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Yup. In more modern politics, we’ve seen it in the trans debate. “I can always tell when someone is trans” is a fallacy, because you only notice the trans people who aren’t fully passing. It’s pure selection bias, where a large part of the population is convinced that all trans people look like beefy dudes in dresses.
I’ve recently picked up Solo Leveling. I’ve already read the Webtoon it’s based on, so I already know all the big plot points. But it’s nice seeing it translated to a show. It’s only the second or third time I have actually read the “manga” (do Webtoons count as manga?) before the anime, so it’s interesting to be on the other side of the fence this time.
Honestly, Andromeda didn’t deserve the hate it got. It wasn’t awful. It had some issues, sure. But many of the complaints about the story basically boiled down to “it wasn’t larger than the entire first three games combined.” It was trying to start a new story, but instead of being seen as a new start it was compared to the entirety of the original trilogy.
It completely misses that the entire first Mass Effect game was basically just an intro to the Reapers. Like the entire first Mass Effect game is basically just “oh hey here’s a new villain.” And by that metric, Andromeda did a lot more than the first Mass Effect did. But it wasn’t larger than the entire trilogy, so it got panned by the players who were too impatient to wait for a sequel.
I think the two of us have a very different idea of where the line is drawn.
Liberals and tankies would both agree that nazis are bad. Pretty much the only people who wouldn’t agree are the actual nazis, (whether open or closeted.)
And if you’re referring to the Canadian SS thing that happened recently, the party pretty unanimously decried it once it was discovered. The lawmaker responsible was ousted almost immediately. So definitely not tankie.
A tankie is someone who ignores all of the evils that communism has helped perpetuate throughout history, and attempts to whitewash and downplay anything currently happening. Things like Russia meddling in western elections to get literal nazis elected, or China harvesting organs from Muslims.
The issue with your first point is that lots of tankies will currently try to defend nazis by proxy, by defending the meddling that got them in power. If you’re okay with the meddling, then you’re okay with the results of that meddling. Which is doubly ironic, since the same tankies will use the same breath to denounce Ukraine for supposedly being full of nazis. They want to have their cake and eat it too. And that’s just not a realistic worldview.
Yeah, just a tankie posting tankie things. Go back to your communist-apologist hole and leave the rest of us alone.
I wonder if they’ll accuse me of only watching Fox News because I called them a tankie?
Yeah, I used to work a job where I was basically on call for 6 hours at a time, but didn’t need to do much unless something broke. I’d help set things up at the top of the day then tear things down at the end. But in between, I was basically just waiting for things to break. It’s safe to say that I used the fuck out of my gaming laptop and VPN at my desk. Because I obviously didn’t want to try playing games on a company computer.
I played a lot of single player and idle games at that job, because those are easy to walk away from at a moment’s notice. Just hit pause and you can give your full attention to whatever problem has popped up. Then once it’s resolved, you’re right back where you left off.