It's been an interesting time in Kankel Kultur, with the release of Hogwarts Legacy revealing...
NAZIS EVERYWHERE
Even in the highest echelons of Resetera!
A shitshow far from completion - rather like that of newly-minted Very Bad Person Lucas Roberts (booo!
hissss), and his crippling
ADDICTION 2 DRUGZ
So, chaps: are any of
you Secret Nazis, aka
Closeted Wizard Bummers? Have you felt the telltale sudden urge to invade Poland? As stated a few posts back, I myself have no such proclivities - tbh, I'd burn the whole shitty industry down for a PS5 Bloodborne!
But then, I suspect we TRVE + HONEST
Hard Gaymers are not the interactive wizard bumfest's target demographic. It's been amusing either way.
Lander wrote:All I wanted was a quiet Minteresque existence tinkering with oddball shareware from a comfy shack in the middle of scenic nowhere, but in comes the land of the free with its corporate machine to hammer the domain into ugly and distasteful form before I even get a crack at it. The more recent societal madness buffer overflow is just nails in the coffin.
With my shining apogee of a GCSE in Mathematics, ground out with grim purpose before a foot-to-floorboards escape for the green green pastures of Waffle & Blather LLP, I could never claim to be a lover of the art or science.
Letters? LOL! Do 'em spinnin' on me knob m8! Numbers?
Faaack
That said, I always regarded the fruits of that discipline - MUH VIDYA for a start
- and the associated, impartial constancy with gratitude. What time is it? Excellent, thanks!
So even a barbarian like me could not help narrowing his eyes, the chew of wallmeat slowing uneasily, when this arrant shite started gaining mainstream credence in the Anglosphere, ca. 2020:
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The Smithsonian
apologised for the chart, apparently - but I cannot find the alleged "statement" itself anywhere. Only pages of equally cancerous bilge. Most of the sites reporting on the farce couched the public's widespread, reassuringly human opprobrium as blindly, un-entrenchedly political; ie, they replicated the casual bigotry of the chart itself, in their own fit of unchecked tribalism.
Given how zealous and generously-backed these race hustlers tend to be, I suppose there is some bleak comfort in there being any apology
at all. But I can't help viewing it like one blurted by a man caught ass-fucking his neighbours' goat. How much of it is genuine remorse - a recognition of the act's vileness, and a will to combat its root pathology - versus the superficial, fleeting sting of embarrassment, the perversion smouldering ardently on?
...and the guy has a cheer squad of fellow goatfuckers at the local papers, slandering the outraged public as perpetrators of the very heterocapitalist supremacy that demonises man-goat loving.
One of my dearest mentors at UWI had a rule, with her seminars: ten minutes' grace, then that door was locked, because you weren't gonna fuck up everyone's valuable time. Harsh! But her idea was, if you can't be punctual at your cushy university, WTF are you gonna do out in the big mean world? I emailed her the chart when it dropped, and we had a good larf! She is now a Secret Nazi / Aunt Tomina, too!
Sengoku Strider wrote:The shining legacy of Dilbert Guy's measured and well-considered social commentary
continued this week.
“I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old author exclaimed. “Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
Reiterating that whites need to “escape,” Adams said that he had already done so by moving to an area “with a very low Black population.”
I can't blame him too much tbh, even if his statements are patently racist. Nobody, black or white, likes being gaslit. Brother man likely
felt the heat and lost his cool. 3; (or he's just a racist asshole - but even then, one given plausible deniability by the same pathogen)
Incidentally, an update on that white dude who was rammed off his bike and subsequently stabbed to death by a black dude who was screaming about "white privilege," and had a social media presence full of racist rantings:
"No hate crime charges here, no siree!"
Sengoku Strider wrote:I will grant him one thing though:
The statement "It's OK to be white" has been repeated on right-wing websites and in speeches. The Anti-Defamation League has denounced it as a hate chant.
Slam your foot on that rake harder, ADL. Like, getting you to say that was literally page one, paragraph one of the action plan.
This is what I worry about. Most people aren't bigots. They don't hate anybody, as long as nobody's hating them. However, like any animal, they will get jumpy very quickly if threatened. And if you give them an easy, no-questions-asked escape from that threat, or better yet, a means of eliminating it? A good deal of them will flock to it. None of this is new or surprising, it's Race War 101. Lots of money and power in it, for those safely outside the line of fire.
The soft Balkanisation currently underway in much of the Anglosphere is setting the stage for some truly hideous shit. At the moment, admittedly, it's just mildly exasperating and sometimes darkly hilarious. And occasionally getting people viciously murdered, ad-hoc.
BryanM wrote:mices
It's amazing how quickly you get desensitized to things. Like being peed on - most people would agree that would be a suboptimal state of being. But become a nurse or have a kid, and you just kind of accept these things happen and they won't kill you and it's not really that super big of a deal.
I wouldn't equate being a parent to nursing tbh. Familial homieostasis is a helluva drug! Your little angel projectile-diarrhoeaing all over your bare chest? Awww! A chunky gout of black and green pus bursting from random homeless guy's lanced leg abcess?
AWWWWWWWWW