a secret in the appeal of nostalgia content is it's tapping into a cultural context where your society was overwhelmingly white

Aaron McGruder creator of The Boondocks

its getting to the point i think we need to bring back journals. except insted of journals its a book of grudges with news articles and other offences that make your blood boil.

I'm a bit angry.

Called it.

"Most people in L.A. vote by mail, in a 100.00% legal way." This is how children think. If one person decides to fill out ballots for the homeless, they could do probably 3,000 in a day. Put five people on it, and there goes third place. There is no mechanism in CA to flag this.

Ironically, this is how some progressives talk about crime

just finished the diablo 4 campaign and expansions. it's mostly fine but the epilogue bugs me. they burned down the tree of whispers, but the tree of whispers is a persistent npc you do favors for in exchange for loot. why didn't the tree bargain for its life? so dumb.

It unironically took me five years of staring this reality directly in the face, daily, for it to stop being incomprehensible

THIS IS WHAT I VOTED FOR LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

We used to do that, up until a court case called Griggs v. Duke Power made it illegal. Fun fact: that's when college degrees started being mandatory for white collar jobs. Companies stopped being allowed to filter out retards with a test, so now every single person in the country has to pay tens of thousands of dollars and spend four years doing pointless bullshit so they can get a piece of paper that for the vast majority serves no purpose apart from indicating that they aren't a complete idiot

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My favorite spot in the PS4 game ☄️ #RatchetAndClank

The entitlement is genuinely insane. People like you don't deserve anime or manga.

it's official. i am now SO TIRED of Hollywood's shit that now i don't even want to watch videos ABOUT Hollywood shows and movies, much less the actual shows and movies themselves lol.

oh my fucking god bruh

This question is a trap. Let me explain. We don't have capitalism. We have a welfare state so expensive, that high progressive tax (Communist Manifesto Plank #2) can't pay for it, so we need a central bank (Plank #5). Every productive enterprise is regulated (some actively supervised), most professions are licensed. Govt outright owns roads, airports, harbors, rail, mail, radio spectrum, electrical grids, water, sewer, and schools (Plank #10). The above, including the credit cycle caused by the central bank, is why there's more and more demand for welfare. Both consumer and corporate. Another fallacy is to lump tax breaks and regulatory exemptions with subsidies. They are opposites.

Can't even get basic shit like "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" right. The writers were Mandela-memed into having Joo Dee say it, which ruins the setup/reveal of the city. IT'S A MANTRA FOR BRAINWASHING--she literally can't broach the topic! Rest of the trailer is total ass, ofc

Google just permanently banned a manga artist’s entire Google account, just for uploading his own old manga files to Drive. AI moderation triggered and flagged it, he tried to submit appeal then he got rejected it by Google and now he has lost everything like Gmail, Drive, all linked services is gone. He never even sharing the files publicly, it’s only backing up his own a private work like any creator and artists. This is Google Drive “AI moderation” in action. No human support and no serious to take action. Physical storage or real private alternatives only. Support the artists getting screwed by this. This level of corporate overreach is insane.

People are clueless about our history because it’s been revised to paint Christianity in the worst possible light, when it was specifically the Church that preserved all the great ancient texts that illuminate the histories for us. Why did the Dark Age happen? Not because of Christianity, but because of Islam. Aside from Constantinople, all the centers of Christian learning in the East were conquered by the Caliphate. And in particular, Egypt was the greatest loss, for two reasons: 1) the catechetical school at Alexandria was a brilliant light of Christendom for the 6 centuries prior to Islamic conquest, and 2) most importantly, the production and importation of paper (made from papyrus) to Europe ceased overnight, and Europe had to resort to enormously expensive parchment for its writing mode — and thus reading and writing became relegated to the wealthy nobility and to the clergy. No one else could afford the material necessary. Couple that with the next thousand years of Islamic raiders plundering the coasts of southern Europe for Christian slaves, leading to most unfortified coastal areas to be abandoned for centuries, and you have a recipe for Christian Europe to be forced to draw in upon itself. This coincided with the so-called Islamic Golden Age, which occurred specifically because Islam violently conquered Christian lands and stole their knowledge for themselves. The Christian West during this period nearly collapsed altogether, but it was their unifying Christian faith that helped them band together to defeat the pagan Germans in Saxony and Bavaria, the pagan Vikings raiding and conquering the British coasts, and Islamic rule in Iberia, southern France, Sicily, and southern Italy. People like to treat “science” and “learning” as these linear progressions, but in reality the studies of the sciences, and in particular philosophy, had really begun to decline during the period leading up to the fall of Rome in 476. This era was marked by increasing decadence and a lack of moral and social cohesion in the empire, and as society decayed so too did the quality of its academic institutions and scholastic fervor. Some people try to blame this decay on Christianity, but in reality Christianity was a response to — not the cause of — this societal decay. This same pattern is playing out today. The moral and societal decay of the modern secular West is leading the younger generations to reject modernity and embrace faith, and in particular the more traditional and liturgical faiths are surging with young adult converts. History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.