And that’s what your 2nd para concentrates on; this idea that Leftists are focused on the inconsequential nitty-gritty, to the detriment of the bigger picture.

Look...Ian...I mean this in the nicest way possible, and I say this as a fellow progressive who has tried to get people to vote for Bernie twice in a row, and this isn’t directed at you specifically but at the group you are currently representing with this article...but please, shut the fuck up.

I think this says more about you then it does about OP because you’re interpreting it as her looks being a 2/10, whereas I read it as the quality of her content being a 2/10. In fact, I’d say you would have to go out of your way to interpret it the way you did.

To be fair, most of the franchises that have shown up have basically already turned themselves into jokes long before showing up in MK.

Here’s the problem. If you’re a company based in China, you have no choice. You have to abide to China’s laws. So by abiding to China’s laws you’re suddenly evil? When your only options are to abide to Chinese censoring, or shutting down your company, what is your choice?

Not obsessively following cancel culture demands is not “implicitly approving” of anything. I suppose you live independent of all Chinese trade? If you actually do, that’s impressive.

That is one aspect of cancel culture I particularly loathe. Please do not tell others what they approve of all because they don’t obey…

Well, they’re kind of forced to do it. And they’re not taking a political stance. What can they do? Defy the government, have the game taken down, and be imprisoned? Or make the game and play by the rules they’re given and try to make a living?

Let’s just be happy for the damn developer and stop politicizing everything. This is not the Chinese government we are talking about here. These are developers that just happen to live in China and are adhering to the laws that govern THEIR country. Don’t punish these talented people at MiHoYo just because they live…

“She has an opinion. The way to undermine an opinion you don’t agree with is to point out, specifically, what is wrong with the underlying reasoning that the opinion is built on. See what experts have to say... and not just the ones spitting out of the soft sciences with a chip on their shoulders the size of Utah.”

Yes, but talking about trans people in a way that doesn’t perfectly align with the one and only (apparently) acceptable public view is not the same as “arguing whether certain human beings should have rights and be treated with decency”. Vaguely pointing out extraordinarily basic, well established and well subscribed…

I would like themed videogame sneakers, but the releases are always so very very VERY tacky I just can’t.

A T-Rex eating a Velociraptor is technically not cannibalism because they aren’t the same species.

As a Canadian with government provided healthcare, we absolutely pay for it. It is paid with both federal and provincial taxes, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

And those subsidized health care systems that are funded by tax dollars WAY cheaper than the US’s free market solution. Like WAAAAAAY cheaper. Turns out that an entire country has more negotiating power than I do alone. Who could have predicted that????????

Peoples’ memories are short, and Americans in particular are largely wholly ignorant of US History, to say nothing of world history.  Fucking sad state of affairs we find ourselves in these days.

It’s probably a bit disorienting seeing a culture appreciate objective reality for a change versus whatever it is many in the US experience now.

The Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart has a really thorough (and surprisingly honest) section that details the atrocities they committed with the help of Hitler’s regime. This is good—the only way to prevent this from occurring again is to understand and believe the truth of what happened in one of the world’s darkest hours…

Opinion 1: Boycotting sports events is a distinctly US-centric gesture which should not be done in other countries where it may not be relevant.

“it doesn’t seem to leak much”
You’re still operating in Michigan Mentality. This is TUV Territory

You need “It absolutely does not leak at all”  

Five good guesses?