I agree. Everybody agrees young men need to learn to be decent, but seemingly nobody wants to teach them “positive masculinity” without first beating them over the head about their inherant badness and the sins of their bloodline.
…Then these kids run to these disgusting “manosphere” cults that welcome them for being young men and offer the facade of fellowship and community, and everyone’s all surprise_pikachu.jpg that they start to internalize that poison.
Hey you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, amigo!
A-Ha! Take On Me . Another shining example of a basically perfect and immortal pop song. :p
“You cannot save / rest when enemies are nearby.”
(Completely safe room)
O_O
Very good analysis, because I always wonder “Why THIS song?”
Like, is there an alternate universe where it’s like "OMG the thing you’ve been waiting for! (link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
…okay maybe the lead up takes a lot longer. Never Gonna Give You Up hits you immediately with those drums and a dance that can easily be repurposed as a taunt. Lol
I know! It’s the very best kind of prank… it’s a gift. :D
EDIT: The animation is hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0YNqhaw0I
(Link in the open to foster trust lol)
Nor do I have a forklift license to lift that saggy ponch that likely completely obscures it. Nor do we have archeological dig rights to go searching in the first place. Lol
Yeah, it made me feel kinda sad. I’m trying so hard learning to code games and I’m a 3D artist still trying to learn to draw traditionally, only using “AI” for nothing more than “Hey can you explain the relationship between classes and objects” or something…
And if the constant slop-replacement of the Internet wasn’t bad enough, it’s a constant uphill battle of mockery and harassment from these chucklenuts.
It’s so discouraging. Like if we do succeed against the odds, jerks like these will be cheering on the robots ripping us off.
… I’m glad seeing this crap downvoted to oblivion though. :)
Hahaha I’ve heard it described as “competence porn.”
I’ve heard similarly positive things about “Madam Secretary.”
Huge red flags…
…are missing from the proposed blast staging site, this is massively unsafe. :(
I would sympathize with this one, honestly.
I think we all (in the US at least) grew up with a very skewed and generalized / propagandized version of its history, one that’s specifically designed so we identify proudly with it. (I’d imagine most countries are similar on that last bit but idk)
The more time goes on, the more atrocities come to light, the more insanely layered and nuanced and complicated it all is, it’s quite an overload with everything else we have to deal with as adults. (Especially when most of it is crap we can’t even do anything about.)
The constant realizations that approach closer to the truth are often painful. Nobody likes realizing they were lied to so much in their formative years.
Yeah, I too would like if my country was run by virtuous people trying their best, and if unknown badass action heroes stopped the bad guys, instead of living in an evil empire run by those bad guys, and if hard work actually meant something.
I thought it was a reasonable “3 moths”, and then after your comment had to re-read APPROXIMATELY THIRTY-SIX MOTHS?!? LMAO how?
I get where you’re coming from, and I anticipated a response like this, but also there’s some realities I respectfully believe you’re at risk of over-generalizing.
In the modern world armed forces are often positioned as a way out of poverty, or to a fulfilling career, because they’re one of the last jobs that will actually train you. (Especially if you can’t afford college.)
I have my own opinion that swearing oaths to a state that can tell you “Go kill them or else” is a bad idea, but I can only control me.
Regardless, a mixture of people join up: Many of which wanna just do their 4 years and leave. Most of which never see combat. Many of which do incredibly valuable work like weather monitoring! But also few really get a choice where they’re deployed.
My point being: These are human beings killed. Those on the other sides are human beings killed. This is a net negative. For all we know, these U.S casualties were the base cooks. We don’t know if they ever aimed any weapon at another living soul. We don’t know who these people are.
The kneejerk reaction is to say “They had it coming” because we don’t like what’s happening, but that thinking will swiftly rot our humanity.
The puppetmasters that are pointing these human beings at each other for their own sick games are the ones that should be punished and destroyed. NONE of these people needed or deserved to die.
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
–Bertrand Russell
. . .flip it off very intentionally.
Heehee I’m kinda glad I’m not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say “you are being recorded!”
I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I’ve never even flipped someone off in traffic, I’ve been told I have the patience of a saint.
But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.
We’ve got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.
Freaking absurd. I’m upset that it’s the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren’t preferable either.
Ow, geeze. “Thought as a service.” Ew.
Oh wow the prices on that 95N€ Diesel nozzle! And the other diesel nozzle comes with a free air freshener apparently! The world truly has gotten crazy.
I might have a lot of fun things that aren’t legal in California. Never thought my OS would be one, but here we are.
If people went out of their way to learn a damn thing about computers, and all-consuming jobs didn’t force entire generations raised without parents, and maybe they didn’t let their 6 year olds on social media / online gaming / whatever unsupervised, maybe there’d be more backlash to the state and corporations trying to step in as parental figures.
…Wish that wasn’t too friggin’ much to ask.
Servers and data centers have zero business knowing anything about who’s behind my machine by default.
I see this as no different than the bastard lobbing a frag grenade at the neighbors and then hiding behind these kids as human shields.
The Mad Child-Raping Wannabe King is killing people’s children again, and he doesn’t care whose. Never has.
I always say
“The Internet is for anyone! …But it should never have been for everyone.”