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Targaryen haters are lowkey hillarious. Like why are you so pressed about fictional incestuous dragon albinos from evil Atlantis. Has an incestuous albino hurt you in the past or what.

Also the whole genre of "X is a critique of Targaryens" where X is a thing common among noble houses. Like, my man. That's feudalism. The thing that is critiqued here is feudalism.

What I mean by that is that no, Targs specifically aren't representative of any real world evil, no, the author does not hate them, he has written a whole ass book just about them because he thinks they are kinda cool, it's not that deep, and no, I will not pretend incestuous dragon riding albinos aren't in fact kinda cool just because there might be some unfortunate implications around "pure blood" giving you super powers thing (also that's like a common fantasy trope, so yeah).

Like. When you really look at the whole of their history, Targs aren't really uniquely bad or good. Some of them were great, some sucked and some were boring and did nothing of note. Just like in any other royal house, either in Westeros or in history. They just have the whole "coming from evil Atlantis" backstory, dragons and incest for flavor.

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Najskôr to svedčí o hĺbke cynizmu, ktorý vo mne táto vláda prebúdza, ale už sa ani nedokážem naštvať nad tým, keď sa Blaha správa ako Blaha. Ako dobre, Ľuboš, nemusel ani si otvárať papuľku, nikto nič iné od teba nečakal. Blaha stále pláva v tej istej žumpe, ale žiadne nové dno zatiaľ nepreráža.

We gotta put him in the contraption istg. Full-on put him in the thingy. We gotta get him to the machine and not let him out.

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Otázka do pléna: aký je slovenský/český ekvivalent slova tankie? Samozrejme, je to trochu skomplikované faktom, že našinský milovník minulého i súčastných totalitných režimov má podstatne iný svetonázor ako, čojaviem, Noah Chomsky. Čo myslíte, je komouš alebo súdruh (hanlivo) dostatočne blízko čo sa týka tónu alebo konotácií?

Samozrejme, máme tu trochu špecifickejšie výrazy, ako chcimír či putinofil, alebo aj všeobecnejšie dezolát (čo ja osobne nemám rada práve pre tú nešpecifickosť, ale aj preto, že sa sústreďuje na stupiditu a celkom opomína zlobu), a teoreticky by sme si mohli osvojiť nazbol, ale nič z toho na tankies celkom nesedí, ak mi rozumiete.

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Reading history be like

(Don't get me wrong, some degree of narrativizing is necessary even with the most dry, impersonal historical subjects, but like. Sometimes the story you want to tell and the story you have actual data for are unfortunately different things.)

the author's barely disguised hobbies and interests

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Are you under impression that it was a detailed skin care routine that made Patrick Bateman who he was

Also are you under impression that soulless corporate yuppies of the exact kind Patrick Bateman was have died out, somehow

I swear to God, we really aren't evolving as a species, every generation just reinvents moralizing about "vanity" in a different coat of paint and for the past few generations, that coat of paint has been a shallow criticism of the beauty industry.

if you truly wanted to remake american psycho for the modern day you would cast a young 20 something hot woman and make it about social media “amazon must buy” influencers and how it’s a shallow, empty, and extremely copy-paste job where you turn yourself into a salesperson for the smallest amount of commission and lose all originality of yourself. bc those girls that go to bed with literal tape over their mouths and after doing a 10 step skincare routine are closer to being patrick bateman than literally any man alive

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A weird unpopular opinion: I don't like the fact that Alicent's post-timeskip wardrobe is basically monochrome dark green. It just seems to me like a very bad, hamfisted way to do colour-coding. Like, it's pretty bad with post-timeskip Rhaenyra, but at least she has more colours to choose from and combine (grey, black and red) to it doesn't seem as jarring. Alicent wears basically the same shade of green (or at least in that ballpark) all the time with very little variation and after a while it becomes a little absurd. Her dresses are pretty, but eventually start to blend together, so in the end all that effort to give her a couple of different costumes goes to waste. It gives me unfortunate flashbacks to the late stage Game of Thrones, where the female characters like Cersei, Daenerys or Sansa also just wore different dresses with the same exact colour and cut. And when you compare that to pre-flashback times, where the colours and adjacent symbolism were much more varied... It just seems like a drop-off in quality.

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I think "sex work feels degrading to me and that's why I'd never do it" and "sex work isn't inherently degrading and people who choose to do it (or are forced into it by economic circumstance) shouldn't be judged" are two statements that can theoretically coexist. Like having feelings about doing the thing yourself and judging people for doing the thing are two very different things, you know what I mean? Especially when it comes to a topic as sensitive as anything pertaining to sex. Like even if you are a former or current sex worker, you should be allowed to feel any way you want about it.

And I am absolutely not saying this because my specific form of autism makes it absolutely inconceivable for me to both have sex for money and slut-shame people (except for jokes and particular kind of guy, you know who I'm talking about). Well, autism and horniness, but I digress.

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The 2024 version of The Pinacolada Song sounds rad

help

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BESTIES!

i already want Mehmet to die

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When their entire relationship is toxic, but they're both so fucked up that it's actually the best case scenario, because subjecting anybody else to either of them would be a human rights violation.

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-Thomas Becket, 1170 AD

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Seeing Kamala Harris memes from before the election after the election be like:

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Nový album Čechomoru save me. Save me nový album Čechomoru.

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What do you MEAN it's so bad not even John Oliver is coming back for another paycheck???

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the way that a good portion of current American left media and the left in general seem to simultaneously believe that the U.S. is an inherently fallen brutal empire one cannot take part in by voting or running for office and that must be fundamentally wrong on all things and yet is ALSO a hopeful hardworking and friendly proletariat whose average voter could not possibly have systemic racism xenophobia or sexism problems and clearly only voted for trump because Harris didn’t do enough of that oh-so-popular socialism. Well this combo of beliefs does make me want to commit acts and many of them

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"It is worth trying to dissect how certain root causes and social dynamics lead some groups of people to become radicalised" and "We are not obligated to centre or coddle the feelings of extremists" are two statements that can and should co-exist, actually.

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I don't know if it's cringe to admit this, but - this election hurts so much more than 2016 because I was actually excited for Harris' presidency. Like, Biden seemed good enough for an American president (and don't talk to me about Gaza, because as far as American presidents go, the bar is on the ground anyway), and if we were going to get four more years of that, just with a more charismatic figure on top, that would be pretty great. What can I say, I got so swept up by the fervor on our side that I didn't realize that the other side will always not only match, but exceed our fervor. We mobilized like hell and it still wasn't enough to go toe to toe with these lunatics. Almost as if the worse he gets, the more people will just ignore, excuse or cheer it on.

And that realization is soul-crushing.