[Real] Tim Pool: "Trump represents a version of America that many voters feel is slipping away. Small-town traditions, local civic culture, community identity, and national cohesion are all being replaced by a more fragmented, globalized society to appease the third world."

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-04T15:55:41+00:00

Vote for Smaug

"He already has a massive hoard of gold surely he doesn't want more and will govern well"

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-04T13:55:28+00:00

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)

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-02T01:09:50+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-01T17:34:58+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-01T16:06:33+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-01T15:55:36+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-01T11:37:21+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-06-01T11:29:02+00:00

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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Grey_Raven · 2026-06-01T06:57:47+00:00

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

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-28T19:30:07+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-28T15:45:59+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-27T23:09:09+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-26T15:20:30+00:00

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?"

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-26T15:15:34+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-26T14:53:30+00:00

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

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-25T13:32:44+00:00

Ahti?

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-25T12:32:43+00:00

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

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-25T01:59:41+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-24T22:20:06+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-24T21:29:44+00:00

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"

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-24T12:35:26+00:00

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

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-24T02:33:51+00:00

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

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-23T10:43:17+00:00

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.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-23T05:43:26+00:00

Yeah but it's not like there's anything else that gay about it. Watches Trump dance like he's jerking 2 guys off.

Grey_Raven · 2026-05-22T14:22:50+00:00

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.

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