Seconding this, Red Rising is the shit. The first book definitely has its rough patches, but it rapidly improves starting in the second.

Yep, Citations Needed did an episode about this. It’s a tactic old enough to have been used in defense of American plantation slavery.

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At first I thought this was about the fantasy author

Carnism is liberalism and just like any other stripe of liberal, carnist liberals will portray themselves as champions of marginalized people but will attempt to viciously silence any marginalized person they can’t instrumentalize in support of their agenda.

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Oh boy, another excuse to link this article!

Wait, the goodies tell us. Wait for Albion. It’ll arrive. Just be patient. Well, Albion is a very old promise… and, whatever the panglossian liberal morality plays we call family entertainment may say, we’re still bloody waiting. At least the villains, unlike Merlin, are trying to kick up a stink about the delay.

You’re not beating the allegations

Are you vegan?

Capitalism, colonialism, and wars of aggression are all core pillars of American culture, but nobody on Hexbear would say you’re obligated to respect that.

Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude — as far as is possible and practicable — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.

You’ve been forced into a terrible choice by the Saw trap of capitalism. That’s not your fault. Do what you have to do to survive until you’re in a better place.

Good if we can find a way to produce it ethically, efficiently, and at scale, but that’s a big if.

I have never seen anything Warhammer 40K related that wasn’t improved by putting more focus on the Orkz.

Though admittedly on the very few occasions I touch WH40K anything, I tend to go Imperial Guard. I’m an incurable sucker for stories about ordinary people fighting through terrible situations

I remember GW did a scenario pitting a planet’s Imperial Guard against a Space Marine chapter, but they fucked it up by going with the most boring possible motivation of “the planet’s population has been mind-controlled including its Imperial Guard, so the Space Marines have to save the day” rather than one of the countless understandable reasons an element of the Guard would mutiny.

Okay but what if sports aren’t one of my special interests

I mean I enjoyed parkour back when I was in the right environment for it but the average prole I’m meant to appeal to probably doesn’t know or care much about parkour

I used to go to baseball games annually with my family and I can in fact confirm that it sucked and was boring.

everyone on this site seems to struggle with irl social interaction

Yeah the site has a sizable neurodiverse community and we have spent all our lives being made to justify to others why we don’t just “be normal.”

I’ve tried many times pretending to be something I’m not to get others to accept me, and it has never led anywhere good. It just makes me feel like an infiltrator while being miserable and hating myself. This is a lesson I have spend half of my life learning the hard way.

“I don’t watch sports” means you view not watching sports as part of your identity.

Absolute bonkers take coming from a 1 month old account is pinging my wrecker radar

If the price of building socialism is having to pretend to like sports for the rest of my life then I’ll just have to resign myself to capitalist hellworld