2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
I am sorry Tony but this very forum would have me say differently. The very internet would have me say differently. The very documentation of people doing it, would have me say differently. Heck, you yourself sometimes label people wholesale, maybe as a joke or out frustration but I have seen you do it.
So don't even try and deny that it exists, we can discuss to what degree but you seriously can't deny that it exists.
Typically the MO is to label them as being 'unamerican'.
That aside, the whole 'SJW' thing is ultimately a reaction to the repeated insistence that American society is post-racist, sexist, etc and the subsequent demonisation of any rational attempt to say 'on the contrary'. The emergence of a more militant brand of social justice is a result of these issues not only being addressed but being framed as non-issues and critics being attacked in a vulgar fashion. I mean, say what you will about the likes of Anita Sarkeesian, at least she made an effort to try and present her arguments in a reasonable fashion - the response to which was precisely the sort of behaviour the 'anti-SJWs' decry.
And ultimately there's a massive irony in people who say they are tired of PC culture making a reprehensible decision because...they take offense to something.
Both parties spend to oblivion and back and are terrible for it. As for debt being a good thing, you are partially correct. Businesses can go into debt to fund their growth however, this is predicated on the business eventually producing more wealth and paying away that debt or using the produced wealth as collateral in pushing it towards further debt, but in the hope of continued subsequent growth. Regardless, fiscal reality in the free market means that wealth the business borrowed has to come from somewhere. These banks /investors then assume the responsibility of failure. If a business caves they and obviously the employees/owners take the hit.
Who takes the hit when the government spending comes due? It is future generations that will pay for current failures. Think of it like the environment. We pass on the health of our environment to future generations. We are obligated to protect it for that reason. The economy is the same.
It is especially dangerous since governments turn to totalitarianism and war when they are unwilling to face the reality of financial collapse as a result excessive debt and spending. We cannot pretend that the debt is not an issue.
Minor bumps the road do not change the roads destination. If the conditions I mentioned (high employment - falling due to many factors automation being one and a homogeneous high work ethic culture - being destroyed via immigration and government dependence) are not met, the system cannot stay in balance for an extended amount of time. Sure you and I may live just fine, but it is at the expense of future generations. That might be ok for some, but not for myself.
The destination that you are trying to imply, will effect every single country, no matter the amount of implemented socialism. And said destination, is unlikely to not involve some forms of socialism (might even be more than it is now), since without it, it would essentially take our current disproportion of wealth and make it tenfold.
If you don't like Chavez then why support Trump who modeled his whole campaign on Chavez?
I mean its literally the same thing. Blame everything on foreigners. Talk about how the system is corrupt. Talk about "those elites" who never listen. Talk about how poorly the country is doing. Then at the end of it all promise to make everything great.
That's Chavez. That's also Trump.
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Err government spending never comes due. Never. Its rolled over to infinity. As for private debt that continues for infinity too. Debt is never ever got rid of but is only shifted about within the economy. That's because one persons debt is another persons savings and if you try and pay down debt you also wipe out peoples savings too.
why is it they always pick the one corrupt dictatorship who was over reliant on oil during one of the worst oil price depressions ever, as a socialist country that is a prime example of what would happen to all socialist countries?
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NO. You lib. don't get to get away with this. This is the TRUE AND PURE COMMUNISM. This is one of the few right communist thing done by chavez. Read Karl Marx. Its available in Library. In communist state, there is no PRIVATE enterprise. The Workers own all the means of production, via the STATE, which is composed by workers (again venusueza its leadership is made of common people like teachers)
It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect and you'll find plenty of examples on the internet.
More interesting is the transition for many racists, sexists and homophobes into relativists. "My racism, sexism and homophobia is just a good as your acceptance and inclusion, my bigotry just as valid as your tolerance."
I guess it really comes down to what kind of world you want to live in. Some people will just truly never give a fuck about anyone other than themselves. They won't give a fuck about the environment or the shit that anyone who comes after them will have to deal with. They won't give a fuck about the suffering and dying of innocents. They got theirs and that's all that matters. The RNC Chairman himself admitted to courting those specific bigots (via the Southern Strategy) for the votes they couldn't outright steal through mass voter disfranchisement of US citizens. Between that and the widespread tampering we now have Trump as the Presient-elect.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Brings them down to our level, where we have experience.
Trump won the presidency and he has how many bankruptcies?
Because shutup and pay your student loan debt with your minimum wage paying job until I replace you with automation.