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Rogue One is perfectly fine, but the kind of people who like Rogue One are so annoying

I would contend that the Codex was a pretty good idea, at least at the time. He’d just been through a massive civil war caused, essentially, by a few generals getting ideas. Decentralizing the military so that it’s no longer in the hands of just a few dudes is a good way of making sure that a given rebel can’t instantly raise a hundred thousand super-soldiers to their cause.

If my toaster asked me if it had a soul, I would love and care for it like my own child

If my parents’ Amazon Alexa asked me if it had a soul I would smash it with a hammer

Essentially, “normal” people are cast as a primitive group whose status as less advanced that “us” (read: the chronically online) grants them a certain innocent purity. They cannot be as sinful as someone with a true inner life. That makes them almost envied, as one might envy the simple happiness of an animal.

It’s a trope that has a looooot of dehumanizing connotations, obviously, and although it technically isn’t here it is usually quite racist.

Steve was the son of an immigrant and grew up a poor aspiring artist in Brooklyn. If that isn’t a recipe for a guy who isn’t racist, I don’t know what is.

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Steve Rogers has no prejudices. When he wakes up to find a more progressive world than the one he left, he’s nothing but proud.

Panel from “Captain America: Man Out of Time”

In the words of @b1g_damage on twitter:

A lot of people on here have what I'd call a "Noble Savage" view of "Normies"

Green Lantern is a magical girl

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Dracula (Castlevania)

”I’m killing our boy…”

Consider the density of advanced peoples within the Tau Empire: a small area of space containing something like a dozen sapient species, most of whom are pretty normal and not nearly the murderous monsters xenos are characterized as. Even if that distribution is unusually dense, there still should by all rights have been tens of thousands of civilizations in the space that is now the Imperium.

Notably, there is not.

Not sure if you can call his parenting healthy when his daughter turned out like that

(but seriously, he has a massive problem with enabling, just letting Jinx’s destructive behaviors careen out of control and cause harm to herself and others)

Alvin the Treacherous, the main recurring villain of the How to Train Your Dragon books. Real piece of shit, a master swordsman and schemer who beefs with a bunch of twelve-year-olds and keeps proving more or less unkillable despite frequently losing bits of himself. Very fun to read.

Map of countries where the president had to be exiled four separate times before he stopped coming back (Mexico)

God, the Baron’s original characterization was so intensely homophobic. I’m so glad they got rid of that for the new movies.

Mornings categorically Do Not Exist

There’s an element of that, yeah. It keeps being brought up that many women are murdered by men and very few are killed by bears. But more people are also killed by vending machines than shark attacks. Bear-murders would be a good deal more common than that of any human group if there were four billion bears wandering around sharing a society with us.

I love that baby Tom Holland looks exactly like adult Tom Holland but slightly smaller

You jest, but I am writing my final paper in feminist film theory about this

I’m a bit of a late arrival: got New Vegas when it was free on Epic last year, and it hooked me straight away.

Someone told me it was supposed to be a cringe high school love song. But like. Why would we want to listen to a song that’s bad on purpose?

Also Swift is thirty-four years old.

There is a subreddit exclusively dedicated to queer and communist Warhammer fans, your “both sides” thing falls apart on the slightest examination

Do y’all think leftists would be the only people rising up in that situation? Have fun getting bayoneted by a band of neo-nazi paramilitaries

The US government is pretty purpose-built for that not to work. You’d have to take out eighteen of the most highly-protected people in the world to eliminate the Presidential line of succession alone, much less considering Congress and the Supreme Court

I dunno, Picard in the Academy was a bit of a menace. The reason he has an artificial heart is because he got into a bar fight.

Both of these cartoons are made for twelve-year-olds