What if some group makes Sponge Bob memes, or peace symbol memes, rainbow flag memes (this is already a thing), etc into hateful memes
All of those images are very well known across the culture. Pepe the Frog wasn't -- I'd say he has far far more exposure as a hate symbol than from the original usage, sad to say.
I've heard this before, that people voted for Trump because they felt slighted and disrespected. If that's true, it really doesn't speak well of those voters. They feel disrespected, so they vote in an obvious moron and charlatan? What, do they think they're sticking it to the man?
They hate and despise "the man" as typified by the Washington establishment, and they don't really see anyone else as possibly being worse than what they had. So they voted for the guy who promised to "drain the swamp."
Shouldn't you try to get the best leader possible, rather than one who is extremely average?
No, you shouldn't.
Democracy isn't about choosing what is "best", something that no two person can truly agree on. It's about giving almost everyone a voice in choosing. That way even if the choice wasn't the "best", a majority would accept the decision
Everyone has a choice, that wasn't what Animojo was arguing for. It would just be nice if my fellow citizens would make SMARTER choices. I don't want an average leader, my qualification for the guy in the White House is not "someone I could sit down and have a beer with," for God's sake. I want my President to be a lot BETTER than me, so that's what I look for.
I strongly suspect you are not a citizen of the United States of America. In the USA, free speech is protected.
I am a citizen of the United States of America, and I am strongly for free speech protection. I suspect you don't know exactly what 'free speech' refers to, it is the protection against the government jailing you or suing you over (most) speech. It does not mean I have to agree with your speech, or support your ideas, or be interested in associating with you, as an individual or a private organization, due to the views espoused with your speech. See, freedom of association is just as highly cherished as free speech.
You have free speech, and I'm also free to count you as being a total asshole and not want you in my club.
Neither side seems to want to depart from the status quo short of total victory, so at the moment, screw 'em. I find the implementation of what is essentially apartheid as a means to preserve the demographics of the Jewish state to be fairly far into the "distasteful" range.
It should be no surprise that the white nationalists in the USA absolutely love this solution. It's why many on the Alt-Right (at least, when it was Richard Spencer's white nationalism movement) were very supportive of Israel. They're all for separation of the races -- Jews live in Israel, send Black people to Africa or the Caribbean, Chinese back to China (once they finish building the railroad, naturally), Arabs can live in Arabia, etc.
Are you trying to win some sort of SJW bingo or something? Sad
Huh? How is "That's how the participants in the fight like to frame it, because then it forces you to pick a side" in any way SJWish? The SJWish method is to force a side and then virulently attack the "other."
Newsflash: Life isnt special. There is no happiness, there is just situational ignorance. You arent unique, and your free time is a waste of resources.
Amazing how happy and fulfilled people can be in a world with no happiness.
That's because in America Gaslighting [wikipedia.org] is the status quo especially in corporate America.
Is gaslighting the most accurate term? Gaslighting always struck me as being a process where you're tricked and lied to in order to confuse you as to reality. "You are weak and should fear job loss if you don't work 80 hours a week." The 80 hours may be a bit of hyperbole (depending on the job), but when people hear that.. it's not a lie. Being replaced by the younger, harder-working, more-"productive" go-getter is totally a real thing.
"The economy" as a whole isn't a bubble, but the tech sector is. That's what's due for a collapse, and it remains to be seen whether it can drag the rest of the economy down with it. Given the state of other sectors, it's quite possible.
Tech unemployment in 17Q1 in the US is 2.5%. That's a national rate, so it is skewed by SV, Austin, NYC, etc., but it's a pretty good market for employees and a pretty tough market for recruiting employers.
Even in the tech sector, that's an overall unemployment rate, but I'm wondering what the employment market is like for the tech worker in his 50s and 60s. It seems to be a young man's field.
But you are taking my "leave and find another job" humorously literally. I agree it would be more prudent to get another job first.
Oh! Well, yes, I totally agree, regardless of the field.:-)
Boy, it's great to work in an industry where you have the option of leaving one job and being hired in another job in short order, sometimes even at a higher salary. In the US, in many sectors, I think most people are hanging on as best they can to a dysfunctional job because if they quit, they'd be like their out-of-work relatives who have been looking for a job for the past two years.
You don't think they would get into a weee bit of trouble for publically fabricating a crime and then falsely claiming the FBI was investigating? They have nothing to gain and a hell of a lot to lose there.
Yeah, there's some truth to this but remember that the original saying was: "He who represents himself has a fool for a client". So it didn't specifically speak to lawyers representing themselves. It is also possible that this saying is propagated by law bar associations and attorneys to keep their profession in higher regard.
I've talked to a number, and I'm married to a lawyer, and I think I have a bit of understanding about why this idea comes up. For the most part, a defendant needs absolutely objective counsel. If you're defending yourself, or launching your own prosecution, you cannot be objective. You're too close to the case, and have too much invested in the outcome. The counsel has to be a voice that can tell you when you need to settle, when an approach you really want will backfire, and how not to let the heat of the moment piss off the judge. If you're representing yourself, you lose that objectivity, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who THINK they can do it, but in practice it often turns out to be a bad idea.
And how is that a homophobic joke? These faggots need to learn some English.
The faggots weren't the ones who got offended. As is often the case, it's one group getting outraged "on behalf of" another group that just doesn't care.
Yeah, fuck those evil male gamers. Sexism like this will surely win people over.
Save the manufactured outrage, noting demographic trends is hardly sexist. Animojo was referring to the summary which mentioned that Sony needs to move beyond the "male-skewed aging hardcore gamer base." Older male gamers is a market that has been shrinking, and just focusing on that one market is ignoring the much larger market you can have, along with all the pitfalls you'd get with a shrinking customer base.
Emulation is hard. It's just a hard problem to solve. Downloading PSXe and having it crash trying to play a game can be ok, but if Sony was to include an emulator in the PS... 5(?) it has to WORK. Work reliably. And that's hard, because "close enough" isn't "good enough." The architecture of the PS2 and PS3 was difficult enough to program for game developers on the actual platforms.
Specifically, it was the iTunes Music Store. That was the big winner. iTunes as a music organizer and player was merely ok, (and on non-Apple platforms it's always been terrible) but it was its integration with purchasing and seamless integration with the iPod that made all of that a big win.
Sure. And what should the scientific community say about, say, the Flint water supply?
Easy, they can say what it would take to make the pipes usable again. They can give studies showing what would happen if certain additives were introduced, and what the cost / gallon might be. They can make projections about what will happen if nothing is done.
Spending the money to implement a plan or stating one must do one thing or another is the realm of the politicians to decide. Stating what will happen if one action or another is taken is the realm of the scientists to explain.
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What if some group makes Sponge Bob memes, or peace symbol memes, rainbow flag memes (this is already a thing), etc into hateful memes
All of those images are very well known across the culture. Pepe the Frog wasn't -- I'd say he has far far more exposure as a hate symbol than from the original usage, sad to say.
I've been calling this cynicism laziness, but you put it a lot better than I ever had. Good work.
I've heard this before, that people voted for Trump because they felt slighted and disrespected. If that's true, it really doesn't speak well of those voters. They feel disrespected, so they vote in an obvious moron and charlatan? What, do they think they're sticking it to the man?
They hate and despise "the man" as typified by the Washington establishment, and they don't really see anyone else as possibly being worse than what they had. So they voted for the guy who promised to "drain the swamp."
Shouldn't you try to get the best leader possible, rather than one who is extremely average?
No, you shouldn't.
Democracy isn't about choosing what is "best", something that no two person can truly agree on. It's about giving almost everyone a voice in choosing. That way even if the choice wasn't the "best", a majority would accept the decision
Everyone has a choice, that wasn't what Animojo was arguing for. It would just be nice if my fellow citizens would make SMARTER choices. I don't want an average leader, my qualification for the guy in the White House is not "someone I could sit down and have a beer with," for God's sake. I want my President to be a lot BETTER than me, so that's what I look for.
I strongly suspect you are not a citizen of the United States of America. In the USA, free speech is protected.
I am a citizen of the United States of America, and I am strongly for free speech protection. I suspect you don't know exactly what 'free speech' refers to, it is the protection against the government jailing you or suing you over (most) speech. It does not mean I have to agree with your speech, or support your ideas, or be interested in associating with you, as an individual or a private organization, due to the views espoused with your speech. See, freedom of association is just as highly cherished as free speech.
You have free speech, and I'm also free to count you as being a total asshole and not want you in my club.
Neither side seems to want to depart from the status quo short of total victory, so at the moment, screw 'em. I find the implementation of what is essentially apartheid as a means to preserve the demographics of the Jewish state to be fairly far into the "distasteful" range.
It should be no surprise that the white nationalists in the USA absolutely love this solution. It's why many on the Alt-Right (at least, when it was Richard Spencer's white nationalism movement) were very supportive of Israel. They're all for separation of the races -- Jews live in Israel, send Black people to Africa or the Caribbean, Chinese back to China (once they finish building the railroad, naturally), Arabs can live in Arabia, etc.
Are you trying to win some sort of SJW bingo or something? Sad
Huh? How is "That's how the participants in the fight like to frame it, because then it forces you to pick a side" in any way SJWish? The SJWish method is to force a side and then virulently attack the "other."
So what about those who call for the destruction of Palestine?
Sure, assholes too. Come on, you're lobbing softballs here.
Oh yeah? Define 'asshole'. I dare you.
You can say some things are intolerable without having to be able to define an exact line between asshole and not-asshole.
From the summary:
a private Facebook group mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and racial minorities
Yeah, that falls pretty solidly within realm of 'asshole.' No tough call here.
Newsflash: Life isnt special. There is no happiness, there is just situational ignorance. You arent unique, and your free time is a waste of resources.
Amazing how happy and fulfilled people can be in a world with no happiness.
If you don't like the guy, just Foe him and be done with it, and you won't see him again. Just stalking him makes you look like a creep.
That's because in America Gaslighting [wikipedia.org] is the status quo especially in corporate America.
Is gaslighting the most accurate term? Gaslighting always struck me as being a process where you're tricked and lied to in order to confuse you as to reality. "You are weak and should fear job loss if you don't work 80 hours a week." The 80 hours may be a bit of hyperbole (depending on the job), but when people hear that.. it's not a lie. Being replaced by the younger, harder-working, more-"productive" go-getter is totally a real thing.
"The economy" as a whole isn't a bubble, but the tech sector is. That's what's due for a collapse, and it remains to be seen whether it can drag the rest of the economy down with it. Given the state of other sectors, it's quite possible.
Tech unemployment in 17Q1 in the US is 2.5%. That's a national rate, so it is skewed by SV, Austin, NYC, etc., but it's a pretty good market for employees and a pretty tough market for recruiting employers.
Even in the tech sector, that's an overall unemployment rate, but I'm wondering what the employment market is like for the tech worker in his 50s and 60s. It seems to be a young man's field.
But you are taking my "leave and find another job" humorously literally. I agree it would be more prudent to get another job first.
Oh! Well, yes, I totally agree, regardless of the field. :-)
At the risk of being accused of astroturfing, I've found Glassdoor.com helpful in providing reviews of employers by employees.
Unfortunately it also has people fired for just cause, who want to shit-talk their former employer as a big F U.
Boy, it's great to work in an industry where you have the option of leaving one job and being hired in another job in short order, sometimes even at a higher salary. In the US, in many sectors, I think most people are hanging on as best they can to a dysfunctional job because if they quit, they'd be like their out-of-work relatives who have been looking for a job for the past two years.
You don't think they would get into a weee bit of trouble for publically fabricating a crime and then falsely claiming the FBI was investigating? They have nothing to gain and a hell of a lot to lose there.
Yeah, there's some truth to this but remember that the original saying was:
"He who represents himself has a fool for a client". So it didn't specifically speak to lawyers representing themselves. It is also possible that this saying is propagated by law bar associations and attorneys to keep their profession in higher regard.
I've talked to a number, and I'm married to a lawyer, and I think I have a bit of understanding about why this idea comes up. For the most part, a defendant needs absolutely objective counsel. If you're defending yourself, or launching your own prosecution, you cannot be objective. You're too close to the case, and have too much invested in the outcome. The counsel has to be a voice that can tell you when you need to settle, when an approach you really want will backfire, and how not to let the heat of the moment piss off the judge. If you're representing yourself, you lose that objectivity, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who THINK they can do it, but in practice it often turns out to be a bad idea.
And here, Louis CK explains why farts are funny. This is one of the few instances where explaining a joke is funnier than the joke itself.
And how is that a homophobic joke? These faggots need to learn some English.
The faggots weren't the ones who got offended.
As is often the case, it's one group getting outraged "on behalf of" another group that just doesn't care.
Yeah, fuck those evil male gamers. Sexism like this will surely win people over.
Save the manufactured outrage, noting demographic trends is hardly sexist. Animojo was referring to the summary which mentioned that Sony needs to move beyond the "male-skewed aging hardcore gamer base." Older male gamers is a market that has been shrinking, and just focusing on that one market is ignoring the much larger market you can have, along with all the pitfalls you'd get with a shrinking customer base.
Emulation is hard. It's just a hard problem to solve. Downloading PSXe and having it crash trying to play a game can be ok, but if Sony was to include an emulator in the PS... 5(?) it has to WORK. Work reliably. And that's hard, because "close enough" isn't "good enough." The architecture of the PS2 and PS3 was difficult enough to program for game developers on the actual platforms.
Specifically, it was the iTunes Music Store. That was the big winner. iTunes as a music organizer and player was merely ok, (and on non-Apple platforms it's always been terrible) but it was its integration with purchasing and seamless integration with the iPod that made all of that a big win.
Sure. And what should the scientific community say about, say, the Flint water supply?
Easy, they can say what it would take to make the pipes usable again. They can give studies showing what would happen if certain additives were introduced, and what the cost / gallon might be. They can make projections about what will happen if nothing is done.
Spending the money to implement a plan or stating one must do one thing or another is the realm of the politicians to decide.
Stating what will happen if one action or another is taken is the realm of the scientists to explain.
Probably because their sports coverage has always been shitty if you care about any team outside of New England, Chicago, or LA.