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And it's not like google has any trouble re-pointing things.Kids still buy print media?The kids that don't have their own phone/computer/tablet do.
I mean, this newfangled internet thing lets me learn about firearms AND have all the content of nudie mags just the same...
One year ago, I started working out. Quite pleased with the results so far.
Kids still buy print media?The kids that don't have their own phone/computer/tablet do.
I mean, this newfangled internet thing lets me learn about firearms AND have all the content of nudie mags just the same...
I was wondering whether these tropes constitute a form brainwashing Although I consciously relate to the zombie as a metaphor, I subconsciously might be admitting the "double-tap" as a reasonable way to deal with whatever zombies represent. The metaphor leaves a kind of dehumanizing residue. Zombies are less human than vampires, so the resultant trope is stronger?
Ever heard of groups like "zombie squad"? Basically, you have groups of modern survivalist preppers who use the thinly veiled trope of the zombie to basically represent a stand-in for riotous, unarmed looters that tend to crop up in disaster scenarios.
In more extreme cases, ive even seen "zombie preppers" justify themselves by saying stuff like "zombies = niggers. Of course we dont believe in a real zombie apocalypse" (naturally, NOT on ZS's official forums, but in more ephemeral places where zombie survival gets discussed).
So yeah...it definitely allows people to dehumanise others. Maybe not as some sort of "woo evil brainwashing", but certainly in the form of it being co-opted and sold as something innocuous when it really isnt.
But yeah...all sorts of fucked up shit hides itself in the zombie "movement".
That's why every time a kid tries to buy Guns 'N Amo, the vendor should slip them a Penthouse instead (worked for me)
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And to go back to The Strain, the Stoneheart Group, a New York based financial somethingorother arranged for the transport of the Master into the USA).
I was wondering whether these tropes constitute a form brainwashing Although I consciously relate to the zombie as a metaphor, I subconsciously might be admitting the "double-tap" as a reasonable way to deal with whatever zombies represent. The metaphor leaves a kind of dehumanizing residue. Zombies are less human than vampires, so the resultant trope is stronger?
Ever heard of groups like "zombie squad"? Basically, you have groups of modern survivalist preppers who use the thinly veiled trope of the zombie to basically represent a stand-in for riotous, unarmed looters that tend to crop up in disaster scenarios.
In more extreme cases, ive even seen "zombie preppers" justify themselves by saying stuff like "zombies = niggers. Of course we dont believe in a real zombie apocalypse" (naturally, NOT on ZS's official forums, but in more ephemeral places where zombie survival gets discussed).
So yeah...it definitely allows people to dehumanise others. Maybe not as some sort of "woo evil brainwashing", but certainly in the form of it being co-opted and sold as something innocuous when it really isnt.
But yeah...all sorts of fucked up shit hides itself in the zombie "movement".
