Culture Wars General - KiA Diet Coke Edition

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Sinner's Sandwich said:
Characters who look like whores are still not anti woke. It's just gooner garbage. Only gooners think whores are revolutionary.
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Define whores.

If you're talking manish proportions, blue hair, a side shave, and tattoos, then agreed. It's like the woke crowd thinks the last decade of woke games never happened.
 
I’m sorry, but…. wut?
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Jonah Hill poster said:
I’m sorry, but…. wut?
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They be mad because Barrett is actually cool and that the remake managed to give him more credibility and depth as the leader of a revolutionary group without rewriting the entire character.

Take note of how when the party reaches the Mithril mines, he demonstrates competent knowledge of the topic and references his backstory as a miner, even though the rest of the party hasn't yet heard his origin story. Or how during Cloud's recounting of the events at Nibelheim, Barrett is the only person asking rational questions about what happened.

But apparently him being a whole person with a personality isn't good enough.

In other words, they wanted him to be gay.
 
Like Islam, I can see pious observation of Christianity become linked to the new Left, which slowly seems to be getting more puritan.
It makes sense, since the new left is very idealistically socialist.
And when you think of it, so many of the alternative lifestyles born of natural preferences make more sense under free market capitalism, not command-and-control.

When you think about it, capitalism is the only system where one can veritably discuss the benefits of a loving gay relationship.

Sure, it has subjective benefits, but also great benefits to society as a whole.
It's tempting to just criticize a relationship that can't replenish the population as non-beneficial or detrimental, but in this "market", most people have kids anyway.

But in socialism, where corporations' interests don't matter, you overlook the real benefits of lgbt.

Consider a couple who met on OKCupid. Both are AMAB gay men. Once they matched, presumably after paying the "premium" fee that basically gets their feet in the door at all, they drove to a local coffee shop to meet. After getting to know each other some more, they'd meet again at the bar. After their third date, they both booked a hotel. Both wore condoms when "taking turns", slept through the night, and decided they liked their chemistry.

Notice that there are many benefits to society in this relationship – most directly, everything leading up to the night after the rendezvous helped to support businesses, the people they employ, and/or investors. They helped out by keeping the hotel chain, bar, and cafe in business. They supported the condom industry.

And more indirectly, each mile each drove contributed to later purchases at Chevron, and if you really want to think big picture, the wear and tear on their cars helped out local mechanics and the automotive industry.

Furthermore, once they marry, a couple without kids might not be providing for the next generation, but since the majority of the population more than makes up for it, that's a small price to pay for the many benefits a company with no kids and more free time, that statistically is more likely to have dual high incomes, has on society, by consumption. Not just "rainbow capitalism".


Being trans is even more capitalist. Capitalism breeds variety – it's structured as such that "fairness" isn't around – if you can find a job that doesn't make you obey all the social norms of another job, you won't be stopped. If you win the lottery, and save it wisely, you'll only have to come in for jury duty. If your company's standards of professionalism don't require a gendered dress code, or let you show up to the office in your best jeans and funniest tee, more power to ya.

And if you want to undergo a series of medical interventions, social adjustments, and legal red tape, one that can't really be explained logically, and one that goes against the tall poppy maxim, more power to ya.

Target will happily sell clothes to a trans woman. Ulta will happily sell makeup. Teva will happily sell you estrogen with a Dr's note. These companies actually care less about yourself than the gov't – you're not a soul, nor an organic system, nor even a social security number to them – they want (1) your bu$iness and (2) a chance you'll still come back for more. Sure, maybe the designers have optimistic goals, but it's this neutrality that breeds variety. These aren't products that go bad right away, nor products that require any special handling, nor anything that appeals exclusively to trans women.

This is unlike socialism, AKA state-run co-op monopoly, where such a variety will be called into question. You won't be one more reason for the stores to routinely stock XXL tee-dresses for women – and some government campaign to get you to lose weight (more on that) could disincentivize it.

You might be forced to deal with a more streamlined mental health system – where your therapist (if you have one) is a business/professional relationship they'd forget about if they lost your psychosocial history, where you'll most likely be given the usual treatment of SSRIs + antipsychotics instead of an "alternative" approach where not everything is corrected but rather understood with nuance and coping, etc.

And socialism is more so concerned with the maxim of "if everyone did what you did, would it be good or bad" – taking drugs to deprive the workforce of a strong-bodied man is bad in this regard, while in capitalism, you can shuttle yourself to something without the same physical requirement.

I don't think the neurodivergence movement is compatible with true, anti-consumerist, and assimilationist socialism.

Neither is technology. Though it seems that's the first thing the new left turned on.
cout << "how can we design code to be less alienating to women?";

Neither is the fat acceptance movement, which a socialized healthcare plan will do everything to extinguish, not just out of the fact that it puts strain on all the healthcare system, but because it's easier for the first doctor you meet to just give you cliche health advice rather than get to know your system if you do have a metabolic reason (cough THE RISPERIDONE cough) to gain weight.

Socialism will lead to "single family zoning" getting even more literal – if you don't have kids, why need the space? You do realize your hobbies are capitalist? At least that's what the puritwentysomething I used to know pushed pushed pushed.

Socialism will lead to the more pious, anti-material, pro-conformity, and pro-socialization-as-long-as-it's-within-the-boundaries-set-by-the-book mentality of Christianity, the religion of do's, don't's, and a surface level forgiveness message layered atop the deeper understanding that you will, in fact, have to change your behavior even if you personally believe you haven't done nothing wrong.
 
Abimelech said:
They be mad because Barrett is actually cool and that the remake managed to give him more credibility and depth as the leader of a revolutionary group without rewriting the entire character.

Take note of how when the party reaches the Mithril mines, he demonstrates competent knowledge of the topic and references his backstory as a miner, even though the rest of the party hasn't yet heard his origin story. Or how during Cloud's recounting of the events at Nibelheim, Barrett is the only person asking rational questions about what happened.

But apparently him being a whole person with a personality isn't good enough.

In other words, they wanted him to be gay.
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Well if your black man isn't a limpwristed pillowbiter looking like madmax you are a bigot
 
dustbuster said:
Oh god.
Changing a character's entire personality is arguably worse than lolcowlizers inserting political shit.
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The localizers did that with the recent sequel to TWEWY, I think that was covered in this thread a bit but it changed the quiet character to some smug twitterposter that kept doing "men bad, later losers" shit and some guy who was letting his heart out about a relationship to "haha woah maybe I'll get a raise at my job guys!"
 
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The Lawgiver said:
The lolcalizers did that with the recent sequel to TWEWY, I think that was covered in this thread a bit but it changed the quiet character to some smug twitterposter that kept doing "men bad, later losers" shit and some guy who was letting his heart out about a relationship to "haha woah maybe I'll get a raise at my job guys!"
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It goes back a long ways.
The dubs for Tenchi Muyo back in the 1990's were so bad your impression of the 2 female leads were flipped from the director's intent.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Put me off dubs forever.
 
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