It'd odd until you consider that at least that many Brexiteers fell head over heels for that misleading NHS statistic printed on the side of a bus, and just ran with ot to the voting stations...
If it's that easy to convince them to shoot themselves in the foot, it's probably that easy to convince them it was a good thing.
Because in a story you generally don't want your characters to be as vapid as a puddle of water, like people who make one trait their entire personality.
Having a character with a varied personality makes it easier for people to view them as an actual person, rather than just a narrative tool, which makes them take the characters struggles more seriously.
The difference between real life and fiction, is that real life doesn't follow a story. Things happen because things happen.
But if you're going to introduce an element into a story, it should have some kind of impact on that story - more than just a drive-by "I'm queer" that never gets elaborated on.
I used this as an example elsewhere, but tell me which feels more shoehorned in:
Snape and Dumbledoore supposedly being gay lovers despite it not being hinted at even once in the entire film's chronology up to the point JKR said so, and is never brought up again (at least in the main movies, never saw the spin-offs).
Mitchell and Cameron in Modern Family where not only is their relationship introduced right away, but also used as an actual story element throughout the series.
Which one feels like it was a meaningful addition vs. a marketing gimmick?
That's what shoe-horning is. It's adding a trait to a character just to make them more marketable, or to make them seem deeper than a puddle of water, without ever eluding to that trait anywhere it actually matters.
You do understand that something can be both shoehorned in and a retcon right?
It is a retcon shoehorned into the lore to appeal to the LGBT market - and if anything is worse than that, because again this is never brought up in the main movies (not sure about the spin-offs). It's literally just marketing.
What you're saying is a good point, even if it's being downvoted to hell. The shoehorned is the difference between say:
Snape and Dumbledoore supposedly being gay lovers despite it not being hinted at even once in the entire film's chronology up to the point JKR said so.
Vs. Something like Modern Family where they came right out the door with Mitchell and Cameron being gay, and then used that as an actual story element throughout the series rather than just shoehorning it in to appeal to the LGBT crowd then never bringing it up again.
One feels like a tasteful, meaningful addition to the story, the other feels like a marketing gimmick.
To be fair, the isolation stuff was mostly at the beginning when the exodus started, but I couldn't blame people for leaving when that started. Some people just want to be where everyone is.
I can't say I've experienced much issue with federation since the early times, but then again I wouldn't know what it looks like on the Lemmy side.
Personally I like the interface for Kbin. It has many of the features you want in modern forums, but retains a look reminiscent of older style forums. Though I can see it wouldn't be for everyone.
Ah, the great isolation. Was a funny time everyone wondering why they could only see Kbin content haha
You mean to tell there aren't a lot of people wanting to a job that only doesn't pay well but also deprives you of the satisfaction of making any kind of connection with the students you teach or the staff you work with??
What kind of idiot would refuse that job?! /s
Of course there will be people who will take the job, but they're only going to hang on there until they can find a proper teaching job if you aren't paying them enough to want to stay!
If gang breaks into your home, starts destroying your things, and manhandling your family, you just gonna sit there and let them do it because it would be "eventually peacefully and justly resolved"?
If your answer isn't "no", then you're a liar. You'd defend your home and your family, because that's the right thing to do...
It wouldn't be "hateful", "war-mongering", or "blood-thirsty" it'd be heroic.
So how can you sit there and say to us that you expect the whole of Ukraine to just allow that to happen to themselves??
To watch this band of 100,000 men take everything away from them - their culture, their homes, their lives - and do jack shit about it?!
The war didn't start with a bullet, it started when Putin's army marched into Ukrainian soil to claim it as their own.
You sound like the type of person who blames the victim of a bully when they inevitably lash out. If you aren't, you're doing a bad job of proving it.
I argue that since we never actually see the fall guy land, and that it is usually the landing (not the fall) that causes the pain, that the fall guy has not actually experienced anywhere near the pain being credited for.
Albeit I think they are suffering much more psychological pain, being almost perpetually falling, often with other potential threats right next to them. I imagine it must be traumatic to live through.
Exactly. It's true she couldn't of known when she'd die, but surely she knew her health was declining.
She should've stepped down while there was a strong chance of her being replaced by someone with views like her's, rather than handing that decision over to her direct opposition like she did.
It's great that there won't be a shutdown, at least for another 6 weeks, but why does this have to be such a stupid game of chicken every damn time?
Something as important as deciding the fate of millions of government employees should not be something the government handles as though they were a university student who forgot a coursework deadline was tomorrow.
Exactly. Not only is it not cheap on a regular basis, but it isn't even that much food from my experience at the cheaper end of McDonalds.
You'd be far better off cooking your own food if you have the time, but the problem is a lot of these people are so busy working their arses off to stay afloat that they don't have that time.
I am aware of Hanlon's razor, and usually do give benefit of doubt for exactly that reason. People are often just as, if not more stupid than they are malicious.
Having said that, it is just inconceivable to me that such grave incompetence would come about when the person in question is quite literally the golden ticket to apprehending the pedo-ring to end all pedo-rings.
I don't even necessarily disbelieve that he killed himself, the motives are there - but I do firmly believe that at the very least somebody greased palms to make sure there were no witnesses to prevent him taking his life when the opportunity arose. Given the amount if corruption amongst the police, that is certainly something I'm willing to believe
There is absolutely motivation for him to have done it, and I don't necessarily disbelieve he was involved in his own death.
I firmly believe that somebody at the very least greased the required palms to make sure nobody would be around, otherwise the fact that there is no footage and no witnesses to to the death of someone so high-profile and supposedly well guarded becomes almost unbelievable.
It's odd. I still remember the days of memes labelling Twitter as the home of left-leaning activists, but now it's slowly becoming just a better funded truth social
It'd odd until you consider that at least that many Brexiteers fell head over heels for that misleading NHS statistic printed on the side of a bus, and just ran with ot to the voting stations...
If it's that easy to convince them to shoot themselves in the foot, it's probably that easy to convince them it was a good thing.