be brightly colored and stick out visually.

Heresiarch posted:

I want to ask if Wade at any point addresses the fact that there's more genetic diversity within sub-Saharan Africa than there is outside it, but I think I already know the answer.

There's a greater genetic distance between the Bantu and Khoisan people than there is between any two "Caucasian" groups you can pick (like for example, East Indians and Germans), but I've never seen a single work of scientific racism even acknowledge that there exists distinct populations like that in Africa.

FourLeaf posted:

black men are more attractive than men of other races,

Asclepius Hot Rod posted:

Oh. My. That accent is...god awful! Since the trans-Atlantic accent is practically dead in the US and only heard in old movies and radio shows, he had to CHOOSE to speak that way. Such an enlightened individual indeed!

His love of Rome and the fact that he is a lawyer reminds me of someone who posted in the Roman/Greek Ask/Tell thread several years ago. Dude was convinced that the "Old Ways" were superior to modern life and that he would have been an aristocrat under the old Roman system. I wonder if they are the same person.

Patrick Spens posted:

Calling SSC a festering toilet in a world where e.g. 4chan and red state exist seems silly. It's honestly pretty good, as long as you just hide all the reactionary comments instead of fuming over them.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

Cingulate posted:

So just to make the obvious explicit: this is trying to retroactively paint Monarchy as a Libertarian paradise.

Race Realists posted:

In the movie Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she was sterilized in the past, some folks took to Whedon's twitter about it and he has since closed it.

Pierson posted:

This one is actually really funny if you scroll down far enough, because the exact same hashtag was used two years ago to complain that Assassin Creed 3 didn't work, and the language used really hasn't changed much. So you have like thirty tweets by incredibly self-important gamers about Marx being Hitler, then two dozen more from some incredibly self-important gamer about how gamers are the true shareholders of ubisoft and they're being robbed. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Pierson posted:

I'm not a big Assassins Creed player so I'll admit it's entirely possible. My point was more that some gamers will treat everything as a massive grandiose issue like they're arguing civil rights before the supreme court.

DStecks posted:

The central concept of Assassin's Creed, if you really want to get into it, is that all ideologies are secretly bullshit used by people in power to justify their power. Like, from their very inception, every single one of them. Which, really, is a Glibertarian take on history. It started out as outright Marxist, in the true sense of the word, when it was about the Assassins fighting for freedom from Templar world-domination; but eventually they decided that actually having good guys and bad guys was too political, so you get the Glibertarian ultra-cynicism of the latter games. It's the kind of bullshit moral equivocation that only the truly privileged can write. See also: Bioshock Infinite.

Literally The Worst posted:

wasn't it something in the villa that subsequently got blown the gently caress up

DStecks posted:

I only played the base game, where the horrible white racists are horrible for suppressing the black people, and then the black people rise up and massacre the whites, proving the whites were right. It's ~morally grey~

Zerilan posted:

So basically "morally grey" means being Robot Santa from futurama? "Mobsters beating up a shopkeeper for protection money! Very naughty. Shopkeepers not paying their protection money - exactly as naughty!"

Heresiarch posted:

I can cut Bioshock Infinite a little slack because apparently the game wasn't actually finished and they had to mash together something to ship because the publisher wasn't going to wait any longer. You can sort of see bits and pieces of something a little more nuanced in there, but in the end it doesn't hold together and you can't really tell what parts are supposed to be the characters having opinions and which parts are the developers having opinions.

Having your audience read a character's opinions as that of the author is a problem with any work of fiction and you have to be really careful about it when dealing with a mass market product because most people just take things at face value. B:I didn't pull it off so its ideology is just a muddled mess.

Literally The Worst posted:

I'm pretty sure you invented that

Pussy Cartel posted:

It looks like Twitter's alt-right/nRX/frogtwitter weirdos have decided to exploit the poo poo going down in Paris by trying to get some anti-GamerGate guy caught up in everything. https://twitter.com/grasswirefacts/status/665633389362282496

Improbable Lobster posted:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/game...cegamingtwitter

Oligopsony posted:

Someone on rationalist Tumblr mentioned that reading this thread gives them suicidal urges, so maybe we should tone-police a little more re:generalizations and stuff? Seems like the right/SJWy thing to do. (I'm phrasing this in a goofy way because that's the only register I know, but I do mean it seriously, maybe because I've gotten suicidal urges over strange things myself over the years.)

Dr Pepper posted:

Holy crap I could not stop laughing once it hit the guy whining about having to share his comics and sci-fi with non-white people.