Ah, I think that explains why users like Cowbee can say some of the most ridiculous shit while everyone elses comments are deleted.

You must be completely unaware of the kind of people who gravitate towards 40k.

I didn’t call you a Nazi. I said the fandom was infested with them. Odd that you’d go to such an accusation so quickly.

I’ve heard a lot of people talk shit about Hillary over the years, never once has it been about her being a woman. I’ve heard some misogynistic things about Kamala, however — she kinda opened herself up to it by dating a man who directly influenced her career. A man 31 years her senior. However, any talk about that has always been massively overshadowed by Gaza, or whatever else they had people spinning about at the time (I feel like it’s been years even though I know it hasn’t).

Idk, I just don’t buy ‘Hillary/Kamala lost because woman’. Doesn’t seem accurate.

Yeah my understanding of dog whistles is about as thorough as my ability to hear them, seems like it’s a code that changes every day

I think that’s a lot like saying modern orchestral music stands on the shoulders of classical composers but that isn’t really accurate, is it? Moonlight Sonata is Moonlight Sonata. Many classic compositions are still utilized in modern media.

There’s a difference with being disastisfied with certain aspects of a story and that story being overrated. Gandalf and Saruman’s powers being vague was the point. Tom Bombadil is such a minor portion of the Shire, is that even something relevant to the narrative as a whole? Fantasy, specifically, has evolved over time through the introduction of power systems sure — does that make them inherently better than LotR?

Not every book is for every person. You simply cannot deny the level of effort that went into creating LotR on Tolkien’s part, nor that it is held in very high regard to this day. The books simply are not overrated.

Harry Potter, though, absolutely. 100% overrated.

Now where did I leave my 30000 lb bunker buster?

The older I get the more I understand why the concept of demons was something people could accept.

Idk, some people are just bad. A cousin, adopted but my uncle’s adopted son nonetheless, is a good example of this. He’s no longer with us, thank fucking god, but this little devil was bad from the moment I met him to the point he died at… idk I think it was 18 or 19 years old.

His parents got him a pet weasel. It ‘disappeared’. I don’t remember the specifics but it was pretty clear it didn’t just run away. His brother would show up at the dining table with bruises around his neck. Just fucking evil shit like that. Ended up running away at 17 years old, died in an attempted robbery sometime after that (his memory is not something I try to keep alive).

Point is: there is such a thing as irredeemable. At least, in my eyes.

Great, what’s your solution?

Says a 40k fan.

At the very least the LotR fandom isn’t infested with Nazi’s that fail to understand the very basic themes of 40k.

If you want to put a little note saying ‘the movies are overrated’ sure, we can have a debate about that. Fantasy films really aren’t for everyone, and adapting LotR is definitely not an easy task.

If you genuinely mean the books as well, idk what to tell you. The history of the fantasy genre after LotR proves you’re wrong.

Oh, don’t get me wrong — my position has never been that UBI can’t work under the right conditions.

My position is that UBI cannot work without very major changes first. I don’t doubt that UBI can inject a lot of good into an individual’s standard of living — without some kind of regulation associated with it, which requires those regulatory agencies to not be inherently corrupt, UBI seems impossible.

I mean, yes — but the reality is that universal basic income dictates that everyone gets the money.

For instance, let’s say Congress allows the perfect UBI bill to be put forth. For whatever Bizarro World reason you can conjure, because we both agree that they would never agree.

What happens next? We’ve already seen what regulatory capture has done to sectors like real estate. Corpos buy up shitloads of land, whether it’s individuals looking to be land barons or alongside corporate interests.

How would true UBI result in anything other than higher prices? Seriously, in the current markets that exist within the United States — how, without some kind of serious societal and economic shift prior to it’s introduction, would this actually play out?

Maybe it’s better in other democracies, I actually can’t really argue for any other nation — I can only apply this concept to what I already know. I just think UBI is a concept that can only exist in a place entirely separate from corporate greed, and that is definitely not the United States.

In controlled environments, maybe — however those controlled environments still interact with currently established economies.

I’m just not convinced that UBI scaled up will actually result in anything other than what takes place in the Expanse.

The second fits me, I’d love to be able to secure a life for myself and my family — separate from the bullshit in the world (if possible).

Shriek, foxes shriek.

Beautifully said.

Nothing but total anarchical chaos will be good enough, there are plenty of people here who would cause genocide if they were in control.

I think that the motivation behind it is very simple: no one gives a shit about what I go through, why should I give a shit what you go through?

I’m not saying it’s right, but there is a twisted logic to it and there are certain societal factors at play that do make it seem true (like young boys being much more likely to be suspended or expelled from school).

Again, I’m not saying we should stop fighting for women’s rights — rights for one are rights for all. I’m just saying, understanding instead of trivializing will be what leads all of us out of this mess.