Shout out to you for calling this “anti-immigrant campaign” what it is. I think the phrase Ethnic Cleansing needs to be permanently attached to ICE and the Trump Administration, and I wonder how many decades it’ll be before the media uses it.
On the other other hand, it’s still corporatized media, just with a more hidden incentive structure.
Y’all remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks?
People keep telling me it’s overly dramatic but I’m going to keep calling this campaign an ethnic cleansing until proven otherwise.
If you wanna shoot Nazi’s, you’ll fit in real nice in Wolfenstein: The New Order.
America’s most popular gender-neutral bathroom
Imagine if they’d done this in 2015.
“The site explained that it is most dangerous for folks who have had gender-affirming surgery to stop hormones. For this group, stopping medication can lead to heart complications, metabolic dysfunction, severe bone density loss, cognitive decline, and mood instability.”
—The previous paragraph.
In the mindset of the contrarian reactionary, it doesn’t matter what the advice is but rather that it’s being given at all.
First and foremost they’re authoritarian.
Custom made modern as authentic as possible
Actual artifact belongs in a museum
The above-average proportion of narcissists in c-suites combined with a “magic box” that tells you how smart and insightful all your ideas are and how you’re such a special big-penised boy for having them leading to delusional behaviour seems on track for me.
Fully fitted set of 15th c. style gothic plate armour and accompanying zweihander.
I bet the Sermon on the Mount won’t be required reading.
What a nice patch of sunflowers he’ll make.
Hell, I still sometimes boot up old flash games that I enjoyed back when flash was around
𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓶, 𝓐𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓶, 𝓓𝓮𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓶
I’ve always been kinda torn on making fun of fascists for that sort of thing, because I personally don’t care whether or not he plays with porcelain dolls but I know he and his supporters A LOT.
Yeah unfortunately Andrew Jackson’s still on money so…
I think power-scaling can be fun, but I also think it’s like trying to divine oracular messages from an absent-minded fool.
Using your example: when the characters in the show say Big Dick One can lift five trucks, are they exact? Is it hyperbole? Is it even a useful example? Do the showrunners even bother keeping track of that sort of thing?
Now for that last one, that’s a pain point for a lot of power scaling. After all, if you go through all the trouble to mathematically determine that Rex Sciencefist can hold his breath for at least three minutes, but the next episode has a plot point where he can only hold his breath for two? Is there a flaw? Is there some explanation? No, it’s just that you’re looking for consistency in a place that the people making the media just do not give a shit about.
You can be angry with the showrunners for their inconsistency, or you can accept that the people making the show just don’t care as much about the power scaling and are fine with making the characters as powerful as they need to be for the plot to happen.
Because at the end of the day, power scaling is all about trying to determine the limits of a bunch of make-believe characters whose limits exist solely at the whims of the author trying to make neat stories out of them.