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When it comes to storytelling, I think too many detractors of the "morality is not black and white, there are greys too" forget that there can still be a proper story without having grey areas of morality be prominent.

Not everything has to be subverting our expectations and be convoluted to please the moral relativist crowd. Sometimes you just have an evil character who does not have proper justification for being evil.

Seeing the news on the market crash got me curious on my work retirement account. I can confirm that it went down about 10%. Since I am nowhere near retirement, I am not worried. Though I do see where some might not take such news well.

It has only been a few days, so I am not going to see this as the worst thing ever just yet. Though since I was still in school during the housing crash, this might be the worst thing I have experienced myself. But it is still not having me worry yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvkgUc9Zbc

Get a load of this guy:

"The OKCupid blog post does not prove that the Redpill men are correct about dating, because things are different!"

Yeah, things have gotten worse with dating apps. So your whole "it doesn't prove anything" is meaningless. Besides, men can observe with their own eyes how bad it is to try and find a worthwhile woman on a dating app.

Boomer hatred by the younger generations exposes how we are not going to be able to solve our problems even when the Boomers are long gone. Both the right and left younger gens do not like how the Boomers got most of the wealth, but we come to the crossroads for what to do as a result. We still argue whether to cut government spending or double down on it, so the dying off of the Boomers will just have us repeat things with a new generation becoming the most despised.

"Get with the times" is a terrible line of reasoning for why you should change what you are willing to accept in society. The "times" are not some entity that has an inevitable trajectory in the direction of "progress." It is formed (and in many cases forced) by many different factors.

Who is to say that the trajectory cannot be changed? Someone who just wants you to conform to their libshit ideology would think so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrWXOH8NCYI

Having heard the voice of the NPR anchor named here, I am not surprised to find out that he is a homosexual. You can hear it quite clearly in his voice.

Yes he is the member of a certain tribe, but that is a whole different topic (last I recall NPR is disproportionately represented by Jews).

Knowing what I know about political corruption, I can never trust that any report of a politician being arrested for wrongdoing is done out of sincere adherence to the rule of law. Rather, I suspect many politicians only get any punishment by the law when they fall out of favor among the string pullers. They were already known to be guilty long before they were reigned in, but they simply pissed off the wrong people in power or did not have enough favor with the string pullers to be let off.

Every sob story about federal employees I hear is always the same thing.

"I love the work that I do."

"My work is very important and we are fulfilling critical needs."

Of course they are going to say things like this. They really do believe that our country could not possibly function without their oh-so-important jobs. I am quite sure people will find a way to live on without these federal government jobs, though that may not be quite as true for the federal employees themselves.