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  • So only the definition that you prefer is valid. Not the actual meaning of the word.

    Who gets to decide what words mean?

    Do you also get bent out of shape when someone says Uncle Tom? Is that not insulting to historical Toms? This is your argument.

    Maybe wait for the family to tell people that they are offended instead of you pretending to be offended for them.

    • Virtue signaling – Expressing outrage to demonstrate one’s moral superiority or social awareness.

    • Vicarious offense-taking – Taking offense on behalf of someone else, particularly when that person isn’t offended.

    • Manufactured outrage – Deliberately pretending to be offended to create controversy.









  • rafoix@lemmy.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•Happy Birthday, Hillary
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    8 days ago

    She is very intelligent. She was a very attractive woman in her youth.

    She is also a very conservative Democrat (neoliberal tax cuts for the wealthy, dismantling of American infrastructure to benefit capitalists, willing to be friendly with minorities) with an absolute indifference to killing thousands of people as long as it pushes her political agenda and it allows her to go up the ranks in power.

    Would have been a better president than Trump.




  • I fully agree that the pardon power should not be a get out of jail card for criminals.

    It’s Saturday which means there’s already too much booze in me but I want a robust system that would filter out political reward pardons, wealth/personal connection pardons and any pardon that happens only because the party giving the pardon benefitted from the crime.

    Also, expand SCOTUS to take away the federalist foundation’s control over the American judiciary.





  • rafoix@lemmy.ziptoGames@lemmy.world•Save Mass Effect
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    12 days ago

    If the writing needs better direction to write a good story then the writers are not good. Also, 2023 is way past their good old days.

    BioWare was good but they always seemed to push more and more into a casual audience while expecting the RPG fanbase to stick around no matter what. They took the RPG fans for granted and now they have other developers to care about.

    Dragon Age never got a true gameplay sequel. They didn’t waste a second abandoning that genre in favor of dumbed down throwaway games. I was so pissed off for buying Inquisition on day one after the universal acclaim it got in the press. Absolutely boring fetch quest trash.


  • rafoix@lemmy.ziptoGames@lemmy.world•Save Mass Effect
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    12 days ago

    I don’t see any of their writing in the last decade as anything but tired tropes and juvenile simplistic plots and characters.

    Elden Ring’s item descriptions have more depth and character than BioWare’s characters that have endless mind numbing dialogue. I could say the same about the plot.

    The company founders left over a decade ago. They weren’t perfect but whatever was left was just IP and not ability.