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Criticize Israel. But remember. Israel doesn’t represent all Jewish people. And all Jewish people don’t support Israel. The actions of Israel are deplorable. The government should be held to account.
Criticize Israel. But remember. Israel doesn’t represent all Jewish people. And all Jewish people don’t support Israel. The actions of Israel are deplorable. The government should be held to account.
The two largest media frenzies about trans people of the last decade followed a college athlete competing within the rules and a TikTok star posting a photo with a beer can, just in case you’re still telling yourself this could’ve been avoided if we just acted a certain way.
to be clear scolding random voters for not falling in line rather than using one’s platform to pressure the most powerful person on earth to do The Obvious Right Thing is 100% anti-politics, it’s saying people can’t change anything. THIS—make no mistake—is the height of nihilism
to be clear scolding random voters for not falling in line rather than using one’s platform to pressure the most powerful person on earth to do The Obvious Right Thing is 100% anti-politics, it’s saying people can’t change anything. THIS—make no mistake—is the height of nihilism
Stories I’ve seen labelled as grimdark obscured a subtle vein of romanticism. Some I’ve seen labelled as lighthearted were profoundly cynical at heart. What use is an arbitrary system of taxonomy if no one can keep its standards consistent?
honestly really beautiful to watch a case perfect protest movement that is undoubtedly on the right side of history and will be remembered as such, while these whiny libs BEG them to “cOnSidEr tHe oPtiCs!!” when the optics paint them in the best light possible at every turn 🇵🇸
honestly really beautiful to watch a case perfect protest movement that is undoubtedly on the right side of history and will be remembered as such, while these whiny libs BEG them to “cOnSidEr tHe oPtiCs!!” when the optics paint them in the best light possible at every turn 🇵🇸
As encampments go up across the country as a form of protest and face “time, place, & manner” restrictions on their constitutional rights, it’s a perfect time to reflect on unhoused people who live with that reality everyday. newrepublic.com/article/181036…
Grants Pass took a case to the Supreme Court because they want even more powers to police people who live outdoors. But the bigger story is the national, bipartisan backlash against encampments and the very policies proven to house people long term. newrepublic.com/article/181036…
They're running the same playbook they did against BLM- call them agitators, point to lone instigators as indicative of the movement, call them something they're not over and over (antisemitic instead of riotors), send in pigs, lie about what the pigs are doing, lie lie lie
I hate this imagined future history that people invoke as an argument for doing or siding with what’s right - specifically the idea of history books or whatever. It seems self-serving, like your legacy specifically is what matters, not creating a just present and future.
Simple and clean is about two lovers who want different things but when they are together they feel like the complications created by their differences can be overcome by their closeness…making their messy complexities “simple and clean” 👍🏿 hope this helps
Simple and clean is about two lovers who want different things but when they are together they feel like the complications created by their differences can be overcome by their closeness…making their messy complexities “simple and clean” 👍🏿 hope this helps
The real gag is paying attention to whatever netflix streaming show hits it big and seeing agents suddenly having very similar MSWL's
The real gag is paying attention to whatever netflix streaming show hits it big and seeing agents suddenly having very similar MSWL's
We've gone through thousands of years of human civilization only to arrive back at "might equals right".
We've gone through thousands of years of human civilization only to arrive back at "might equals right".
The woman in this story got clean, started a family, went to college. But her outstanding debt is crushing her day to day & keeping her from getting a job as a case manager. Stuff like this is why people reoffend. If you care about public safety, you can’t support this.
This story is bananas. Florida charges people $50 a day for their stay in prison. The state wants this woman to pay $127,000 because she was sentenced to 7 years—even though she only served 10 months. A perfect example of how the gov’t sets people up to fail upon release.
This story is bananas. Florida charges people $50 a day for their stay in prison. The state wants this woman to pay $127,000 because she was sentenced to 7 years—even though she only served 10 months. A perfect example of how the gov’t sets people up to fail upon release.
reading all the handwringing about “free speech” and “safety” and remembering Anne Applebaum wrote an article in 2002 explicitly calling for the targeted killing of Palestinian journalists for the crime of making Israel look bad
@Srirachachau "america is a fascist police state that will destroy itself, there is nothing we can do to stop it, we can only change the speed at which it happens" getting pitched not by a doomer or an accelerationist but by mainstream liberals telling you their party is good. baffling
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Criticize Israel. But remember. Israel doesn’t represent all Jewish people. And all Jewish people don’t support Israel. The actions of Israel are deplorable. The government should be held to account.
and they -will- lose you support. Don't equate all Jewish people with Israel and vice versa as there are a LOT of pro-Palestinian Jewish people who despise Israel's ongoing genocide and who rightly point out that it IS genocide. And lastly this: 4/5
This is honestly true of most things here
Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega's #MillersGirl generated controversy this year due to the 31-year age gap between the co-stars and the film's intimate scenes. “It’s not saying, ‘Isn’t this great?’" Freeman says in response to the outrage. "It's a shame." variety.com/2024/film/news…
On top of which, even if you’re pitching this on the basis of trying to hook readers into the larger DC Comics canon? … are you imagining the average new fan, of this show, has a steady flow of disposable income?
None of those comics have anything in common with the gosh-shucks anime-influenced romcom version of Clark and Lois. Why would fans introduced to these specific incarnations want to read about, essentially, entirely different characters and stories?
So I just caught the trailer for MAWS s2 and… It’s not the trailer so much as the comic book ad at the very end that’s left me scratching my head a little. “Read where it all began,” and cue Morrison’s All-Star Superman, Byrne’s Man of Steel… m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ihhv…
The two largest media frenzies about trans people of the last decade followed a college athlete competing within the rules and a TikTok star posting a photo with a beer can, just in case you’re still telling yourself this could’ve been avoided if we just acted a certain way.
them erasing the word bi i'm crying
Sit on it on or don’t boy
'Glee' Star Darren Criss Says He Identifies as 'Culturally Queer' | Click to read more 👇 tmz.me/MH8uS2g
Indeed I wrote about it last month! columnblog.com/p/the-profound…
to be clear scolding random voters for not falling in line rather than using one’s platform to pressure the most powerful person on earth to do The Obvious Right Thing is 100% anti-politics, it’s saying people can’t change anything. THIS—make no mistake—is the height of nihilism
@isaiah_bb i found an example x.com/isaiah_bb/stat…
i am so sorry i disrespected the medium of authoring by offering my books on sale once yearly so that my readers who cannot afford it full price are able to. i am clearly the worst and will go sit in the shame closet. thank you for enlightening me on my failures, dear stranger.
@disasterhomo Typical
@fiddlersgreen92 In a game you need to exhaustively survey everything, because the players want to wander around (but even then the world is still circumscribed). But in a linear story that becomes stultifying & I think that's why so many sagas collapse under their own dead weight.
@fiddlersgreen92 I love RPGs & other games but I often feel like the language of game design has really damaged fantasy fiction since the '80s, made it painfully *literal* in ways it wasn't supposed to be.
@wroughtandwrote GRRM’s work is intensely moral! His works operate with a moral axis!
@fiddlersgreen92 Putting GRRM and Mark Lawrence in the same category because both of their worlds have brutality and rape in them is like saying Michelangelo and Picasso did similar work because they painted with the color blue.
Stories I’ve seen labelled as grimdark obscured a subtle vein of romanticism. Some I’ve seen labelled as lighthearted were profoundly cynical at heart. What use is an arbitrary system of taxonomy if no one can keep its standards consistent?
When this arbitrary-ass scale means by fairy tale is Disney. You’re talking Disney.
Pray tell, what use are cautionary tales in utopian worlds? I must have missed the part about utopian ideals when Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilated their own feet for the Glass Slipper.
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