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As an awkard person I'll admit that it would reassure me somewhat. I mean, I wasn't going to but I'm glad it's an option. It's like feeling being accepted despite messing up before potentially messing up, which allows us to skip that dreadful moment between messing up and being either forgiven or despised. And come on, imagine shitting in a closet by, uh, mistake, and not fully expecting that your entire social live is now in ruins and you need to delete all of your social media and move to different country. It could be worded better, sure, but it's a neat gesture.

Well, check Jeffrey Dahmer media portrayal. It fed well into the "gay panic" of the times. Check this article from 1994: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-29-mn-2780-story.html Emphasis of the lust, homoeroticism etc. being the driving factor of the murders, while there are no mentions of diagnosed mental disorders. And yeah, "murder gay" sold far worse than, for example, "murder black" which is a timeless classic media go to each time any socioeconomic strife involving any black people happens. Seemingly the public was less receptive of the "murder gay" narrative so they eventually moved on.

You seem to misunderstand humor. It is humorous specifically because there is no link between murder hornets and the aformentioned groups of people that USA "waged wars against". The fact that you're stressing that the joke "took extreme liberties" is kind of absurd - that is the point, to subvert expectations. Which is a part I already explained in the comment in which I explained the joke once. Let me go in for a deeper dive.

The language of "USA waging wars on XYZ" is often used by media to fabricate distorted view on reality, in which a group of people is presented as threatening to the country despite the opposite being the case. That language is well known and it is well estabilished as a useful propaganda tool. Reaction to usage of that language in cases that warrant outrage (as in, for example, for groups of people I've mentioned in my first comment) would often be one full of sympathy towards the victims and, at the very least, distrust towards the media outlet that used it. All of that sits well within the expectations of the reader.

The aptly named murder hornets however murder bees, which almost everyone knows is a bad thing for the world in general. There isn't much things that would make people in general think "that's bad". They do not have a good reputation and none reedeming qualities.

They're not what you would expect one to defend, you would not accuse USA of a psy op to smear their name, and you would not think that they perhaps have a stockpile of oil that that old, dastardly United States of A wanted to steal. And that's the subversion of expectation, portraying the murder hornets as victims of USA propaganda and comparing them to unjustly prosecuted people. That's the humorous part. Do you get it now?

You're trying to somehow tie it to the work of people that pulled this off, but you only could go for calling that disrespectful if you believed any disrespect was meant, and that would require you to believe my (already explained) joke was meant as serious defence of the hornets. And I'm sorry, but that's just dumb. I don't feel like you misunderstood the joke, but rather that you're trolling for the sake of rage baiting. I'd appreciate it if you stopped.

And if you understood all that and still feel like my joke wasn't funny, I'm sorry, it does seem you aren't a part of audience that this joke was meant for, and my frivolous joke-comment written while morning-pooping did not brighten your day. I'm sure something else will, as long as you put effort to find it. Good luck!

Funny, that's exactly a reply one would expect from a 4chan dweller. Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you're angry I've neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults? Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn't land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.

I appreciate that, thank you.

That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

Yeah sure "murder hornets". Like "murder japs", "murder communists", "murder vietnamese", "murder gays", "murder blacks" or "murder arabs" before. I think I'll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.

Jesus you folks must have wild roaches in Denmark. Sounds like "don't go out at night" or "make sure your gun is loaded before entering the woods" kind of thing. Stay safe.

I believe at this point she's a honorary white old man

Yeah, but that's not the dude who won. He did: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Connolly

At least it seems to me that's the guy.

Exactly! Lets be honest, you only voted for Hasan because he's white-passing man. You've allowed your internalized misoginy and racism to influence your decision, and all that just because he's hotter than she is. Shameful.

To be fair Candice Owens worked really hard for this title, for her it was a matter of professional pride. Hasan and Greta had great episodic performance with their vile "killing children is bad vibes" rethoric, but Candice's project of "how about tactical counter-genocide" simply outshines anything those two could put out. She's a maverick.

So, listen, I'm not making a case for all of them, but...

Seriously though white people fucked stuff up for native americans and africans pretty hard, and just because it's not discussed in the slightest and everyone (white people) pretend it's not an issue, it doesn't mean it's not an issue. It's less about white people though, and more about capital class that upholds the status quo, the by-product of which is the white supremacy - and that is very parrarel to the zionist claim.

Her?

Because if game world is filled with beautiful people and all defects are removed, then the game world feels atrifical instead of being immersive. That's even more important for the main character, as this is the person you're supposed to identify with, and that's going to be shallow if that person lacks any substaintial flaws or reasons to be insecure. Furthermore, conventionally attractive people are (aside from being boring to look at) treated differently in society, which would either have to be reflected in the story and change the dynamic and struggles the character was supposed to face, or not be adressed at all and feel atrifical. Next we have representation, which is obviously the issue for the incels here. Ciri in the trailer is hot as fuck. The very idea that's she's "not enough" for any of them is laughable. The issue they have is that she's a woman, something they despise and see as inferior to themselves, being portrayed as a powerful human being with unyielding character, standing against the traditions in the trailer to boot. That's the exact same thing they've been doing to discredit feminists for the past hundred years, claiming all of them are ugly and thus unworthy of engaging in dialog with. That's their signature and default position to absolutely any non-subservient woman in media, and claiming it's actually about aesthetics is bullshit so transparent they can't see their own reflection in, which is most likely for the better.

Also you have hundreds of games that cater to your desires, go play those. If you don't like something, don't engage with it.

Thanks, I've never actually ate a banana bread

They ranted about how ugly she is as well. Even if Jesus came down for a second coming, but more like a remaster of the first one because, you know, the sin, and he tried as hard as his omnipotent ass could, he would fail to save any of them.

Or rather, anyone who would use 7 dildos - lets not bundle up with those degenerates the God loving Christians that fight to protect the purity and sanctity of Gods children that do happen to rail themselves with 6 dildos every night. I'd love to know what kind of science they used to calculate that 6 is fine in the eyes of their maker. If you strip away the context of those ghouls pushing slowly and successfuly for eradication of your personal freedom, and just look at the depicted scene as is, it's pretty wacky.

At first I was like "barbaric", but then I thought to myself that 6 dildos per person sounds abundant. I've decided to believe that they were about to fight an owner of 7 dildos and implemented that ban to reduce their power. Like "there are 7 of us and you have only 6 dildos what are you going to do" because the 7th dildo would be illegal.

And yes I know that the grounds of this ban are absurd and barbaric, I do wish hunger and pestilence upon those who voted it in, it's just that any discussion regarding it had to be hilarious. What are they trying to prevent by restricting the access to 7th dildo, gang wars?

In this economy???