I, personally, wish that we had arenas where we could say stuff like "leave the politics at the door... we're just here to have a good time and play a game/listen to music/watch some cars blow up" but, it was pointed out to me, *EVERYTHING* is political.
The desire to just sit and watch some cars blow up is indicative of great privilege.
In video game news, Ubisoft Ubisoft stock price fell after it announced that it would be using its cash on hand to fund the various titles it is working on.
From the article: "We expected Assassin's Creed Shadows to turn around Ubisoft's financial performance in 2026 after recent weakness. The firm's outlook makes this seem unlikely," Morningstar analysts said.
We don't have Ubisoft's numbers. All we have are Playstation sales numbers and Steam sales numbers. That means that we don't have XBox numbers and we don't have PC-non-Steam numbers.
Here's a fun exercise: Look at what actually happened in the last year and a half and, take as a starting assumption, that what happened was actually the plan.
If the goal was to get the Israelis to publicly (globally!) burn as much good will and moral authority as possible, was this accomplished?
If the goal was to ethnically cleanse Gaza, was this accomplished?
Now, of course!, there is no master plan and everything is a random walk and we don't know anything.
But instead of saying "if the goal was to destroy Israel, the goal failed!", we say "let's look at what happened and assume that it was intended, more or less, to happen that way", do we pick up anything at all?
Because I remember Scott Adams talking about the whole idea of Israel burning its moral capital and... yeah. It seems to be doing that.
Well, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on the grounds of the Air Force Academy, rules for what kind of purses the ladies were allowed to bring, rules for what kind of items were allowed to be in the (transparent plastic!) purses (no food, no drinks except for sealed bottled water), and when we got in the building, they were selling concessions.
When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my grade. That's it. That was 3rd grade. 25 kids.
When I moved out to New York, my school had about 125 kids in each grade. Holy cow! By the time I got to high school, it had 500 students! I couldn't believe how big the school was. It had *WINGS*.
When I moved out to Colorado, Air Academy high had about 300 students in my grade. We had multiple buildings! You had to walk outside to get from class to class, sometimes! And I overheard one of the kids talking about one of the girls moving here from Texas and saying something to the effect of "wow, that must suck... moving from a high school with 6000 kids to this little dinky one".
There were about 300 kids, maybe a little more, there yesterday. AND THEY READ OFF EVERYBODY'S NAME.
I'm not suggesting you have an obligation to help me check with real white ethnics. Merely suggesting that your failure to provide information after telling me that I should find out from real ones tells me that your advice doesn't achieve usefulness.
But thank you for your advice anyway insofar as it continues to fail to falsify my hypothesis.
That's why I think that if your experience is significantly different to the point where you assume that I must not have spoken to any, that the information needs to come from you.
Ethnic Cleansing was the best play a few months ago, sure. Too many people are looking at their watches now, with much more modern and enlightened definitions of "fairness" than we had back in the days of the atom.
It has to do with the whole "let's say that I assume that CJ doesn't want to lie... and let's say that I assume that CJ doesn't want to agree with me... what positions might he take to maintain both of those?" and the one you've got is one that does that.
I'm trying to imagine mindsets that make your stated position likely.
Haaretz talked this morning about how Rubio "says U.S. troubled by Gaza humanitarian situation" to Netanyahu. A couple hours later, it talked about how Trump's meeting with Syria's new leader shows that Israel has lost clout.
If leftists are looking for stuff to say "see? It's okay to vote your conscience instead of voting for Kamala", Haaretz is giving it to them.
Do you mind if I interpret that as being an answer in the ballpark of "it's not that big of a deal anymore, certainly nowhere near as big a deal as the stories I heard in the 70s"?
"Ethnic Whites" is a term that was popular in the 70s.
It referred to Italians, Irish, so on. Distinct minority groups with a culture and religion of their own. (I mean, if your baseline is "WASP", that is.)
What are the freakin' rules, Saul? If murder is insufficient reason to deport an illegal immigrant, but saying that Jews aren't trustworthy is a reason to deny refugee status, I am unclear on the freakin' rules!
What are the rules we're using?
Because if you're trying to push some variant of "tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall down and open sewer and die", let me just say that:
You're goddamn right that I am a contrarian degenerate.
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I, personally, wish that we had arenas where we could say stuff like "leave the politics at the door... we're just here to have a good time and play a game/listen to music/watch some cars blow up" but, it was pointed out to me, *EVERYTHING* is political.
The desire to just sit and watch some cars blow up is indicative of great privilege.
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In video game news, Ubisoft Ubisoft stock price fell after it announced that it would be using its cash on hand to fund the various titles it is working on.
From the article: "We expected Assassin's Creed Shadows to turn around Ubisoft's financial performance in 2026 after recent weakness. The firm's outlook makes this seem unlikely," Morningstar analysts said.
We don't have Ubisoft's numbers. All we have are Playstation sales numbers and Steam sales numbers. That means that we don't have XBox numbers and we don't have PC-non-Steam numbers.
But the numbers we do have aren't great.
The stock price fell about 20%.
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Here's a fun exercise: Look at what actually happened in the last year and a half and, take as a starting assumption, that what happened was actually the plan.
If the goal was to get the Israelis to publicly (globally!) burn as much good will and moral authority as possible, was this accomplished?
If the goal was to ethnically cleanse Gaza, was this accomplished?
Now, of course!, there is no master plan and everything is a random walk and we don't know anything.
But instead of saying "if the goal was to destroy Israel, the goal failed!", we say "let's look at what happened and assume that it was intended, more or less, to happen that way", do we pick up anything at all?
Because I remember Scott Adams talking about the whole idea of Israel burning its moral capital and... yeah. It seems to be doing that.
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Well, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on the grounds of the Air Force Academy, rules for what kind of purses the ladies were allowed to bring, rules for what kind of items were allowed to be in the (transparent plastic!) purses (no food, no drinks except for sealed bottled water), and when we got in the building, they were selling concessions.
So I hope you can at least sneak in a sandwich.
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Oh... yeah. I can see that.
When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my grade. That's it. That was 3rd grade. 25 kids.
When I moved out to New York, my school had about 125 kids in each grade. Holy cow! By the time I got to high school, it had 500 students! I couldn't believe how big the school was. It had *WINGS*.
When I moved out to Colorado, Air Academy high had about 300 students in my grade. We had multiple buildings! You had to walk outside to get from class to class, sometimes! And I overheard one of the kids talking about one of the girls moving here from Texas and saying something to the effect of "wow, that must suck... moving from a high school with 6000 kids to this little dinky one".
There were about 300 kids, maybe a little more, there yesterday. AND THEY READ OFF EVERYBODY'S NAME.
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Wait, two graduation ceremonies in two days for the same person?
That's... I can't even imagine who would come up with that.
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I am a huge fan of Kipling, but, oh jeez... not "If". Not "If".
But I understand that it's not like they could read "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" to the kids in the current year.
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I'm not suggesting you have an obligation to help me check with real white ethnics. Merely suggesting that your failure to provide information after telling me that I should find out from real ones tells me that your advice doesn't achieve usefulness.
But thank you for your advice anyway insofar as it continues to fail to falsify my hypothesis.
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So you gave me an "ought" but you don't have an "ought" to address the "ought" that you dropped in my lap?
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The ones I have here mostly agree with me.
That's why I think that if your experience is significantly different to the point where you assume that I must not have spoken to any, that the information needs to come from you.
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Because your advice to me was to get this information from you directly.
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It's like cannibalism. It's always the savages in the next tribe over.
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Are you, CJ, still not “really” white yet back there in the tri-state area?
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Ethnic Cleansing was the best play a few months ago, sure. Too many people are looking at their watches now, with much more modern and enlightened definitions of "fairness" than we had back in the days of the atom.
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Are you one?
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It has to do with the whole "let's say that I assume that CJ doesn't want to lie... and let's say that I assume that CJ doesn't want to agree with me... what positions might he take to maintain both of those?" and the one you've got is one that does that.
I'm trying to imagine mindsets that make your stated position likely.
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Are WASPs a big deal down where you are?
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Haaretz talked this morning about how Rubio "says U.S. troubled by Gaza humanitarian situation" to Netanyahu. A couple hours later, it talked about how Trump's meeting with Syria's new leader shows that Israel has lost clout.
If leftists are looking for stuff to say "see? It's okay to vote your conscience instead of voting for Kamala", Haaretz is giving it to them.
"
Do you mind if I interpret that as being an answer in the ballpark of "it's not that big of a deal anymore, certainly nowhere near as big a deal as the stories I heard in the 70s"?
Because that's how I'm interpreting it.
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Which is why I'm asking.
When I say "they aren't really a thing", I, of course, acknowledge that Episcopalians with nicknames like "Chaz" still exist.
I'm talking about as a cultural driving force.
But I'll ask again: Are you, CJ, still not “really” white yet back there in the tri-state area?
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And how does that play out in practice?
We can't get into the good Rod and Gun Club?
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They're not a thing out here on this side of the Mississippi.
Are you, CJ, still not "really" white yet back there in the tri-state area?
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"Ethnic Whites" is a term that was popular in the 70s.
It referred to Italians, Irish, so on. Distinct minority groups with a culture and religion of their own. (I mean, if your baseline is "WASP", that is.)
WASPs aren't really a thing anymore.
Welcome to the club.
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Plus one of them is an outright anti-Semite of the most vile tropes of anti-Semitism.
I find it difficult to believe that the examples that you, yourself, gave to me are the "most vile tropes of anti-Semitism".
From what I've seen of anti-Semitism, they're somewhere in the middle of "prejudiced".
Maybe I've seen more than you have.
Which, lemme tell ya, would surprise me... but it's certainly in the realm of possibility.
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What are the freakin' rules, Saul? If murder is insufficient reason to deport an illegal immigrant, but saying that Jews aren't trustworthy is a reason to deny refugee status, I am unclear on the freakin' rules!
What are the rules we're using?
Because if you're trying to push some variant of "tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall down and open sewer and die", let me just say that:
You're goddamn right that I am a contrarian degenerate.