Thank You, Man With A Conscience

I mean, it's quite obvious she did zero actual research into sadism or masochism. Look at how she portrays BDSM and V's interest in it...

Random thought that just popped into my head while contemplating my apparent magnetism for sadists.

"Why did she name him Zsadist though? He is quite obviously a masochist. Oh yeah, cause Masochizt prolly wouldn't be seen quite as masculine/dominant, huh? Maybe should have done some research on such matters upon choosing such a name for one of my favorite characters." - Immediately has to stop self from writing letters for re-writes of a complete series over one character.

My favorite is Rhage if anyone cares btw or maybe Lassiter

The kiss was way sus 👀 Please tell us all about how it wasn't sexual and you totally just had to kiss the sexy vampire who was making you mad, Phury. I totally believe you

The kiss was way to hot 🔥

Apparently, not only is RDJ getting $100 million for two movies, which is excessive enough, but he's also getting a private jet, a whole trailer encampment, and box office cuts on top of that - just absolutely disgusting greed on his part and Disney/Marvel having way too much money to blow while exploiting people working on the films and in factories in the Global South making merch for pennies a day.

Its so excessive, I can't imagine defending this. It looks like Marvel is so desperate to turn things around, and they mistakenly believe that bringing RDJ back will fix the issues with their lackluster scripts, bad multiverse premise, bad cgi, and overexposure.

😭 ugh.

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

I don't know how people came to think that "the banality of evil" means "evil people are people too".

That's also true but it's not what the banality of evil means.

The term was coined by Hannah Arendt in her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the "final solution" in the Holocaust.

It describes the way in which the Nazis at large and Eichmann in particular have turned the horrendous act of mass murder into just another job, disconnecting themselves morally and emotionally from their actions.

Before the death camps and gas chambers, Nazi soldiers simply shot Jews into mass graves by the hundreds of thousands. It was a lot cheaper and faster, but it caused great psychological distress for the murderers who pulled the trigger.

The leadership's solution was a massively upscaled version of the "gas vans" they used to mass murder hundreds of thousands of Germans with disabilities and mental health issues.

Shooting bound civilians in point blank range over and over is something you can't just pretend you're not doing or is no big deal. But if you're just the guy who sorts people into groups. Or just the guy that funnels them into a room. Or just the guy who opens a cannister on the roof. It's much easier to distance yourself from what you know is happening.

The same principle applies to much lesser evils, like soldiers operating drones from a distance, or insurance workers denying coverage for life-saving treatment.