Having lived in the Deep South at that time, I can assure you that there were definitely Bush stans who treated him like Maga treats Trump. The main difference was that they hadn’t found a global network of support that could be broadcast to the public 24/7
Every election within my life has been a battle between “Literal Reincarnation of Jesus” supporters and “If you don’t vote for The Party, we will put your photo in the Two Minutes of Hate for being a fascist” supporters.
That should tell you what you need to know.
Before I fled my home state (in the USA) for another, more accepting state, I would probably have said dropping out of college.
Oddly it was one of the best decisions I made for my mental health. Dropped out, got a job, made friends, moved out of my parents’.
Then I had to flee and ruined all that. Still recovering economically and psychically a year after. Things seem better here, but I’m fighting with an anxiety/panic disorder after putting off mentally dealing with the move (and a dozen other shit life events) for 11 months
When I was around 10-11 my dad sat me down to watch Mulholland Drive with him (because a coworker got it confused with another, more wholesome movie)
For the most part, my neurons were plastic enough to just accept the weird surreal dream logic, but for some reason my subconscious drew the line at sex. I must have been flushing, because my dad turned to me after the movie was over and started apologizing profusely.
The only time I remember feeling that much stunned embarassment/shame at watching a movie was when I got my sister Enter The Void as a gift, having never seen it. (Great movie, but the incestual implications make it hard to watch with family).
Now I’m a lesbian. Mulholland Drive got to me young enough to forever warp my sexuality. (Enter The Void, luckily, did not).
Tried it, it just tasted like a chewy salt lick and gave me a migraine from hypernatremia
Ni No Kuni 2. Looking for a new RPG, missing that anime aesthetic so I searched up “best JRPGs” (yes, yes I know now that it’s supposed to be perjorative); kept seeing this recommended, including by randos on Reddit (so not just paid review sites).
After 45 minutes of the most cliche-filled cutscenes and a prolonged tutorial for basic gameplay, I finally can just try it out and… It’s the most boring, generic gameplay ever. Dull story, bland characters, bland gameplay, too long of intro. 2/10
The only other game that comes close is Assassin’s Creed 3. Finished the tutorial mission, made it to Boston, started chasing collectibles and trying to 100% the first map. Sunk in about 5 hours and can’t find the rest of the collectibles, so I decide to move on and come back later.
That’s when it hits you with “PSYCH! That was just the Prologue, and all that time and effort invested in this character is MEANINGLESS. Here’s a brand new character to build up.”
I hate that. I don’t mind when the game begins with an OP character to show you the ropes only to take all of it away, but please make it short. I loved Metroid Prime, for example. Investing 5 hours to have all of it mean nothing to your character, and next to nothing for the story fucking sucks. 4/10, would probably still finish just because I loved 1+2.
If you think not having sex is so terrible it’s basically torture, the problem isn’t that you haven’t had sex. It really isn’t that great, and you need to stop idolizing these things
What you’re actually missing, and misinterpreting as “sex will fix me” is genuine human connection, and that is a skill that takes a loooot of practice, mistakes, heartache, and even at times, being “cringe.”
But it’s easier to think that sex is some magical experience that a secret organization is denying you.
That’s a very complex question with many, many answers. No individual life can be boiled down to a single phenomenon. A lot of the answers I’m seeing in here are great, ans definitely describe a phenomenon at play, but it’s important to remember that nobody’s just outright stupid enough to fall for a single piece of rhetoric. Instead, them coming into bigotry is the result of a complex web of ideas that brought them to that conclusion.
That being said, I’ll add my two cents that I don’t see anyone saying: privilege. Privilege insulates people from how cold and cruel the world can be; in doing so, they don’t learn the comraderie that grows out of shared hardship (aka empathy). They see others experiencing it, and assume they are weak, both for “allowing themselves” to fall into hardship, as well as for “getting conned” by others who have fallen on hardship. This too adds fuel to the fire that is all the other reasons people get pulled into hateful ideologies.
Imagine being excluded from some perceived secret club based on conditions you didn’t have a choice in, and seeing women or bipoc or lgbt or the working class supporting each other. You too would feel resentment towards those who won’t include you in their circles. Yet you never developed the proper understanding of the ties that bind them, so you only see it as hate towards you and your demographic; this then becomes a feedback loop: your hate hurts thode communities, making them even more interdependent on each other, making you more resentful and frustrated.
You fall in with people you don’t really like because of a shared disdain for The Others, and then, because that’s your only lived experience, assume all identity-based comraderie is necessarily just a loose collective of people that only get along because of a common enemy. This reinforces your belief that The Others hate you, only adding fuel to the fire of your own hate.
This is also why these people are so easily manipulated: all you have to do is control their perception of who hates them, and they’ll do whatever you say to make it stop. This is why politics and religion are such great examples, and no “side” is immune. Want to make a leftist out of a fascist? Convince them that The Jews are actually just the bourgeoisie, who must be killed for the good of ourselves and our nation. An anarchist who fears authoritarians will readily agree to being a part of an exclusive coalition of individuals that determines the way society is structured, so, y’know, the authoritarians don’t get their way.
I’ve never seen a dead battery that didn’t eventually go full “spicy pillow,” but until then they’re as safe as new (assuming no physical damage to the battery). That being said, it wouldn’t hurt you to take it to a certified battery recycler and get a new one.
Me? Rarely, but my stage manager does it at least nightly
And how would I signal 5 at a distance?
manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel
“…I don’t think it’s a bad thing, it’s nature.”
We do a lot of things that aren’t natural but still benefit us or others. On the flip side, rape, pedophilia and murder are all “natural”—that is to say, they happen in other species of animals—and yet most of us would probably condemn more than 0 of those.
“You wouldn’t deny a lion its prey” is a terrible take, I absolutely would if I could. The major difference is that lions are: obligate carnivores, don’t speak english nor understand human morality, and-more importantly—known to kill humans for getting too close. If I could save a gazelle and make sure the lion doesn’t starve, I’d absolutely train them to eat garbanzelles and zebrussels.
“And as long as we do that ethically… Instead the focus should be on ethical…”
How does one even form a system of ethics when the fundamental premise is not the sanctity of life? Seriously, what’s the point of following any rules if I can just kill anyone who takes exception to my behavior?
/eu̯.aŋ.ɡé.li.on/
Roughly pronounced ayoo-ahn-gay-lee-on
Or if that’s not a compelling argument
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン
/ɕiɲseiki ebangeɾioɴ/
Roughly pronounced Ay-bahn-gay-lee-on
And that’s really what matters: how the guy who named it pronounces the name.
Chili without beans is just spiced meat water. You don’t like chili, you like stew.
You got 6 digits on each hand?
Structured. Structured Query Language
It’s the only way that makes sense to parse. Imagine if literally anything else worked with the minor amounts first.
This thing costs 25 cents and 3,000 dollars
The time is currently 45:9.
This program is v11.7.9 and the next release is v0.8.9
I don’t like “mixed number” format, like 1/4 and 648,3. I’d much rather say “five hundredths, two tenths, six ones, four tens, 8 hundreds and 3 thousand”
I guess a lot less recipes would get overseasoned though.
spaces work fine for natural language, but what about regular languages. How should a programming language parse something like
x = 1 234
Sure that works fine in whitespace agnostic languages, but in something like shell script, it could mean “1,234” or [“1”, “234”] (currently, it would be the latter). In a functional language (e.g. Haskell) it would also be parsed as 2 separate numbers.
A gentleman doesn’t ask, and a lady doesn’t tell. I’m too old to think fascism’s new, but too young to remember its last go round