Ostrakon

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[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the root of the problem, isn't it? When someone proves you wrong, and you persist despite evidence to the contrary, that's pretty stupid, right? This high school debate sophistry that Kirk and his contemporaries engage in isn't a good faith discussion and most of his audience isn't equipped with the critical thinking skills to understand that.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that irrelevant if the league isn't making money though? People watch the NBA. They don't watch the WNBA. The comparison you should be drawing for "enough" would be other niche sports nobody watches like bowling or whatever.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly it's an unreasonable expectation to expect all voters to be excellent judges of character, or even understanding enough about practicalities to identify the better of two bad options. Even if these people had access to better information, would they process it correctly? I can be somewhat understanding of folks who were tricked by these lies given the context that they live in.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

That's a really good point, thanks for bringing that up

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Its almost like nonsensical parables are a recurring theme in religions in general and we shouldn't be assuming a bunch of mystical morons from a thousand years ago knew any better.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is probably not the whole reason but in my opinion it is the primary one. Young men are indirectly being told their problems don't matter because when they are raised they get slapped down for trying to take attention away from women's issues, and that leaves a very sour taste in their mouths that makes it easy for charlatans like Tate to take advantage of. Especially low-status white men getting hit with the double whammy of being assumed to be just fine because everyone knows how easy it is to be a white man, right? Thanks, apex fallacy.

The times where men have tried to form positive social support structures like the MRA/MGTOW movement, they are derided as being misogynistic, which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as the outside attacks reinforce those assumptions. If you look at these groups today, they are absolutely infiltrated by misogynist and racist voices, but that's not how they started. Gamergate is another example of this phenomenon.

I'm not trying to invalidate the issues women face or trying to claim that men have it worse. It seems we collectively treat this as a zero sum game instead of getting folks the help they need for the specific problems they face, and it creates a situation where people who could otherwise be saved are radicalized by assholes who are all too willing to capitalize on that and radicalize them. Worse, the continuing polarization makes it very difficult for anyone left of center to walk back and try to address men's issues without immediately being beset upon by a mercilessly vocal minority of feminists who see any attempt to help men as a distraction from their own issues.

Remember that each person parroting Tate's rhetoric isn't some hyper-privileged fratboy who is looking for an excuse to do violence to women. Some of them certainly are, but I would bet that a majority of them are low-status men who don't see any other options.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Basic Necron Warriors have always been innumerable and disposable.Their number is legion, their name is death. Lorewise gauss weapons shred their armor i guess, but it's also been inconsistent as they are not always high AP on the table.

Usually if Necron Warriors are portrayed as unstoppable killing machines it's because they were in their pre-5th edition lore where they were on par with space marines, and limited in number because it's always on a Tomb World that is just starting to wake up.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Necrons for sure IMO

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

5 dollars in 1988 was roughly* one mortgage payment.

(*I did not look up an inflation calculator)

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It also protects the screen.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but the three guys he didn't pardon are fuckheads 100% deserving of death. There is no room for doubt of their guilt, and had they been shot mid-crime by cops nobody would have batted an eye.

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Nobody's stopping you.

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