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Got pretty excited to see that Jeff Arcuri cameo.

God, what a great show.

Oof. Yeah they'll get ya like that. I'm certainly not immune.

So, I gave this a cursory read.

The discussion of essentialism mostly makes sense, if a few weird red flags scattered throughout. But I was curious at what point it would be turned into, as promised in the intro, that essentialism is a fundamental flaw of "wokeism", and apparently specifically Critical Race Theory.

And uh. That connection was poorly made, in my humble opinion. It's a lot of philosophical history and bluster to then just sort of... miss the point and mischaracterize the quotes being put on the table.

My apologies, I would be more specific and pointed in my critique here, but I'm on mobile and I usually need a better setup (e.g. on PC) to lay out these thoughts with more precision.

Oh yeah I first saw that on a miniminuteman YouTube short. At first I thought, no way, then he played the clip in context. And uh. Yeah. Woof. That's a Nazi salute alright.

As an aging anime fan... I tend to agree with Miyazaki's take that anime is made by weird people for weird people.

Sometimes being a bit of an outcast gives you perspective and you take that and make someone great.

Sometimes it turns you into an incel who creates characters that totally aren't pedophile bait, no sir, they're 2000 years old! They just so happen to have the body of an 8 yr old.

The conservative anti-woke scum of the Internet who love anime can't tell the difference between the two. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.

I think I'd put it this way - I like adventuring, exploring, and finding my way through an immersive world. I don't like when I can't seem to stumble into the exact right clue or secret passage or interactable and waste up to possibly hours scouring the same locations over and over.

That said, metroidvanias are my favorite videogame genre. I just had to accept that it's okay to look up a guide or wiki before I get fully tilted.

You misunderstand. This IS Trump's chosen stooge. FTC Chairman Carr.

He's complaining about tech companies "censoring" conservatives for "speaking their minds", aka being hateful bigots and spreading misinformation during a public health crisis.

I'm unfamiliar with the context for most of these. Plenty don't look like Nazi salutes. To me, anyway.

But literally every word that has slithered out of that moldy potato's mouth for the last two decades is all you need to know he's a white supremacist.

That is unfortunately the truth of it.

I'm one of the burned out wage slaves. I like my job, at least, but I'm struggling just to keep my life together, let alone society.

I know that's true for almost anyone who would be part of a resistance, but the learned helplessness is real.

With renewable energy?

I know a PMDB trainer in the VA. They say this is not the national directive they've been given, but it could be something more local.

At a recent conference, there was some very cagey and vague talk about what to do with references to "non-binary" though. This could have been a local, overzealous interpretation of that conversation.

Stay safe out there, gang.

While I get the sentiment, these are the opinions of economists. I don't think they have any idea what to do to actually stop fascists.

I think at best, reporters would be able to interview anti-fascists for what we should do. I just doubt they have a stable of anti-fascists to call on for interviews.

I'm not entirely sure who they would call upon. So I can't make any real recommendations, either.