A lot of people have been calling them that for a while though. In my memory Bush admin was called fascistic by leftists, I'm sure vietnam war was similar and so on, so I disagree about it being long over due.

I think a bigger point should be that a majority of people for a long time didn't even know what fascism is beyond "bad ~~people~~ germans that hated jews". I think after Charlottesville it got a bit better, but still not good enough. And because of that just calling them fascist will not work on people who don't already agree with us.

The whole story with this guy as far as I understand it is very weird.

He had written a number of songs that he self published to his youtube about a year ago. They did good enough to be noticed by a publisher who presumably approached him with an offer.

So in september 2022 he or his company create accounts on Spotify, Soundcloud and Instagram, likely as part of the publishing deal. At the same time, on his youtube channel, a playlist is created, titled "Videos that make you think".

Soon after he stops uploading music to his youtube channel, but continues with some non music videos. Shortly before his first single (the song in the title of the post) is released, he posts a video explaining the story behind it and him. This by itself is not weird, he knew when the single would be released and because he signed a deal, he knew it would be promoted.

But the way it was promoted is not normal. From what I've seen it was promoted by right-wing personalities, including daily wire people, as an organic sucsess, immediately after release. And because Oliver Anthony was pretty much unknown before this song was released I doubt that the song was naturally sucsessful before it started being promoted.

The song itself got some sus lyrics. Like that the fat people on welfare got more verses than the rich people north of Richmond. Also since Richmond was the capital of the confederacy, north of Richmod could refer to just DC, or to Union states, making it, intentionally or not, a dogwhistle.

And then there's the playlist. Not gonna lie, some videos in it have really bad vibes. There's some Peterson, some random videos and also some 9/11 conspiracy videos like 2 videos about "dancing israelis" or a video about how some real estate developer (also jewish) took an insurance on the towers before the attack.

My opinion of him after all that was really unfavorable. But then he started saying things like "diversity is our strength" which earned him criticism from the right, and now this. I still think the lyrics in his single miss the mark and that the conspiracy videos in his playlist are really bad, but maybe he personally does not believe those things.

Well if we're talking about something more than just more options in a selector, then it can be as complicated as dev wants it to be. A separate 3d model or some adjustments to an existing one if you select a trans option in character creator would not be that hard. But it's still time and effort of programmers and modellers and we know how much studios like to overwork and underpay them. I guess my point wasn't that it's too hard, but rather that it's too hard to be deemed important by the money people.

Personally I think there can be actually artistic value in this. Character customisation can be a way to worldbuild before the game even started. BG3 is fantasy, so maybe there is magic or rituals used by trans people to get the bodies they want. Maybe the rituals leave a mark, so a trans fem would have scars from that ritual. What if some trans people got there by making deals with fey so a trans masc might have a chest they traded from a fey prince.

Or imagine if cyberpunk2077 was actually good and had done something with this. Transhumanism is a big thing in cyberpunk genre, and there is already borgware in the ttrpg, why not make nsfw borgware? If I can replace all my limbs with katanas I can make THAT katana cybernetic too.

I originally thought it was about deeper levels of customization that more realistiaclly portrayed trans bodies, which would be imo complicated. But you are absolutely right that just another variant of already existing selection would be reletively trivial.

So, I haven't played BG3, but considering that it's a fantasy setting, I am surprised that it seems to be same as irl for trans stuff. Compared to the pathfinder universe which had since the 1st edition magical hrt potions and salves which work way better than irl as well as straight up insta-transition magic items in 2e, DnD seems kinda boring.

If I understand you correctly, what you're suggesting would require programming in an entire system for trans bodies, a bunch more 3d models to make and to integrate into that system, as well as many small changes all over the rest of the game to make it all work.

Don't get me wrong, I think that would be amazing and I too would like to see it, I don't think it's gonna be worth the investment for AAA games made for profit. Hell, I haven't seen a system like that in explicitly adult games, and games like that would actually use that system.

I'd say that doesn't just apply to social media users, but rather to people in general.

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Japan was already seeking surrender even before the first bomb. They were ready for almost unconditional surrender, with their only condition being immunity for the emperor. The USA wanted full unconditional surrender and also to keep USSR from the negotiations, so they dropped the bomb. Then they dropped the second bomb, even though Japan tried to surrender again after the first one. I would say this counts as a lie when people say Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in any way necessary to bomb. The war was won at that point.

I think creation of nukes is a more complicated topic, but both their detonations were only done to force Japan to surrender 1)unconditionally and 2)to USA. IIRC even US command admitted it.

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To be fair, whether a name is considered fem/masc/gn is so arbitary, the same name can be fem to one person and masc to another, even in the same country. So I doubt that non-autistic people have an easier time with it, they'll probably just assume their own opinion is the prevalent one lol.