Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative…
God damn it, I wish I could just forget that the Rowlings and the Musks of the world exist. But they can't seem to forget that *I* exist, and so here we are.
There's a world in which Rowling takes her billions, goes into her castle, and spends them on getting rid of the black mold and making it an absolute haven for herself. Instead of what she's actually doing, spending her time and money funding movements to absolutely annihilate people like me from public life.
I'm thankful that she's only been moderately successful in her direct goals, but even so, that still means there's far more dead kids, and she's created a wedge for global fascism.
As far as I can tell, this is all because Epic seems to have made the transphobic antisemetic wizard game free, which then puts it back in front of lots and lots of eyeballs. Which. Please don't.
the dumbest centrist I know promoted this to a discord we share under the guise of "oh now you can play it without giving her money"
and it took every ounce of restraint I have not to go off and point out what he's still fucking carrying water for her (it would fall on thoroughly and willingly deaf ears)
in all seriousness I try to hold a certain amount of grace for folks who are attached to these properties. some people I know, including siblings, including trans people, just had these books as such a formative part of their identity, and it's been ripped away by their hideous author and they are wrestling with it in various ways, some of which I don't particularly approve of, but I get it. Like I *do* appreciate that this guy is at least trying not to give her money
personally I never really liked them that much (I got to "Cho Chang" and bounced off pretty hard, for a variety of personal reasons you may be able to infer if you know me personally) but I have to fight this particular demon with Neil Gaiman's works instead.
Yeah... I hear you on Gaiman. But also I mostly succeeded at dropping him like a brick. I think in general I'm the sort to quickly cut ties, for better or worse, so I sometimes have trouble relating to the instinct to hold on to problematic creators.
@glyph @SnoopJ (Honestly, Whedon is almost harder for me because so many people who are genuinely awesome get caught up in the wake when you cut him out. Buffy was never just Whedon, not by a long shot.)
right like the whole Confederate apologia thing in Firefly, and conflating sex-positivity with feminism, was really off-putting to us. sometimes it's easier for us to move on from authors after we've felt out the relationship between their bullshit ideological beliefs and their work.
@ireneista @glyph @SnoopJ Yeah, the whole relationship Firefly has with sex is problematic, but also there's some complication there (probably again because it's not a single-author work, and some of the other writers managed to blunt the worst of his ideas)? Definitely agree, though, that seeing the complication dispels a bunch of the charm. See also, the worldbuilding that just oozes with orientalism.
@ireneista @SnoopJ that's a problematic work I could talk about all day. I love it despite its flaws. I think a lot of what happened was that they loved the characters too much? Nathan Fillion's performance in particular made the lovable rogue a bit too "lovable" and not enough "rogue". I think the original concept had some elements where you were supposed to think the browncoats were, in fact, *wrong*, but that got smoothed over to the point where it's barely legible in the text
@glyph @ireneista @SnoopJ I mean, yeah, to be sure, I don't think that series would have been considered a classic had it not been for Fillion and a few other actors absolutely *nailing* it. (Though stories about how Whedon demanding that Jewel Staite "fatten up" for the role make even that feel real bad in retrospect.)
@ireneista @SnoopJ like, for example, the (avoiding spoilers) very specific twist detail in the final fight, was very clearly a metaphor for "sometimes you need bad people in your society, whose scars from the bad things they've done can prevent us from doing worse things"
@glyph @SnoopJ @ireneista Any time there's a mass-media story from the perspective of the bad guys, there's inevitably people who fail to recognize that — Fight Club being the one I always come back to, but perhaps even more absurd when considering Breaking Bad.
Firefly was... um... er. I will admit to not having picked up on that as well as I should have first go-round.
(The alternative and much darker read is that these particular fucks do know, and it's a flex, colonizing stories to declare themselves the good guys while they do unspeakably evil shit.)
that dark read sounds incorrect to us because we do hear these assholes getting moralistic when we're unfortunate enough to share spaces with them
like it could be true for someone, somewhere, but we think at the heart these fuckers truly believe that might makes right, and therefore they see themselves as right
(never mind that they also don't have the might they imagine themselves with)
@glyph @SnoopJ @ireneista Then again, there's people who literally root for the fucking Empire in Star Wars, so perhaps my expectations around any kind of media literacy or critical reading skills are at least slightly discordant with reality.
yeah we saw some stormtrooper cosplayers on the street a few months ago and we were like, oh, they must be Nazis to be doing that today
... and it was pointed out to us that this was like always the reason people would do stormtrooper cosplay. it just wasn't part of consensus reality before.
A disturbing photograph on Jeffrey Epstein's desk seemingly shows an incapacitated woman.
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The center at the university’s public health school was also a focus of the Trump administration after having been examined in a Harvard antisemitism report earlier this year.
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President Donald Trump told Americans to buy fewer pencils to alleviate the bad situation millions now find themselves in under his economic policies during a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night.
“You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils. That’s under the China policy, you know every child can get 37 pencils—they only need one or two, you know they don’t need that many,” Trump said, adding, “You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter, two or three is nice, but you don’t need 37 dolls.”
He's got dementia now. The Alzheimer medication injection once a month : the bruised hand. The White House is being run by Stephen Miller, Russell Voight and Peter Thiel.
A ruling striking down emergency levies could force the federal government to return most of the tariff revenue it has collected this year, according to Penn Wharton.
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I think about this a lot. Like did they buy all 12 days of things on day 12 so at the end you've got 12 partidges, 22 turtle doves, 30 French hens, etc? Fucking bonkers. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w2t63…
I was reading about this somewhere. Allegedly, before it was a song, it started as a party game. (Who will be the first person to get one wrong? I hate games like that.)
"Four collie birds", i.e. coal-black birds. Nobody sings it that way anymore.
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in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now • • •There's a world in which Rowling takes her billions, goes into her castle, and spends them on getting rid of the black mold and making it an absolute haven for herself. Instead of what she's actually doing, spending her time and money funding movements to absolutely annihilate people like me from public life.
I'm thankful that she's only been moderately successful in her direct goals, but even so, that still means there's far more dead kids, and she's created a wedge for global fascism.
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in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now • • •the dumbest centrist I know promoted this to a discord we share under the guise of "oh now you can play it without giving her money"
and it took every ounce of restraint I have not to go off and point out what he's still fucking carrying water for her (it would fall on thoroughly and willingly deaf ears)
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in reply to Glyph • • •@glyph @SnoopJ @ireneista Any time there's a mass-media story from the perspective of the bad guys, there's inevitably people who fail to recognize that — Fight Club being the one I always come back to, but perhaps even more absurd when considering Breaking Bad.
Firefly was... um... er. I will admit to not having picked up on that as well as I should have first go-round.
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in reply to Irenes (many) • • •@ireneista @glyph @SnoopJ Anduril, too. What is it with these people?
(The alternative and much darker read is that these particular fucks do know, and it's a flex, colonizing stories to declare themselves the good guys while they do unspeakably evil shit.)
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in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now • • •that dark read sounds incorrect to us because we do hear these assholes getting moralistic when we're unfortunate enough to share spaces with them
like it could be true for someone, somewhere, but we think at the heart these fuckers truly believe that might makes right, and therefore they see themselves as right
(never mind that they also don't have the might they imagine themselves with)
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in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now • • •yeah we saw some stormtrooper cosplayers on the street a few months ago and we were like, oh, they must be Nazis to be doing that today
... and it was pointed out to us that this was like always the reason people would do stormtrooper cosplay. it just wasn't part of consensus reality before.
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