You mean besides their wars with russia, annexing tibet, and so on? And of course violating territory, mineral, oil, gas, and other various treaties and laws in the south china sea, and militarizing them to the point that Japan is looking to get back into the 'we have an active military, and we might just go nuclear while we're at it.'
The Chinese (as well as several other countries) feel emboldened to do this because we currently have historically weak leadership who will do fuck-all about it
So...that's why the current leadership is hitting China where it hurts the most? You know where that is right, it's in their pocket book. The same one that the politburo is now worried about, and saying that the tariffs are causing a lot of problems. And they're so worried that they're willing to take on more debt, while things are getting so bad in China that companies can't even make debt payments in funds to creditors...so they're trying to use food as a form of debt-payment.
The Chinese will run circles around this dope.
The Chinese ran circles around Obama, and his entire administration. Including the part where they got Obama to agree to a treaty to share technology including critical technology. And did the exact opposite of anything he asked for, and thumbed their nose at illegal selling of goods to N.Korea.
I dare you to name one country that Trump has been "tough" with (besides the United States). He's basically been the whole world's punching bag since he's been elected.
Oh look...a progressive has morphed into a neocon. You mean besides China? Including sanctions against russian banks, and iranian banks for breaking sanctions with n.korea. Or the part where he told nato members to pay their fucking share or the US would pull out.
Do you have a link or citation for this? Honestly asking.
Take it right from a chinese newspapers mouth there's been a few articles on the Korean Daily News, on the Japan Times, Mainichi Shinbun as well. article from bloomberg on the politburo wanting to pump more money and debt into the economy to keep it going. Again few articles more on this, check SEA news organizations, WSJ and so on. This is the type of stuff that doesn't get traction in the US/Canada or European media.
Are you sure they would cheer? If China is really such an evil godless commie regime, wouldn't a pressured China be more likely to do something crazy, which would be bad for its neighbors?
Yes, because it would give them the opportunity to kick them square in the teeth over the south china sea and them building military installations there. This has become a big enough problem that the current government in Japan(Abe) has both the political and public support to rewrite the constitution allowing for a pro-active military, instead of the restricted defensive military put into place at the end of WWII. In S/N.Korea's case, there appears to be far more going on as well, including having Kim come to Seoul, an agreement to de-mine sections of the DMZ, more open trade, removal of all military posts on/near disputed islands and so on. Singapore seems to be taking a very active approach to wanting them to reunify as well.
There's also the fact that China is a major if not top trading partner to those countries. So even if China doesn't do something crazy, their neighbors will be affected.
Most already have plans for that, note the increase trade deals between Canada, Japan and S.Korea dealing with milk/milk products, and flash-frozen meat for example.
Nothing is changing here, it's just words. The idea here is to fool Xi's US counterpart.
No it's not to fool the US counterpart, it's to fool all of the countries and companies that do business in China. Why do you ask? Well for the first time the politburo has stated that "yes they are actually worried about the tariffs, but also countries moving out of china and back to their home countries." Topping this out with the anti-chinese sentiment allowing them to buy up resources/land/etc in other countries for their own use.
The second part, is they've just had 9 repeat quarters of GDP dropoff, and in order to stave off negative GDP growth they want to pump in more debt to bolster it. Problem is, they're burning on empty. They have nearly 1000 large cities that have next to no population and nobody can buy into them. They have hundreds of cities modeled after Canadian and US housing developments...but nobody is buying them. Can't even rent them. They sit there...empty. But all those companies have debts for pay, resources, etc that are starting to come due and there's been a big spike in business failures and asset forfeitures. Now the really interesting thing, banks have been lending on assets(resources, stockpiles, buildings, etc). Then finding out that 3 other banks have done the same, and those assets don't exist.
Ready for the real shitshow to start? If you are, let the tariffs keep going. Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore will cheer China hitting serious financial problems.
Wow...really huh? The political left would be fucked, that's their main way to go after people who have contrary opinions on various things. I'm sure you can start with the "oh but not really..." gonna remind you about all those social justice movements that go after people for having the wrong opinions, or making a politically incorrect viewpoint, or daring to donate to a campaign against gay marriage.
The difference is, people are blaming video games for their actions(or lack thereof). People aren't blaming partying and social life when a toddler starves to death, or dies from dehydration. Rather they state that the person was inept and criminally responsible for their own actions. That's the difference between the two. It's a easy way out, and video games are just the latest round of *insert satanic bogeyman that kills kids/people/offends the ancestors*
Equally, most of the anti-PC speech I can think of is just attempts to smear and shut people down. Accuse them of calling you a Nazi, call them an SJW, demand your freedom of speech...
Strange. Because we've just had an entire platform shutdown by moral busybodies because they allow offensive but legal speech. These are the same people who make the argument that "free speech is violent speech." I'm reminded of the early days of 8chan, including yourself where you claimed that it was "a pedo site and should be shutdown" this is PC speech, with a lie added in. You didn't like that it had material while offensive, was legal under US law. You openly stated that people who used the site were pedophiles. You openly used this line of reasoning to stifle other view points and opinions. And now look at today. What's the progressive/democrat response to uncomfortable facts? You're a racist. What's the response when a person expects open debate even if it's offensive? You're a nazi. What's the response of your government in the UK when someone posts facts, or opinionated a view that is deemed 'socially unacceptable'? You government arrests them. That's the end of the line of political correctness.
Discussion of anything controversial quickly gets derailed by people wailing "help help I'm being oppressed!" like a Monty Python sketch. They are usually careful to get their argument in before saying "but you can't say that any more" even though they just did.
Maybe it's because they are actually being oppressed? A black women makes a post on twitter saying "kill all whites" and is never sanctioned or even required to delete the post. A white women quotes this and gets their account suspended. A women says "kill all men" and has a post history showing violence and/or violent attacks against men. Nothing happens. A man says "kill all feminists" and his account is banned, even though there's no history of a violent nature. A gay man has a long history of making jokes about "fags, and gay humor" his account is banned. A black islamic face in US politics, who has decades of anti-semitic posts and he's still right there, spewing the same stuff.
No the double standard is palpable, and people see it. Not only on social media, but in life itself. A 30 year old female teacher has sex with a 12 year old, people cheer it on. Make comments "he was lucky" "where was she when I was 12" and so on. She never sees the inside of a jail cell, and isn't even given community service. A 30 year old male has sex with a 16 year old girl, and women screech from the rooftop it's rape, etc, etc, etc, and he spends 7 years in jail. A 25 year old teacher has a lesbian romance with a 16 year old girl, people fall out of the woodwork to defend it. A 25 year old male teacher has a gay roman with a 17 year old boy and it's rappeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee all the way down, and he spends years in jail.
A man is falsely accused of rape, has proof it was a lie, that it was an outright fabrication, and an attempt to destroy his academic career/schooling/etc. The response is "well he might have done it anyway." And it might go as far as him being kicked out of school, or fired from his job. It follows him forever. The woman? Nothing. Feminists and left wing pundits line up saying "she was very brave." A women sexually assaults a man, and he's the one fired. Feminists and progressives circle the wagons around her, and call the man who brought it up a rapist and misogynist. The more extreme cases state that "he should have been glad for that attention."
Instead of complaining about it, just make your argument. If someone does call you something, tell them why they are wrong.
The irony of this coming from you is downright hilarious.
At this point, for people like me, the movie theatre isn't really ever going to be an option again.
Well you're not a minority in this by any stretch. To me it looks like movies are now following the path of TV, engaging in simply making shit and expecting their audience to lap it up. I'd laugh my ass off if the Star Trek:TNG prediction about "that form of media not living past the mid 21st century" turned out to be true. (or was it early 22nd century? been a long time since I watched that series)
A friend of mine owns a small chain of theaters here in Ontario, they're in mostly small cities/towns, where the old theaters died out and they never replaced them. For him, this was the first fiscal year in the last 20 where he's operating on a loss. Roughly, he had 35% less "asses in the seats" then the previous year. People are tuning out on movies, too many remakes of poor quality for example. Or too many trying to push an agenda. These things are either not creating that escape, or they're simply jamming the crap they are trying to escape down their throat.
Bonus points if you can figure out the theater chain.
The democrats, progressives and authoritarians believe that this is a good idea, that it absolutely will never be used against them either. And of course, this absolutely doesn't disprove the point that there's a group of people out there who are acting in a conspiratorial manner to silence speech.
But you acted enough like one for the trolls to detect your account and report you for suspension. Just part of their tactics for destroying rational dialogue. Longer discussion in some other story, but I don't want to repeat it here. Something about bots to report humans as bots...
You mean he posted opinions that Twitter didn't approve of, so they banned his account. And you're cheering the authoritarianism of it. Thing is, they did the same thing to conservatives here in Ontario during the Doug Ford election. But those thousands of bots, all repeating the same crap and flooding candidates feeds? Those were left up, in every case the candidate was conservative.
(1) Democratic candidates who want government of the people, by the people, for the people
Uh sorry. That's one hell of a line of bullshit, especially after all those democrat candidates ran off to big business, hollywood and so on for funding and/or how to "make a message" for their campaigns. Tell me something, how the fuck does someone in Hollywood know the message you should be taking to a farmer in Iowa? Cause that's what the dems are doing.
(2) "Traditional" GOP candidates who want government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1% and
So...basically the same thing as the democrats right? Except for the candidates that aren't getting traction from those previous sources that went running to the democrats....like big tech, wall street, medical companies. Hmm...isn't that strange, more GOPer money isn't coming out of "big business" in many cases.
(3) Trump and his lackeys who merely want government of, by, and for the Donald
Are you saying that less government and regulations are a bad thing?
Objectively, the life inside the game usually sucks pretty bad. Tetris of course being a rare exception as it is totally abstract with no life presented in the game, or even implied.
I mean, which life do I really want, mine, or the life of any of the characters in Street Fighter? That's not an escape, some other effect must be responsible.
The entire point is about escapism, distraction, and finding another focus. It really doesn't matter if the life of a character in Street Fighter is complete shit. Distraction/refocusing is the key. The study itself shouldn't really be any surprise though it's pretty much a replication of existing studies that have already proven this. Neurologists(and pain clinics) have been telling people who have chronic pain problems to use games, movies, books, etc., as a supplement to their pain management treatment for the better part of 20-25 years now instead of just popping pills all the time. Insert the usual part where specialists have a better idea of what's going on then your family doctor/clinic doctor who's just as happy to say pop some pills.
Ah, yeah, I agree. My natural beauty truly can be a burden at times. I've even taken to growing a neck beard and only showering once a week in an effort to put an end to the constant female attention, but nothing seems to work...
Sounds like you're doing it wrong. You need to add in an extra 300lbs to really make it work for you. Beards and neckbeards are in vogue right now, and then there's the whole limited showering natural scent movement. Don't worry, you can get those 2-4/10 girls with some extra effort, I believe in you!
But you'll never be as attractive as someone who goes/fit/ and wears a lumberjack shirt.
The chilling proof of this statement can be seen by the fact that literally no men are now CEOs or Senators, judges, professors, doctors, etc.
And the reality is, the chilling proof of government stepping in and mandating by law that a company must have women on their boards/percentage of hires/etc. Not the best, not the most skilled, but women because that's why.
Ever wonder why so few people now support feminism, and are railing harder then ever for egalitarianism?
It's kinda bizarre Mashiki thinks this is a problem, for those of us who aren't assholes we recognize the need for them and occasionally are given something to think about that's new, for those that are, well, you kinda need to be reminded to not be one, that's the entire point of them.
The comrade will only engage in policies and actions approved by the party.
Some people want businesses and work environments to be rotten horrible places where nobody feels comfortable except the biggest assholes. The rest of us...
Strange, because most people according to business survey's find that imposing more rules to stifle people to "avoid offence" make a business and work environment a less welcoming place. Might have something to do with the entire culture that currently exists around tiptoeing and regulating speech around every person in order to keep your job.
What a fun place to work, who wants to be part of the collective? It looks like...it's you!
And your original claim is still bullshit. I note that you're industriously moving the goalposts though.
Are moving the goal post? No, sorry they're not. Rather you've contributed nothing from your original post, and contributed nothing in your follow up reply. Want to try again?
I had one on harassment, none on the other topics you're angry about. I don't really see a problem with it because I'm not a massive snowflake who's so precious that I get triggered when someone tells me it's possible for me to behave in an unacceptable way.
Oh it's not anger, it's disgust. Something that any rational person should feel when they're told by a 3rd party that mentioning the smell of christmas trees is a micro-aggression. You are proving that the left can't meme though, so it's unacceptable for you to refuse to be baited by the women that engages in sexual harassment with male employees? The same actions that would lead a male to be fired.
Yeah I noticed that you're perpetually aggrieved that you can't behave exactly how you want with zero consequences. I also noticed that your claims are so overblown as to be flat out wrong
Haven't quite figured out yet why the vast majority of people are sick of political correctness yet have you. Looks like you're simply a moral authoritarian and have a desire to impose your morality and sensibilities on everyone else.
I love how here any such claims, no matter how wild, get modded up high. Now I expect to be modded down for pointing this out, despite it being true. If there's one thing the "anti SJW" can't stand it's dissent.
Do you work for a company with more then 300 people, a Fortune company, or company listed on a major stock exchange that has annual profits greater than $15m/year? How about been to a university in Canada, US, or Europe in the last 15 years? Can you name the last time you had mandatory workshops on any of the following: Sexual harassment/workplace etiquette/triggers/trigger-words/micro-aggressions/politically (in)correct language/politically correct speech/politically correct terminology.
Has your HR dept or student life/student union/professor published memo's outlining speech guidelines, improper speech, improper word usage in essays/papers, warnings against particular types of speech in the university and/or aggressively made restricted speech in a public university which is backed by the university president and/or dean of students. Thinking on the university, can you or can you or not remember at any point in the last 4 years where a TA, professor or tenured professor has been unofficially or officially sanctioned by either other professors, or adjoining body, or open protests by students for wanting to show full arguments/open discussion/defense of speech/views protected by charter/constitutional law/students rights charter/employment act/student union protections on an issue.
If the answer is no. Then you haven't interacted with mainstream education, or corporate culture in the last decade in any western country. In turn, you're ignorant of what's going on around you. If yes, then you're either accepting of these views or you're either not paying attention or are simply lowering your head so much to not make any waves, you've accepted the abnormal as normal.
Feel free to read campusreform, Fire, or anything similar for universities. Go on and read up about the Title IX abuses and abuse of students with no due process for indictable offences/felonies. Feel free to read the employment manual and/or the up to 20 supplemental documents at a major company. Read The Guardian, Vox, Vice, The Root, Huffpo, and read the articles that led to those same policies you're now skimming over. Look at the universities that are primary hires at these major companies, then go take a look at the googlers and their statements. Notice anything yet?
Well there's a difference between SJW's and 'bogeythings.' Bogeythings don't have an impact on society, don't go after your job, and further try to ruin future employment, and don't try to censor things. SJW's do. If you don't think so, why not go ask the round of progressive professors who've lost their jobs because someone got offended and rallied the mob over their opinion on Halloween costumes, or refusing to play along with their "whitey is the cause of all world ills" stances.
It's funny just how racist so many SJW's are though, especially with their cries of 'everyone else is a racist.'
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You mean besides their wars with russia, annexing tibet, and so on? And of course violating territory, mineral, oil, gas, and other various treaties and laws in the south china sea, and militarizing them to the point that Japan is looking to get back into the 'we have an active military, and we might just go nuclear while we're at it.'
The Chinese (as well as several other countries) feel emboldened to do this because we currently have historically weak leadership who will do fuck-all about it
So...that's why the current leadership is hitting China where it hurts the most? You know where that is right, it's in their pocket book. The same one that the politburo is now worried about, and saying that the tariffs are causing a lot of problems. And they're so worried that they're willing to take on more debt, while things are getting so bad in China that companies can't even make debt payments in funds to creditors...so they're trying to use food as a form of debt-payment.
The Chinese will run circles around this dope.
The Chinese ran circles around Obama, and his entire administration. Including the part where they got Obama to agree to a treaty to share technology including critical technology. And did the exact opposite of anything he asked for, and thumbed their nose at illegal selling of goods to N.Korea.
I dare you to name one country that Trump has been "tough" with (besides the United States). He's basically been the whole world's punching bag since he's been elected.
Oh look...a progressive has morphed into a neocon. You mean besides China? Including sanctions against russian banks, and iranian banks for breaking sanctions with n.korea. Or the part where he told nato members to pay their fucking share or the US would pull out.
Do you have a link or citation for this? Honestly asking.
Take it right from a chinese newspapers mouth there's been a few articles on the Korean Daily News, on the Japan Times, Mainichi Shinbun as well. article from bloomberg on the politburo wanting to pump more money and debt into the economy to keep it going. Again few articles more on this, check SEA news organizations, WSJ and so on. This is the type of stuff that doesn't get traction in the US/Canada or European media.
Are you sure they would cheer? If China is really such an evil godless commie regime, wouldn't a pressured China be more likely to do something crazy, which would be bad for its neighbors?
Yes, because it would give them the opportunity to kick them square in the teeth over the south china sea and them building military installations there. This has become a big enough problem that the current government in Japan(Abe) has both the political and public support to rewrite the constitution allowing for a pro-active military, instead of the restricted defensive military put into place at the end of WWII. In S/N.Korea's case, there appears to be far more going on as well, including having Kim come to Seoul, an agreement to de-mine sections of the DMZ, more open trade, removal of all military posts on/near disputed islands and so on. Singapore seems to be taking a very active approach to wanting them to reunify as well.
There's also the fact that China is a major if not top trading partner to those countries. So even if China doesn't do something crazy, their neighbors will be affected.
Most already have plans for that, note the increase trade deals between Canada, Japan and S.Korea dealing with milk/milk products, and flash-frozen meat for example.
Nothing is changing here, it's just words. The idea here is to fool Xi's US counterpart.
No it's not to fool the US counterpart, it's to fool all of the countries and companies that do business in China. Why do you ask? Well for the first time the politburo has stated that "yes they are actually worried about the tariffs, but also countries moving out of china and back to their home countries." Topping this out with the anti-chinese sentiment allowing them to buy up resources/land/etc in other countries for their own use.
The second part, is they've just had 9 repeat quarters of GDP dropoff, and in order to stave off negative GDP growth they want to pump in more debt to bolster it. Problem is, they're burning on empty. They have nearly 1000 large cities that have next to no population and nobody can buy into them. They have hundreds of cities modeled after Canadian and US housing developments...but nobody is buying them. Can't even rent them. They sit there...empty. But all those companies have debts for pay, resources, etc that are starting to come due and there's been a big spike in business failures and asset forfeitures. Now the really interesting thing, banks have been lending on assets(resources, stockpiles, buildings, etc). Then finding out that 3 other banks have done the same, and those assets don't exist.
Ready for the real shitshow to start? If you are, let the tariffs keep going. Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore will cheer China hitting serious financial problems.
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You could just change your .sig to "I am authoritarian, dissenting opinions not allowed."
asshats can't use it to set mobs on people.
Wow...really huh? The political left would be fucked, that's their main way to go after people who have contrary opinions on various things. I'm sure you can start with the "oh but not really..." gonna remind you about all those social justice movements that go after people for having the wrong opinions, or making a politically incorrect viewpoint, or daring to donate to a campaign against gay marriage.
The difference is, people are blaming video games for their actions(or lack thereof). People aren't blaming partying and social life when a toddler starves to death, or dies from dehydration. Rather they state that the person was inept and criminally responsible for their own actions. That's the difference between the two. It's a easy way out, and video games are just the latest round of *insert satanic bogeyman that kills kids/people/offends the ancestors*
Equally, most of the anti-PC speech I can think of is just attempts to smear and shut people down. Accuse them of calling you a Nazi, call them an SJW, demand your freedom of speech...
Strange. Because we've just had an entire platform shutdown by moral busybodies because they allow offensive but legal speech. These are the same people who make the argument that "free speech is violent speech." I'm reminded of the early days of 8chan, including yourself where you claimed that it was "a pedo site and should be shutdown" this is PC speech, with a lie added in. You didn't like that it had material while offensive, was legal under US law. You openly stated that people who used the site were pedophiles. You openly used this line of reasoning to stifle other view points and opinions. And now look at today. What's the progressive/democrat response to uncomfortable facts? You're a racist. What's the response when a person expects open debate even if it's offensive? You're a nazi. What's the response of your government in the UK when someone posts facts, or opinionated a view that is deemed 'socially unacceptable'? You government arrests them. That's the end of the line of political correctness.
Discussion of anything controversial quickly gets derailed by people wailing "help help I'm being oppressed!" like a Monty Python sketch. They are usually careful to get their argument in before saying "but you can't say that any more" even though they just did.
Maybe it's because they are actually being oppressed? A black women makes a post on twitter saying "kill all whites" and is never sanctioned or even required to delete the post. A white women quotes this and gets their account suspended. A women says "kill all men" and has a post history showing violence and/or violent attacks against men. Nothing happens. A man says "kill all feminists" and his account is banned, even though there's no history of a violent nature. A gay man has a long history of making jokes about "fags, and gay humor" his account is banned. A black islamic face in US politics, who has decades of anti-semitic posts and he's still right there, spewing the same stuff.
No the double standard is palpable, and people see it. Not only on social media, but in life itself. A 30 year old female teacher has sex with a 12 year old, people cheer it on. Make comments "he was lucky" "where was she when I was 12" and so on. She never sees the inside of a jail cell, and isn't even given community service. A 30 year old male has sex with a 16 year old girl, and women screech from the rooftop it's rape, etc, etc, etc, and he spends 7 years in jail. A 25 year old teacher has a lesbian romance with a 16 year old girl, people fall out of the woodwork to defend it. A 25 year old male teacher has a gay roman with a 17 year old boy and it's rappeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee all the way down, and he spends years in jail.
A man is falsely accused of rape, has proof it was a lie, that it was an outright fabrication, and an attempt to destroy his academic career/schooling/etc. The response is "well he might have done it anyway." And it might go as far as him being kicked out of school, or fired from his job. It follows him forever. The woman? Nothing. Feminists and left wing pundits line up saying "she was very brave." A women sexually assaults a man, and he's the one fired. Feminists and progressives circle the wagons around her, and call the man who brought it up a rapist and misogynist. The more extreme cases state that "he should have been glad for that attention."
Instead of complaining about it, just make your argument. If someone does call you something, tell them why they are wrong.
The irony of this coming from you is downright hilarious.
At this point, for people like me, the movie theatre isn't really ever going to be an option again.
Well you're not a minority in this by any stretch. To me it looks like movies are now following the path of TV, engaging in simply making shit and expecting their audience to lap it up. I'd laugh my ass off if the Star Trek:TNG prediction about "that form of media not living past the mid 21st century" turned out to be true. (or was it early 22nd century? been a long time since I watched that series)
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Must be a very tough life you lead, all those facts that get in the way with your opinions. Need a head pat?
A friend of mine owns a small chain of theaters here in Ontario, they're in mostly small cities/towns, where the old theaters died out and they never replaced them. For him, this was the first fiscal year in the last 20 where he's operating on a loss. Roughly, he had 35% less "asses in the seats" then the previous year. People are tuning out on movies, too many remakes of poor quality for example. Or too many trying to push an agenda. These things are either not creating that escape, or they're simply jamming the crap they are trying to escape down their throat.
Bonus points if you can figure out the theater chain.
Get your own platform, they said.
The democrats, progressives and authoritarians believe that this is a good idea, that it absolutely will never be used against them either. And of course, this absolutely doesn't disprove the point that there's a group of people out there who are acting in a conspiratorial manner to silence speech.
Not at all.
But you acted enough like one for the trolls to detect your account and report you for suspension. Just part of their tactics for destroying rational dialogue. Longer discussion in some other story, but I don't want to repeat it here. Something about bots to report humans as bots...
You mean he posted opinions that Twitter didn't approve of, so they banned his account. And you're cheering the authoritarianism of it. Thing is, they did the same thing to conservatives here in Ontario during the Doug Ford election. But those thousands of bots, all repeating the same crap and flooding candidates feeds? Those were left up, in every case the candidate was conservative.
(1) Democratic candidates who want government of the people, by the people, for the people
Uh sorry. That's one hell of a line of bullshit, especially after all those democrat candidates ran off to big business, hollywood and so on for funding and/or how to "make a message" for their campaigns. Tell me something, how the fuck does someone in Hollywood know the message you should be taking to a farmer in Iowa? Cause that's what the dems are doing.
(2) "Traditional" GOP candidates who want government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1% and
So...basically the same thing as the democrats right? Except for the candidates that aren't getting traction from those previous sources that went running to the democrats....like big tech, wall street, medical companies. Hmm...isn't that strange, more GOPer money isn't coming out of "big business" in many cases.
(3) Trump and his lackeys who merely want government of, by, and for the Donald
Are you saying that less government and regulations are a bad thing?
Objectively, the life inside the game usually sucks pretty bad. Tetris of course being a rare exception as it is totally abstract with no life presented in the game, or even implied.
I mean, which life do I really want, mine, or the life of any of the characters in Street Fighter? That's not an escape, some other effect must be responsible.
The entire point is about escapism, distraction, and finding another focus. It really doesn't matter if the life of a character in Street Fighter is complete shit. Distraction/refocusing is the key. The study itself shouldn't really be any surprise though it's pretty much a replication of existing studies that have already proven this. Neurologists(and pain clinics) have been telling people who have chronic pain problems to use games, movies, books, etc., as a supplement to their pain management treatment for the better part of 20-25 years now instead of just popping pills all the time. Insert the usual part where specialists have a better idea of what's going on then your family doctor/clinic doctor who's just as happy to say pop some pills.
Ah, yeah, I agree. My natural beauty truly can be a burden at times. I've even taken to growing a neck beard and only showering once a week in an effort to put an end to the constant female attention, but nothing seems to work ...
Sounds like you're doing it wrong. You need to add in an extra 300lbs to really make it work for you. Beards and neckbeards are in vogue right now, and then there's the whole limited showering natural scent movement. Don't worry, you can get those 2-4/10 girls with some extra effort, I believe in you!
But you'll never be as attractive as someone who goes /fit/ and wears a lumberjack shirt.
I can't wait till they allow "launch crusade to retake Constantinople."
Ashes, shattered bone and human suffering.
The chilling proof of this statement can be seen by the fact that literally no men are now CEOs or Senators, judges, professors, doctors, etc.
And the reality is, the chilling proof of government stepping in and mandating by law that a company must have women on their boards/percentage of hires/etc. Not the best, not the most skilled, but women because that's why.
Ever wonder why so few people now support feminism, and are railing harder then ever for egalitarianism?
It's kinda bizarre Mashiki thinks this is a problem, for those of us who aren't assholes we recognize the need for them and occasionally are given something to think about that's new, for those that are, well, you kinda need to be reminded to not be one, that's the entire point of them.
The comrade will only engage in policies and actions approved by the party.
Some people want businesses and work environments to be rotten horrible places where nobody feels comfortable except the biggest assholes. The rest of us...
Strange, because most people according to business survey's find that imposing more rules to stifle people to "avoid offence" make a business and work environment a less welcoming place. Might have something to do with the entire culture that currently exists around tiptoeing and regulating speech around every person in order to keep your job.
What a fun place to work, who wants to be part of the collective? It looks like...it's you!
And your original claim is still bullshit. I note that you're industriously moving the goalposts though.
Are moving the goal post? No, sorry they're not. Rather you've contributed nothing from your original post, and contributed nothing in your follow up reply. Want to try again?
I had one on harassment, none on the other topics you're angry about. I don't really see a problem with it because I'm not a massive snowflake who's so precious that I get triggered when someone tells me it's possible for me to behave in an unacceptable way.
Oh it's not anger, it's disgust. Something that any rational person should feel when they're told by a 3rd party that mentioning the smell of christmas trees is a micro-aggression. You are proving that the left can't meme though, so it's unacceptable for you to refuse to be baited by the women that engages in sexual harassment with male employees? The same actions that would lead a male to be fired.
Yeah I noticed that you're perpetually aggrieved that you can't behave exactly how you want with zero consequences. I also noticed that your claims are so overblown as to be flat out wrong
Haven't quite figured out yet why the vast majority of people are sick of political correctness yet have you. Looks like you're simply a moral authoritarian and have a desire to impose your morality and sensibilities on everyone else.
I love how here any such claims, no matter how wild, get modded up high. Now I expect to be modded down for pointing this out, despite it being true. If there's one thing the "anti SJW" can't stand it's dissent.
Do you work for a company with more then 300 people, a Fortune company, or company listed on a major stock exchange that has annual profits greater than $15m/year? How about been to a university in Canada, US, or Europe in the last 15 years? Can you name the last time you had mandatory workshops on any of the following: Sexual harassment/workplace etiquette/triggers/trigger-words/micro-aggressions/politically (in)correct language/politically correct speech/politically correct terminology.
Has your HR dept or student life/student union/professor published memo's outlining speech guidelines, improper speech, improper word usage in essays/papers, warnings against particular types of speech in the university and/or aggressively made restricted speech in a public university which is backed by the university president and/or dean of students. Thinking on the university, can you or can you or not remember at any point in the last 4 years where a TA, professor or tenured professor has been unofficially or officially sanctioned by either other professors, or adjoining body, or open protests by students for wanting to show full arguments/open discussion/defense of speech/views protected by charter/constitutional law/students rights charter/employment act/student union protections on an issue.
If the answer is no. Then you haven't interacted with mainstream education, or corporate culture in the last decade in any western country. In turn, you're ignorant of what's going on around you. If yes, then you're either accepting of these views or you're either not paying attention or are simply lowering your head so much to not make any waves, you've accepted the abnormal as normal.
Feel free to read campusreform, Fire, or anything similar for universities. Go on and read up about the Title IX abuses and abuse of students with no due process for indictable offences/felonies. Feel free to read the employment manual and/or the up to 20 supplemental documents at a major company. Read The Guardian, Vox, Vice, The Root, Huffpo, and read the articles that led to those same policies you're now skimming over. Look at the universities that are primary hires at these major companies, then go take a look at the googlers and their statements. Notice anything yet?
Looks like the NPC missed update 1.03a. Guess it's just further proof that machine learning has a long way to go.
Especially the SJWs.
Well there's a difference between SJW's and 'bogeythings.' Bogeythings don't have an impact on society, don't go after your job, and further try to ruin future employment, and don't try to censor things. SJW's do. If you don't think so, why not go ask the round of progressive professors who've lost their jobs because someone got offended and rallied the mob over their opinion on Halloween costumes, or refusing to play along with their "whitey is the cause of all world ills" stances.
It's funny just how racist so many SJW's are though, especially with their cries of 'everyone else is a racist.'
So Ted Nugent is a limo liberal? How about Paul Ryan? Donald Trump?
Hillary Clinton? Maxine Waters? Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore? Figure out the difference yet?
Let me ask you something, what is it like living with shit for brains?
I wouldn't know, but going by your post you seem to be a subject matter expert on this topic.