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Yes, because no president has ever used soldiers to clamp down on riots. Especially not in LA.

using her acceptance speech to highlight the la protests, gaza & trans rights that’s MY swamp princess

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A woman: I have had a bad experience with a man so I dont trust them or want to be around them. They scare me.

Society: That's fair. It's men's job to appear less threatening when around you and to make you feel safe, even when they havent done anything wrong. You never know which are the good ones, so treat them all as suspicious. Any man who has a problem with that is why we chose the bear. You have our support.

Same woman: He was black too. So I feel the same way about black people.

Society: ...No one deserves to be profiled and feared for how they were born. Seek a therapist. Do better.

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I'm sorry, are we just gonna ignore that part about Disney planning an Anne Frank movie? Like, this is shit and shouldn't have happened, but I'd much rather live in a world where this story got bastardized than that one.

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Normal thing to say about a parade, very normal. Also France is an evil Nazi dictatorship because they have a military parade every year on Bastille day and that's where Trump got the idea.

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X to doubt. If this happened Iran would immediately end any restraint they may have left in them and send orders to Hamas and Hezbollah for an all-out suicidal offensive. If this happened they would currently be trying to cause October 7th on a much larger scale.

That would be a hell of a thing to have happen

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A system of governance and economics based around right-wing socialism, a fully collectivized society but one with a focus on "the nation" and "the race" instead of "the people" and "the workers". As a system of governance, it manifests in the form of a one-party totalitarian dictatorship where all political opposition is illegal and strongly persecuted, and a state with draconian, obsessive racial purity laws done in the name of preserving whatever subset of the white "race" the rulers are members of. Religion as a whole is looked down upon, and any racial or religious minorities are targeted first for oppression, then for extermination, with a special focus on Jews and Romani. As a system of economics it embodies the idea of corporatism, but not in the way the world now understands that word. Here, "corporation" refers to the idea of a social body, and in fascist economic theory all social bodies work in harmony with the guidance of the Party and the state for the collective good. In reality this manifests as the state making deals with the largest corporations that allow them to exploit the system and suppress competition in exchange for following state economic diktats, while the state itself also maintains a large presence in many sectors of the economy through state-owned corporations, often formed out of assets confiscated from companies owned by political enemies or Jews. But then, I repeat myself.

So, where is the fascism in Zionism? Where are the calls for a one-party state? Where are the calls for the supremacy of the white race? Where, pray tell, is the central tenet of fascist ideology-that the Jews are our misfortune?

If what you said will sound antisemitic if you switch the word "Zionist" with "jew" what you said was antisemitic to begin with. It's that simple

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"Me and Dembe. We're his family."-Liz Keen

YES YES YES YES YES!!!! Not only is she finally embracing the reality that she does truly love him, but the show's finally telling it like it is in regards to Dembe. They're brothers, no two ways about it. Yeah it might look more like an uncle-nephew thing, but as far as Reddington will ever care they're equals.

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And I'm so, SO fucking glad that, while they may have bastardized Samar's character for most of a season, they kept his intact. Because now that she's no longer randomly a bitch and also struggling with aphasia, she needs support, but also more than that. Samar is, quite understandably for a spy whose brother turned out to have tried to kill her, not a super trusting person, but right now what she needs even more than just support is the ability to trust that that support won't go away. That the person providing it will stick with her no matter what. And there is no person with such an absolute and total lack of duplicity that they could convince even someone like her of that than Aram. The man is incapable of not caring or of not helping someone who needs it, and that's what drew her to him to begin with.

Aram is an archetype rarely done right-he's just a straight-up nice guy.

Not nice in the way that Tom was supposed to be, not the sweet-and-caring type of nice, he's just...nice. He is sweet, I guess. He's unfailingly polite, even when he by all rights shouldn't be. Red's put a gun to his head at least twice now and he still calls him "Mr. Reddington." Liz is on the run for shooting the Attorney General, a crime she absolutely did commit even if he was a member of the Cabal, and he still calls her "Agent Keen." But while he's not exactly assertive, he's no pushover either. He's clearly not a fan of the tension it causes, but he doesn't stay quiet about his continued belief in Liz, an attitude that would get him fired if anyone other than Ressler were running things. He's the kinda guy you'd want to work with, and in a crime thriller such people are rare indeed.

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And here I go again being the reality police on The Blacklist

In the US, you cannot plead guilty to a death penalty case. Ever. If the penalty for any crime you are charged for is set as death, if that's what the prosecution is going for because it's the only sentence the judge can prescribe upon a guilty verdict, you are required to plead not guilty and may not waive any of your appeals regardless of what you actually want, and the court will force a public defender onto you if you'd been representing yourself prior to trying to do that. The rationale behind this is that, if it were any other way, then defendants would have the ability to commit, in essence, suicide by government. And in cases where there is any leeway, a defendant agreeing to plead guilty always means the death penalty is dropped, because if the government didn't do that they'd be wasting years of time and money on a trial and appeals that they had no reason to as the defendant was already willing to skip all that by admitting to it. So Reddington could not possibly plead guilty in a trial where the death penalty could be imposed. That said, we don't have in-universe years to spend waiting for things to play out realistically, so I do understand why the showrunners did this. Plus, even if they've forgotten about it outside of explaining backstory, the Cabal does still exist, so they're an easy way of handwaving this.

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Then perhaps I misphrased it. If you are born with an anxiety disorder or depression, if it is something that comes from the way your brain is inherently and wasn't caused by something external, you cannot cure it ever. You can make it less bad in a number of ways, but you will have it for the rest of your life. That is what I was referring to.

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And that makes it less important rather than more?

“We’re not antisemitic, we’re just antizionist! Antizionism has nothing to do with antisemitism!”

“Ok cool, so you should have no problem with listening to a Jewish person talk about antisemitism then, right?”

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Interesting! Here in America Fiji is a kind of impossible-fantasy-land vacation destination, somewhere that only the truly devoted, truly tacky or truly rich would go to. But I'd imagine it's a whole lot easier to take a trip there when you're not literally half a world away from it.

What was traveling to Vanuatu like? I don't think I've ever come across someone who's been to such a small and remote country before.

It was alright! Because it was a stop on a cruise we went by boat.

The cruise was leaving Sydney Australia so we flew to Australia, took 3 days by boat to get to new Caledonia and then either one day from there to get to Vanuatu.

I wouldn't really call it remote, as it's not like it's pitcairn island distance away from the closest country, plus my school had a yearly trip to new Caledonia for year 11 or year 12 (age 16 or 17) French students since they speak French on parts of the island due to French colonization, and it was a lot cheaper than flying to France from New Zealand. And Vanuatu isn't too far from new Caledonia.

It also isn't too far from Fiji and Tonga. Fiji is like a classic NZ holiday destination if you have money. So many of my coworkers regularly go to Fiji for holiday or to visit family.

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In what universe does a good person say that bigotry of any kind is "kinda low on their priority list"?

“We’re not antisemitic, we’re just antizionist! Antizionism has nothing to do with antisemitism!”

“Ok cool, so you should have no problem with listening to a Jewish person talk about antisemitism then, right?”

“UHHHHH… ERRRRRR…”

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Then it wasn't dysphoria. I'm glad she's no longer suffering from whatever this was, but gender dysphoria cannot "go away" just from avoiding triggers any more than an anxiety disorder or chronic depression can. I'm not the only one saying this, but if she's telling the truth and this did make whatever she had to away, it couldn't have been gender dysphoria.

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Imagine cheerleading for Iran like this. Women, life, freedom, except also Iran are the good guys.

We are witnessing the grotesque reality of the martyred Palestinians and thousands of their massacred children being written off as mere afterthoughts. The way western media outlets steadfastly refuse to call the Israeli aggression and onslaught for what it is, which is genocide and ethnic cleansing, is just another way of dehumanizing Palestinians.