#rocketverliden

[tovanori]

I sent a $10 donation under arodelas@gmail to you just now. When the money gets there, can you hit me up with a Generic Class/Hero FPS Engineer?

[theaudientvoid]

rocketverliden replied to your post: alexkablob: I sometimes legitimately forget...

Why would this happen? I mean, I can kind of see Winter trying to stop Weiss from doing something, but ending up relenting after a fight.

Winter is literally an enforcer for a military dictator. A well-meaning dictator, yes, but aren’t they all? Also, thematically, Winter is Weiss’s dark self; she’s Weiss if she never made friends and unlearned all of the fucked up things she learned in order to survive their father. In order to fully escape her father’s legacy, Weiss will need to confront not just her father, but also the emotional damage that he did to their family, of which Winter is the avatar.

[mitigatedchaos]

I realize the issue of Confederate statues is probably stale by now, but I have thought of a take that is probably you: replace Confederate statues with Union statues to remember the Civil War and take pride in the United States' historical military prowess

Nah, actually I was thinking that there are lots of other southerners we could choose from for replacement statues, specifically ones that weren’t all “rah rah slavery” and so on.  Some of them could be a lot more modern, others from before the war, and so on.  U.S. founding fathers from those states would be the ideal option for many of them - it reaffirms membership in the US, still has lots of historical weight, and so on.

They shouldn’t be more black than the proportional share of the population, though.

The goal here is to provide an alternative, positive regional identity for the white southerners that is not rooted in the racism inherent to the Confederacy.  (And the racism was inherent - at least one governor or whatever went on about how yeah, this was about slavery, and yeah, this was about “the inferiority of the negro race” and so on.)

History is big.  There is a lot that can be chosen from when we decide what to emphasize.  There are many people, with many stories.  With this, we could step sideways.

(The exception is generic confederate soldier statues, which should stay.  After all, the side that wins the war usually thinks it’s the ethical side, since most factions fighting a war think they’re the ethical side, so removing them just means legitimizing the idea of removing monuments to soldiers of losing sides in general.)

However, I don’t think the capital-L Left, in broad strokes, wants the southern whites to have a positive southern identity.  I think it wants to crush them in order to celebrate itself and its righteousness.

It doesn’t like the founding fathers, either.  It doesn’t like the United States of America.  

It could celebrate the power of the very ideals this nation’s founders espoused as the source of some of the very power that overturned the cruelty they allowed at this nation’s founding.  But most of those people were white men, so they won’t.

[thevoiceofentropy]

rocketverliden replied to your post: I just had to explain to my Taiwanese friend that...

What about crab rangoons?

Why did you tell me about this. This is upsetting

[alyossan]

Character of your choice, C6

So I knew that I wanted to do a Trails character for this one, but I didn’t know who. So I asked the Trails fans that follow me on Twitter...

WHICH IS HOW I ENDED UP DRAWING FAN ART OF FKING GILBERT TODAY. LOL

Guest starring Kevin Graham

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rocketverliden replied to your link: Bermuda? Guess again. Turns out Holland is the tax...

How so?

tax regimes that allow this scale of rent-seeking tax avoidance are bad

tax systems should be efficient and equitable and I don’t think regimes that allow this kind of tax avoidance are either. it’s bad for investment and innovation. we should fix it

that’s my knee-jerk reaction

[zyxzy]

rocketverliden replied to your post: Really bothersome how there’s only two episodes of...

Are they going down to anime-BD levels of content-to-item?

No, there’s only commentary for one episode on this disc.

[argumate]

I dunno, I think "eat a dick" is kind of neutral. People can have penises and not necessarily be considered men, for instance. Similarly, there's something about "suck it down" a la John Romero that's hard to replicate elsewhere.

fair point, it’s borderline; you could say that calling something “a dick move” is similarly not a sexual reference.