Kulturkampf

[Mask]

Nah, people were always this stupid. The difference is with open communication the idiots can team up easier.

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

Imo kinda depressing that he takes this stance because I thought Slumdog Millionaire would be the example of how to do it right. Afaik they had an almost entirely Indian crew working on the movie. Just because you make a movie about another country it doesn't become cultural appropriation. What happened to the idea of bringing different cultures together? I'd also argue that the movie got more people interested in India and Bollywood, so what was the harm here?

[Polident]

It's very dumb. Couple years back people were trying to start conflict with Spielberg and Scorsese saying they only make movies with white men. People correct it by bringing up The Color Purple and Kundun, among others. Of course, those are then called cultural appropriation. And in reverse, nobody has ever questioned M Night Shyamalan near exclusively making movies with white leads. Well, except for The Last Airbender, but for a different reason.

[simiansmarts]

They're not coming back love

There's Chads and there is guys like me who flourish in the chaos of a dystopian nightmare and throw fuel onto fire.

This was a boring read, it just boiled down to the usual "men need to open up more!" spiel.

The author is a divorcee in her mid-50s on Raya so take that for what you will.

[benji]

I don't know whether to still post MAGA sycophancy in this thread and just upgrade it all to the US politik thread since he won:

[Nintex]

The Call of Duty groupchat returns to the lobby patriotically.

[Alpacx]

Western leftists talking about the Middle East is great content 

Professor of Political Science:

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

MAGA is whatever Trump wants okay?!

[Ribosome]

It disappeared because of Iran but it was a little odd seeing the usual suspects trying to gin up a backlash to Juneteenth last week.

[HaughtyFrank]

[simiansmarts]

Dim Tool is a literal Russian propagandist

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

beanie boy

[Potato]

Every bloke in that video looks like they would get rejected in a draft. 

Literal keyboard warriors.

[D3RANG3D]

https://babylonbee.com/news/obama-distraught-as-trump-bombs-cool-nuke-factory-he-paid-for

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

"I wish for her what she wishes for the babies of Gaza"

Considering the quoted tweet calls it the "worst atrocity of the last two years" I'm going to suggest they're against it.

[benji]

[DavidCroquet]

Is 60,000 deaths not enough or something? What's the issue here? Besides Contrapoints bad, I mean.

[benji]

Is 60,000 deaths not enough or something? What's the issue here? Besides Contrapoints bad, I mean.

Downplaying Zionist crimes.

[Alpacx]

Is 60,000 deaths not enough or something? What's the issue here? Besides Contrapoints bad, I mean.

60,000 is low for almost two years of GeNoCiDe using modern weapons.

[benji]

One year anniversary of this exchange:

[D3RANG3D]

Nazi comic is right though...

[HaughtyFrank]

One year anniversary of this exchange:

There was a great article about it

This is an amazing tweet. Stripped of the fancy language it says “I was factually incorrect, but since that fact benefits my enemy you were wrong to point it out”. Bureaucratic procedural inaccuracy is a hell of a way to say “thing I completely made up”. Haus is explicitly promoting the debate-as-war paradigm. You can’t point out factual inaccuracies on your own side, because that just cedes ground to the Nazis! Who cares whether it’s true that you don’t have to show ID to vote! The only correct action is to yell at the Nazi, no matter what!5

This is wrong. It’s wrong on a factual level - Nazis sometimes do format their webcomics very effectively. We can tell they do because people from all over the political spectrum use StoneToss comics as meme formats. It’s also wrong on a strategic level. If neo-Nazi propaganda is working, it seems like we should talk about it. We should care about figuring out why, and effectively countering it. Putting your head in the sand and pretending it isn’t happening is no way to win.

https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/arguments-are-soldiers?r=xc5z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Also one of the reasons leftists apparently hate Basil so much is because he made the Walmart tweet lol

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

[Potato]

Is 60,000 deaths not enough or something? What's the issue here? Besides Contrapoints bad, I mean.

60,000 is low for almost two years of GeNoCiDe using modern weapons.

Especially since we were apparently at 50,000 after a couple of months.

[Tucker's Law]

Caught some of this being brought up on twitter.  The situation is both sad and upsetting, with the usual suspects likely the instigators, and it's one of those rare instances where I feel myself second-guessing for a moment my generally absolutist mentality towards "free speech" (and then realizing I was having those second thoughts itself makes me fucking furious).

[DavidCroquet]