I think my biggest change in aesthetic values is that I used to think names having power in a fantasy setting was goofy as hell, but now it feels deeply True like it is just a fantastical version of how the world works
Oh no did they get the other ear?
I like Warhammer stuff but I don't think it is in any meaningful way a satire of fascism, and people insisting that it is harms our ability to be critical about it. I don't think it is purposeful fascist propaganda, but I can definitely see why fascists love it, and our cultural response should be something more than saying "omg can't these people see they are being made fun of" while pumping out games with a fascist aesthetics and adding the seventh judeo-bolshevik plot but real into the universe.
Engelsian distortion of Marx's clear and concise writing style
They let all kinds of leftists write stuff, but the overall vibe is IMO more academic-brained bad rather than Trotskyist, trot vibes are a little bit funnier.
Free speech is very important to me, so I appreciate the hesitation you showed before preemptively defederating from those commies
That is not a real person's face. I categorically refuse to believe it.
Recommending an audiobook specifically sped up has such a weird energy
That is a top 5 most horrible song to realize to be entirely unironic
That is just like 50 people going "New Zealand is in the global north, BWAAHH?!?"
Those numbers of votes are almost definitely wrong and calculated from the percentages instead of the other way around. It doesn't necessarily mean the percentages are fake, but someone at some point did fuck up.
They are just letting him say stuff, huh