Lol this submental dipshit said the exact same "limits of your empathy" thing to me, completely irrelevant to what is said
He really thought he was cooking with that one
Man if you're gonna do this maybe try not being such a fuckin moron
Did anyone you know personally go on birthright in Sudan?
Does your school send people to the march of the living there every year?
Is it illegal in some states to boycott Sudanese businesses?
There's a few
If there's one real aspect of the "woke movement", it's that it specifically triggered this type of psycho
I know she was granted anonymity but I'm thinking that it might be easy for her peers to narrow down which of the former thought leaders that have recently left their movement would use the term "frisson"
The thing is, this isn't even remotely embarrassing for this guy in right wing spaces.
He won't say it, but he's clearly straining against just saying "I axed the woke stuff; anything that looked woke got the axe". He did his job as he was told to.
I guess there's catharsis in making them say it?
I think people are treating this like some sorta gotcha when he clearly did exactly what he was supposed to do: axe anything "woke"
Making him admit to knowing nothing about what he was axing doesn't make him some sort of hypocrite; not knowing anything about that stuff is a virtue in that space
Still does, no doubt
yeah exactly
I'm not saying it was malicious, bigoted, stupid etc - but he was doing exactly what he was put there to do
To be fair, he did what he was HIRED to do extremely well: axe anything that was "woke"
He holds the same biases as his employers, making him extremely qualified
He did his job perfectly
Yeah it seems like he's struggling to not just say "come on, you know exactly why I did axed it - it was woke! My job was to axe the woke stuff!" And he wouldn't be wrong.
You can see that he's struggling not to say the obvious: if they saw any reference to anything conceived as "woke", they axed it without a second thought beyond maybe sharing it with each other for lols
I told my buddy who recommended it "hey this is kinda male-gazey in it's portrayal of the protag? Like she's always thinking about sex etc" and he's like "dude stick with it, it's great"
So I pick it up again and the next scene has her disguising herself as a prostitute to sneak into somewhere
I tried to read Artemis by the same author and boy oh boy, if that annoyed you when there's a male protagonist, let me tell you it gets 100x worse when they're writing from the perspective of a sexy female protagonist
I'm increasingly convinced that Hollywood does not know how to properly handle "funny handsome guy" at scale, and inevitably turns things glib, smarmy
See Ryan Reynolds, Chris Pratt etc
This is the same problem "the Right" is having with antisemitism / Israel: how do you draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable in a movement whose CORE appeal is transgression
Not the point but God damn do I ever love how beavers have a deep, instinctual drive to block paths
Real dudes rock, hell yeah energy, like digging a big hole on the beach or making an absurdly large bonfire
I mean that's a lesson every adult has to learn eventually
I wore sepia glasses for the full effect
I blame this movie for all the heat I got from my father when I told him we were going to vacation in CDMX last year
No way AI could do cursive writing for the letter
The artist who changes the illustration calls her "fat"
Man I dunno
It does indeed suck but I think you'd have to see this same artist's renditions of other hot people to pass judgement
And no boops!
Rax no! Read the second part!
A blessing, to be sure
Just to add to the irony of it all but the thing Walt says in that scene about being "the one who knocks" is also a lie; he got his lacky to do it, while crying
Oh that's just the British rapist spelling
Man the Covid stuff hit almost too hard
Amazing encapsulation of the moment
