In addition to the other responses, we don’t have much nuance in our political conversations. Partially because we hear the same thing repeatedly but also because other views don’t break into our bubble that often. It ends up framing everything much more like a script to be followed. If you’re challenging the “left-wing” candidate, you must be doing so from the stance of someone who supports the right-wing candidate. That’s the script. And very often, those roles come with baggage (eg, ‘trump supporter’, ‘misogynist’, etc.). So because you have put yourself in one of those roles/boxes, the script in their mind is being followed, and you’ve taken on that baggage.

You can see this in our media discussions as well. Who likes what movies, franchises, why, etc. Many people are unaware that they are acting this prescriptively, so we often talk past each other and rarely act in as good of faith as we think we are engaging in. Neo-liberalism is built on flexible word choices, slogans, and terms without meaning. This results in a lot of reverse terminology, empty words, and a clinging of identity and labels around more solid terms. The latter has the effect of simplifying people and positions into boxes that result in script-like behavior due to regurgitating known responses and interactions with people in that label over there. The implication that you might not fit that label demands an immediate and intense examination of the subject matter in a few seconds or risk not appearing smart/moral/etc. So not only is that a threat to their image, but it’s a lot of internal pressure in a short time—hince the response you got from them was very reflexive and combative.

Oh this takes me back. We used to play everyday before school. Its a classic

Welcome to the world of having studied film and other narrative-driven art forms…only, without having the media literacy and technical knowledge to make the tradeoff worthwhile. At best, it sounds like false knowledge based on elements, such as surface trope patterns. On the one hand, I kinda feel for them because it’s a legit industry hazard…on the other, they brought it on themselves.

No DEI in games is how you get unmodded Rome 2. I ain’t going back to that!

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But then they couldn’t blame the humanitarian crisis on Yemen rebels when it fails to materialize.

It would have been nice if they had kept the axii in the same order between the charts

It’s a fun ride, for sure. I would love to see slower pacing like many others, but then again, a lot of the world exploration has been handed over to its sister show so I’m not sure how much slower pace they can actually do. Helluva Boss still has more of my heart due to its wonderful cast of characters (My SO and I even did our own sort of ‘his-and-hers’ Moxxie and Millie t-shirts), but the character cast of Hazbin is growing on me pretty quickly.

If garlic is such a threat to the American people, then why isn’t garlic (and other alliums) allergies covered by any overly priced health insurance plan I’ve seen?

Hell yea! And I’ll be happy to offer up some of my art skills to the project if needed.

I didn’t even know that was an instance. I saw someone else post the link a while back and saw lemmy was blocked by a bunch (must have been before lemmygrad was blocked by that particular one?). Good to know!

You can see a map of the 'verse here - https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ And can check the blocked box to see who has blocked who