[Saga]

(07-24-2014 12:14 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

I don't have a link at the moment, but there was a study done proving that stronger and more healthy people tend to hold more traditional/conservative views. Alternatively, weak and sickly people naturally look more toward the government to take care of them.

Here's an article on one such study, though I can't seem to find a link to the study results themselves.

[simondice]

(07-24-2014 01:32 PM)RXB Wrote:  

This doesn't surprise me at all. Anyone who grew up playing video games, reading comic books, or watching cheesy movies would be shocked to see how far the culture has shifted. Growing up stuff like PC Gamer, Wizard Magazine (yes, I was that dorky), and all the other publications I read were filled with jokes that would now be considered sexist or racist. Jokes about female characters with huge boobs, celebrations of male heroes being horn dogs (I think I have an old copy of Wizard where they traced out ever character Wolverine had slept with), and the glorification of guns.

These magazines were straight up fun. They had jokes about game design being "retarded" (try printing that word today) and they made gay jokes. It was a place where nerdy teenage boys could sit around and chuckle at the witty insights of nerdy middle aged men.

Now those same magazines and websites have turned into politically correct nonsense. They are stuffed with lame progressive fluff that insults the readers. Reading lines like "Superman and Batman have to travel back in time to mansplain their actions" is like getting slapped in the face.

I feel bad for the kids of today. They don't have a real outlet where they can just read laugh at some silly gay jokes or look at a pair of breast without being ironic. When I was a kid I loved getting my gaming magazines and comic books because it was like having my own little world where I could enjoy all the stuff that I wasn't supposed to. Had I been younger when Cracked was big I'm sure I would have eaten that stuff up too. Some of their older articles, I've only seen a few so I'm no expert, are pretty enjoyable. It is a true shame that the site went downhill so fast.

Dude I used to love cracked because they blew my mind and had articles like "the 5 most badass presidents" which made you rethink old truths.

Quote:

"Kennedy Upon leaving the Navy, he took up boning on a near full-time basis. Sure, he dabbled in being a Senator and a President or whatever, but his full-time job was Pimping. In fact, if boning-your-girlfriend-right-in-front-of-you was a business, you can bet your cuckolded ass that Kennedy would have been its District Manager."

I'm not one to say "in the good ole days..." because I'm only 21, but things have gotten too political correct...
A slap in the ass to a female classmate was good fun..
Now it's considered "sexual harassment"

I still do it, but only masculine men ( RVF'rs) are given a pass for it now.

[simondice]

(07-24-2014 09:44 AM)Roosh Wrote:  

Here is a picture of Cracked's editor:



You can actually guess how people look based on their political views.

I could crush him with a finger. He'd probably cry, jerk off and go to sleep.

[AnonymousBosch]

(07-25-2014 02:20 AM)simondice Wrote:  

I used to love Cracked for its creativity and articles like "the 5 most badass presidents of all time" which injected a swift kick of laughter, inspiration, creativity and masculinity in my day.

Now?..
A bunch of nerd hipsters and gay weirdos trying to lead me into their pan sexual leftist views with the sense of humor Tina Fey would spew.

Cracked.com is dead to me now.

I'm even older. I remember when Nanny Dickering functioned as the female mascot of Cracked. I'm sure she kickstarted my puberty and many others. Can you imagine the shitstorm if this kind of thing was published now? Or would they make her a tranny?

[simondice]

(07-25-2014 02:54 AM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:  

(07-25-2014 02:20 AM)simondice Wrote:  

I used to love Cracked for its creativity and articles like "the 5 most badass presidents of all time" which injected a swift kick of laughter, inspiration, creativity and masculinity in my day.

Now?..
A bunch of nerd hipsters and gay weirdos trying to lead me into their pan sexual leftist views with the sense of humor Tina Fey would spew.

Cracked.com is dead to me now.

I'm even older. I remember when Nanny Dickering functioned as the female mascot of Cracked. I'm sure she kickstarted my puberty and many others. Can you imagine the shitstorm if this kind of thing was published now? Or would they make her a tranny?

Cracked's logo back then:
A curvaceous beautiful woman with flowing long hair, great ass and tits wearing high heels in the house.

Now..?

An "empowered career woman" with a square frame, short hair and wearing sandals in public (on her iPhone, of course)[/i]

[CRR]

As I mentioned earlier, The Onion is starting to pull this nonsense too.

Another example from today:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/openmin...nni,36560/

Open-Minded Man Would Be Willing To Look Past Jennifer Lawrence’s Flaws

The implication of course being that everyday schlubs are expecting a Jennifer Lawrence.

It's the false dichotomy of feminism. Because if someone doesn't want a woman who is fat, short hair, obnoxious...basically unfeminine, then it must be because a guy is expecting a 10. Which of course isn't the case.

[Old Fritz]

This is why I stopped following cracked about 3 years ago. I used to love that site but they just fell right into a political correctness and liberal vacuum. It sucks because I really liked that website....

[markygras]

(08-13-2014 04:56 PM)Old Fritz Wrote:  

This is why I stopped following cracked about 3 years ago. I used to love that site but they just fell right into a political correctness and liberal vacuum. It sucks because I really liked that website....

yep, about 3 years ago sounds about right. That's when I noticed an uptick in feminist articles.

RIP the AV Club too Their comments section has become toxic

[la_mode]

Both onion & cracked (even years ago) are extremely SWPL...

A no - go in my book.

[aphelion]

The Onion is generally pretty on target. Every once in awhile something goofy slips through and causes everyone to question it, but remember that the seed of humor is uncomfortable truth.

Furthermore, they're not exactly a bastion of RP thought by design. They're a humor website, so propagating RP thought isn't in their demense any more than propagating shitty feminist thought is Cracked's job. Unfortunately, Cracked seems to think it is, and their brand is suffering as a result.

[Drazen]

The same thing is happening to Deadspin, which WAS a great Sports website for stupid things to discuss. Lately they've been obsessed with Title IX, The Washington Redskins needing to change their name, and last night was the final straw when they had a diatribe about the black teenager shot by the cops. I'm looking for football players doing the Robot, not for any politically slanted crap.

[DrewP]

Bumping this because lately they've ratcheted up the SJW nonsense to a comical degree:

March 5: 5 Ancient Discoveries That Prove Modern Men Are Sexist

March 7: 5 Secret Feminist Easter Eggs You Didn't Notice in 'Portal'

Looks like they realize they've lost all plausible deniability about being an agenda-driven website, so they're going all out.

[BortimusPrime]

(03-07-2015 01:33 PM)DrewP Wrote:  

Bumping this because lately they've ratcheted up the SJW nonsense to a comical degree:

March 5: 5 Ancient Discoveries That Prove Modern Men Are Sexist

March 7: 5 Secret Feminist Easter Eggs You Didn't Notice in 'Portal'

Looks like they realize they've lost all plausible deniability about being an agenda-driven website, so they're going all out.

I thought Portal was really quite red pill. I mean, the basic premise is you're sticking yourself inside a hole and then you have to deal with a crazy bitch.

[Foolsgo1d]

So by Cracked's reasoning the Tom Cruise film Oblivion is the focus of Man and Woman fighting against the evil feminist overlord who obliterated mankind for its own selfish needs and then lies to them.

You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

[Wutang]

Even more SJW bullshit from Cracked - and of course it's from David Wong

https://archive.is/h0H7C

https://archive.is/MyCv5

They're basically Buzzfeed at this point.

[Teedub]

(05-19-2015 03:30 PM)Wutang Wrote:  

Even more SJW bullshit from Cracked - and of course it's from David Wong

https://archive.is/h0H7C

https://archive.is/MyCv5

They're basically Buzzfeed at this point.

Jesus fucking christ reading that was painful. Who does he think he, some kind of high priest of progressivism, handing out blessings to his followers?

That said, at least he acknowledged this:

Quote:

I completely get why a low-income, lonely white dude is sick to death of hearing about how his movies, video games, and jokes are racist or sexist or homophobic. The logic is almost impossible to argue with: "If their problems as women are on the level of getting Hollywood to cast a plus-size Wonder Woman, and my problems involve not being able to afford heat in the winter, then it's downright evil to belittle my real problems while demanding I worry about that trivial SJW Tumblr bullshit."

....but then, of course, he ruined all that by returning to all the collective guilt crap. And how women are discriminated in the pay gap etc.

What's interesting is how fully aware he is of phrases like 'SJW Tumblr bullshit' - it means that there is a culture war going on, and they are fully aware of their part in pushing a fixed agenda.

I was perhaps a bit naive in the Mad Max thread when I questioned whether there was a definite, absolute progressive push - covering literally everything from music, to magazines, to movies, to culture itself - well there definitely is.

[Hades]

Cracked has gone full retard, for sure.
Also, ninja edit!

[ColSpanker]

I use to listen to the Cracked podcasts until they became painfully PC. The one that killed it for me was their "Tipping Point" podcast. They went on at length about how all kinds of things can reach tipping points from which they never recover, ocean fishing for one. But they did an about face when discussing the MSM's effect on teh gey mirage support. Suddenly government and media support in pushing an issue became a good thing.

[MasterBacja]

I was anticipating this, but Cracked finally weighed in on the meetups/Roosh:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/what-were-al...p-artists/

Some of the more misguided portions:

Quote:

So, while I always thought MRAs and PUAs were awful people, I understood their frustration and loneliness, because we shared the same low ERA. And make no mistake, these people are frustrated and lonely -- behind all their anger and bravado are guys who wake up every morning wondering why they don't have the partner their friends and family have. The partner pop culture tells them that they're failures for lacking. And I think the main reason I got over my hang-ups while they haven't is that I didn't have random strangers calling me a fat, neckbeard-sporting, basement-dwelling, virginal nerd who would rather play video games and watch porn than talk to another human being.

Quote:

Oh, yeah, that's the final problem. It's easy to insult and dismiss these guys because sometimes they really are just objectively terrible people. I don't think Roosh is lonely and misguided; I think he's such a hateful embarrassment to humanity that he's single-handedly keeping aliens from contacting us. And even the misguided ones can do real damage, whether it's creeping out a woman at the bar or bombarding a woman with rape threats because, hey, all his friends are doing it. It's fun, too. I'd be lying if I claimed I've never mocked these guys, because when you're having a bad day, calling out people even worse than you is an easy pick-me-up.

It seems like there's a real desire amongst "nerds" and people who had trouble adjusting socially to try to paint us as "worse versions of them", as if somehow that's the best possible angle. The painting of us in any way that goes against the "easy-to-sell to internet losers" narrative that we are pathetic saddos would likely make their heads explode.

The more I see things like this the more I realize they NEED to believe that we are pathetic. They need to believe that we are basement-dwelling losers or else everything they are is put under the intense spotlight of inferiority.

I can't remember where the reference comes from, but they seem to talk about us with the confidence of a 15-year-old who's smoked pot twice talking to a 15-year-old who's smoked pot once. The article seems to hinge on the premise that we are losers - if we aren't, what the fuck do they do then?

[eatthishomie]

They jumped the shark when "5 Uncomfortable Truths About The Men's Rights Movement" came out and conflated men's rights and TRP together.

On the upside, this is how I found out about TRP. I guess I should thank Cracked for changing my life.

[Rhyme or Reason]

People still read that shit? I couldn't ever stand that site, or buzzfeed, or any of those nonsensical, shameless, clickbait crap websites.

[Tim in real life]

Fucking sucks this happened. I seriously hope it doesn't happen with TVTropes, especially in light of this page.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...eKnighting

Never mind the fact so many countless District Attorneys lost their licenses due to the proceeding miscarriages of justice, due to numerous series of events that started from false rape accusations.

[Hades]

TVtropes has feminism running deep in it's veins.
It hasn't fully corrupted the better parts of the site, but it pops up frequently where you think it shouldn't.

[General Stalin]

Every remotely mainstream form of entertainment tows the liberal party line. Thats the language of the youth of today.

[Khan]

(02-10-2016 11:17 PM)General Stalin Wrote:  

Every remotely mainstream form of entertainment tows the liberal party line. Thats the language of the youth of today.

John Conquest's Second Law of Politics sums this up nicely:

Quote:

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.