Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

I like how some months ago everyone was mad at this relationship and the power dynamic and now this woman is a millionaire and tells the guy to shut up during interviews

[killamajig]

There's a 16-year age gap between my wife and I. It only seemed to be a problem with other people. She always felt insulted because people thought I was taking advantage of her and she was just too dumb to realize it. It's infatalizing.
 And when you think about it, she is a millennial and I'm a Gen x it's not like there's that big of a difference. 

But that age gap is pretty wild even by my pedo standards. This feels closer to elder abuse

[killamajig]

[Alpacx]

Austin Walker's (yes, that dude) Star Wars podcast not "reviewing" Andor Season 2 because Disney is on some BDS list.

Instead they'll be covering Kotor using their Microsoft Windows (also on the BDS list) PC with an Nvidia (on some BDS lists) graphics card.

[HaughtyFrank]

The whole explanation is so dramatic

A More Civilized Age will not be covering Andor Season 2 as planned, due the the ongoing boycott of Disney Plus by the BDS Movement.

This is a surprise to us, as it is likely to you and some explanation is required. Last year, the BDS movement targeted Disney Plus for boycott on the grounds that it has cast Israeli actors in its films who have been cultural ambassadors for Israel and do not support the Palestinian cause for liberation or justice. Additionally, Marvel films have made use of characters who have a history in the comics of being connected to positive depictions of Israel and its intelligence service, the Mossad.

We were not aware of this boycott when it was declared, and we were not aware of it when we covered Skeleton Crew earlier this year.

We are aware of it now, however, and in becoming aware of it, we had to make an affirmative choice that our ignorance had permitted us to avoid.

We were not agreed as to what that choice should be. However, what was clear was that if we went ahead with covering Andor Season 2 while this boycott was in place, we would be arriving at an unacceptable outcome. It was either demand members be willing to compromise their own values and do work they did not feel they could perform in good conscience, or it was to go ahead with a partial panel until we were again able to cover something that was not covered by a BDS boycott.

This has been a challenging moment for us. We are all firmly committed to the cause of Palestinian liberation and the end of the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel under the pretext of waging a war in response to the October 7, 2023 attacks. However, we have differences of opinion and standards of personal and professional obligations when it comes to how we respond to the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement and all its calls for action. Those differences were intensified by the compressed time-frame in which we had to have this discussion.

We include these details because it is important to acknowledge that on this point there is real disagreement among us which prevents us from making a more straightforward statement. Similar disagreements will certainly arise in the future, and our views will also continue to evolve and change. However, it’s also important to note that we can disagree pretty strongly and continue to work together to make AMCA as good as it can be, a show that every member can participate and take pride in.

But we do have news on what we'll be covering next. Beginning in May, we'll be kicking off our coverage of Knights of the Old Republic II. We'll have more info on how we'll be covering that game, what mods (if any) we end up using, and more soon.

We thank you so much for your patience. This has been as much of a surprise for us as it is for you, but we're going to focus on making the best possible show we can as we continue to move through the Star Wars catalog.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[Nintex]

While an extreme example I do feel that in the end it's a better way.

In the past it happened too and fathers raised children that weren't theirs to protect the integrity and reputation of the family.
People used to joke about it, the kid was from the milk man if it didn't look much like the dad. 

Society just can't move forward if we stay stuck on the status quo of only 19 y/o virgins are suitable for marriage on one hand and ~60% - 70% of women dating through apps swiping the same 50 guys that fly them to Dubai as human toilets on the other. 99% of us just aren't going to find that perfect 10/10 super model or super chad. 

Our generation was just completely fucked and unprepared for all this. Now all we can do is try to unfuck it.

[benji]

We include these details because it is important to acknowledge that on this point there is real disagreement among us which prevents us from making a more straightforward statement. Similar disagreements will certainly arise in the future, and our views will also continue to evolve and change. However, it’s also important to note that we can disagree pretty strongly and continue to work together to make AMCA as good as it can be, a show that every member can participate and take pride in.

Instead they'll be covering Kotor using their Microsoft Windows (also on the BDS list) PC with an Nvidia (on some BDS lists) graphics card.

So... LucasArts, which is owned by Disney? The very company we're boycotting the show over?

[HaughtyFrank]

I truly appreciate the moral clarity, but I feel like cancelling prominent left wing coverage of the only prominent left wing TV series is a perfect encapsulation of why the left is currently incapable of building lasting movements. Libs and cons understand the necessity of realpolitik.

I appreciate though how they can only ever really argue with claims of something being damaging.

Watching Andor? That's literally killing people in Gaza!
Not watching Andor? That's literally handing the Nazis the white house!

[benji]

I love how these types think "we're like the good guys in this, you want to be like the good guys, right?" is such a powerful and convincing argument for their ideology. That's the only way you can reason from "us talking about this show is important" because that will somehow get people to watch it and they'll uncritically adopt any view the show promotes.

Like, how completely ignorant of your "foes" do you have to be to not realize the central narrative of MAGA is that they're the people's resistance against a great empire of evil that only their unique superhuman savior can defeat?

[TylenolJones]

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Austin Walker's (yes, that dude) Star Wars podcast not "reviewing" Andor Season 2 because Disney is on some BDS list.

Instead they'll be covering Kotor using their Microsoft Windows (also on the BDS list) PC with an Nvidia (on some BDS lists) graphics card.

We won’t review Andor because Disney’s on a BDS list… but don’t miss our weekly Star Wars podcast where we lovingly dissect every crumb of Mouse-approved lore!

[Alpacx]

So... LucasArts, which is owned by Disney? The very company we're boycotting the show over?

Don't worry, they found a loophole.

[nachobro]

austin walker being a performative, overly dramatic annoyance? who could have seen this coming!

[Polident]

Hey

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

So... LucasArts, which is owned by Disney? The very company we're boycotting the show over?

Don't worry, they found a loophole.

Everyone knows that Disney only spends their genocide money on Disney+.

[benji]

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[Eric Cartman]

I truly appreciate the moral clarity, but I feel like cancelling prominent left wing coverage of the only prominent left wing TV series is a perfect encapsulation of why the left is currently incapable of building lasting movements. Libs and cons understand the necessity of realpolitik.

I appreciate though how they can only ever really argue with claims of something being damaging.

Watching Andor? That's literally killing people in Gaza!
Not watching Andor? That's literally handing the Nazis the white house!

its not that deep bro, the important thing is telling everyone you hold general consensus Good Opinion On Thing Right Now, doesn't matter what you actually believe or how informed you are on stuff

[Boredfrom]

Wasn’t KotOR II written by notorious CHUD Chris Avellone?

[Polident]

[HaughtyFrank]

AOC now somehow a war criminal

[Polident]

The heckler wasn’t what I pictured when I saw the blurb. But really, who else.

[Alpacx]

[Potato]

Burn Rot the books!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

reminds me that I need to buy a few more copies of the hardcovers. 

[Eric Cartman]

"This is a free event for trans, non-binary and gender questioning people only"

wow, sounds pretty exclusionary, can't you just let anyone just trying to live their life show up and do their business, how are you going to enforce this are you doing birth certificate and genitalia checks on the way in etc etc etc

[killamajig]

I learned a new word today: Tenderqueer

https://www.them.us/story/tenderqueer-meaning-origins-definition-online-debate-social-media

Where does the term “tenderqueer” come from?

Like many slang words, the actual creator of “tenderqueer” is unknown but it’s largely understood to have begun to be used on Tumblr in the early 2010s. As early as 2012, a group of Tumblr users were labeling themselves tenderqueers in an underground movement that centered softness both aesthetically and as a philosophy. Vulnerability is foregrounded in this iteration. In this way, it is often thought to be adjacent to or synonymous with the archetype of the “Steven Universe gay” or “Steven Universe queer.”

“For me it’s kind of just meant queers who see their own oppressions or perceived oppression as more important than any other oppression,” author and journalist P.E. Moskowitz tells Them, referencing a popular meme in which queerness is used as a bandage to cover up white guilt. “It’s people who think they can not care about anything else except their own perceived oppression — especially white people, I think.”

One of the most popular definitions of “tenderqueer” on UrbanDictionary describes it as a queer person “who uses identity politics to avoid accountability.” Another definition describes it as a queer person “who is perceived as too sensitive.” As Moskowitz puts it, tenderqueers believe their “emotional truth is the same as a material truth.” In all of these contexts, the word is used derisively, leading some to object to its use altogether — more on that later — but it’s important to note that they aren’t the only ways the term has been used.

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

"This is a free event for trans, non-binary and gender questioning people only"

wow, sounds pretty exclusionary, can't you just let anyone just trying to live their life show up and do their business, how are you going to enforce this are you doing birth certificate and genitalia checks on the way in etc etc etc

Sounds like a honeypot operation. Anyone still holding on to their HP books this many years into trans genocide is getting a serious side-eye from me.

[TylenolJones]

[benji]