Sounds like appropriate grounds for a political debate about a political allegory to me.

Crazy that an allegory for contemporary political killings would have any substantive basis for judging someone’s reaction to contemporary political killings.

So what about Renee Good and Alex Pretti?

What about Tank Man or Joe Hill?

How is dismissing these people as foolish for standing up against the odds despite their personal safety being put on the line for what they believe anything but a gift for authoritarians?

Basically Hegelian dialectics. The identity of those in power is dictated by their contrast with those without power, but this means that the actual power over that identity lies in those they cast as lesser than themselves. It’s why Fox News is always freaking out and stirring shit about something like Bad Bunny doing a half-time show in Spanish but they don’t blink at Trump posting racist memes and openly calling the country a garbage fire.

Their privilege is challenged by any empowering action from those who pay the cost of that inequality, but literal disgusting behavior by those who share that privilege doesn’t threaten anything they care about. Which, paradoxically, shows exactly what needs doing to upend their dominance. Disregarding and subverting their status quo is the most powerful thing you can do to overturn the whole mess.

So a self-possesed and unashamed trans person who is willing to stand up and act as though they’re worthy of respect is terrifying. The backlash means we’re getting somewhere, and it shows the cracks in their armor. That’s why pride matters, and why pride is a target.

I think sometimes it’s more comfortable being around queer folks because they’re at least substantially less likely to say some wild shit and get offended if you so much as blink. With cishet people it takes a while to know that they’re not secretly harboring some anti-queer bigotry to spring on you when you’re not expecting it. I’ve definitely met cishets who “tolerate” trans people but actually look down on us and will flip the moment we do anything at all to defend our rights or suggest that we should have rights in the first place. Usually it’s “apolitical” people who are actually just lazily conservative, but you never really know until it happens.

With queer people that’s unusual enough for it to be notable.

There’s a pretty distinct difference between saying fascists must love someone and calling them specifically a fascist. They absolutely are legitimately exhibiting the kind of attitude that enables fascism.

Apply this logic to literally any push back against fascism.

I’m not trolling. I find the position that it’s never worth fighting for anything unless it produces immediate successful results cowardly. It enables authoritarian overreach and discourages the kind of push-back that’s required to improve any situation.

You literally called the character a blockhead for opposing the execution of an entire family.

If only people who buy tickets can leave the initial reviews, that kind of makes sense. Their system selects for people who are interested in the premise of the movie.

So your complaint is that he speaks up for what’s right rather than acting like a cowardly bootlicker? The fascists must love you.

This thread is doing a great job of explaining why tribalism around forms of transportation is not constructive.

What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!

Oh no!

Anyway.

I think it’s because there was a time when technology actually required things like reading manuals or typing something specific. Like, VCRs and universal remotes and DOS weren’t super intuitive so they just decided it was someone else’s thing and turned their brains off for anything requiring electricity. Four decades later they’ve still left them off.

Why are you posting her rough drafts lately?

As a trans woman who has tested my rights in state level courts, I couldn’t disagree more. The difference between the rights I have in my own state and the rights I have in many others are absolutely massive.

Yeah, I can sympathize with that. Personally, I’d love to see Massachusetts and a few other states leave the union and do our own thing. We pay for everything in the states that focus all their political power on repression and exploitation and all we get for it is bullshit.

But I also have seen this cycle a few times now. Bush hurt our reputation, Obama did a lot to repair it, then Trump did worse and Biden made things a bit better. Now Trump is beating his own shit track record and when he’s gone people will have maybe learned enough to elect someone who can make some real changes for the better. That doesn’t mean the country will be in the position it was before him, but it should at least improve things. It seems like it’s been swinging back and forth since long before I was born and unless the federal government collapses it’ll probably keep going for a lot longer.

I’m glad I at least live in a decent state with health care, some degree of social safety net, and protections for queer folks. Personally, even now I feel safer as a trans woman in my own state than I would in the UK.

Things are fucked, but things are usually fucked and there’s at least some amount of resistance being mounted. Minneapolis is showing how much the people there are willing to stand up for each other, which is at least heartening. Even looking at places like Texas, all the shit that’s going on is flipping districts to the point that the gerrymandering they’ve done might not actually be enough to keep Republicans in power.

Trump at least, thankfully, does not have the support of the people, and even his own little cult probably won’t outlast him personally. This administration is going to make it hard for the Republicans to elect anyone, and if we’re smart enough about it on the left we might be able to replace some if the old guard in the Democratic party too.

We do at least seem to be less gullible as a whole than the populations that actually had popular support for fascism 80 years ago.

I hope when Trump is out and this is all over that we finally figure out as a country that it’s actually a good thing to have people come here.

Why has it been wasted? We could have raised maybe 300 silver pieces or more. People who are hungry, people who are starving, they matter more.

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Conan is fantastic for modding and for private servers. You can do sooo much with it. Dune is… inflexible. Not a bad game, but Conan wouldn’t be as successful as it is if it just had to go off of the base game either.