I unintentionally managed to do that with the lib at work and now he’s noticing there’s a lot of coup attempts on his life

“This is what post-colonial Africa looks like!”

African country: gets a good leader

America/France murders said leader

America/France backs ineffectual/appeasing African leader

“Yup, Trump is like those awful post-colonial African leaders!”

African country: gets another good leader

America/France murders said leader

Civil war erupts

“Man, those post-colonial African countries…just can’t get their act together”

African countries: shifting hard towards China

“Welp, time for another lecture!”

I’ve literally seen a ‘history/geography’ youtuber literally try and explain that Palestinians don’t want their homes back because it’s their homes, but it’s because they’re antisemitic (Badempanada did a video shredding this guy’s idiocy on the topic)

Western Europeans hate Russia and are so terrified of them that it literally defines how they see the world

But now as cold hearted Israel rejected arming Ukraine I call for Free Palestine

I hate libs, I hate them so damn much

I hope they’re not going to start saying it’s bigotry not to allow Israeli MMA fighters to go in the ring without a rifle

Hoo boy have I a story for you!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/27/artwork-gaza-schoolchildren-removed-chelsea-and-westminster-hospital

Apparently a hospital had pictures drawn by Palestinian children which they took down because a pro-Israel group told them it was making Jewish patients feel uncomfortable and harassed; many of those children are probably dead now.

I’ll tell you which one ISN’T my favorite: the eyesaur

This is why it’s getting harder for me to see a point in talking to these people; the fact that they’re unable to see the double standard makes it feel pointless. Unless the media tells them to see it that way, they won’t. You and I can point it out to them, but unless they read an article about it and they feel like it’s coming from someone more intelligent than them, they won’t hear a word of it; never mind that they have a brain of their own they can use to think with; they’ve decided to delegate the thinking function to people they consider smarter; the reasoning, the history, the context, etc., none of this matters, the only thing that matters is hearing it from someone they consider smart.

Destiny’s fans have entered the chat

Gary Gygax was…um…more than a bit questionable himself.

In an online forum post he commented that killing goblin babies is normal (if not inherently good) and compared it with…well…so apparently there was a military general responsible for the mass killing of indigenous people who said of the killing of children ‘nits make lice’, and Gary used this quote to explain why killing goblin babies was fine. He used an example of a person saying this about human beings for why he supported killing fictional infants. There are many awful excuses he could have used, but I genuinely don’t think he could have used a worse one than this.

Drizzt is not a good example; the Drow are still explicitly evil in those books and Drizzt hates them and acknowledges that they’re evil. Fantasy is unfortunately terrible for this, but there is a book that’s not only fantastic, but it’s based in a setting that reverberates the sentiment of monsters not being inherently evil: ‘Queen of stone’ set in the Eberron setting by Keith Baker, the setting’s creator.

Annoyingly it’s now available in kindle form; when I searched for it about…ten years ago? There was no digital version of the book at that time.

The main character is a bodyguard sent with a diplomat to a major diplomatic event in the lands of Droaam (a land of monsters; medusas, minotaurs, gnolls, ogres, hags, etc.) and the races there are portrayed very normally; I recall reading an essay by (Keith Baker?) where he explained how in his setting the only inherently evil races are demonic beings (who are made of the evil stuff in the abyss; they are not formed from human souls) or the creatures from the dream realm whose mentality is utterly alien to human thinking who went on to create illithids and other similar creatures. Goblins in Eberron in the ancient times had an extremely advanced empire but were defeated by the numerous barbarian human tribes and eventually their civilization collapsed and now live in poverty in human cities instead.

Unfortunately even though Eberron has much going for it…I’m not a steampunk/entire-cities-are-made-of-artifice/airships guy. I like my fantasy settings basic.

What happens when America picks a fight with a country that can fight back

Warmongering?

Hey, you know whose fault it is white birth rates are down? Minorities!

In fact the only way this could be even more the fault of minorities is if the government finally does away with the affordable care act!

“Warmongers hesitant to monger war” would’ve been too on the nose.

Crappy president is inept; this is not complicated

I used to be a fan of GTA 1 and 2 but starting from 3 and onwards the gameplay dropped off hard

Honestly I think I only liked sunny until…season 12…? And even then it was getting noticeably less funny after season 7 or 8. They’re also making a lot of reactionary jokes in the latest seasons.

Definitely this; just how many new stories could they tell with Bart and Lisa in high school, or university even.

Spiderman apparently had him age over the course of the original run, and that was awesome. New stories you couldn’t have told otherwise.

Woman: Get out of my house! Stop murdering my family!

Bill Maher: I must slap this woman who is clearly at fault