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“you think you made all the right choices and became the perfect woman who would be safe and loved and okay but NEWSFLASH your husband will reveal his misogyny once you’re used up and ugly and he’ll cheat on you to feel powerful and he’ll abandon you when you’re sick or pregnant and won’t you regret registering republican THEN” is not a sick own to conservative women.
that is what evil men do. they lie. they trap you. they drain the life out of you. and this is what women do, we try to make the very best choices with all the information we can get. and one day you may be forced to come to the realization that there is no perfect formula to living as a woman in a world that is dangerous for women. it is not just conservative women who might have their lives and convictions fall apart around them. do you think liberal men do not LIE? that liberal men do not also convince women that they’ve found the one good guy and the one safe marriage and then reveal their misogyny when you’re stuck? do you think your liberal politics have saved you from male violence — and if you do, why do you think you’re different than the conservative women who say the same about theirs?
#that tiktok is driving me up a fucking wall#i thought the second woman was going to explain how young conservatives are gaslit into believing they are the oppressed and hated minority#within politics i mean#the same way evangelicals send you out to spread the word knowing you’ll be dismissed and derided#and then you’ll return to them feeling even stronger in your convictions that the outside world hates you and hates god#but clearly that is not her point because she is participating in the dismissing and deriding and will only serve to affirm those beliefs#the glee with which she informs that young woman that she’ll one day be abused and abandoned#rose post
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not to gotpost but my god they hated catelyn. like it was quite obvious they were not comfortable adapting a mother character who was emotionally abusive to one of the children in the household, and they either didn't have the time or didn't care enough to talk about the systemic prejudice bastards suffer in westeros and how that intersects with the disenfranchised status of noblewomen and the fundamental inequality of marriage, which obviously doesn't excuse catelyn's behaviour towards jon but gives you context to understand why she is like that. instead they framed it as an exclusively interpersonal conflict wherein catelyn was sort of made to look like the only one in the blasted continent who took issue with bastards and then this was turned into half of her personality which is how we got that incredible monologue about everything bad that has ever happened to the starks is because she 'couldn't love a motherless child'. now the really insidious thing about this is i'm certain the writers thought they were doing her character a favour, making her more likeable by having her expound on her flaws, because to them nothing was more discomfiting than a woman who would go to her grave completely unrepentant about being an inadequate mother, and i think this is also why they made her out to be so passive, constantly wanting to leave robb so she can return home to her youngest, because isn't that what a good, devoted mother would do? having littlefinger trick her into releasing jaime instead of it being a conscious and risky gamble because god forbid she exhibited any agency, even the agency to make mistakes in a tragedy. they turned her into a poor helpless woman who exists largely in the background for some audience sympathy, which is arguably the genre expectation her character is intentionally set up to fly in the face of in the books. because the northern war effort in books 1-3 was never robb's story, it was catelyn's. and they didn't get it. they didn't get it.
#not to gotpost. drafts an entire rant. sorry but as a catelyn enjoyer i was ready to kill myself right in season 1#i think the only time i liked her show portrayal was the final few minutes of the red wedding but that was too late. what's the point then#also the thing about all this is that most people don't bring up ned's decision to separate a child (theon) from their family#and raise them as a hostage whenever they're giving impassionate speeches about catelyn and jon#so ned is allowed to be a sympathetic actor under the oppressive structures of feudalism but not catelyn :)#also the elephant in the room re jon is once again ned but neither catelyn nor jon can even think to blame him. which is another discussion#hope nobody misinterprets this post as 'jon deserved it'. that's a whole new sentence. not my beliefs and i don't respect them#catelyn#asoiaf#*[🫀]
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btw i will forever recommend just. refusing to engage in discourse. its free its easy and you literally arent missing anything LMAO - 99% of discourse on here is just on the most pointless petty shit that literally doesnt mean a single thing to anyone in real life (i am looking directly at you "pRo/AnTi" shippers), and the other 1% is genuinely important shit... that isnt going to be solved in any productive way by insulting '''the other side''' online. arguing with strangers online never changes anyones mind all youre doing is making yourself *and* your cause look annoying as hell :thumbsup: maybe chill out. find a hobby.
#dont even get me started on how apparently this entire fucking site has never heard of nuance in its life#im ngl dude i think if youre boiling down a complicated topic to 'well this is the good side (my side) and then the BAD EVIL SIDE'#and putting anyone who even slightly falls out of line with your beliefs on the evil side#like. thats not gonna be productive in the slightest right. you understand that right#if you wanna have meaningful nuanced discussions with people you actually know about serious topics then go for it!#just dont drag random strangers into it#if i have to see one more post with dumb bullshit acronyms that everyones expected to know that insults anyone who doesnt blindly agree wit#them i stg#'if you dont agree with this then clearly youre a [evil side] who hates [group] and does [bad thing]. theres no other logical explanation#for you possibly not agreeing with me'#and theyre talking about the most obscure insane discourse youve literally never heard of before thatll be flooding your dash for the next#month#had to unfollow a really good artist because they just kep reblogging the most aggressive 'every [evil side] sucks and hates [good side] an#doesnt care about them and wants to oppress them'#(said '[evil side]' wasnt even a moral stance it was literally just something you were born as. like. you get how thats fucked up right)#which uh. sucked! especially since i was part of that [evil side]#anyway midnight rant over tldr uhhh discourse stupid go get hobbies#and if i ever mention what discourse topic inspired this post ill probably get torn apart LMAOO#(hint: its one of the stupid pointless ones)#me.txt
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jennifer lawrence is a middle school drop out raised in the imperial core who always talked about the hunger games being about “one person standing up for what they believe in” which is….not what it was about ever at all. of course she has terrible politics. katniss would probably look at her with pity like a little dumb capitol pet.
#jennifer lawrence#the hunger games#katniss wasn’t just resisting the capitol she was incredibly anti-war#katniss embodied the power of solidarity over oppression#like the exact opposite of ‘one person standing up for their beliefs’#which is neoliberal white feminist nonsense#she should’ve gone to high school and sat in my social justice class#free palestine#ceasefire now
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everytime people rush to defend a male (usually accused of abuse) for the character and humanity they projected on him i just marvel at how many grown ass adults genuinely don't consider the fact that men can lie
like men can lie
#men falsely accuse women of falsely accusing#they falsely accuse men too#men lie about having beliefs#every man that has ever had a good belief probably doesn't fully believe it#very few men genuinely believe in the liberation of the oppressed#very few men have any convictions outside of “dicks first” and “male on top” i promise#men will lie about not partaking in things they are very guilty of because they must keep having access
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I am feeling entirely normal and nothing is going on at ALL in my brain about this triangle and his horrible awful dimension he is from
#fritter draws#bill cipher#book of bill#book of bill spoilers#flatland#flat dreams#gravity falls#did you know that in bill cipher's dimension he WOULD have been revered for being an equilateral#but he would have been taken away from his family and given to another that was truly equal?#did you know that in this process he would have been handled and treated like an object of reverence rather than a person#did you know that in his universe not only were utterances of any sort of deviation beyond the norm considered to be punishable by severe#measures but that even the idea of Colors would be considered a gross obscene doctrine#people often depict bills universe as a mostly innocent world being torn apart by his hands#but if his world is anything like the flatland we know#the oppression and horrors that lie within it would explain quite a lot of his current behaviors and decisions#of course he would grow into being an egotistical maniac with psychopathic tendencies#it really is not surprising considering the government and people he was raised by#nor is it surprising at all that in his attempt to escape it he would be so desperate to leave that he would not care that the world was#ripping apart around him#of course he would want to rid the other universes of their single minded thinking#he had been so suffocated by that belief cycle for so long and seen so many people horrifically martyred that it really would make sense#it doesn't EXCUSE it but it makes sense#anyways. I am having a normal one
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Whats your take on people who believe that the life they live is according to the choices they took before being birthed?
I don't believe in reincarnation, or some sort of pre birth plan, still I do enjoy to see others opinions on this sometimes. Some people have a reasonable idea on this, while others try to justify every bad thing is some sort of test that once passed will make them stronger.
For some this can be empowering and make them go further, while for others it can make them feel weak and give up because why would they pick that life.
Regardless of whether it empowers or discourages any specific individual, the belief that your present life is determined by past life choices ultimately serves to justify systemic inequality and oppression. It's another form of the just-world fallacy.
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you don't have to answer this at all, but i was just wondering from one of your last posts- what's wrong with being a radfem? obviously i know what's wrong with being a TERF, but are all radfems terfs? sorry, again you don't have to answer this at all, i'm just struggling to find an answer online because everywhere i look defines radical feminism differently and i was wondering if you had any thoughts
i dont have very in depth thoughts about it rn but the frank answer to "are all radfems terfs" is that in my experience even radfems who say theyre trans inclusive will still not account for trans women in their feminism, and always still be willingly chummy with outwardly transphobic and tranmisogynist ones, and often hold bioessentialist beliefs they have no urge to analyze or work through
#og post#ask#anon#they also have views on sex work i heavily disagree with so theres that too#<- actually just in general i think a lot of their beliefs are misguided and fail to see the actual reasons behind systemic oppression#this is my nice way of saying they can be dumb as fuck
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"Being victim to christian indoctrination is a personal failing bc there are people that were also exposed to christianity as a child and still didn't take on the views 🙄"
Were they exposed to other points of view? Did the adults in their life not take it very seriously? Was it taught as an option rather than fact? Were other people's faiths (or lack thereof) seen as valid and okay? Were they allowed to have relationships with people outside the church? Were they taught critical thinking skills? Were they allowed to develop their own morality? Were they allowed to research other viewpoints and come to their own conclusions? Were they not metaphorically dangled over the flames of hell every second of their life?
Being "exposed" to it and being forced into it to the point that your physical and emotional safety is at risk if you fall out of line are entirely different things. Did you go to church on Easter every year, or did the only people you were allowed to be around (which you had no say in) manipulate how you think and dictate your reality and morality and beliefs and undermine your ability to think critically so you wouldn't stray?
#people are responsible for their own actions and beliefs#and also#at a certain point you're victim blaming literal children for doing what they needed to stay safe#like maybe let's criticize the oppressive and abusive institution#rather than fully blaming the victims for falling victim to it#especially when a lot of those victims are literal actual children#ex christian#religious trauma#ex cult#child indoctrination
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Waiting for the day when i see an anti-vegan claim that some animals actually want to be farmed and eaten you guys!!!!
#We’re so close#it rly wouldn’t surprise me if someone has already said that#Vegan gunkbaby#I can’t take the anti vegan shit seriously on this site#None of it feels good faith. Ever#Like it all just feels like comfort for carnists. No encouragement to question the belief that has been engrained in you#Like i don’t mind questioning my veganism every now and then. But why do vegans have to be like ‘oh guys I’m not one of those annoying vega#Like carnists never question their beliefs. They never need to reassure the masses#I’m just rambling aimlessly wait#Like im so sick of u guys acting like vegans are oppressing you or something#Like as if the vegan section is bigger than the meat section
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"Years of fighting. Bots and Cons falling left and right. Dying on our behalf. No more. We settle this now, Megatron." "Just the two of us then? To the death? Ahh, brings me back to the pits all those centuries ago. Very well then, today will be the day the great Optimus Prime finally falls by my hand." "Only one of us is walking away from this rock functional, old friend. It will not be you."
~ Audio from Optimus Prime's remains at the sight of his final confrontation with Megatron that ended the Great War. circa 2003.
Audio encoded by Soundwave, Memory bank recovered by Ratchet
#transformers#maccadam#transformers fan design#optimus prime#megatron#tf reconstruction#had to design them bc i have such a clear idea for an illustration i wanna do for my au and needed ref for when i get around to it#i think their history is Interesting and Cool in this universe#like its standard fair kinda except at one point they were both freedom fighters on the same side against cybertron's oppressive government#(after optimus initially served as a propagandized captain america figure against the growing uprising)#but disagreement's in how to handle everything once cybertron was liberated#(and decepticon generals like starscream and shockwave whispering into megatron's audio processors over the years)#lead to escalations and eventually all-out civil war which spread across the sector and the galaxy#i'm thinking the initial disagreement was like. optimus wanted freedom and self determination free from any corrupt governing body#with the belief that reestablishing the council would only lead to further corruption and therefore another uprising#while megatron at first wanted a better government that actually looked after the people it was supposed to provide for#but that got distorted from ''we need what's best for cybertron'' to ''I'M what's best for cybertron'' over time#idk if that's all that revolutionary or unique but it was what felt right to me
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kinda hilarious seeing some transmascs getting themselves tangled into such a ridiculous discursive knot that they end up arguing trans men can never benefit from patriarchy because we aren’t really men, that nobody will ever view us as men no matter what we do, and that we are doomed to be shackled to our wombs and wide hips for the rest of our lives. this is not a novel transfeminist position but rather the logical conclusion of the reactionary doom spiral that begins when you believe misandry is real
#absolutely moronic discourse you people have soup for brains#it is also inherently transmisogynistic because it requires the parallel belief that trans women also aren’t ‘really’ women and can never#be oppressed by misogyny because no one sees them as women. like do you people hear yourselves#anyway this is not a debate if you disagree with me you’re a transmisogynist <3
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someone: women are oppressed and women are allowed to feel anger towards that oppression and their oppressors
losers online: idk sounds terfy i'm scared
#YALL REALIZE IT IS NOT TRANSPHOBIC TO RECOGNIZE SEX BASED OPPRESSION EXISTS#IT IS POSSIBLE TO CARE BOTH ABOUT TRANSPHOBIA AND SEXISM AS THESE TWO ISSUES ARE CONNECTED AND NO ONE BENEFITS FROM ACTING LIKE THEY AREN'T#YALL ARE SO STUPID GOD BLESS#ALSO I HATE TERFS AS DESPITE THEIR ATTEMPTS TO ARGUE OTHERWISE THEIR BELIEFS NOT ONLY HARM TRANS PEOPLE AS A WHOLE BUT WOMEN AS WELL#♡
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thinking abt what you said with house viewing Benny as a son and I’m obsessed. Like. The man spent most of his life before the war presumably alone, and then after the bombs fell he was alone again, save for AI he himself devised. Then he decides to pull in some Tribes, and one kid shows promise! So sure, treat him well, train him, groom him to be his protege, then next thing you know UH OH he’s got developing paternal feelings towards this guy. Wanting some semblance of a family when the time has long since passed, yet fostering that feeling all the same seems so accurate for him. Benny meanwhile only views him as a boss, and not a particularly good one at that. makes me wonder how House must’ve felt when he found out about Bennys plans
I view it as House blames only himself for this, cause he kind of does in canon (strap in this is a long one).
When reflecting on the issue of Benny, House chastises himself first and foremost for not acting quickly enough when it comes to priming Benny. He describes Benny as being ambitious, ruthless and capable; compliments coming from a man like House. House has an ego and while he is logical enough to understand there was never any evidence Benny saw him as a father-figure, he lacks the humility to admit he let his own views on his relationship with Benny blind him to the activities happening behind the scenes.
I doubt that House was as aware as he makes out about what Benny was doing, he knew early on but certainly not early enough to stop Benny from hacking and obtaining a securitron along with getting the chip in the first place. I take it he was distracted by all the possibilities he was calculating of Vegas' success and growth with him steering and Benny as the new figure head, not because of any normal affection for Benny but the admiration of his capabilities. It's to be noted that House believed menial incentives (likely caps, booze, basic needs, etc..) were enough to keep Benny tame like the other Chairmen but, as evidenced by the Omertas and Mortimer in the WGS, this is not enough when it comes to more driven Vegas citizens. This implies he still undervalued Benny and created a space in which Benny felt the need to rebel.
House in my eyes is not sentimental in the traditional sense. I can imagine his pride was severely scorned as someone he certainly deemed dumber than him was, albeit only for a little, able to out-gambit him. It would definitely hit home seeing how his brother also betrayed him but I feel like that's why he's so apathetic when he tells the Courier to do as they see fit with Benny. I doubt the way he terrorized his brother brought him any emotional satisfaction other than a "Now who's in charge!" ego boost. Putting that same emotional intensity towards Benny isn't worth it because who does it benefit? Wasted time, wasted planning, and most importantly wasted potential are all he gets from continuing to be hands-on with Benny. I say the closest example is not being able to throw out old toys due to the memories attached but knowing it's necessary as they are broken or just taking up space for new ones, and then asking someone else to do it so you don't need to get caught up in the feelings of throwing something you put so much effort into. It's not Benny House cares about in my mind, not in a way that sounds healthy to any non-emotionally constipated individual, but what he could've represented for him, which is why he so quickly offers the same position to the Courier.
As for Benny's view on all of this, it was a long time coming. Benny didn't and doesn't believe House is a completely shitty boss. He admires what he's been shown and admits House knows how to run the strip, but disagrees with the directions. Ideologically, House is an anarcho-capitalist while Benny is just an anarchist. House wants to run the strip to profit, though money is not what he's concerned with being rich with anymore. Benny wants a free state that he wishes to become a place for the people, except for the Chairmen who would be on top (I like to remind people that Benny's motives were selfish but not for personal gain/power as was it for the people he actually saw as family). Benny was never looking for a father but a future. He was not interested in being adopted, or having the chairmen adopted, as bigger names still overshadowed in House's legacy.
Truly, it's easiest to summarize as House feeling strongly and thinking positively enough of Benny to start incorporating him into the future of Vegas (a huge honor actually) while Benny was so disillusioned by House's ego and indifference that he thought the only way Vegas could be the future is with House gone.
#tdlr House saw Benny as the perfect face of his Legacy while Benny saw his legacy as a stagnant mosquito infested pond#its more complex as house certainly would of been irate if he hadn't known and the courier came to kick benny's ass#but more someone being mad youre fucking with their things#i likely thing that even in a more traditional father son relationship House is conditional and would force Benny to confrom more to his#standards as I also believe the Chairmen are more tightly monitered due to bennys unique relation to house and being the first tribe#so itd be smothering and oppressive for someone like Benny even though imposing his beliefs and standards would be how House shows affectio#and fatherly praise which would result in Benny probably wanting to act out even more. like the only way a father son dynamic is healthy an#works is if house would relent some control and show he sees benny as an equal which would never happen cause its house but its still tragi#to me cause house has that longing for something more personal to him than Vegas and tries to fill it with progress cause its rather hard#to create those bonds in the state he is in and benny was the closest thing to that and even that he inadvertently ruined#but on benny house kinda ruined him cause the chairmen for all intents and purposes liked and trusted benny as a leader after bingo who#benny really only killed because of the illusions of grandeur house put into a young impressionable mind and how bingo refused to hear him#not to absolve him of his wrongdoings and being a dick but benny didnt just attack bingo he challenged him and won and in the end while#nostalgic none of the chairmen choose to leave and go back to the old way which says something cause they can leave#this is long and honestly should a seperate post on benny cause i have thoughts on him and how more people need to add his all roads traits#to get a cohesive picture of how hed really act#benny gecko#benny fnv#fallout#fallout new vegas#robert edwin house#mr house fnv#mr house#ask#anon#sorry if this is confusing I have very indepth thoughts on all aspects and possibilites on how unhealthy and power inbalancey anything#with house would be but this is so interesting cause its oddly vulnerable for house of all people to disclose this to the courier
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i dont think im done talking abt this, actually. i'm going to try and explain how stupid this whole thing is because there's always SOMEONE going on about how if it wasn't for the circles, and the parallels of the circles to real-life atrocities, "the mage-templar debate" would be a two-sided issue.
actually, it's not.
the "mage-templar debate" is not an issue of ethics even before addressing the conditions of the circle, because you have other options.
the basic premise of the argument is "mages are inherently a danger to themselves and everyone around them. is locking them up to reduce the harm they pose to the general population the correct ethical decision?" but the entire concept is already bullshit even before you address the conditions of the circle, which is where most people claim the civil rights movement comparisons come from.
because. CANONICALLY. you have other options. you have options within the context of the games to reduce the "threat" or "danger" of magic. there's no cases of mass abominations in rivain. there's no cases of mass abominations (as we know understand & abominations anyway) amongst the avvar. there's no cases of mass abominations in tevinter. from the get-go the idea that "mages have to be locked up for their and everyone's safety" is already bullshit, before you even touch the issue of the circles. even before you get to the conditions of the circle, the very existence of mages in rivain and nevarra and the avvar and tevinter already renders the argument null and void.
from it's very inception, the entire premise -- mages are inherently a danger to themselves and everyone around them -- is proven to be a belief, not a fact.
#if you wanna argue rivain and the avvar or whatever are dai-canon additions. tevinter has existed LITERALLY since fucking.#stolen throne. like please shut up lmaooooo#from the get-go it was clear that the belief that mages are inherently dangerous is bullshit#and LATER it got two-sides'd. it was ALWAYS a civil rights issue in the context of the game from the get go#COMPARABLE to the issue of civil rights of elves in the game#dao never fucking shied away from the incisive analysis#da2's narrative structure FORCED a two-sidesing bc of the nature of hawke's role as the protagonist#and dai was just imperialist apologist nonsense#and giving the mages ‟dangerous magical powers‟ to ‟justify‟ their treatment in-game is literally just bioware going ''what if there was a#of oppressed people (oppressed based on a set of erroneous beliefs) but the bigots were RIGHT''#AND YOU'RE JUST GOING ALONG WITH IT???#it's not the hot take you think it is lmaoooo#dragon age#my da meta#anti chantry
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habeas corpus – detective comics #1086
(ID in alt!)
#loved this back up feature so much and seeing that bruce timm shit made me annoyed enough to actually transcribe it#first the way hes depicted as having to stand trial and ARGUE and fight for the rights of using the coin#rather than it just being a compulsion and something he must do before a decision....#like every time. every time when he's 'leaving it up to chance'—thats a time when harvey won. thats a time when harvey fought for the right#to use the coin and make it at least a 50/50 chance instead of 'crawling away until the hard part is done' like two face pushed for#every single time. regardless of the results regardless of knowing theres only a halfway chance of it actually achieving anything#or lessening the damage two face can/will do. every time hes fighting for and still believing in a fair trial and that everyone deserves on#it isnt him being weak. it isnt him avoiding responsibility. its him fighting and forcing and pushing for it as hes internally at war#with himself 24/7. even when two face wins he doesnt give up & continues to fight for what he believes in despite the injustice done to him#the way he tells Judge Janus that it isnt about HIM (himself!) while defending the right of existence to the jury of other societal rejects#the way he gestures to himself only at the very end. he asks the judge does that sound like anyone he knows and janus replies in two faces#voice but harvey keeps going. he keeps fighting for others. but at the end in actually acknowledging two face being part of him#(and by extension harvey being part of two face) and how harvey is fighting just as much to have a place as two face is#(but more within his own mind & upholding his belief system still despite knowing how it continues to fail them) and just FUCK#and two faces snaps! how theres no jurisprudence system above there either ! just no one will admit it!#how harvey knows!!! look what happened to him when he was doing the right thing!#look how many criminals and mob bosses paid their way out! look how the police are corrupt!#but still believing in it and how a system has to be in place despite being a direct victim of it as well and just GOD#I LOVE YOU GOOD HEARTED AND WANTING TO HELP PEOPLE HARVEY DENT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS TO ME !!!!!!!!#taking away how he genuinely wanted to help people and bring wrongs to rights takes away literally everything hes built on#it takes away the entire fucking tragedy of his character (and in many ways it changes how bruce himself operates and believes because#harvey WAS a good man doing everything by the books. he was trying to bring justice in the 'right way' and believed in the system. he was#what people tell bruce he should be and look where it got him. look how the system failed 'even the good ones' because the system itself is#corrupt. it isnt flawed—it was operated to oppress and thats why it cant just be fixed but must be entirely rebuilt and why bruce must#operate outside of it. it also gives more depth because harvey is one of batmans first and biggest failures. he didnt protect him.#he didnt save his parents as a helpless child (as bruce) but he couldn't save his parents as BATMAN.#it wasnt just random chance like his parents tragedy but this was calculated and something bruce didnt stop. its ALWAYS going to eat at#him if he could of prevented it by telling harvey his identity. by doing something different. by being more prepared or somehow#knowing it was going to happen. harvey is the face of tragedy in so many ways that cant fit in these messy rambly tags but its ALLL!!!!!!!#bc harv was (and still is despite it all! despite two face!) a good man!! because he originally was a glimmer of hope to bruce & the city!!
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