Re: Game 73: Warriors @ Hornets 4pm PDT
Posted: Tue Apr 2, 2024 11:37 am
svart wrote:vvoland wrote:Old_Blue wrote:
Unfortunately, we live in times when a certain segment of society is attempting to normalize misogyny in all its forms. And where do such efforts get you? In New York City, over the last month, one or more men have been roaming the streets randomly punching women in the face. I don't know what kind of man finds humor in such a state of affairs. I don't want to know. But, in a strange way, I am thankful when they publicly identify themselves through their words, innuendos and "jokes." It's like they've done all the work of isolating themselves for and from the rest of us.
THIS. It's less about the bridges joke than it is a general love of the red-pill/'maniverse' concepts. Like calling someone a snowflake for quitting a toxic cesspool like twitter because an objectively awful person bought it (flirting with anti-semitism, pro-putin stance, lying to investors, not paying his sub-contractors, stopping rent payments on the twitter building, the many children with different women [which we kill athletes for], i could go on). It's a narrow minded view of the world where "I am right and everyone else needs to get out of their internet bubble" or "San Francisco is a helluva drug" and "not the real world" and "the real world is laughing at you"
The cognitive dissonance here is one-way. It's the people thinking everyone in SF is in a 'bubble' or 'not in a real place.' The rest of the world isn't laughing at SF, it's saving up money to visit during a holiday or week off. Or move here for the jobs, weather and lifestyle. These aren't 'opinions' but supported by ever-increasing housing prices and millions of tourists that come here yearly.
I'm also not american. I grew up in the former soviet union and lived and worked, for years, in independent Ukraine. I've also spent a good amount of time in other countries and have close friends who hail from everywhere else (from Japan to Bangladesh). In large part because I came to SF as a kid and was exposed to people from everywhere else in the world. In fact, most places outside the US (or even major US urban areas) are bubbles. Most countries (and american rural counties) have 1 overwhelming majority in terms of ethnic group, religious identity and political preference. That is the definition of a bubble.
Wow. All this wall of text starting from a joke you clearly did not understand. You than expand it to your view of the world, calling everyone who dares have other opinions narrow-minded.
You are not the only one raised and who lived in the shadow if Russia. You fled, which is fine. But trust me, we have here today totally different problems than getting triggered from a joke.
I didn’t have much problem with your joke. Context and currency are obviously important with such jokes.
The leader of one of the two major political parties in Australia, then in opposition, announced a raft of policies for the next election under the banner “the things that matter”. Subsequently he announced a domestic violence policy joking that he was now moving on to “the things that batter”. Didn’t go down well, perhaps understandably, and his leadership didn’t last long.
On the other hand it has been common in the vernacular for many decades to call the Belgian beer Stella Artois the wife beater beer because of the Marlon Brando movie and I don’t think people take that as trivialising domestic violence, and your joke was I imagine intended to be along those lines.
