changeling.love
RPGs, books, and occasionally something spicy. High-tech lowlife. Queer as in fuck you.
🔞| God save me from ever having to hear a 14 year old's opinion on anything.
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God, anyone thinking that's sane is an idiot. Several times during the Cold War the only thing that prevented Armageddon is someone refusing to push the big red button when their orders would have demanded it.
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That's why asking has to be the thing they can dodge. Everything past that is worse for them.
They know that artists, authors, and rights holders won't license them their works at any price. Not to mention that huge parts of the Internet simply have no way of identifying the rights holders.
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Note that's Gallup phone polling too. Those of you under 40, when was the last time you answered a number you didn't recognize?
Would you think a phone survey was in good faith, or potentially a scam?
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I love how he assumes all that setup takes him 2 minutes, and that he can trust whatever mess het gets back to be accurate.
Brain so smooth you can see your reflection in it.
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Learning to walk in a line in step is basic training shit they can drum into people too dumb to tell left from right without it written on their hands.
Claiming they can't manage that basic level of military discipline is not the positive you think it is.
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Yeah, like beating people to death to salve their egos.
www.armytimes.com/news/your-ar...
I would absolutely buy that they're too brick dumb to learn D&C.
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Can't be too elite, I could get a pack of 14 year old JROTC kids to do a better job doing basic D&C in an afternoon. If it's not intentional, it's deeply embarrassing.
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In step hell, they can't even dress right. This is absolutely some malicious compliance on the part of a bunch of people who are losing out on having a weekend for this shit.
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Now there's a fanfic take I've never seen.
'Severus Snape is actually a closeted trans woman whose obsession with Lily Evans is actually about always having wanted to be just like her.'
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Ah, but don't be foreign and pretty, because even then you get the way her heroine Molly treats her oldest boy's wife that is utterly handwaved.
Cursed Child is somehow even worse, confirming that the only reason Hermione made anything of herself is marrying a jealous pureblood with zero ambition.
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Everything you need to know about what kind of feminist bonafides Rowling has is summed up in her books by Tonks.
She wrote the most archeypal 90's lesbian imaginable, then when the fans caught on, excised her from the books except to be a werewolf her mother's age's beard and die offscreen.
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Charm monster doesn't count, either. Roofieing owlbears is just pathetic and creepy.
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My favorite cherry coke livery there too.
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Constitutional law does not allow for the military to engage in policing.
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Nah. Marines aren't big on considering the consequences of their actions.
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MARPAT, rolled sleeves, shitty moustache... the only way that'd be more obviously a Marine is if he was in the buy-here-pay-here financed sports car he can't afford the insurance on.
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I break out in mad laughter every time I think of what the reaction of any of the male athletes I knew in school would be if you suggested they transition to win more easily.
Cisgender dudes would rather die than grow breasts.
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Pepperball, but yeah, they're just Tippmann paintball markers with the velocity cranked way up.
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I'll always recall Boondock Saints. He was delightfully unhinged.
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This is precisely why Musk is into Ketamine. The only relief from the misery of knowing all the money in the world won't make him less of an unbearable trash fire of a human being is chemical depersonalization.
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Foo Fighters - The Pretender is absolutely a CtL song.
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He was doing photojournalism and the cops love to shoot the press any time they think they can get away with it for making them look bad by honestly showing their actions.
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Nobody will remember in three years. They ran Harris despite her history in CA as AG.
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Same as ever, LAPD's been the biggest gang in the state for decades. Shit like casually shooting a reporter on camera is just the manifestation of years of being told they're above the law, and have license to use violence to enforce their will without consequence.
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'Diverted to Israel' is a fun way to say Israel engaged in piracy in international waters. Wonder where that ship's flagged out of...
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What they're going to get is six months of paid leave, a full clearance by an internal investigation, and at very worst a new gig with another department if there's enough public outcry.
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Did you go to Rudy's? Because that sounds like Rudy's, and goddamn am I now thirsting for BBQ that's several hundred miles away.
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Literally every woman spends much, if not the majority of her life unable to bear children. Barring a few outliers a cisgender woman is fertile from about 15 to 45.
The lack of basic biological understanding these people have is hilarious.
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Makes sense, most of them solely value women as a vehicle to secure their own genetic inheritance. Not that they actually want *kids* either, just the knowledge that their bloodline continues.
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"In the moment, it looked like a gun, so of course we unloaded several hundred rounds into the crowd."
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Did the US win 20 years of trying to pacify insurgents in the middle east with the most advanced military machine yet known?
The hard calculus of occupation is that it takes vastly more boots on the ground than that to effectively suppress a population. Look at the response to Kent State.
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Any minute now they're going to upgrade to pointy sticks!
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I love how these fuckers are always, always certain a cisgender male athlete would socially transition and go on years of feminizing HRT to take 5th place.
Meanwhile, the average cis guy would rather die than grow tits. It's a major aspect of care for T-blocking prostate cancer treatment, even.
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Oh, I agree it's foolish, but the kind of people who want to be cops in this day and age aren't the brightest.
Hell, the departments have legally fought to be able to discriminate against the intelligent.
abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks...
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The one nWoD setting I adore. It is so, so good at being viciously petty and cruel, and makes such good stories about how you cope with that.
Also great as a LARP, just because the mechanics were secondary, it was a social experience of all these traumatized people trying to have community.
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Varies by locality, but honestly ICE is fine with ignoring due process. The legality has zero effect on their actions.
What the courts are capable of enforcing on them does, and so far that is very little.
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They want to be feared, and at the same time take being identified publicly as a threat to themselves and their families.
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Nah. The kind of people who want to play Operator but can't hack it in the military end up doing it for the cops.
Even those who don't start out in it for the chance to inflict violence get desensitized due to training for it and qualified immunity means no drive to to maintain reasonable ROE.
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Nah, just basic sense. You don't like doing the thing, but are willing to be convinced by money; that price scaling based on how much you don't like doing the thing is totally reasonable.
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Also rather wanted to keep an audience, and doing a bait and switch is a good way to make them feel like you cheated them out of their time and money. :D
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God, yeah. I was exhausted with sexual assault as drama 25 years ago.
So, so many of the writers who seem to think it mandatory for horror are not the sort who can manage that in a way that isn't more disturbing for the writer's enthusiasm than the narrative.
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Not that much, I don't think, it's just what we'd recognize now as YA segment sci-fi that Heinlein wrote.