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There are way too many songs that could be alright if you listened to them occasionally, but are massively overplayed in films, television, public events and generic music playlists to the point of staleness.

If I listed my most hated ones here it might get slightly too warm for this thread, but if you need some crowd-pleasing songs that are not super clichéd, consider this instead. Or maybe this or this. They're also just all-round better than most of the overdone stuff lol.
 
Yung Dramps said:
Advent of the queen. Post your most middling, lukewarm, unexciting opinions ever.

As it turns out, I do not like Donald Trump
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Martin said:
Action choreography and camerawork that prioritises feeling of weight/impact >>>>>>>> effects-driven, larger-than-life action sequences
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this is true in most situations but the sukuna fights in jjk s2 peaked so hard (esp on the blu-ray) and the best fight in fate/hf was salter vs. rider (and shirou) both of which fall pretty hard into the latter category
 
racism is stupid because every group of people that is in power will consider themselves as superior by measures that they themselves define. furthermore, the understanding of "race" is extremely volatile. Irish people are considered white since they got money, before that, they were considered as subhuman as races with darker skin colors were. the majority of racist stereotypes against non-white people were even originally applied to the Irish and found their very origins there

it's true that there are physical differences between groups of people that has an impact on certain areas of athleticism and medical situations, but that is founded in the scientific term of ethnicity. Ethnicity is a biological reality as sex is, whilst race is a social construct as gender is. matter of fact, the denial of race's impact on a human's quality isn't unscientific, the word race itself is unscientific and political. no other language on Earth still uses the word race except for the English one, every other language just uses color, ethnicity or equates ethnicity to nationality
 
Local Dog said:
racism is stupid because every group of people that is in power will consider themselves as superior by measures that they themselves define. furthermore, the understanding of "race" is extremely volatile. Irish people are considered white since they got money, before that, they were considered as subhuman as races with darker skin colors were. the majority of racist stereotypes against non-white people were even originally applied to the Irish and found their very origins there

it's true that there are physical differences between groups of people that has an impact on certain areas of athleticism and medical situations, but that is founded in the scientific term of ethnicity. Ethnicity is a biological reality as sex is, whilst race is a social construct as gender is. matter of fact, the denial of race's impact on a human's quality isn't unscientific, the word race itself is unscientific and political. no other language on Earth still uses the word race except for the English one, every other language just uses color, ethnicity or equates ethnicity to nationality
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A lot of this is correct but sex and ethnicity are also political. These points intertwine so it's hard to pick a starting point but

1) Regardless of however we consider sex and ethnicity biologically, the fact that we attach societal importance to them is subjective and political
2) Sex biologically is on shakier ground then you think. Source for most of the following:
-The sex that we identify ourselves with is a label assigned by a physician rather than an immutable biological reality, making it, for most purposes we care about, also a social construct
-Many people of a sex do not have traits we think of as essential for that sex
-There is a lot we could say about intersex people, who challenge our conventional understandings of sex

It breaks down a lot as we think about it more like, we think about sex as "compatibility for sexual reproduction", but is an infertile male no longer a male then? If they are still a male, and sex means 'Ostensible possible (future?) compatibility for sexual reproduction that may not actually come to pass", A) How meaningful is that to care about, and B) We still have subjectivity in what counts as "ostensibly possible"

Alternate framings tend to run into similar issues, like presence of sexual organs, which raises questions about people who have both, or none, or some other arrangement at birth, or some sort of accident that physically damages those organs, etc.

3) Race is a way that people self-classify and classify others, providing it societal meanings (beyond just 'it is a tool of oppression,' which is also true), which makes race very relevant for understanding the societal dynamics that all of these terms derive most of their importance from
3b) Other languages impart societal meanings to peoples' skin colors too, and, while there are differences between racism and colorism in society, this dynamics are both socially constructed tools of oppression, so, for our purposes in this discussion, your special attention to English reads more as exceptionalism than like a concretely important linguistic difference
4) Ethnicity is also a social construct, and both ethnicity and race are, in large part, series of correlations connecting people to sub-population traits. Ethnicity is a more precise series of correlations that is founded on less bias - we should indeed privilege it over race - but it's less distinct than you frame it. What counts as "an ethnicity," at least for many societal purposes, is fundamentally subjective and often in large part a scion of (past or present) nationality (an overtly political force)
 
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