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But how else are people gonna know how great Arch with btrfs, zsh, and Hyprland tiling manager for everyone if we don't constantly talk about it?
All jokes aside, we definitely cover it to death.
French politicians love bringing up whatever clothing muslim women wear, every quarter you're guaranteed to have a new debate bewteen old white men on what women should wear
You can be as naked as you want but covered? Nuh uh! Although that well-known populist racist-bait is probably now doubly pushed with the advent of ubiquitous facial recognition. 🙃
Easy! For Sonic fans, especially us older fans, it's always new Sonic game bad after a game launches, for the most part. Sometimes it's deserved, like how buggy Sonic '06 is or how character turning on the 3DS port of Sonic Lost World is horrific IMO. But sometimes it's just something like people not liking cutscene changes in a remaster( rerelease? ) of an older title ( how I personally feel about the Sonic x Shadow Generations cutscene and dialogue changes ).
Just like most fandoms, I swear Sonic fans are never truly happy, unless it's something like Sonic Mania. And even then I have heard people complaining that they should have just made only new zones instead of the few they did reuse from other of the old 2D titles.
I, for one, cannot escape the new game bad thing myself considering I refuse to touch the latest racing game on account of me believing the Riders series was and is infinitely better ( so long as anything Free Riders that isn't the Crush40 song Free is included ).
Climat change and yet still people denie it!
WW2 especially with "the nazis could have won". No they couldnt. The only way they could have won would have been with them not being nazis!
In germany: the danger of the nazi party AfD and how fucked we would be if they came to power. Yet still people act supprised when AfD is revealed again to be corrupt, working for russia, is a nazi party and would ruin everything. Yes keep talking about it but discussion of if they really are all those things is obsolete. They are! The media ofc isnt helping and neither is the CDU (conservatives and current ruling party) that openly starts talking about collaborating with them. Ugh.
Or the classic: violent video games discussion. SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THAT!
Small brain discussion: the Nazis could have won if...
Big brain discussion: the allies could have won with fewer casualties if...
Nazis had all of western europe except the UK. If UK had become nervous and negotiated peace, they could have won.
Except the UK didn’t because you don’t negotiate with nazis
Also brits fighting all of europe, that is a very common situation for them. Standing alone (with the colonies) defying against all odds, is a national culture icon for them. Just like the freedom fighting ragtag group is for america.
And the people were ready to fight that beast with all their wallice and gromit tech they could've come up with! They knew what was at stake
Probably more due to their geographical advantages compared to their European peers and other non-ideological factors... but I'm not a WW2 history buff, TBF.
Britian was being starved out and had lost a lot of supplies when France fell. One major factor was the nazis shifting focus from RAF bases to cities, aiming for the public instead of tactical military targets, probably expecting the brits to wave the white flag due to morale being broken faster than they couldd wipe out the airforce. I don’t think any of us living in these countries in modern times can truly comprehend how the people of the UK held it together during this.
ZIpper merges
I don’t know if it’s actually discussed but how much longer do we have to endure Colbert leaving?
The terminally online debate-me-bro brand of atheism.
It's always been curious to me that you can define yourself by something that your not. I'm also vexed why an atheist would proselytize. They're not saving souls or capturing 10%. What's the motivation? And please don't say it's because atheists are better people. Because all the famous "new" atheists were regular cast members on Epstein Island and the whole movement had deep ties to the alt-right and Gamergate.
I'm not saying they're wrong, I'm saying they're obnoxious, belligerent, and annoying. To be clear, I'm atheist. That's half the problem. These MFers are making me look bad.
Not a fan of fedora atheism either, but imo when atheists proselytize it’s because organized religion is harmful and they’re trying to limit/remove its power
when atheists proselytize it’s because organized religion is harmful and they’re trying to limit/remove its power
That's what they always claim, but 9 outta 10 times I see an atheist on this website it's because someone said "oh God, that's crazy" and they had to reply with "🤓😏 more like oh Flying Spaghetti Monster that's crazy. Haha! Get it? Cuz God doesn't exist!!?"
I mean trying to make religious phrases awkward and less used kinda is a way to limit/remove organized religion’s power lol. We normalize it with our language, and if we stopped I think it would make it harder for religious talk to come across as serious. Not saying it’s not annoying - I personally find it a little cringe to police someone else’s language like that even if I do it to myself - but I see the idea behind what they’re doing
Your argument would hold more water if organized religions encouraged people to say things like "oh my God". Saying those phrases or otherwise taking the Lord's name in vain is generally frowned upon, at least in most western religions (no idea if this taboo exists for, say, Hinduism).
You're right in saying we don't think about it when using it in everyday language. Similarly, most westerners aren't thinking they're celebrating the birth of Jesus when they are doing their Christmas shopping; obviously the holiday is inherently religious, but the only groups that generally view it as strictly a Christian holiday are devout followers of another faith that forbids them from celebrating, and obnoxious atheists.
When you encourage people to stop saying "oh my God", you aren't sticking it to organized religion in any way; you're literally policing people to do the same thing they want them to do.
Or maybe what they claim is what they actually mean and they just think you’re annoying so don’t bother investing in having a conversation with you about it?
because they are people. and people want other people to agree with them to validate them. it feels good.
that's just how human beings are wired. human beings generally, don't enjoy being around people who don't agree with and validate them, they find that painful.
this is why people love echo chambers where they rant to each other about how anyone else who doesn't believe what they believe is stupid and bad, and they are very smart and good.
and really, that's how our 'communities' work fundamentally as well. you get together with like-minded people, you create a shared belief system, and you shit on everyone else who doesn't share in that belief system as a bad and wrong as a social bonding exercise.
also why they tend to fly into a rage when confronted with people who are different than them or say things they don't agree with, because they find that painful and they want to punish you for you making them feel bad.