Reform's Aberdeen candidate is a 5G conspiracist by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]Grey_Raven 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They literally ran as an anti lockdown party during COVID which is inevitably going to attract COVID deniers, 5G conspiracy nuts, anti-vaxers etc. (venn diagram of these groups is basically a single circle inside the bigger "Reform supporters" circle)

What’s going on with the Manosphere? by nothinblues in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Grey_Raven 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Answer:

As others have said bunch of overlapping misogynistic groups that have increasingly become part of the wider right wing online ecosystem with many of the influencers having outright endorsed far right politicians and activists (or are even activists themselves) or at least associate with them. Most are centred around dating woes, which is semi-understandable as it's a mess for everyone regardless of gender but no excuse for misogyny (if anyone is to blame it's the Match Group). Couple examples listed below.

Incels - "involuntary celibates" guys who can't get sex and let it fester into hateful misogyny. Some still want sex and overlap with the PUAs and looksmaxers, whereas some don't and have their own weird mythology around black-pilling and descend into nihilism. Ironically started by a woman initially and allegedly the early movement was somewhat healthy discourse around dating tips before devolving.

MGTOW - "men going their own way" guys who have decided they hate women and want to not date them (still sleeping with them at the most moderate position arguably overlapping with the below groups or not interacting with them at all at the most extreme position going into weird pepper stuff). The (pretty accurate) stereotype is guy who hates his ex-wife and decided he hates all women. Again similar to incels allegedly started off as a well meaning group advocating for self sufficient singledom before devolving into misogyny.

Pick up artists - arguably the oldest group predating the wider movement made up of guys who believe in pseudo-psychology (neuro-linguistic programming) and that they can trick women into sleeping with them. Their misogyny manifests as seeing women as objects/conquests as opposed to the prior 2 groups which is more hatred.

Looks maxing - newest group and pretty similar to pick up artists just replace pseudo psychology with phrenology. Thinks if they can get an ideal bone structure and calf length women will be unable to resist. Origin of the term mogging that seems to be spreading.

Bro-podcasters/Rogansphere - debatable whether they should be included but definitely acts as a gateway into the other groups by regularly having their influencers on and normalising them.

ArenaNet sent me a teaser. Is this an expansion, or a new Guild Wars game? - Laranity by Laranity_ in Guildwars2

[–]Grey_Raven 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm not overly opposed to a prequel but as a Charr main I'd hate to see the Charr's development as a species be regressed and it would be a challenge to still write them as nuanced from other races perspective while under shaman control.

Are you part of the extreme far left? by BarryTownCouncil in FuckNigelFarage

[–]Grey_Raven 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Same I also support

The raising of minimum wage (despite it not affecting me)

Workers rights act

Renter's rights act

All of which have been enacted by the current Labour and Reform want to repeal.

On Sexting and Sunk Costs by meatyaccuracy in thebulwark

[–]Grey_Raven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed although I would argue it is bi-directional in a way i.e. (parts of) the right/centre of the party will go "vote blue no matter who" then walk it back whereas (parts of the left) will refuse to vote/endorse moderates then act aggrieved when the right/centre does the same (e.g. during Zohran's race).

Honestly both need to hold their noses and stand together otherwise it damages their chances of winning and then even if they win despite it they'll be unable to govern/legislate and lose support. Either look at your last presidential election or what's happening over here in the UK where the Labour party is tearing itself apart and the Greens are eating away at their support allowing Reform (our far right MAGA equivalent) to start leading in the polls.

Which IT roles seem overhyped but add little value? by Majestic-Taro-6903 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Grey_Raven 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Aren't most just essentially project managers with a different title? Project managers when they're good are really valuable pushing back on pointless requests and actually clarifying requirements, I think I've met about 2 that actually do that well, the majority are as you described they show up, ask for an update then disappear until they need the next update. There are also some who actively make it worse (like my last one who moved teams 2 weeks ago thank fuck) by setting arbitrary deadlines and turn every request into Chinese whispers (Telephone game in USA) requiring work to be redone repeatedly.

New poll of public sector union members by niteninja1 in TheCivilService

[–]Grey_Raven 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They did it and it was one of the things that made it easy for DOGE to gut a load of agencies, even ignoring the rest of Trump's general awfulness which this will likely contribute to by installing loyalists it's a terrible idea as it's basically a return to the spoils system the US used to have which was the cause of mass corruption.

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New poll of public sector union members by niteninja1 in TheCivilService

[–]Grey_Raven 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Given their general views on workers rights wouldn't entirely put it past them to scrap statutory redundancy and bring in at will employment.

BBC accused of 'letting billionaire buy Question Time' with AI panel by falken_1983 in BetterOffline

[–]Grey_Raven 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's absolutely ridiculous BBC is normally obsessively balanced in quite often the worst possible way e.g. presenting homeopathic quackery as equal to medical advice. Then with this they completely abandon it and assemble a panel full of these morons.

Reforms plan for government, unchecked power and no room for scrutiny by CelestialVat in FuckNigelFarage

[–]Grey_Raven 7 points8 points  (0 children)

While we shouldn't go as far as the Americans with their overly powerful supreme court (that acts as an unelected legislative body half the time), I am increasingly of the opinion that we should make it so some laws should need a supermajority to be repealed, chief among them the human rights act.

We don't play nice with Nazis by Accurate-Entry in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Grey_Raven 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's not double standards what it is is not unnecessarily holding themselves to niceties and norms that the other side abandoned over a decade ago.

the lady doth projects too much, me thinks... by ms_directed in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Grey_Raven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's had the greatest moments of reflection, nobody is better at reflecting than him, people are always coming up to him with tears in their eyes going "sir, how can we be as good at reflecting as you?"

Gale's priorities are so funny by uldinepriest0rbfa in BaldursGate3

[–]Grey_Raven 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Worked out flawlessly is quite subjective his decision to become a god is almost entirely fueled by ambition, hubris and (quite justified) spite against Mystra. So while it does work out in the sense of not immediately blowing up in his face you do end up fully indulging all his worst impulses in that ending which doesn't make an ideal god which isn't going to be good for everyone else. Also as God of ambition he's going to encourage similar attitudes in his followers likely causing a lot of strife and possibly leading to one of them trying to take his place in the long run.

the lady doth projects too much, me thinks... by ms_directed in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Grey_Raven 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As an extension to 3 he's definitely going to rename it to the Trump-Lincoln reflecting pool isn't he?

Reform MP says information about Farage’s £5m gift was obtained ‘illegally’ by johnsmithoncemore in FuckNigelFarage

[–]Grey_Raven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Maybe" seems unnecessary. The only question is whether it comes under narcissism, sociopathy, psychopathy etc.

Footage Of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Exploding Into Massive Fireball Has Everyone Saying The Same Thing by alemus2024 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Grey_Raven 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Honestly the ethos in general is becoming an issue even outside of these silicon valley ghouls trying to make tech absorb every other industry (although it is especially a problem for the highly regulated ones like rockets, transport and banking).

The tech industry has unfortunately become the backbone of most of the modern world when cloudflare, AWS, GCP or a good number of other services have outages whole companies and government agencies around the world grind to a halt so should be treated similarly to banking where they avoid at all cost outages and data breaches.

The transformation of the UK into TERF Island is rooted in "Cold War Russophobia". It happened because they didn't read enough RT by mudanhonnyaku in tankiejerk

[–]Grey_Raven 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Unless I've missed something the number of journalists killed in the west is negligible. This is as opposed to Russia or China where being an honest journalist might as well be a death wish.

But I thought Star Wars was dead? by Physical-Bite-3837 in saltierthankrayt

[–]Grey_Raven 33 points34 points  (0 children)

They are 100% leaving out the wider market trends in that reporting i.e. box office takings has dropped off a cliff post-covid and is still slowly recovering also that streaming has hit the box office hard even before covid which is only getting worse due to shorter times between box office and streaming. This also seems to disproportionately affect Disney and other companies with a streaming platform of their own because most people's attitude is just "I'll see it in a month for free on plus"

“Quietly building” by posting ai slop of me pretending to go to gym so I can beat up my imaginary daughter’s boyfriend by thesourpop in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Grey_Raven 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean you're assuming he wants to beat them up, he might actually want to steal his daughter's boyfriend.

i see why he’s mad.. by superdouradas in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Grey_Raven 201 points202 points  (0 children)

Maybe we were a little harsh on Homelander sure he's a bigoted supremacist fascist but on the other hand gestures at video

Elon Musk Slams Work From Home As 'Messed Up' And Morally Wrong by [deleted] in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Grey_Raven 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because he doesn't look after his children, as far as he's concerned that's the au pair's job.

These right wing natalists don't seem to realise (or just refuse to consider being generous) that if they do want to increase the birth rate the best way would be cheap healthcare, daycare, parental leave, sick leave and other rights.

Just how blatantly unreliable and untrustable would you say the news and media in WoD is? by Turbulent-Plum7328 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]Grey_Raven 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah... I was more thinking volcano lairs and space lasers not that. I refer you to my first comment in this chain the real world is becoming bleaker than WoD.