#I love getting grades on homework in semantics

[thepandalion]

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[yellowocaballero]

I know you wrote it a few years ago and probably aren't super into bmc anymore (I'm not either but quarantine is great for getting back into everything I used to be obsessed with), but I just finished reading Attention, Please! and I would love to hear director's cut on that if you have anything! (Though I totally get if you don't remember from two years ago bc I don't think I would either)

Oh christ AP!......throwback thursday. I’m not happy with AP and I haven’t looked at it in ages because I’m not pleased with it. It’s also CRAZY long so let me see if I can pick out something meaningful to say. 

“You do know I’m fucking autistic, right?” Christine snapped, and Michael stopped short.

Actually, he hadn’t. Didn’t he? It seemed right.

But she didn’t wait for him to answer, just shaking her head. “Who cares. The entire stupid grade knew. You know something about autistic people, Michael? I have an amazing memory. It takes me no time flat to memorize my scripts, I can recite when the run times of Hamilton on Broadway for the last three weeks, and I’m pretty fucking great at card games. But nobody cares about how my brain is awesome and unique. All anybody wants to hear about is how it makes me a weird loser.”

He didn’t know what to say, and couldn’t offer anything more than vague platitudes.

“Christine, you know nobody thinks that way about you.”

She snorted. “Yeah, Michael. Nobody thinks that way about Christine. Everybody thought it about me. So sure, I suck at remembering how I felt last week. I can’t read how people feel that well. My semantic memory - what I had for breakfast, all of the Squid’s lines - rocks, but my episodic memory means that I can’t actually remember how I felt about what I had for breakfast. I remember everything, Michael.” Her eyes glinted, and Michael knew that she had been holding this in for a while. A weird thing to do for an expressive, open, loud and happy girl, but he was beginning to suspect that there was something truly weird about Christine. “I remember that we started high school on August 25th. I remember that the girls who sat in front of me in English are named Valerie, Kate, and Zina. Our English teacher’s name is Ms. Porter. You run track. You won the high jump two weeks before we woke up here, because I heard about it on the announcements and I heard you bragging about it when I was trying to do my Chinese homework. I remember everything.”

David is a jerk. I enjoy writing jerks, and I enjoy writing them growing to be better people. But the thing about POV is that your POV character will always be the star of their own story. I wanted to make it clear that in AP, Diana was the actual hero all along. 

I really enjoyed how Christine was neurodivergent in BMC, and what an atypical love interest this made her. It was Christine’s neurodivergence that made her somebody that Jeremy admired so much: that she had passions, that she cared about something, that she was just herself and didn’t care about what anybody thought of her. 

I wanted Diana to be someone who admired Christine for these reasons too: somebody who really was just like Christine, but who didn’t have the positive reception. Somebody who was more introverted, who was bullied and picked on, and who the POV writes off as being nerdy, geeky, socially awkward, and uncomfortable. She projected hard, and she saw theater as an escape where she could imagine herself to be Diana: But Better. When she got sucked into the play, she saw it as her chance, to really become Christine Canigula. That, of course, wasn’t the point, just like it wasn’t the point for David to literally become Michael. Over the course of the story Diana learns that it is only her - not Michael, not David, not Christine - who can save them. 

I wanted AP! to reflect BMC and show that Diana’s neurodivergence was her superpower. This is the only time I’m explicit about it, but it’s pretty obvious all throughout the story that, although David’s story arc was about self-improvement, Diane’s is about self-acceptance. She wasn’t always able to think about her neurodivergence as a positive instead of something bad, but she’s had her own journey over the course of the series too, even if we can’t see it as readers. 

[biopsychs]

I either post 4 days or in a row or every 2 weeks so here's my 2 week update!!

- I got a good mark on my stats midterm! I was really happy that I was a fair bit above the class average because everyone in the class is so smart. The midterm was 6 essay questions and my prof scanned the best answers - when I went to his office hours I realized a few of my answers were ones he kept. I’m honestly so happy about this!!

- Finally did my neuroscience presentation on Tourette syndrome (it's 35% of my grade). It went well and, even though I'm not a huge fan of group presentations, I found it interesting to learn material and through journal articles rather than just a textbook, and then teach it to others. I also managed to say cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit perfectly (but I still can’t say glutamatergic).

- I realized last week that I am super burnt out, which was made even clearer when I only had enough energy to do all of my tasks last minute (I submitted a big assignment one minute before it was due, even though I had so much time to work on it). I did no homework and relaxed all weekend (I saw Captain Marvel with my friends and I loved it!) I'm trying to get back on track this week without burning myself out even more.

- I've started all of my papers due for the end of the semester. I have a summary to write on semantic memory and neuroimaging for my memory class, a summary about vaccines and autism for my neuroscience class, and a term paper on conceptualization of depression across cultures for my anthropology class.

- I'm super stressed about research stuff right now. I'm trying to set up my honours and things are not going as planned. I can't stop thinking about all of these what if scenarios. I'm on the right track, I just really want something concrete set up because I don't like all of this uncertainty.

- Marked my portion of nearly 300 midterms tonight. It took me forever but I try to get it all done in the same day so I can be as consistent and fair as possible.

[psicygni]

Spock & Nyota trying to stay warm.

Nyota regrets each and every choice that led her here.  Agreeing to go to the gym with Gaila well past the hour that’d be sensible to be out, agreeing to go in the middle of a rainstorm, and agreeing to then wait for the Academy shuttle to take them back to their dorm instead of the bus like sensible people.

And then, because apparently a perfect GPA doesn’t exactly make her a genius, agreeing to get back to their room by herself when Gaila spotted a far better option for how to spend the rest of her night - and handing over her coat when Gaila was cold.

Now, Nyota is freezing.  And the bus stop is too far away to bother walking to now, and she’s about to go back to an empty dorm room and finish the absolutely longest paper she’s ever had to or ever will have to write.

Which, come to think of it, is probably Gaila’s fault as well, for convincing her to take a class with Commander-How-Much-Homework-Can-I-Force-Cadets-To-Do-Spock.

And, to top it all off, Nyota’s not exactly alone at the shuttle stop and the fact that the man waiting with her is gorgeous is only making tonight worse and reminding her of all the ways in which her class with Commander Spock is ruining any and all attempts at a social life she might have actually have liked to have this semester since she thought it was a good idea - somehow - to take Theoretical Semantics.

Or, well, he’s gorgeous from the back at least.  And he’s smart enough to have brought a jacket with a hood, so that’s some extra points for him, especially combined with how his pants fit him.

It starts raining harder.  Because the Academy just has to be in San Francisco with the planet’s most wonderful weather and because Nyota just has to be out tonight and because apparently this evening wasn’t quite miserable enough.

She shuts her eyes.  When she opens them, she’s going to be in her room.  With her paper finished.  And the man next to her will have slipped her his comm number with a handsome smile that is every equivalent to the way his shoulders fill out his jacket.

Except that when she does open them, it’s still raining and it’s Commander Spock standing there.  Looking at her.

Nyota blinks.

Because he’s not… there’s no way that…

She clears her throat.  “Sir.”

He nods.  “Cadet.”

And then he turns around again, back to his study of the street that had facilitated her study of him and -

She looks away.  Squints out at the rain and categorically refuses to even so much as glance back at him again.

Or his pants.  Because… No.  Just no.  

Fifty required sources, seventy five percent of their grade, the topics only assigned last week - he is by far the most frustrating professor Nyota’s had, which considering the faculty at the Academy is really saying something.

And he’s not even - the way his jacket now - he’s so lanky.  Gangly - gawky, even - in his uniform.  And awkward so much of the time, standing up at the front of the room by the lectern.  Also boring as anything, which Nyota has found amazing all semester because he’s somehow made even xenopolysemic morphemes dull and tedious, and she loves them.

Or loved them until Commander Spock put them up on his lecture slides and now she spends his classes wondering how the clock can move so slowly.

He turns towards her again and she can once again clearly see that angle of his chin and upswept brows that the edge of his hood hid.  

His lips purse and then smooth again and he says, “Being prepared for the weather would be logical, Cadet.”

Obviously.  She presses her own mouth together before she says, “I’m aware, Commander.  I lent my jacket to my friend.”

Since she had thought that the shuttle would be along on its normal schedule and that it wouldn’t rain this hard and that the t-shirt she had worn to the gym would be fine enough for her short wait - and that of everyone, Commander Spock wouldn’t be here, interrupting an already lovely evening.

He’s still just watching her.  And really, it’d be more than fine if he stopped.

Which he only does to bend down to the bag at his feet.  Quickly, he unzips it, pulls something out, and holds it out to her.

A sweatshirt.  One of the Academy ones with a Starfleet crest on the back and another over the left chest, one of the very ones that Nyota has the same of, hanging warm and dry in her closet in her room, that she would have been smart to bring with her.  Or make Gaila bring, so that Nyota could have her own coat and wouldn’t be standing here trying to decide if she isn’t just too proud - and if this isn’t just too weird - to reach out and take it from him.

She is so, so cold.

“Thanks,” she finally says.

It’s warm.  And it smells good.  Which is… not something she particularly cares to think about all too closely, but whatever soap he uses is really rather nice.

Or shaving cream, maybe.  Aftershave.

Something, certainly.

She tucks her hands up inside the too long sleeves and tries not to think about it.  The sweatshirt, the smell of his whatever it is, the fact they’re here alone, the fact he’s here at all - none of it.

It works only until the shuttle arrives.

It’s packed.  Which goes a long way to explaining how it could be so late, though does nothing to ease the headache tonight is causing.

And it doesn’t stop.  They get a wave that is likely supposed to be apologetic from the driver and the shuttle splashes past them.

Well.  This could probably be worse.  Somehow.

Another shuttle will come by in twenty five minutes.  And the bus - a fifteen minute walk away - runs far more often.  Or there’s just heading home from here, a longer walk in the rain than Nyota particularly wants to suffer through, but that paper’s waiting for her and Commander Spock, silent and still as he watches the taillights of the shuttle fade down the street, is only reminding her that she has entirely too much of it left to write.

She turns to him.  “Have a nice-

“I am intending to-”

She stops and he stops and it’s the worst sort of staring match between them.

She clears her throat and gives him a sort of half wave that is only the more awkward for her hand still being tucked in her - his - sleeve.

“Sorry.  Sir.  Go ahead.”

“I had thought to get an air cab,” he says.

She nods.  “Ok.”

“If you are also returning to campus?”

Oh.  Well, she is.  She stares up at him, debating.

“You are welcome to join me,” he says into the silence and she nods too quickly.

“No, I-”  Know that.  Clearly.  From what he had said already, which maybe isn’t all that clear to him.  There’s something stony about his expression.

Which leaves her with the choice to walk home or wait here and see him in class tomorrow with that much less time to finish his paper, or endure a too-long ride with him next to her in the cab and still see him in class tomorrow.  Which really, given the lackluster lecture she’ll have to sit through either way, sounds a lot like a lose-lose.

Though one option has her thawing out her toes that much sooner, so she nods.

“Thanks,” she says and clears her throat and pulls the sleeves down further over her hands.

His sweatshirt still smells nice.

When the cab comes, he holds the door open for her and then settles next to her, his bag by his feet and his hands folded in his lap.  He even tugs his hood down, raindrops scattering over his shoulders and at least he looks far more like the officer she’s used to like this, his profile stern and austere as streetlights pass by outside the window.

Then, he turns to her.  “How are you enjoying your semester?”

“Oh.”  She nods.  “Fine, thank you.”  

It takes her a moment - it’s so odd with him here, his long legs folded up, only the space of the cab between them, none of the distraction of rain pouring down, the other students in the lecture hall, the cram of the turbolift the few times she’s run into him on it, other cadets and officers packed in around them.  No, this is entirely too quiet for her to think clearly so only after a long pause she gets out, “And yourself?”

“Acceptable.”  He brushes at spots of rain on his pant leg.  “Do you know what classes you intend to take next semester?”

“Intro to Celestial Navigation,” she says.  “Probably that first contact practicum?  The one that Lieutenant Calder is teaching.  And Advanced Morphology, and probably Xenoetymology, if I can get into it.”

“It is a popular course.”

“It is,” she says.  So is the practicum and she’ll be lucky if she can get on the roster for that too.  Celestial Nav is required and there’s more than enough sections, and only her and a handful of other students would ever be interested in the upper level morphology courses, so she’s not exactly worried that there won’t be room for her.  No, it’s boring as all hell to most cadets and anyone with any sense steers well clear of it.  

Logical, probably.  Or something.

“What are you teaching?” she asks.  “Do you know already?”

“Interspecies ethics and I run a number of training simulators for command track cadets.”

“Not Theory of Semantics again?”

“No,” he says and glances over at her.  There’s a moment - far too long of one - where his eyes meet hers.  Then, his eyebrow lifts and he says, “Advanced Morphology instead.”

“Right.”  She nods.  “Well, then.”

The cab slows.  Through the rain, she can make out the outline of her dorm, hazy and distorted in the sheet of water falling past the window.

“Have a pleasant evening,” he says and wherever he’s off to, he doesn’t unbuckle his safety belt nor make any move towards the door handle on his side of the cab.

Which means he’s dropping her off.  Which is… well, it’s rather nice.  And leaves her only a short distance to dash through the rain instead of a walk through campus from wherever it is that he’s heading on his own.

“Thanks.”  She clears her throat again.  “See you tomorrow.”

On the other side of a too long paper.

He nods.  “And next semester.”

“Yeah,” she says and reaches for the latch on the door.  “And next semester.”

She’s upstairs before she realizes she still has his sweatshirt.  And now it’s spotted from the rain where drops fell over her shoulders and arms.

Carefully, she pulls it off and drapes it over the back of her desk chair to dry.  She’ll give it back to him in the morning.  Along with a padd holding her paper.  Which will draw the attention of every other cadet in the room, so maybe… well, she knows where his office is.  And if she’s going to have to suffer through another one of his courses next semester, she’ll likely be in there more than a few times, since she well enough knows now that his standards are high enough that she ought to start making use of his office hours if she doesn’t want his courses to tank her GPA.

So she’ll bring it by then.  And ask after the final, maybe, so that she can get started on it sooner rather than later.

And say thank you, too.  For tonight.  Since really, he didn’t have to see her back home.

She drums her stylus against her mouth idly.  Then she blinks, shakes her head, and pulls her thoughts away from him.  She has her paper to finish and the sooner she gets it behind her, the sooner she can move on from the entirely too large impact Commander Spock is having in her life these days and start to forget about him, his teaching, and the drudgery that is time spent in his classroom.

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[sage-nebula]

I couldn’t stop thinking about the “retcon” vs “AU” argument for M20, and I have to get homework done, so I went ahead and typed up a huge thing to get it out of my system.

The difference between “AU” and “retcon” for M20 is a matter of semantics for a host of reasons, all of which boil down to the anime’s actual target audience, which is grade-school age children. Even when it comes to this movie, which is an anniversary movie meant to celebrate twenty years of the anime, they are still not actually thinking about the fans who have possibly stuck with the anime over the past twenty years. They’re not thinking of fans who would like to see favorite characters again. They’re thinking about grade-school age children, and as a result, so should we. We should think about how this movie is going to come across to them, and that tells us whether defining it as an “AU” or “retcon” really matters outside of our own hurt feelings.

And the truth is: It doesn’t. For several reasons.

Marketing --- This movie is being marketed as “the story of how Ash and Pikachu met” along with an adventure about Ho-Oh, a promise made, et cetera. While the phrase “a new world” was tossed around in the teaser trailer, that actually doesn’t mean much. “A new world” doesn’t automatically mean “parallel universe,” particularly when you consider that new regions are often marketed as new worlds, Lysandre wanted to create a new world through mass genocide, and so on and so forth. “A new world” could mean anything, and it means very little when you consider the fact that this is still being marketed as an origin story for Ash and Pikachu . . . to children who have no reason to question whether or not this is the “real” origin story for the Ash and Pikachu they see having Alolan adventures every Thursday. They’re being told, “This is the story of how Ash and Pikachu first met,” and they’re going to believe that because they have no reason to think that the Pokémon Company might be lying to them. And is the Pokémon Company lying to them? Eh, semantics. No, if you think that calling it an alternate universe means it’s true for that alternate universe, even if it’s not true for canon. No, if you think this is a retcon of canon as we know it. Yes, if you think it’s misleading even if it is an alternate universe. It’s arguable, but in the minds of children it isn’t going to matter, because even if they have some passing familiarity with the OS (and it does air in Japan sometimes---the first episode even aired recently as part of that special), enough of the movie is similar to the first episode (and episodes two and four at the least) that they aren’t going to care to make the distinction. They’re being told that this is the origin story. They have no reason to believe otherwise, even if we do.

Similarity to the Existing Origin --- As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, pretty much everything about this origin story is the exact same as it is in the OS . . . with the exception of Gary, Misty, and Brock (from episode five onward) being absent, replaced instead by new characters. And that begs the question---why? Clearly the anime team had enough attachment to the way Ash and Pikachu first met (right down to the, “Do you not like me? Well, I like you a lot!” dialogue) to keep that. They weren’t willing to make this enough of an alternate universe to change their first meeting, unlike, say, The Electric Tale of Pikachu, which had them meet when Pikachu was chewing on electrical wires and Ash had to get him away from them. So with that being said, how much of an alternate universe do they really want to make this, hm? How dedicated are they to making this an AU? Because at the moment, it seems as if they aren’t dedicated at all. At the moment, it seems more like this is only an AU in the same way someone’s bad fanfiction of, “Everything is the same except I cut out these characters I don’t like and replaced them with my OCs” is an AU. And for a fanfiction, that’s fine. When it comes to doing that in an official work, however, that’s when it leans into retcon territory. And even if we, as older fans, argue, “Well, they can’t just do that, clearly it’s an AU!” it’s, again, not really going to matter in the minds of younger fans (i.e. the target audience) who will take it as fact, and that line is extremely finite when it comes to official works anyway. It’s a matter of semantics between the difference between “AU” and “retcon,” which might matter in, say, comic books with clearly established multiverses that like to bring old characters back, but won’t matter in terms of PokéAni because---

Lack of Continuity = No Room for Correction --- Just like it won’t matter to kids because they’re having this marketed as an origin story, and just like it won’t matter to kids because it’s so similar to the OS anyway, it’s not going to matter to kids because this is never going to be referenced (and therefore corrected) in the series proper. Gary, Misty, and Brock will not be referenced, nor will they have cameos, in the Sun & Moon series. Likewise, Makoto and Souji likely will not be referenced or have cameos, either (though watch them get cameos before Iris does, just watch). That being the case, there will be no confirmation or denial in the series proper about which origin story the Sun & Moon anime follows. Does it follow the origin story we saw in the OS? Maybe. Does it follow the origin story seen in M20? Maybe. Kids would have no reason to believe it doesn’t follow the M20 origin story, whereas we, as older fans, obviously want it to follow the OS. Since the anime proper won’t confirm or deny, either possibility is accurate, which means that, again, the differentiation between “AU” and “retcon” for M20 is a moot point. Kids aren’t going to care. We care, because we have attachment to these characters we’ve loved for the past twenty years, but children aren’t. The generations that come later won’t care, either. So in the end, once more, “AU” or “retcon” only matters to us, the older fans. And therefore, it doesn’t matter at all to the Pokémon Company, who can treat it as either with impunity. (And as a quick note: No, Ash’s line about having thirty tauros doesn’t mean that the Sun & Moon anime follows the OS and not M20. The most recent trailer showed Metapod evolving into Butterfree, and possibly showed Ash catching Charmander (possibly, because that hand wasn’t wearing a glove). This means that Ash could have easily gone to the Safari Zone and captured thirty tauros . . . just with Makoto and Souji instead of Misty and Brock. Again, the only things the anime team seems to want to change are Ash’s companions. Everything else seems to have unfolded the same way. Ergo, which origin story the Sun & Moon anime follows is still ambiguous.)

The only way this won’t be an issue of semantics to coddle hurt feelings is if one of two scenarios happens:

Over the course of the movie, M20!Ash somehow crosses universal boundaries and meets OS!Ash. Misty and Brock are then shown with OS!Ash, while M20!Ash is with Makoto and Souji. This would firmly establish it as an alternate universe in the minds of the audience in a very clear and concrete way.

Or

Someone from either M20 or the OS (ha) cameos in the Sun & Moon anime. Let’s be honest, we have a far better chance of seeing Cross in the Sun & Moon anime than we do anyone from the OS, despite the fact that Gary is related to Samson Oak. Either way, having a cameo from M20 or the OS would tell us straight up which origin story is canon, if they really do want to move it out of semantics once and for all.

That said? I doubt they’ll do that. In the end it’s going to be a matter of semantics and, yes, we probably will have people trying to turn this into a “which one is the real canon” war, especially if it suits their purposes (i.e. people who ship Ash with someone other than Misty and felt ~*~threatened~*~ by Pokéshipping will latch onto this as a way of writing Misty out of his history, whereas those who like the OS will refuse to accept M20, and so on and so forth). We’re just going to have to deal with it unless one of the above scenarios pans out. Either way, arguing over whether it’s a retcon or an AU is meaningless, because at the end of the day it’s as good as a retcon even if it’s “technically” not. It’s certainly not enough of an AU to qualify as a satisfying one / justify having the original companions + rival not there. Hell, Electric Tale of Pikachu was more of an AU than this movie, and it still incorporated all the characters in some way (even if Misty was aged up by two years). Tfw a hentai artist treats the canon better than the Pokémon Company, and creates a more satisfying AU to boot. T. F. W.

[krschu00]

RE: Sander’s sexism

Let me start by saying I like Hillary and voted for her in the general election. I am not some cultist that believes Sanders is a god, he has flaws but I ultimately believe he was the stronger candidate. You and I are both nerds, gamers, democrats, and are obsessed with cats. I hope you will read all of my words earnestly knowing that we have more in common than we do not. You have 3 claims against Senator Sanders. Your claims for him being a sexist are two essays (yes, plural), minimizing the issue of pro-choice, and calling Clinton unqualified. Those essays are a result of the DNC’s and Clinton’s campaign’s oppo-research. Does that make a difference, not really but for context it fits in my argument. They had to dig back FORTY FIVE years to find something against Senator Sanders. Normally politicians use voting records, like Sanders did with the Iraq vote, but that was not an option for Clinton. I do not blame Clinton, I would have done the same thing if I didn’t have much ammunition to start with.

That essay is very disturbing to read. Sanders was trying to attack gender roles and how they contradict a loving relationship. Read today it is the most antiquated writing I’ve ever seen. He is trying to liberate people from harmful gender norms, but is also implying that men might fantasize about rape which is a horrible thing to say. Nobody really believes that Sanders is a pervert or intends to do harm to women. He has said that he was a stupid young kid when he wrote that. Let’s look at more damning evidence that is more recent and politically relevant. Prison Elimination Act to have zero-tolerance standard in prisons, co-sponsored a measure to ensure rapists are properly investigated and convicted, co-sponsored Violence Against Women Act, called on the VA to provide proper care for vets that experienced sexual assault while in service, supported Gillibrand’s failed attempt to change the reporting of rape to outside the chain of command. Does the essay disgust me? Yes, of course it does. But I also have to be a realist. It was 45 years ago, he was, as he admitted, an “idiot kid” with a dark attempt at attacking gender roles. The 2nd article, the naked children article you sent me is from Washington Standard. I want to preface that I have never once in my life seen a news source be this extreme on a meter before. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-washington-standard/ . For context, they are more Right Wing extreme than Breitbart. Search their rating for yourself. The headline is sensationalist because their reporting has been graded as false. Go to the actual article that Sanders wrote https://sandersguideblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/the-revolution-is-life-versus-death/ . I see nothing in that article that is evil. Sanders is, as always, fighting against lobbyists, anti-war, healthy non-repressed sexuality, and calls for grassroots to fight the 1%.

I actually agree with Senator Sander’s point about abortion issues. The truth is, a lot of the south contains single issue voters. I’m in Kentucky and everyone I know is all for quasi-capitalism democratic socialism but they refuse to vote for pro-choice politicians. Sanders isn’t saying change your policy, he’s saying emphasize your message more towards economics and not social issues because it turns away too many single issue voters that are struggling. This is not a crime to strategize this way and is no way controversial. Clinton was pro-life and has called abortion morally wrong in the past. I think that is more troublesome.

This qualified nonsense started when Clinton accused Sanders of “not doing his homework” on how to solve issues. Sanders stated that Clinton said he was unqualified. That is mostly false because Clinton never literally said those words, but she did give the journalists the ammunition to justify the headline that Senator Sanders is unqualified to be president. It’s a lot of semantics. Sanders fired back by saying that she is unqualified due to her super PAC, millions $ in special interests, millions $ from big banks, supporting the war in Iraq, and supporting TPP. I personally don’t want another George Bush in office again. He was a terrible president that gave us a military industrial complex issue that is still with us. Senator Sanders was smart to not want to invade a country that didn’t attack us. I’d rather have someone in office that isn’t for illegal wars according to the UN. I personally believe all big money corruption and militarism does make you unqualified to be president. This isn’t me being a sexist, it’s my opinion of any individual that is like that whether they are man or woman. This fair criticism of Clinton has been construed as sexism to the point of strawman.

 I think a lot of this is unfair. As recent as 2012, progressives like Clinton and Obama both opposed gay marriage, while Sanders was for marriage equality 100% in the 70s. Clinton has a troubled history of racism, but Sanders was getting arrested for protesting segregation in the early 60s. Clinton was pro-life and has called abortion morally wrong in the past. But I didn’t see Sanders going for these cheap low blows of really old dirt. He fought her on issues that are really important to the country, like campaign finance reform and bans on lobbying. I don’t think Clinton is some big bad evil villain like the republicans do. I think her heart was in the right place, and she dealt with the political cards that were given to her like most politicians would have. I wanted her to win, but people didn’t like her playing with those cards. More than we could have ever thought.

Also, please tell your BFF Caitlin that I called her princess because she was factually being a bratty narcissist by saying I wasn’t important because I don’t have many followers. I should have just called her a bratty narcissist instead of princess so I wouldn’t get accused of sexism. That’s my mistake.

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