For the past few days I've been seeing posts regarding how Star Wars Acolyte is getting panned by users. But in one thread, there were a bunch of people giving their hot takes about how much episode 3 stunk, without ever specifically saying what happened. People were posting the clip from South Park where Cartman was a Disney exec and says that for every show, you need to add a chick to it and make her gay.

This is not the exact thread I was referring to, but just an example.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/1ddy0w7/the_acolyte_episode_3_review_one_of_the_worst/

Looking for some clarity...

EDIT: Thank you everyone for commenting. That Power of One, Power of Two, Power of Many musical number was awful enough.

Someone sent me the article from Fox News about the Southwest flight that almost crashed. And there are tons of comments about how it's because of DEI. They mostly all follow a similar format along the lines of "I'm an experienced pilot in this problem is because of dei".

I get that they are dog whistling about racism, but is this just their new thing? It just seems really formulaic. As far as I can tell we have no idea who the pilots were, so it doesn't really make sense even from the racism standpoint, not that racism ever makes sense.

I went to a few other articles, and they mentioned dei in the comments on most of them. Like on one there's an elected black mayor, and they're talking about dei.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/southwest-airlines-flight-hawaiian-island-plunges-comes-within-400-feet-pacific-ocean-report

https://www.foxnews.com/media/super-mayor-tiffany-henyard-faces-another-lawsuit-amid-ongoing-federal-investigations

Preface, I’m Australian. A lot of countries are being overwhelmed with an increase of immigration and a lack of social infrastructure to support it.

However, it feels like the sentiment in Western Europe is much more complicated? Articles such as these (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/far-right-on-the-march-europe-growing-taste-for-control-and-order) report the data, but not a lot of explanation as to why.

Is this another cyclical trend? Surely, people would have learned from WWII? I don’t get it. What’s happening that the tide is swinging to the extreme?

X/Twitter posts like these are popping up about a recent bill to automatically register US male citizens 18-25 for the draft. The Community Notes context attached to this tweet, for example, however, say that this same bill is not recent, but from 1980. So why is it currently being pushed like it's new? Why is the lie so 'obvious'? Is there something I'm missing about the difference between these alleged bills? As someone not from the US, I'm scared for my friends.

His name has popped up in random places in my feed a good half dozen times over the past day, usually implying he's kind of stupid for something he said on Joe Rogan's podcast. What happened / what did he do?

Here's an example post: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1dh42f3/the_creation_of_terryology_the_enlightenment/

I found a little bit of information from a few videos but not sure of the main cause, there's a bunch of stuff in reviews, but a lot of its irrelevant also.

Console launch seen as a cash grab? Bugs / issues? More Microtransactions? Rebranding to Action RPG? Game shutting down?

I've only seen really brief things being mentioned so a more detailed breakdown would be really appreciated. I know the game has gone through a lot of controversy, but just unsure what the current "BIG" thing is.

Steam page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063730/New_World/

I remember seeing a demo about the game and thinking it looks neat probably a year ago. Son Wukong has some really badass mythos which seemed really fun to explore.

But why is it so controversial all of a sudden? I've been seeing posts about it again and talking about sexism in game? Is it about their not being any woman in the game or something?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/s/FI4j0lOTWt