I firmly believe the of the main reasons so many stories written today are trash and garbage. Everyone is under-socialized. No one who writes stuff has ever seriously interacted with real humans on any level past the internet. It makes everything groan worthy.
Like this other day I wanted to watch some people play a specific table top game, just to get a better idea of how it would go. Instead I came away from it hating the game, not because of the game, but the people. Constant pronouns trash, lots of "I was raised in a house engaged in and rewarded acts of baby murder, wanton rape, and the slave trade... but I am an individual and so firmly believe in post WWII neoliberal social values and equality because that's just right... but I'm still evil because I say fuck a lot and want to summon a demon for some reason."
I've achieved a new level of paranoia. I assume everyone online is a bot unless proven otherwise. I see things like this all the time, and it blows my mind that someone out there can really be this dumb.
@lain I think I saw a greentext that said something about how Islam is a dumbest, most grug religion. That it's really just a bunch of laws for people who are otherwise too stupid to breath. "Here is how to divide your cattle among your family to prevent fights." "Remember that God created the night so you can sleep." Wow, really?
@Azur_Fenix@noah@luithe All very accurate, but I do think that Japan is a bit of a puppet of the US (though not exactly a colony). It's sort of like a dog walking close to it's master. He has a loose leash until he tries to walk away.
@martianvenator The Jewish IQ thing is interesting because it's not been fully explored. I can't remember the exact details, but basically it was a really small sample, and either better data is not well known, or no one else really bothered to look passed that one small study.
The large issue is that even if it's true, it does not fully explain why, in a nation with 330 million people, only 16 or so million people are totally over represented to the point of being utterly ridiculous. If half the Jews had IQ's above 115, while only ~5% or so non Jews do, there would be around as many non Jews with IQ's above 115 than there are Jews in the US.
@pyrate@chainsaw_appreciator@D-Droid@NitroDubs@Shadowman311@jimmybuffettfanaccount@jjetty@monsterislandcolonizer The problem with using maps like this is that some groups don't really have problems with anyone unless they come for them, and so I wouldn't expect to see as many lines on the map. A lot of Mexican's / Hispanics are fairly passive in that way. If America were to suddenly split, they'd side with their surrounding community, and whoever promises them free stuff.
Now if it were a hostile "we are gonna remove you from this land" situation, they'd fight back, but if the nation were to simply divide, a lot of them wouldn't care or do much one way or the other.
I think the urban vs rural divide would be biggest factor.
@sickburnbro >This thing is on fire, what should we do? >Dump gasoline on it. It will burn out faster. >Now the fire is bigger. >Dump more gasoline on it. >Now the fire is bigger. >Dump more....
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Awoo@mikuphile@SuperSnekFriend 'Darling' was amazing because it was literally a show about humanity defeating race mixing space Jews by discovering the truth about the Nazis (robo-dinos) and instead every simped for her and cried about the ending.
@SuperSnekFriend@WashedOutGundamPilot@Awoo@mikuphile The ending was perfect. Also it was exactly that, the bad guys pretended to be fellow humans in order to pacify, control, and stop them from breeding with antinatalism. When their cover was blown, they literally did the "don't be a hateful bigot, diversity is your greatest strength".
Honestly, just hire anyone who has an interesting voice, or someone from a local community theater. They'll sound better than 90% of the awful va's we here these days.
@parker@cowanon I think there is a big misunderstanding with how modern people and Pagans view gods, which is very much in the way Christians view God, as distinct very important gods who were always watching you.
I don't have time to go too deep into it here, but from what I've read pagans did not think this way. The most important gods for "pagans" wouldn't have been the big ones that we all know about, but lesser spirits associated with individuals, families, and the location they lived in, as these would be the ones average people believed were more likely to encounter.
EDIT: In the US, a good way to look at it might be how Christians view angels and "guardian angels". For a larger cultural setting, look up the "Joplin butterfly people".
Largely, paganism, animism, and pantheism are all roughly the same thing, which is another concept a lot of people miss. Zeus didn't control the sky, he was the sky. Nyx was night time (which is why she was shown in the top left in this Christian painting of the Hebrews fleeing Egypt).
The problem with a codified doctrine for paganism then is that there never was one. Paganism was never rigidly organized in the same way that the Abrahamic religions were. What little we have of the Germanic religion was what Christian missionaries wrote down. Roman myths varied depending on who was telling them, the Japanese never had a consistent depiction of what Inari was supposed to be, and modern revivals of Eastern practices such as Caodaism are about as "authentic" as wiccan. Instead paganism was largely cultural, and without that culture, it's all but meaningless.