Plenty of instances where the government ran roughshod over people’s rights, including, you know, slavery; sometimes even Supreme Court decisions were just completely ignored. COINTELPRO targetted civil rights activitst, even killing a few. Leftists were explicitly denied government positions during the cold war. Etc. etc. etc.

“I can’t believe you convinced me that we shouldn’t be letting corporations pollute the planet! I’m never falling for that again!”

MCU:Defenders of the Status Quo

I agree but I also disagree. I think it depends on the story. Lots of stories work on a simple level of “these values are good” and “these values are bad”, and that’s cool from Jungian perspective, but I also don’t want to live in a world where nobody makes life better for anyone else because it’s just pre-ordained that who is going to be a rapist and who is going to be feeding homeless people.

Like do I want to read the Lord of the Rings as imperialist propaganda against orcs and Southrons and wildlings, who actually have valid political objections to the axis of Human-Elf-Dwarf hegemony? Hell yeah I do because I’m a leftist freak, but I recognize that I am fundamentally misreading the moral context the story is presented in–it’s about archetypes, about human values, about that nature of evil, not as an independent entity in itself, but how it can manifests in each one of us.

It just depends on the story.

Probably the WORST thing a story can do is mix and match “people are only evil because of we misunderstand them” and "people are purely evil.¨ I don´t see it often, but I think How to Train Your Dragon does it.

You’ll find some friends on the writing staff of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Big Jack Horner is very obviously written as a glorious return to characters who are simply bad.

Thank you! Henching is an undeservedly maligned profession.

Or watch American Football.

Character who hates being X suddenly realizes being X is helpful actually when something very contrived and unlikely happens.

Is it better when the hero decides at the last minute to spare the life of the villain so they “don’t become like them” or is it worse?

The video I’m watching now says it’s playing at 1080p. Whether it is, I can’t tell.

I wish I had this problem. I’m broke enough that I’d get the lowest price and someone to make sure I find everything I need.

How about an android emulator running NewPipe?

while defeat could undermine their prospects of gaining a majority in the chamber for years to come.

Because we’ll be living in an authoritarian regime? Just say what you mean.

I think it was this episode where Marina Sirtis first noticed the the intelligence of her character’s dialogue was inversely proportional to the visibility of her breasts.

Edit: https://thegeektwins.com/2014/06/7-bizarre-facts-about-deanna-trois.html

“There are certain rules in Hollywood. One of the rules is not written anywhere, but you just know: if you’re doing an action-adventure show, you gotta have chicks on the show for the boys to look at when they’re not blowing up other spaceships. Second rule: if the chick has a cleavage, she cannot have a brain.

“So, [after wearing a uniform in the first episode] I got a cleavage, and all my gray matter departed. Which was sad, because originally (I know this is gonna shock you), Troi was supposed to be the brains of the Enterprise. So when the cleavage came, all that left, and I became decorative, like a potted palm on the bridge.”

I greatly enjoyed Dysfunctional Family Circus, and there’s always Gorefield, aka Garfield written by Lovecraft. Garfield was always a little boring, though–I think I was in second-grade at the time.

Have you delved back into the old classics? There’s a lot there. Sometimes it just takes a little while to learn what the comic is about–is enough to do when you’re exposed to it every day in the paper, but harder if you’re going in blind. I don’t really think of comics as greatly in need of innovation, though phone accessibility is a factor, I can´t think of anything that is better for being on a phone.

I used to read French comic books on Hoopla, my library’s online service. Their reader could advance panel-by-panel through the comic book page. Pretty neato. Don´t know if it was entered manually, automatically, or a mix of the two.

Variety is nice, but I consumed most of my comics via books, starting with Garfield.

Seeker is the P2P music platform you’re looking for.

Deezer was moving that direction when I left it to go back to controlliig my own media.

AI is such a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with capitalism I’m starting to think it was created by a god as humanity’s last chance to get it.

Your philosophical sophistication surpasses your reading comprehension.

I love this inverted three panel pyramid, looks great on my cell phone. I guess in an ideal world we’d have panels arranged dynamically.

Don’t think I’ve ever run into Morrigan, but I immediately thought of this moment from Myth 2: Soulblighter, where the dude explodes into a flock of ravens. Ravens are all over this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lElkbmuj-OA%3Ft%3D73s