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[REGENDarySumanai]

DDS didn't do anything wrong. He just did his job and people shat on him for it.

 

[iafiv]

Captain Planet and the Planeteers / YMMV - TV Tropes

Anvilicious: Environmentalism is basically the entire point of this show, and it's not afraid to show it, given how pointlessly evil the villains are. Special mention to one scene in "The Ultimate Pollution" where, as he's fighting a tank, the …

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Some humor regarding Captain Planet.I'm actually curious what are the real world counterparts to characters like Sly Sludge or Duke Nukem since going by their values resonance people in the real world do act like in the cartoon?

 

[Cool kitties club]

Captain Planet and the Planeteers / YMMV - TV Tropes

Anvilicious: Environmentalism is basically the entire point of this show, and it's not afraid to show it, given how pointlessly evil the villains are. Special mention to one scene in "The Ultimate Pollution" where, as he's fighting a tank, the …

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Some humor regarding Captain Planet.I'm actually curious what are the real world counterparts to characters like Sly Sludge or Duke Nukem since going by their values resonance people in the real world do act like in the cartoon?

"Misaimed Fandom: The reason for the Flanderization and Cartoonish Supervillainy is so that not everyone who has an environmental impact is seen as a Corrupt Corporate Executive who just wants to destroy the environment For the Evulz. However, some activists do see Plunder or Blight or Greedily and see every logger, every miner, every dam, as a complete monster who wants to cut down all the trees or kill all the animals or dig up the entire world simply for the sheer joy of harming mother nature. "

Apparently some tropers think every logger and dam as captain planet villians

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

"Misaimed Fandom: The reason for the Flanderization and Cartoonish Supervillainy is so that not everyone who has an environmental impact is seen as a Corrupt Corporate Executive who just wants to destroy the environment For the Evulz. However, some activists do see Plunder or Blight or Greedily and see every logger, every miner, every dam, as a complete monster who wants to cut down all the trees or kill all the animals or dig up the entire world simply for the sheer joy of harming mother nature. "

Apparently some tropers think every logger and dam as captain planet villians

That's the problem with the show. They explicitly made the villains over-the-top representations of these problems so that no kid whose parents actually worked in these industries would get the idea their folks were evil... and that's why the show doesn't really work.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Take a wild guess as to how the Tropers see Pelosi ripping up Trump's speech at the SOTU event.

The General US Politics Thread

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"Nancy Pelosi just won the State of the Union by appearing to rip up Trump's speech just as he finishes it. I mean damn, there are power moves and then there are Pelosi moves. It is going to be the big takeaway from the speech, completely stealing Trump's thunder with one gesture of defiance. I am in awe."

"Pelosi is a boss. I love her so much. "

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Take a wild guess as to how the Tropers see Pelosi ripping up Trump's speech at the SOTU event.

The General US Politics Thread

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"Nancy Pelosi just won the State of the Union by appearing to rip up Trump's speech just as he finishes it. I mean damn, there are power moves and then there are Pelosi moves. It is going to be the big takeaway from the speech, completely stealing Trump's thunder with one gesture of defiance. I am in awe."

"Pelosi is a boss. I love her so much. "

What a bunch of pieces of shit.

 

[GethN7]

Take a wild guess as to how the Tropers see Pelosi ripping up Trump's speech at the SOTU event.

The General US Politics Thread

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"Nancy Pelosi just won the State of the Union by appearing to rip up Trump's speech just as he finishes it. I mean damn, there are power moves and then there are Pelosi moves. It is going to be the big takeaway from the speech, completely stealing Trump's thunder with one gesture of defiance. I am in awe."

"Pelosi is a boss. I love her so much. "

The Democrats were made to look like fools during the entire SOTU and then Trump gets acquitted. Pelosi tore a few pieces of paper but has done nothing to stop any meaningful amount of what Trump talked about last night and certainly couldn't make an impeachment happen.

How is that a display of power?

 

[LightDragonman1]

TV Tropes users on the whole Amber Heard situation:

Aquaman (2018)

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[Sekirodiealot]

The Democrats were made to look like fools during the entire SOTU and then Trump gets acquitted. Pelosi tore a few pieces of paper but has done nothing to stop any meaningful amount of what Trump talked about last night and certainly couldn't make an impeachment happen.

How is that a display of power?

Because they watch way too many movies and think this will translate well to real life.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

There have been... questions about the precise nature of the messages Arknights is trying to send with its choice of how to depict Reunion, the primary antagonist group.
Reunion is a group of oppressed individuals who are "othered" because of conditions beyond their control (namely their infection with oripathy) — prejudice we get to see first-hand as Rhodes Island members also must deal with it — and Reunion members have decided to take to violent means to achieve their liberation. Their aesthetic has a distinctive "anarchist" or possibly "anti-fascist" vibe to it, with lots of facial concealment (especially via mouth bandanas for the lower-rank units) and hoods... which also happens to be a fairly common image of the protestors in places like Hong Kong. This aspect, at least, does appear to be coincidental (the HK protest movement contemporaneous to the game's international release began in June 2019, while even the earliest trailers for the game from 2017 already depicted Reunion using their present aesthetic) but for many outside of China, it does feel very unfortunate. There have also been a number of objections to the Reunion mooks being depicted as they are, as it seems to perpetuate the idea of anti-fascists being "terrorists", when the vast majority of terrorism in the 21st century◊ has originated from the political far right. And then there's questions, especially in the U.S. (with a long history of the oppressed seeking redress of wrongs done to them and often feeling a need to resort to violence to defend themselves) of just what the game is saying by seeming to frame Reunion as being wholly in the wrong for resorting to violence.
The counter-argument mostly coalesces around the fact that Reunion militarizes very quickly (they graduate from "guys with molotovs" to heavily-armored SWAT-style troopers, lumbering axe men, exploding spiders and guys with literal jet packs pretty rapidly in game progression) and that a number of the Reunion leaders don't seem to have the same zeal for the theoretical cause of the group that the rank-and-file (and Talulah) do; this argument largely boils down to the message being "militarizing for the purpose of ending oppression only results in you becoming the new oppressor and welcoming those into your fold who are useful, rather than those who believe in your cause" and that it is, perhaps, commenting on the arc of the Russian Revolution and CPSU (with bonus points for the game's story kicking off in the world's equivalent to Russia) and even, through heavy allegory, the arc of the Chinese Communist Party. As the game's first arc is still in progress, it's a bit difficult to say for certain what the final message will be, but the whole thing does tend to inspire, shall we say, debates. That's all we'll say on this matter.

moe phone games are super political apparently

 

[Jason Wynn]

Leave it to TvTropes trannies to find something """problematic""" about Fred Rogers

 

[LightDragonman1]

In case you need any more evidence of just how slanted TV Tropes is in favor of everything SJW and ultra-left leaning, look no further than their page on The New Tens:

The New Tens Real Life / Useful Notes - TV Tropes

This section covers the real life events such as politics, society, and current events that occurred in this decade. Due to these events covering controversial subjects, no real life related tropes and Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment applies …

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A few choice parts:

"The Harvey Weinstein scandal have brought forth the #MeToo Movement that addressed the prevalence of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in modern society, particularly against women note . The movement was the final nail that killed off the notion that the victims of sexual abuse were either just asking for it or doing it as "power play" (although attitudes have been changing in that direction for year prior). The hashtag has also brought a lot of international recognition in various places around the world where violence against women are relatively common such as Africa, Middle East, Afghanistan, India, and Russia, which the #MeToo further expand into the issue of misogyny in society that encourages sexual violence against women. Many women in various social platforms shared their stories of sexual abuse on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, some of which are abuse and harassment that occurred decades ago. "

"The decade saw a backlash among men against overtly masculine aspects, leading to the popularization of the terms "softboy" and "toxic masculinity". On the other hand, fourth-wave feminism in the Anglosphere condemned the raunchy "do-me" stance of third-wave feminism, adopting a more feminine face, while continuing to reclaim concepts once held as stereotypes and slurs. The fourth-wave's extreme popularity among young women and female celebrities along with its use of social media also led to the terms "millennial feminism", "pop feminism" and "hashtag feminism". After being criticized for painting women as delicate beyond all the talk of empowerment and ignoring working-class, LBT (particularly trans) and non-white women (apart from being blamed for worsening relations between men and women in general) especially after the rise of the #MeToo movement, late 2010s-era feminism began to focus on questioning gender conventions the same way both feminism overseas and "new masculinity" had done for much of the decade."

"While the student protesters may have not have been given the warmest reception from the hard-right, they did seem to finally break the stalemate on gun politics that has persisted since Columbine. According to search trends and news analytics, public interest in the topic of gun control, which normally dies down after a shooting in less than a week, remained steady throughout the rest of February. Support for stricter gun laws surged in the aftermath at a level far exceeding the bump following other mass shootings, reaching their highest levels since 1993. Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association, the gun rights group largely seen as the main obstacle preventing all legislation regulating gun ownership from passing, saw their favorability rating plunge to historic lows with a plurality of Americans seeing them unfavorably for the first time, and their sponsors (such as Visa, Best Western, and Delta) severed ties with them in droves after a progressive news blog reported on them and pressure mounted on the companies. Popular stores like Dick's stopped selling guns and Republican politicians, like Brian Mast of a district near Parkland, became more open to some gun control proposals. Gun-control groups like Everytown and Giffords saw their membership spike. And as for the protests themselves? There were two mass school walkouts with nearly 3,000 schools and one million students participating. The March For Our Lives main event, meanwhile, was reported to be the third-largest protest in U.S. history, behind only the two Women's Marches (with the March 14 walkout said to potentially be in fourth). While Emma Gonzalez's pledge of the Parkland shooting being "the last mass shooting" hasn't come true (there was another mass shooting at a high school in Texas three months later), there is growing evidence that the movement will have implications at the ballot box in November, as 2018 became the first time ever that gun control was a major campaign issue for Democrats. And it did, as gun control supporters won big in suburban areas who previously were indifferent to this issuenote ."

Yeah, talk about bias. And that's not even getting into the section about Trump, which seems to suggest that they think that the Democrats are taking back control and are far more morally righteous. Here's just one sample:

"The election of Donald Trump has caused the rise of Right-Wing Militia Fanatic groups (also known as the "alt-right"), including gun absolutists, anti-abortion and anti-LGBT extremists, neo-Confederates, white identitarians, extreme misogynists, and even Klansmen and Neo-Nazis. Many of their activities and rallies have become more mainstream in American politics, and some of them have resulted in violence (such as the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally mentioned above). One of the major factors of this has been the support of Donald Trump from many of these groups and Mr. Trump's hesitance, if not outright refusal, to disavow their support or condemn their activities, with the few "condemnations" that he has given widely being seen as forced and insincere (especially since they usually involved deflection towards other groups on the political left). Not helping the matter is that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI under the Trump administration have shifted their resources to dealing with "antifa" and Islamic terrorism instead of white supremacist terrorism despite the fact that Americans are much more likely to be killed by far-right terrorism than any far-left or Islamic terrorism. Far-left terrorism is a relatively rare and recent phenomenon, with antifa groups mostly avoiding the use of life-threatening weapons like guns or vehicles (especially in North America); meanwhile Islamic terrorism, despite its frequency in Europe, has been very sporadic in the United States."

Notice anything off about the descriptions?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

In case you need any more evidence of just how slanted TV Tropes is in favor of everything SJW and ultra-left leaning, look no further than their page on The New Tens:

The New Tens Real Life / Useful Notes - TV Tropes

This section covers the real life events such as politics, society, and current events that occurred in this decade. Due to these events covering controversial subjects, no real life related tropes and Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment applies …

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A few choice parts:

"The Harvey Weinstein scandal have brought forth the #MeToo Movement that addressed the prevalence of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in modern society, particularly against women note . The movement was the final nail that killed off the notion that the victims of sexual abuse were either just asking for it or doing it as "power play" (although attitudes have been changing in that direction for year prior). The hashtag has also brought a lot of international recognition in various places around the world where violence against women are relatively common such as Africa, Middle East, Afghanistan, India, and Russia, which the #MeToo further expand into the issue of misogyny in society that encourages sexual violence against women. Many women in various social platforms shared their stories of sexual abuse on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, some of which are abuse and harassment that occurred decades ago. "

"The decade saw a backlash among men against overtly masculine aspects, leading to the popularization of the terms "softboy" and "toxic masculinity". On the other hand, fourth-wave feminism in the Anglosphere condemned the raunchy "do-me" stance of third-wave feminism, adopting a more feminine face, while continuing to reclaim concepts once held as stereotypes and slurs. The fourth-wave's extreme popularity among young women and female celebrities along with its use of social media also led to the terms "millennial feminism", "pop feminism" and "hashtag feminism". After being criticized for painting women as delicate beyond all the talk of empowerment and ignoring working-class, LBT (particularly trans) and non-white women (apart from being blamed for worsening relations between men and women in general) especially after the rise of the #MeToo movement, late 2010s-era feminism began to focus on questioning gender conventions the same way both feminism overseas and "new masculinity" had done for much of the decade."

"While the student protesters may have not have been given the warmest reception from the hard-right, they did seem to finally break the stalemate on gun politics that has persisted since Columbine. According to search trends and news analytics, public interest in the topic of gun control, which normally dies down after a shooting in less than a week, remained steady throughout the rest of February. Support for stricter gun laws surged in the aftermath at a level far exceeding the bump following other mass shootings, reaching their highest levels since 1993. Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association, the gun rights group largely seen as the main obstacle preventing all legislation regulating gun ownership from passing, saw their favorability rating plunge to historic lows with a plurality of Americans seeing them unfavorably for the first time, and their sponsors (such as Visa, Best Western, and Delta) severed ties with them in droves after a progressive news blog reported on them and pressure mounted on the companies. Popular stores like Dick's stopped selling guns and Republican politicians, like Brian Mast of a district near Parkland, became more open to some gun control proposals. Gun-control groups like Everytown and Giffords saw their membership spike. And as for the protests themselves? There were two mass school walkouts with nearly 3,000 schools and one million students participating. The March For Our Lives main event, meanwhile, was reported to be the third-largest protest in U.S. history, behind only the two Women's Marches (with the March 14 walkout said to potentially be in fourth). While Emma Gonzalez's pledge of the Parkland shooting being "the last mass shooting" hasn't come true (there was another mass shooting at a high school in Texas three months later), there is growing evidence that the movement will have implications at the ballot box in November, as 2018 became the first time ever that gun control was a major campaign issue for Democrats. And it did, as gun control supporters won big in suburban areas who previously were indifferent to this issuenote ."

Yeah, talk about bias. And that's not even getting into the section about Trump, which seems to suggest that they think that the Democrats are taking back control and are far more morally righteous. Here's just one sample:

"The election of Donald Trump has caused the rise of Right-Wing Militia Fanatic groups (also known as the "alt-right"), including gun absolutists, anti-abortion and anti-LGBT extremists, neo-Confederates, white identitarians, extreme misogynists, and even Klansmen and Neo-Nazis. Many of their activities and rallies have become more mainstream in American politics, and some of them have resulted in violence (such as the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally mentioned above). One of the major factors of this has been the support of Donald Trump from many of these groups and Mr. Trump's hesitance, if not outright refusal, to disavow their support or condemn their activities, with the few "condemnations" that he has given widely being seen as forced and insincere (especially since they usually involved deflection towards other groups on the political left). Not helping the matter is that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI under the Trump administration have shifted their resources to dealing with "antifa" and Islamic terrorism instead of white supremacist terrorism despite the fact that Americans are much more likely to be killed by far-right terrorism than any far-left or Islamic terrorism. Far-left terrorism is a relatively rare and recent phenomenon, with antifa groups mostly avoiding the use of life-threatening weapons like guns or vehicles (especially in North America); meanwhile Islamic terrorism, despite its frequency in Europe, has been very sporadic in the United States."

Notice anything off about the descriptions?

You can tell that a lot of them never really talk to women much

 

[Pickle Dick]

Leave it to TvTropes trannies to find something """problematic""" about Fred Rogers


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that is just beyond lunacy

i can't even explain why that is

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

that is just beyond lunacy

i can't even explain why that is

expect TVT to be the only people ever to have a problem with the word manhole

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

you can tell that this was written with one hand

 

[Sekirodiealot]

In case you need any more evidence of just how slanted TV Tropes is in favor of everything SJW and ultra-left leaning, look no further than their page on The New Tens:

The New Tens Real Life / Useful Notes - TV Tropes

This section covers the real life events such as politics, society, and current events that occurred in this decade. Due to these events covering controversial subjects, no real life related tropes and Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment applies …

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A few choice parts:

"The Harvey Weinstein scandal have brought forth the #MeToo Movement that addressed the prevalence of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in modern society, particularly against women note . The movement was the final nail that killed off the notion that the victims of sexual abuse were either just asking for it or doing it as "power play" (although attitudes have been changing in that direction for year prior). The hashtag has also brought a lot of international recognition in various places around the world where violence against women are relatively common such as Africa, Middle East, Afghanistan, India, and Russia, which the #MeToo further expand into the issue of misogyny in society that encourages sexual violence against women. Many women in various social platforms shared their stories of sexual abuse on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, some of which are abuse and harassment that occurred decades ago. "

"The decade saw a backlash among men against overtly masculine aspects, leading to the popularization of the terms "softboy" and "toxic masculinity". On the other hand, fourth-wave feminism in the Anglosphere condemned the raunchy "do-me" stance of third-wave feminism, adopting a more feminine face, while continuing to reclaim concepts once held as stereotypes and slurs. The fourth-wave's extreme popularity among young women and female celebrities along with its use of social media also led to the terms "millennial feminism", "pop feminism" and "hashtag feminism". After being criticized for painting women as delicate beyond all the talk of empowerment and ignoring working-class, LBT (particularly trans) and non-white women (apart from being blamed for worsening relations between men and women in general) especially after the rise of the #MeToo movement, late 2010s-era feminism began to focus on questioning gender conventions the same way both feminism overseas and "new masculinity" had done for much of the decade."

"While the student protesters may have not have been given the warmest reception from the hard-right, they did seem to finally break the stalemate on gun politics that has persisted since Columbine. According to search trends and news analytics, public interest in the topic of gun control, which normally dies down after a shooting in less than a week, remained steady throughout the rest of February. Support for stricter gun laws surged in the aftermath at a level far exceeding the bump following other mass shootings, reaching their highest levels since 1993. Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association, the gun rights group largely seen as the main obstacle preventing all legislation regulating gun ownership from passing, saw their favorability rating plunge to historic lows with a plurality of Americans seeing them unfavorably for the first time, and their sponsors (such as Visa, Best Western, and Delta) severed ties with them in droves after a progressive news blog reported on them and pressure mounted on the companies. Popular stores like Dick's stopped selling guns and Republican politicians, like Brian Mast of a district near Parkland, became more open to some gun control proposals. Gun-control groups like Everytown and Giffords saw their membership spike. And as for the protests themselves? There were two mass school walkouts with nearly 3,000 schools and one million students participating. The March For Our Lives main event, meanwhile, was reported to be the third-largest protest in U.S. history, behind only the two Women's Marches (with the March 14 walkout said to potentially be in fourth). While Emma Gonzalez's pledge of the Parkland shooting being "the last mass shooting" hasn't come true (there was another mass shooting at a high school in Texas three months later), there is growing evidence that the movement will have implications at the ballot box in November, as 2018 became the first time ever that gun control was a major campaign issue for Democrats. And it did, as gun control supporters won big in suburban areas who previously were indifferent to this issuenote ."

Yeah, talk about bias. And that's not even getting into the section about Trump, which seems to suggest that they think that the Democrats are taking back control and are far more morally righteous. Here's just one sample:

"The election of Donald Trump has caused the rise of Right-Wing Militia Fanatic groups (also known as the "alt-right"), including gun absolutists, anti-abortion and anti-LGBT extremists, neo-Confederates, white identitarians, extreme misogynists, and even Klansmen and Neo-Nazis. Many of their activities and rallies have become more mainstream in American politics, and some of them have resulted in violence (such as the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally mentioned above). One of the major factors of this has been the support of Donald Trump from many of these groups and Mr. Trump's hesitance, if not outright refusal, to disavow their support or condemn their activities, with the few "condemnations" that he has given widely being seen as forced and insincere (especially since they usually involved deflection towards other groups on the political left). Not helping the matter is that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI under the Trump administration have shifted their resources to dealing with "antifa" and Islamic terrorism instead of white supremacist terrorism despite the fact that Americans are much more likely to be killed by far-right terrorism than any far-left or Islamic terrorism. Far-left terrorism is a relatively rare and recent phenomenon, with antifa groups mostly avoiding the use of life-threatening weapons like guns or vehicles (especially in North America); meanwhile Islamic terrorism, despite its frequency in Europe, has been very sporadic in the United States."

Notice anything off about the descriptions?

I remember seeing that page and me being like:

The amount of delusions in that page is just wow. Just what the fuck are they babbling about. Also people on their political forums are immediately banned if they're right leaning or worse being neutral, claiming their conservatives in disguise. To think i used to browse that site all the way back in 2013....

 

[iafiv]

Exactly how much more likely is it to get killed by far right terrorists in the US than left wing or islamic?Overall the US has very low levels of politically motivated violence.Granted its higher than the average of developed countries but its pretty low if you compare it to Syria or Iraq(although those examples are extreme).There's also the fact that in many murders its very difficult to ascertain motivation.Cops in the US seem to have a predilection to focus on 'personal reasons' whatever that means whenever some unusual crime happens.Unless the perp left clear written and recorded evidence of their motivation in many cases the cops will not focus too much on the why.Which is one reason why quite a few mass shootings and even individual murders seem 'suspicious' for anyone working in counterterror but the motive has been left by the wayside.Its also one reason why lists of terror related incidents are incomplete or heavily doctored.Even including that there's the question of when.If you include all terrorism related deaths since 2000 then 9/11 is still responsible for over 70% of all deaths associated with politics on US soil.If you include since 2017 the figures might be different.Other details are linked to the size of the suspect group and their propensity for violence.How many muslims become violent compared to their size how many whites become violent compared to their size.Basically if you go with a 'i want someone to blame' mentality when it comes to terrorism you'll find someone to blame depending on how you interpret data.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Why does this exist?

Non-Human Non-Binary - TV Tropes

Historically, many cultures have described people using a gender binary, in which everyone is strictly categorised as either "male" or "female", even though this over-simplification doesn't fit many people. This is not something that all cultures …

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[Lackadaisy]

Why does this exist?

Non-Human Non-Binary - TV Tropes

Historically, many cultures have described people using a gender binary, in which everyone is strictly categorised as either "male" or "female", even though this over-simplification doesn't fit many people. This is not something that all cultures …

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If I squint, I can sort of see the basis of this trope - "Yeah, alien races in fiction might not have genders" - but whoever wrote this just hits you with a full force tism tidal wave and makes it completely unreadable.