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tuttlesinger

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No you see Palestinians aren’t acceptable collateral damage except when they are to prove a point to the Libs and Black people are acceptable collateral damage because it proves a point to the Libs and trans people are acceptable collateral damage if it hurts the Libs and yes even if it hurts me because there is nothing more important than punishing the Libs for being slightly less to the Left than me. Oh they support that thing I support? Well they’re CO-OPTING IT oh they have a reasonable policy solution that incorporated progressive ideals? WATERING IT DOWN. Kamala was consistently one of the most progressive congresswomen by record during her time as a senator? Well she’s a neolib cuck girlboss!!!!! If you ever point out that these are my actual expressed opinions me and my friends will accuse you of strawmaning.

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there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

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you are a small farmer, just trying to survive in this world. one day you wake up and your roosters are out of their cage. the names of a world famous scholar and a war criminal that’s been dead for 16 years are carved into your post. you don’t know what to do with this.

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i think about this post a lot

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No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

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It’s wild that people think the story of Adam having a secret first wife named Lilith expelled from the garden for being too edgy is in any way a feminist interpretation of the Bible.

Because it excludes actual traditional Jewish readings of B’reishit that are way more feminist.

(Eg- Adam was first created in the image of Hashem- that is, simultaneously both man and woman- but was split in two because he (gender neutral) was lonely after looking at all the other pairs of animals. Woman being the most perfect of all creations with a greater understanding of the universe because she was created last (by the most practiced creator).)

You’ve created a way more misogynistic version of breishit for literally no reason.

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the problem with addiction is not that it's pleasurable. it's not "having too much fun" disease. it's not even a requirement for addiction that you have fun at any point in the process at all and to be honest it is incredibly common that no pleasure is gained from substance use. imagining that addiction is about pleasure does two things: 1) demonises feeling good (there is nothing wrong with wanting to be happy/comfortable/etc), and 2) frames addicts as people who Like Having Fun Too Much. it's simply not useful to frame things this way as well as just fundamentally not being true

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Normies already think Decolonization means Kill Whitey and that Land Back means you lose your house because of what your ancestors did (instead of it meaning that you might be under Tribal jurisdiction, but you'll still keep your house).

The far-left has spent the past two years telling normies that their most paranoid white guilt assumptions were correct. And none of them will ever take responsibility for it.

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"Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience

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modern Great Gatsby AU set in Cleveland where instead of the Eyes of TJ Eckleburg, all action takes place under the disapproving eyebrow of Tim Misny

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The main character of the last TV show you watched is now your therapist. How’s it working for you?

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Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

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I kinda feel like the biggest difference between book!Gurathin and show!Gurathin in how he relates to Murderbot is show Gurathin's complete and utter lack of chill. 😂

Book Gurathin is absolutely MADE of chill about Murderbot. He plainly doesn't care that it vocally doesn't like him. He finds the whole situation funny, he enjoys hanging around it and poking at it or showing up to watch it commit minor property crimes or whatever, and he might worry about it if it's getting itself into trouble, but I don't think he's that invested. Murderbot is having a whole entire one-sided haterdom and meanwhile he just finds it amusing and lets whatever it says roll off him. The most thought he's ever invested in Murderbot was in the first book when he was trying to figure out if it was going to kill them or not, and once he settled that to his satisfaction, he basically just settled back and let it think whatever it wants about him and do whatever it wants about that. He's one of its people kind of in general, he cares about it, he would definitely help it if it's in trouble, but I think he's mostly just busy living his life and Murderbot only tangentially interacts with that.

(Also, I feel that the idea in some fanfic that Murderbot simply never updated its tags on him and has him tagged "disliked" and has absolutely no plans to ever spend a single iota of introspection on whether or not that situation has changed is completely plausible.)

Show Gurathin, however, has exactly ZERO chill about Murderbot. He also needs to know if it's going to murder them; however, he will also poke it gratuitously, bicker with it, project onto it, and then towards the end of the season clearly decides that it is One Of His People and at that point will download the entire thing into his brain and project on it in a whole new way and cry when it leaves. NO CHILL. NONE. I don't know what kind of relationship they're going to have when/if it gets back, but I really can't see him suddenly developing the ability to be fine with it mostly ignoring him - as book!Gura is - when he's never previously had that ability in the entire time he's been interacting with it.

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walkable cities are such a terrible idea when you think about them for literally any longer than a single second. more steps = more cracks = more mothers’ backs broken. simple fucking math. if you wanted your mom’s back blown out so bad you could’ve just called me

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i've said it before and i'll say it again: calling someone an "israel supporter" or "palestine supporter" or anything of the like has always seemed weird to me. i don't support the entirety of the country of israel nor do i support the entirety of the palestinian territories; i support safety, security, and peace for all innocent people and oppose all unnecessary death caused by both governments and militaries.

framing this as team israel vs team palestine just proves that you guys view this like a sports rivalry instead of a real conflict that affects the lives of real people.

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So, the disposable assassins that came up briefly in the Murderbot books. The ones that were described as effectively subsentient, augmented, drugged, minds hollowed out and remote operated by a handler.

And TV Murderbot's Gurathin backstory, an augmented corporate spy kept on the leash of designer drugs, closer and closer to the suicide that's the only escape he sees until Mensah offers him another way out.

Is the first the failure state of the second? What was waiting for him at the end of the line, when he was too far gone to do his job but the equipment in his head too valuable for his employers to throw away? Did he feel himself slipping, look at them, and think, that's you, the moment you stop being useful?