• Unpopular Opinions V6 You know maybe fascism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be
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I actually prefer the fake hungry jack/aunt jemima kinda syrup to real maple syrup. Or at least what's called real syrup here
Justice League: Gods and Monsters needs its own TV series.
Blackstar was a bad album because Bowies voice is shit due to age. It just wasn't nice to listen to with the exception of Dollar Days.
[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49932103]Furries are a mockery of the natural supremacy of the human race over the lesser animal species They are, therefore, sacrilegious and should be punished with the death penalty. To begin with.[/QUOTE] people are animals by identifying as human you're still a furry, albeit a twisted evil one CHECKMATE
I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.
[QUOTE=Mad.Hatter;49934415]I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.[/QUOTE] They conquered it but that doesn't mean they didn't steal it
[QUOTE=Mad.Hatter;49934415]I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.[/QUOTE] It's okay to take land from others if you use force!
[QUOTE=Mad.Hatter;49934415]I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.[/QUOTE] imperialism is shite yo
[QUOTE=Mad.Hatter;49934415]I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, and I'm sure no one stole their lives either, they just conquered those too? I have a friend who's big into imperialist apology and I hate it. He's also racist against Native Americans despite having an adopted Native American father and calls himself an "Ethnocentrist" Sadly he's looking to become a Historian but I have my doubts he'd ever make it in the field if he says Imperialism had an overall benefit on the world. With how much rampant destruction we've caused and how little of the people we exploited saw the benefits (Our Western nations saw almost all the benefits, places like South African natives saw none of it; the White Power Structure is barely starting to crumble in South Africa) I can say that putting a weight on human suffering like that and going "Oh it wasn't so bad!" is disgusting. Fun fact: I did a little thought experiment and asked if Marxist policies, which brought us a social democratic Europe, were worth the Soviet Union and Cultural revolution and he THEN started going "ooh, ahh" at all the death and destruction. Funny those double standards. Apperently African, North American, African, Middle Eastern and Aboriginal Australian lives, which were expanded in VAST numbers compared to anything Stalin or Mao did, aren't worth shit but when a white person or asian person dies it starts to be a problem!
obviously it's unethical to take things by force, but that's pretty much the mechanism that drove us all the way down our evolutionary road. Everything that isn't a plant "conquers" for it's own good; how different are civilizations? How strongly should we judge societies from the past?
[QUOTE=Mad.Hatter;49934415]I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.[/QUOTE] "I didn't steal this person's phone, I just beat the shit out of them and took it once they lost consciousness. Completely different!" See that's how dumb you sound. Conquering is a more specific form of stealing. [QUOTE=Sector 7;49934631]obviously it's unethical to take things by force, but that's pretty much the mechanism that drove us all the way down our evolutionary road. Everything that isn't a plant "conquers" for it's own good; how different are civilizations? How strongly should we judge societies from the past?[/QUOTE] Obtaining dominance through violence is a primal and archaic concept we as a species have been progressively trying to eliminate from our nature. That's why imperialism is a completely dead concept except for countries whose ideologies, such as Russia and North Korea, we consider stupid.
[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49932103]Furries are a mockery of the natural supremacy of the human race over the lesser animal species They are, therefore, sacrilegious and should be punished with the death penalty. To begin with.[/QUOTE] Wrong thread???
I don't think Rey was any more of a Mary Sue than Luke was in the original trilogy. Comparing the ENTIRE trilogy to one movie would be unfair, but if you narrow it down just A New Hope and The Force Awakens, Luke didn't really display that many moments of true weakness in Episode IV and was practically a natural at a lot of what he did, both in mention and proven merit. Once you start incorporating The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, you get a lot more vulnerability in Luke's character. We haven't seen an Empire Strikes back for Rey yet though, so I'd say it'd be best to hold that type of criticism for another movie before one calls fowl.
I don't hate Rey but Luke still went through some training to at least understand the force, and even then he's still very inexperienced and only uses the force once in episode IV
[QUOTE=Mad.Hatter;49934415]I think the whole, "white man stole our land!" Is dumb. No one stole anything, it was conquered get over it.[/QUOTE] Except for that one time we signed a fucking treaty with native americans that the Black Hills region would be exempt from white settlement forever, and then the moment we discovered it had gold we turned around, forced them out, stole the land, began gold mining operations, and then carved our fucking Presidents' faces in it and turned it in to a tourist attraction as if to rub it in. I would describe that as stealing.
Yea I guess I had a shitty opinion about I'll try and change it.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;49935119]I don't hate Rey but Luke still went through some training to at least understand the force, and even then he's still very inexperienced and only uses the force once in episode IV[/QUOTE] The only thing that really struck me as odd with Rey was [sp]her using the Jedi mind trick. Sure she didn't get it the first time like Kenobi did, but it struck me as something that needed more expirience.[/sp] I'm not a fan of Star Wars so I'm not 100% sure of the lore but I think there'd be less people calling her a Mary Sue if [sp]she only used the force when fighting Kylo Ren[/sp]
People that complain that Rey is a Mary Sue really missed out on the [I]not at all[/I] subtle hints that [sp]she has previous training/experience with the force, yet doesn't remember it.[/sp]
I really think that if trump was elected, America won't turn to shit despite what most of SH believes.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;49940779]I really think that if trump was elected, America won't turn to shit despite what most of SH believes.[/QUOTE] Well it certainly won't be a good thing
[QUOTE=Blazedol;49940798]Well it certainly won't be a good thing[/QUOTE] Most of his stuff will die in congress and the power of the presidency is variable. Look at the gilded age for example
I hate the US System of government and wish we had a parlimentary system where I can vote for whichever party I want and it gets seats based the percentage of votes going towards it. It's maddening when you have elections every 2 years and it's a power struggle between 2 parties and sometimes due to garrymandering one party is literally impossible to break out of their position. People don't even vote in senate elections, they can barely be bothered to vote in presidential elections. The Electoral college certainly doesn't help this all. I just want all senate elections, presidental elections and represanative elections to all happen on the same day so we don't get this mess where we have a republican president but a democratic senate and vice versa. I want my vote to be a direct vote that counts so shit like 2000 doesn't happen and I may as well not vote because of the state I happen to live in. United States political system is a joke.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49942007]elections should only be decided through a swordfighting contest and im not talking about swords if you catch my drift, sorry ladies, this ones for the guys :^)[/QUOTE] So regular political debate then?
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49942059]regular political debate doesn't give me a hardon like a good ole swordfight would so nah[/QUOTE] I was making a joke about dick waving but I guess that joke failed
A Bioshock game set in the near future would be nice to see, as it could give room for an official crossover with System Shock. (You'd still get the 50s aesthetic due to Rapture's cultural stagnation)
Cultural appropriation is real, but holy fuck things that aren't appropriation seem to be brought up so often, e.g. dreadlocks. [QUOTE=GarbageCan;49941812]I hate the US System of government and wish we had a parlimentary system where I can vote for whichever party I want and it gets seats based the percentage of votes going towards it. It's maddening when you have elections every 2 years and it's a power struggle between 2 parties and sometimes due to garrymandering one party is literally impossible to break out of their position. People don't even vote in senate elections, they can barely be bothered to vote in presidential elections. The Electoral college certainly doesn't help this all. I just want all senate elections, presidental elections and represanative elections to all happen on the same day so we don't get this mess where we have a republican president but a democratic senate and vice versa. I want my vote to be a direct vote that counts so shit like 2000 doesn't happen and I may as well not vote because of the state I happen to live in. United States political system is a joke.[/QUOTE] I really like the German system in particular, at least from what I've read about it. It's got some seats proportional, and some local (2/3 proportional, 1/3 local iirc). You get two votes, you vote for a party, and then a local candidate. Proportional is nice but having representatives be local and approachable is nice too.
[QUOTE=flashn00b;49942734]A Bioshock game set in the near future would be nice to see, as it could give room for an official crossover with System Shock. (You'd still get the 50s aesthetic due to Rapture's cultural stagnation)[/QUOTE] IDK if you could have another one set in Rapture [sp]since Lamb destroyed most of it at the end of 2[/sp] though from what I've heard Infinite's DLC basically made it impossible to fit 2 in the canon.
Neoliberalism has polluted education. If you ask anyone today about having a passion for higher education they'll likely just tell you they want a job. It's a toxic mentality that has turned education from being a place about learning and understanding to career training. Before this rise, education was about producing well rounded individuals that are learned in a variety of fields but specialized in one. So many fields are effected by this mentality, and it's not just liberal arts who are suffering the consequences. The "STEM" people ram on about and it's superiority for wealth? First of all, if you want wealth, just sell your soul to business. You'll make bounties. Second, STEM is no longer about the S or the M. It's just the TE, and the E is just a subset of Technology. So STEM education has just become Technology. Fewer and fewer people are taking degrees for physical sciences (outside of biology and chemistry). Geology, Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy, have all gone down and been replaced by computer science and engineering majors. Social sciences suffer as well. When a governor says "We don't need more anthropologists" when you likely have barely enough going into the system and out of it as is, isn't that just an insult to what education should be about? Your experience and passion for a subject? Neoliberalim agenda has effected the cultural attitudes of any degree that isn't business, health, or technology and engineering. You hear about someone saying "lol get your degree in underwater basket weaving" and insulting someones passion for a subject and drive for a subject. Art majors get it. Philosophy majors get it. Hell, I once saw a comment on how "Anyone can get a doctorate in sociology". That's just an insult to doctorates in general. We've become market driven people in society and education is dying because of it. A university might as well be a vocational training school considering what subjects people take. Nobody wants geologists anymore even though their contributions are important. No one wants anthropologists (Scott Walker said this; I am fucking disgusted). No one wants Historians. Your value as a person is now how much monetary wealth you produce for the market, not your intellectual capacity or your ideas or discoveries or insight. It's disgusting. I said it earlier "Education has become toxic towards liberal arts" and people say "Well people go to college for a job". It wasn't always like this, it evolved to this. We shame people for becoming artists, for becoming english majors, for becoming Historians because they're "wasting their time". It's driving our culture to the ground and turning our people into money-driven machines. I'm not saying EVERYONE in engineering, business, or computer science are soulless or driven only by money. Some people have truly genuine passion for those subjects. But there is clearly a number of people who are shamed into it, told to go into it if "You want your degree to be worth anything", and are just miserably working themselves so they can work a job they have no drive for and have no interest in. Neoliberalism has corrupted the system of education as well as our cultural attitudes towards it, and it's clear this happens when I share this opinion earlier in the thread and told "Well people go to college for a job." And why is this? Because we're at a point where English majors have dropped 60% since the 60s. Where Geology, physics, astronomy have seen similar declines. And where every degree has to actively "justify" itself so that you take it. Fucking History has to tell you there are job prospects for majoring in it (There's not a lot) just to seem "valuable". Your value isn't from the philosophy, historical or social perspectives you can bring, the geological, astronomical discoveries you can make. It's just turned into how much money you can feed into the economy and take back for yourself. Intellectualism is dead.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn, but if you have no use for the degree I don't think it makes sense to pay for a college education (especially if it's ludicrously expensive like in the US). There are so many ways to learn anything for free/cheap in this day and age.
I plan on getting a graduate degree in history. The only real job prospects are professors and writing books about subjects. But according to people like Scott Walker that's a "useless" endeavor. I should be an engineer that "actually" contributes to society. My intellectual pursuits are "worthless" because we base our "worth" on purely money. Before, college was about becoming a well rounded individual with your education and challenging your worldviews. Now people don't care and go "ugh do I have to take these liberal arts classes for my *SNORT* computer science degree". College was creating a better citizen and a better person. Every class you take is valuable to that. Now it's just become glorified vocational schools. Also, you can say the same for any degree. You can literally learn to program by yourself with books and tutorials on the internet. But so many people pay for a computer science degree. Why? You can learn anything by yourself, but you're going to mix up all the information and sometimes some concepts are important to learn before others (This goes for like, any subject). Classes are there to construct concepts for you in a manner that's easy to digest and puts everything into an easier perspective. They're built to make understanding knowledge less of a burden and use the experience of the teachers to give you the rundown. Liberal arts are built to deconstruct your worldview and challenge everything you've known in life and see things from different perspectives and value discussion. Liberal arts challenges the system as well. Problem is the system is winning, and nobody cares about liberal arts anymore. There are fewer and fewer liberal arts degrees coming out the door. People acting like "omg all these liberal art grads" haha yeah right. They're all probably business grads. Physical science grads are going down too. Before you could feel like going to college for whatever you feel is your passion or drive. Now you're told "No, English degree is worthless, you're ruining yourself, get this engineering degree, or this business degree, or this nursing degree."
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