right, anymore you’d call alcohol or drug use a ‘hobby’.

Western world is still pretty much the only place where homosexuals aren’t. Rest of the world… murdered pretty regularly. Asia, Africa, South America, middle east, are all FAR less ‘progressive’ than Western democratic countries.

lol they were fine with it as long as the queers were whores and such. they could not be citizens.

only people who had any power in Rome were male roman citizens, and the wealthy ones at that.

and lots and lots of folks blame the downfall of Rome on it’s ‘decay’ of allowing homosexuality and such

human brains are dumb.

takes a lot of effort and work to train your brain to not be dumb.

just like it takes lots of effort to keep your body fit and healthy.

cognitive biases are very very hard to overcome for highly educated people, let alone uneducated ones.

Dude, plenty of Democrats in their 30s who say they are progressive are raging bigots and support racist policies.

They are just quiet about it. They aren’t saying crazy racist nonsense on tiktok, but if you talk to them about issues like housing or schools… they make it very obvious what they think. Using polite language, of course. Black people are great, as long as they don’t live near them, or go to the same school as their kid goes to! These are the same people who are NIMBY because they don’t want ‘people who haven’t worked as hard as I have’ from living near them.

queer and black people don’t have money. those other groups do.

if all the sudden queer people were billionaires, you can sure as shit bet they’d be promised political power. in exchange for their money. they’d be running corporations, in political office, etc.

it just turns out that it’s mostly white dudes who have all the money, and some white women, and the occasional random other non-white person has it. in USA at least. obviously different in other countries.

Because the right offers people stability, authority, etc. People like that.

They don’t like left because it’s too vague and complicated to understand their points of view.

Trans people = bad is a lot easier for the average person to understand, than explaining to them what a transsexual person is and isn’t, and the various types of trans/queer identities. That shit requires a dictionary of trans terminology and hours of time to understand.

they are popular because they provide simple answers to complex issues.

People like that. Esp younger folks.

Just like the alt right is so popular with them, because it gives them simple answers.

Left doesn’t have simple answers. Wants you to listen to a college course type of lecture on every issue… people don’t care about that. They want a simple soundbyte they can emotionally respond to. Left is very poor at that… there are some examples, but they dont’ really get much traction outside of leftist/socialist circles.

it’s mostly that it is social wedge issue that drives up ratings, outrage, and politicians can grandstand about it. And make up crazy bullshit about kids being forced to transition by evil doctors or something.

and therefore we can ignore real issues in the country while the media/pols rant on about total nonsense that affects hardly anyone and mostly isn’t real or relevant to trans people or any people at all.

not even. 1950s we had this idealized version that everyone was heterosexual, owned a home and had strict gender roles.

That shit is now all blown apart. And for most folks the complexities of it all are beyond understanding.

And it cuts both ways. I don’t care about other people’s genders and identities, but boy they care about mine. Gotten plenty of sexist slurs from queer/trans people based on my gender and lots of shitty assumptions. I’m bi, but I ‘present’ as a heterosexual dudebro, and it makes non-gender conforming people angry at me for some reason, also many insecure straight men and women. Only people who don’t seem to care are people who are bi, or secure in their sexuality. Way too many people feel the need to do that though.

exactly. and bigotry isn’t limited to sex or race stuff.

people pretty much hate anyone who is different than them. even so called progressive inclusive hippie types… will express crazy bigotry towards groups they don’t like based on crude stereotypes that are largely not true.

our brains love to generalize. They don’t like treating people who are different than us as worth our acknowledgement and esteem.

2. Yes. I know tons of so call lefists that think nothing of calling for violence against those who disagree with them.

It’s more about whether you’re authoritarian.

A lot of ‘antifacists’ i know are the first people to scream at others for ‘being out of line’ on a political issue. They claim to be anti-facist but practice politics like facists by trying to intimidate, harass, demean, and bully anyone who disagrees with them. Because they are the authority in their mind.

In my mind they act just like the fascist Trump people they claim to be against, they just use different sets of words when they are harassing/screaming/threatening people.

Most folks are neutral on a lot of stuff, and it’s perfectly fine to be that way.

Surprised no one in this thread has yet mentioned how this movie very much parallels Alien: Isolation and the huge success that game had by being so consistent with the premise of the first movie.

a fresh coat of paint on an old house is a good thing.

trying to remodel the damn thing to fit whatever is trendy here and now, ruins the whole house.

Agreed. The star wars stuff that is great is the stuff that isn’t tied down to the original trilogy characters and plot. it’s stuff that expands upon it with new characters and stories in the existing universe’s rules.

This is why the star wars prequels/sequels were so poorly received, they were totally inconsistent with the universe for the sake of ham-fisting in the original characters and re hashing the original plotline of the first trilogy. There was no respect for the rules that were established in the OG trilogy that people came to know and love.

yeah that take is completely absurd.

Because it was bad movie. Bad characters, nonsensical plot, and did nothing creative or interesting with the mythos. Sure, it was shiny and had need effects, but it was forgettable and empty otherwise. Just another big budget Hollywood movie.

People were looking for something memorable and epic and that expanded the mythos… Promethus was none of those.

I taught business ethnics for MBAs when i was in graduate school.

The only ‘ethics’ they learned was ‘maximize shareholder value at any price’. They spent an entire semester learning to to argue why murdering people and abusing people was morally justified as long as the share price goes up. That was the curriculum. Nothing else mattered.