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I get it man, I get it. This place is no longer what it used to be. I'll adapt. The owner will be able to monetize it without any fear from my racism.
It's just fucking boring everywhere. My wife posted a stupid MEME on Facebook about a certain politician in India and in 10 minutes got a "warning" from FB for "promoting harmful extremism". A meme. That made fun about a certain stupid decision by a politician not even in the USA. It wasn't even an Indian page. Just her own.
Like a boiling frog, you don't realize the dangers until it's too late. Trump winning in 2016 broke the minds of every corporate level idiot and the overmoderation of everything started. As a (light) brown man I can say whatever I want about Whites, but I still can't criticise other brown people. Tell me, how the fuck does that make sense?
Was it Modi?
You know it.
At the start, TNG recycled old TOS ideas before eventually becoming its own show--that was amazing in the 80s & 90s and fairly cringeworthy/boring now. VOY took unused TNG scripts and crossed out all the names and pencilled in new ones. ENT took old VOY scripts, crossed out the relevant words and pencilled in new ones.
You know when it went too far for me? Cancelling history by taking down statues like the Taliban or something. And the Confederate flag. The Confederate flag isn't about slavery. Maybe that's part of its origin, but by the late 1970s, it's "Smokey & The Bandit," "The Dukes of Hazzard," Lynrd Skynrd and Alabama albums. Is it in poor taste? Maybe, but is poor taste illegal? I see people at the supermarket in pajamas and Crocs every day. I had something else but I forget what it was, but I'll close with my last point, that actually ties back with the topic of the thread: "Retarded." When did retarded become a swear worse than "fuck," on par with "cunt" or "######"? It used to be a technical, clinical, medical term. And there needs to be a way to describe Wordforge posters.
That ilk completely lost me at this point as well, if they hadn't before. Sorry chaps and chapettes, trying to erase or sanitize history is never a good idea. I don't care who's offended by it.
I'm pretty much in the same place. I'm neither right nor left, at least not in any sort of extreme. But then you have all these "pick a side, you're either with us or you're against us" clowns. Bitch, please. It ain't a fucking football game, lives are at stake. Blindly follow the lemmings off a cliff if you want, I'll just continue doing my own thing and practicing at least a modicum of critical thought. Which is another lost art, btw.
Who gets Otisville?
