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I'm Robyn, I write stuff
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They always conveniently "forget" that she was referring to federal law and claim that line meant she was going to enforce all the eliminationist state-level laws.
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Sometimes I wonder what TERFs think trans women actually do day-to-day. Like what does "performing a male idea of what a woman is" even mean? And how does it constitute every moment of our existence?
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...was that even English? Wtf is he even trying to say?
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I grew up in peak Prequel Trilogy era, so I can't help but read it as "Confederacy or Independent Systems".
On topic, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that conservatives and TERFs aren't the only ones who have no idea how Latin prefixes work.
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Don't forget The Owl House.
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Spell checkers didn't replace dictionaries, wtf are you on about.
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As others have already said, 18-25 boys in 2010 would've grown up with South Park and Family Guy too.
The real culprits are 4chan, YouTube, late-00's Gamer culture, and Steve Bannon.
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Not you, or any of the people in the screenshots, that's for damn sure.
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He's saying the Democrats need to throw women, POC, and queer folks under the bus.
That's what these snakes *always* mean when they talk about "public opinion". They're really saying "Americans are bigots and there's no changing that, so ditch the DEI so we can get back into power".
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"One reason or another"
More like two specific reasons, that everybody knows, but no one wants to bring up because you're not allowed to say "the electorate has some moral deficiencies."
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Hardly. There's no way to make a system that isn't vulnerable to all of the major power-players conspiring to undo it, and/or an insane populace. Not unless you literally removed all the humans, and I haven't heard of any "modern democracies" run by intelligent robots.
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The Constitution doesn't need a "reset", because it already has a built-in update feature: amendments.
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Realistically a guy like Hank would've been way more bigoted, and *definitely* would've gone MAGA.
For a show like KotH to even work, you kind of have to take it for granted that the characters aren't fundamentally awful people and will at times be unrealistically progressive for their demographic.
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If TLJ was what they were going for from the start, I think the ST would've been better for it. But it wasn't, and that just goes to show that trying to make serialized trilogy with no guiding vision was an unfathomably stupid idea.
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Indeed. I've heard many armchair Ep. IX pitches and literally *nobody* can seem to come up with a satisfying way to end the trilogy after Ep. VIII, for exactly the reasons I said.
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I get that the idea was to wipe the slate clean and hand it over to a new generation... but you can't do that in part 2 of 3; now Part 3 has to start over from square one and somehow cram an entire new trilogy's worth of setup and payoff into a single film.
I'm not sure I'd call that a "softball".
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There's nothing for a third film to resolve, it was already resolved. That star war was lost, the story of Rey and Co. is over.
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Swing at what? There was literally nothing left at the end. The FO won, the Resistance was completely annihilated down to ~10 people with one ship, and the rest of the galaxy very explicitly doesn't care about them or their struggle.
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Try reading my actual posts, dipshit.
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Is that supposed to mean something?
I made this account to post my writing and poetry. Just because my posts aren't popular doesn't make me a Russian bot or whatever you're trying to imply.
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Counter: the more people who publicly support something, the harder amd less feasible it is to arrest all of them, thus less is accomplished by arresting any single one, thus there is less incentive to do so.
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They fought tooth and nail every step of the way during the Obama and Biden admins.
Meanwhile Dems can't even muster the spine to unanimously oppose Trump's cabinet. They're tripping over themselves to be part of the "DOGE Caucus" while DOGE is busy illegally dismantling the government.
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Oh spare me. Civil servants refusing to cooperate is nice and all, but it's hardly "fighting back" when the goal was always to get rid of them.
I understand that Congressional Democrats aren't in majority, but that never stopped Republicans.
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How DARE people ask the Democrats to do the bare fucking minimum. It's so unfair!
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Us
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So presumably they either believe such people wouldn't exist without capitalism, or they intend to just continuously purge The Community until only the Good People are left... or they don't really think about the logistics of anything.
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They always assume The Community would somehow be composed entirely of enlightened hippies, and not the sheeplike reactionary idiots that form the bulk of most actual communities.
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Because they're greedy psychopaths and the Federal Reserve gets in the way of their profits, and they know that now is the time because the incoming president and his pet orangutan also want to get rid of the Federal Reserve.
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something something Fake News Deep State Woke Mind Virus
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But they can't actually *admit* to either of those positions, because the first sounds patently ridiculous, and the second patently authoritarian.
So:
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It short-circuits them, because the truth is they either believe people like that wouldn't exist if capitalism was overthrown, or they would've preferred to have them summarily executed or sent to a gulag instead of putting them in prison.
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that's... just regular motte-and-bailey
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Down.
She falls, into the abyss.
Down.
She falls, as the warm depths embrace her.
Down.
She falls, to unite with the Abzu,
The Azoth,
The Infinite Power.
Down.
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The silence broken, at last the others begin to chant.
She sheds her robe, like a serpent sheds its skin.
And steps closer to the precipice.
Arms outstretched, she steps further still.
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Then, at last, the Yawn answers.
With a deep sigh, clouds of indigo billow forth.
All imbibe of their fragrance.
As the mists enter her lungs,
So does the wordless speech enter mind.
She knows then,
She knows she has been chosen.
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She watches burning bowl fall.
Down.
Down.
Until even the faintest glimmer is subsumed by the deep.
She waits.
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Into the bowl she places the flesh,
Along with a broth of her blood.
Taking up the candle,
She sets the bowl alight,
And casts it into the Yawn.
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Brandishing the knife, she cuts her own flesh.
Removing a layer of milky skin from her arm,
Cut in the crude likeness of a scale.
No sound of pain does she make,
For in this chamber,
Only the Yawn may speak.
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Upon the altar, the Three Instruments;
The candle, the bowl, the knife.
Into the bowl she places her sole belonging;
A charm fashioned from scales,
The scales of her mother,
Bearing her name inscribed.
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One of the others steps forward,
A single hand outstretched,
Scaled and taloned, as hers soon shall be,
Beckoning her to the edge.
She approaches,
To the alter upon the precipice.
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At last the steps end.
Before her, a room.
Along the walls stand the others.
Silent, unmoving,
Faces obscured.
In the center lies the Yawn,
Hungering maw of the chthonic depths,
Portal to the Azoth of Infinity.
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All is silent
Save for the Initiate's steps
And her soft breath.
Then a new sound joins;
A new breath;
Deep and low,
Like the groans of the mountain itself.
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Sometimes you just have to break the status quo and wake the system up in a way that the normies can't ignore and the powerful can't sweep under the rug.
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Democracy, in a vacuum, isn't very good at addressing problems that powerful people have a vested interest in maintaining. Because they spend a lot of money and effort to convince people that those problems either don't exist, or that they're just immutable facts of life with no solution.
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I mean, part of the reason we got labor laws is because people started murdering their bosses.
Slavery wasn't abolished with peaceful democracy. Neither was Jim Crow. Queer rights started with throwing bricks at cops.
Just sayin'
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That's (theoretically) what we have already.
Trouble is, laws aren't good for much when the folks at the top decide the laws don't apply to them and their friends, and the mechanisms for checking them are all captured.
"Some animals are more equal" and all that.
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I'd much prefer peaceful democracy to violence, but when the only votes that count are the donations of billionaires, how are people supposed to have any faith?
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Maybe that's because democracy has been failing ordinary people for decades, and it just installed a fascist regime gearing up to completely dismantle it, while the opposition party is tripping over themselves to brown-nose and sacrifice queer people to the altar of centrism.
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I mean the fact that he literally wrote "deny, delay, defend" on his bullets is kind of a giveway for a tragic backstory.