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Who is the biggest hater in history?

Me when I'm in a mood

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when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

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The Princess Bride is such a funny book to read after ONLY seeing the movie. Like Goldman made up a fake author from a fake country and proceeded to write the book as an abridged version of what the fake author wrote... and then he proceeds to add in notes to the "abridged version" mentioning all the boring world building stuff he skipped because it was boring.

Like shout out to William Goldman, man really did make an entire book that is just "the cool scenes you thought of in your head" and then made up a fake author to abridge so he doesn't have to connect them.

And it slaps

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Whats the deal with Sorkin? I never watched West Wing, but it sounds like some kind of liberal political fantasy. What makes it so screwy?

People far smarter than me have deconstructed what is so poisonous about The West Wing.

It presents a fantasy where centrist liberals are able to fix everything about the American government, simply by giving compassion speeches where they destroy their enemies with facts and logic. At which point, the enemies graciously give up and set aside their fangs. They realize they have been defeated in the marketplace of ideas. They were factually incorrect, the foundations of their ideology have been shaken. Has it all been for naught? Yes. Yes it has.

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I keep seeing trumper and republican comments talking about “liberal indoctrination.”

Where is this supposed to be happening? Is there some super-popular liberal propaganda network like Fox? Are middle-aged people heading back to high school and college for indoctrination?

I want to check these places out! Where are they??

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i don’t think this is going to be a popular take but sharing factual updates related to climate change that are upsetting or scary is not “climate doomerism”

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In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

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this is the single greatest meme i have seen from any of my facebook groups and frankly y’all need to step up your game

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Imagine degrading yourself like this 😖 get off the table stupid

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"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.

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self care checkpoint

this is a friendly reminder that you can meow like a kitten or woof like a dog, or make any sounds that you want to make. and you can make these sounds whenever you want

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as good a time as any to remember the greatest disco elysium quote

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contrast this with marco, who is clearly the most reluctant to get involved in the war (because of his dad). however by the end, jake is the one who suffers the most personal loss (tom, rachel, his parents getting kidnapped, not getting together with cassie) while marco ends up with the most personal gain (rescuing his mom). i just feel really bad that jake is really the only one who gets into the war for personal reasons and in the end is the one who loses the most.

Yes I totally agree, but one important aspect of what Applegate does with the characters is that Jake has the most to lose.  One of the few really good moments of characterization in the TV show is when Marco says to Jake, during the debate about whether to start fighting, “This is for real—you don’t even know what reality is. Nothing bad’s ever happened to you. You have this perfect family, like I used to have… Go on, say it, you can say it: my mom’s dead. And that’s reality.”  (Of course, they find out later that same day that that “perfect family” already includes one controller and two parents who didn’t even notice their own kid getting replaced, but that irony is yet to come.)

I think that moment nicely sums up where Jake is at as of the night they all wander through the construction site.  Literally the biggest problem he has in his life at that moment in time is he got cut from the basketball team and he doesn’t want to admit to Tom that it happened.  That’s all.  By contrast, Rachel has been filling in as the second parent to her sisters since her parents’ divorce, Marco has been acting as the only parent in his family since Eva’s death when he was eleven years old, and Tobias is being emotionally if not physically abused by his caretakers.  Cassie might have a pretty good family situation as well, but she also knows what it’s like to euthanize a helpless animal she’s spent weeks or months trying to save, which has forced her to grow up fast in different ways.  Ax’s sheltered upbringing comes to a horrific end just about the time the series begins, but by the time the other Animorphs reach him he has lost just about everyone he cares about and is cut off from his remaining family. 

Jake loses everything over the course of the war, yes.  He loses his parents, his home, his sense of safety, his mental health, his confidence and his certainty.  He loses the ability to trust his own family, years before he literally loses his brother.  He loses the sense that he is a good person, and he loses the ability to have a single truly safe place to run to at the end of the day.  He loses his trust in himself.  

The thing is… Tobias never had any of that in the first place.  Ax and Marco have already lost their casual confidence in their families’ infallibility by the time they become involved in the war.  Cassie and Rachel have already shouldered far more responsibility than most girls their age.  

I guess what I’m saying is that Jake is, in a word, privileged.  (And no, not only because he’s the only straight white cis able-bodied male on the team.)  He has the enormous blessing to be born with a father and mother and brother who are all loving, healthy, protective, and financially secure.  Through nothing more than the luck of the universe he has a tremendous advantage over his friends when growing up, one that imbues him with confidence and canniness when facing down the problems of the war.  He loses everything, yes, but he has everything to lose.  No one else on the team can say that’s the case when the war begins.