No no no, see, a puppet obtains power at the expense of agency, a doll obtains meaning at the expense of agency, and a plushie obtains unconditional love at the expense of agency. The thing currently mauling you was already powerful and self-actualized when I brought it under my sway, so when you beg me to 'call off my puppet' you should really be saying plushie instead. Try again, m'kay?
in the tradition of outcast (2014), dragon blade (2015), and the great wall (2016), we need a movie set in the 1630s where a disillusioned member of the embroidered uniform guard and a profit-driven jianghu mercenary flee the corrupt and crumbling ming dynasty and somehow end up in the equally corrupt city of cologne, where they become key players in the fight against the sinister forces of cardinal richelieu and eventually secure the peace of westphalia and the end of the thirty years’ war. this is a million dollar idea i’m telling you
i really do love this concept. the protagonist is like i’m sick of dealing with wei zhongxian’s shit, i’m gonna go someplace where people are holy and don’t even know how to act like this (the impression of europe he got from the jesuit missionary he had a tactical lunch with once), and so he travels 5000 miles and as soon as he stops to catch his breath he runs into cardinal fucking richelieu, the european wei zhongxian
#LITERALLY though#all of the personal stuff in the analects is like#yeah he got really weird about straightening his mat before he sat#and he would always want his meat sliced really really thin#and he would get so absorbed in studying that he would forget to eat and sleep#and made an entire philosophy dedicated to understanding social roles and ritual propriety#which could mean anything! (@apricops)
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
There’s a political split between younger and older millennials — and we can pinpoint an approximate date.
This the issue I raised last night, in reply to @collapsedsquid:
The strong support for Democrats among recent college graduates seems to be in part a generational effect, shared by most non-college graduates of the same age – a reaction against George W. Bush – that should weaken under a popular Republican or an unpopular Democrat.
I was going to say that it already had weakened, but Jeff Stein lays the case better than I could have. He identifies two generations of millennials, 26- to 35-year-olds with a strong Democratic lean, and the 18- to 25-year-olds with a weak Democratic lean.
The millennials on one side of this divide — now aged about 26 to 35 — have become more reliable Democratic allies. Polling that zeroes in on this age group is scarce, but what we have suggests Clinton will secure close to 50 percent of these older millennials. “Older millennials are supporting Clinton at about the rate you’d expect,” says Drum, of Mother Jones.
Then there’s a separate group of younger millennials — those now aged 18 to 25. They do not have the same allegiance to the Democratic Party, and their political identity is more fluid, Della Volpe says. Depending on the pollster, this group’s support for Clinton hovers closer to the 35 percent mark when third parties are included.
This intragenerational divide has become increasingly clear over the course of the presidential election. Looking at data from the firm SurveyMonkey last week,FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten says that 25- to 35-year-olds prefer Clinton by a 22-point margin. (That’s the same as Obama’s 22-point margin of victory among millennials in 2012.) By comparison, Clinton holds just a 13-point advantage for among those aged 18 to 24, according to Enten.
Those younger voters don’t have political memories of the Bush Administration. They don’t remember Bush v. Gore, Terri Schiavo, the culture of life, Enron, Halliburton, the Diebold machines, intelligent design, Hurricane Katrina, Larry Craig and Mark Foley and Bill Frist and Tom DeLay.
They don’t remember the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the missing WMDs, the looting of Baghdad, the ethnic cleansing and civil war, the failure of democracy, the years of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and John Yoo and enemy combatants, the years of insurgency, the years of Blackwater, the years of IEDs and body bags.
They don’t remember the lies. The don’t remember the yellow cake, the roving labs, the smoking gun that might be a mushroom cloud. They might remember that phrase, “known unknowns,” but not what it refers to. They don’t remember the years where no one could escape a sense that soldiers were dying not merely for a mistake, but a lie.
They were too young to vote for Barack Obama in 2008. They were too young to remember what that felt like, or what it meant to those only a few years older. They were too young to experience that searing contempt for Republicans that those only a few years older felt. They were too young to hate.
These voters feel a contempt that is not partisan but bipartisan. They support not only Bernie Sanders but Gary Johnson. They are the outsiders. They have voted for Republicans in statewide elections, and they’re more conservative on some issues.
In Wisconsin in 2013, Republican Gov. Scott Walker won 18- to 24-year-olds “outright,” according to Della Volpe. He lost among voters aged 24 to 29 years old.
In Virginia in 13, Republican Gov. Ken Cuccinelli won those aged 18 to 24 by 6 points, while voters aged 25 to 29 went to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe by a 15-point margin.
Younger millennials have been less likely to register as Democrats than older millennials. In 2014, they said they were more open to supporting Republican presidential candidates than older millennials.
Young millennials have consistently different policy views than older millennials, and are in particularly more conservative on fiscal issues. “They aren’t huge swings, but there still are significant differences,” Della Volpe says.
If the Republicans had nominated anyone else, they might have been able to make inroads with these young voters, and imprint on them. They might still be able to do so if Clinton’s administration is a failure, or Trump’s a success. But for now, the under-25s are simply detached and drifting.
What’s fresh in the minds of younger millenials is the complete failure of Obama to realize the change which was promised and instead, an extension of Bush era foreign policy and a decisive inaction or indifference toward youth issues like student debt, affordable housing and employment.
If Obama represents the radical potential of the Democrat party in action, then why would they be enthusiastic about the middle of the road typical democrat in the form of Clinton?
Furthermore, young millenials are currently reacting to the implementation of certain radical social justice policies and social codes in universities, social circles and social media; and that will inform their feelings toward the left and democrats by extension. With a large portion of that population being white, male and having been immersed in rhetoric that dictates to them that their opinions and presence are worthless, why should they feel loyalty toward that position of politics? Why would they lend support to a political force that hates them and routinely downplays their issues and struggles as privileged tears? things like #NotAllMen and Checking One’s Privilege (by way of shutting the fuck up) has taken it’s toll on popular support for the left.
millenials who have been outside of college for more than three years will not have experienced that to the degree that younger millenials currently do.
When the pendulum swung hard to the left following the bush years, it was understandably followed by an inevitable reactionary swing hard toward the right.
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