#the side of the people comitting actual genocide

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Do you ever just read something that is SUCH obvious propaganda that you need to lay your face against a flat surface for like five minutes?

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[ID 1: A two panel "Pills that make you green" comic, showing crude digital stick figures for people. A regular black stick figure stands on the Left, and a green one on the right. Panel one shows a regular black stick figure standing on the side with arms crossed, saying, in a screenshot of text, with paragraph breaks added for accessability: "The obvious straw men here weaken your argument because it makes it seem like you need to misconstrue what you and your critics are saying in order to fake-win the argument. If 'green' here is a metaphor for 'male who is taking estrogen and altering his fat distribution,' I don't think anyone is trying to say this is nonexistent or impossible to achieve. "A male can absolutely become a male who takes hormones to alter his appearance, and we all know that. "It would be more accurate to have something saying, 'that person is green" and the green person responds 'I'm transitioning from yellow to blue, but I was never actually yellow because I identify as blue, colors don't exist anyway and if you talk about them you're a bigot, but I'm fully blue now and you have to refer to me as blue, and while you're at it you need to refer to grass as blue, too, to avoid making me question whether you truly see me as blue, and if you call me 'green' you're abusing me and comitting genocide against transblue people, btw I'm bluer than any other blue person because I have to fight to be seen as blue". Panel 2 zooms in on the green person's face as they say, "holy shit they don't even realize they're strawmanning while complaining about strawmanning". End ID.]

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Can I please request the remarried empress with the female douma again but with a twist .

🌈The high priest dies in a carage accident (totally not her fault because she wanted to ruin rattrash and sovieshit their lives )and her becoming the high priest.

💐People worshiping her too the point of saying that she is the only god they pray for and her going full in cult mode again and people not caring.

🌈But for navier going full on for her wedding praising her saying that she deserves the title of the western empress and that she should not feel guilty for taking her title.

💐Her saying to heinley she would comit genocide and war crimes for navier so if he does hurt navier he whoud feel her wrath and then smiling and saying congrats for marrying navier.

🌈How would everyone react to her being the new priest and seeing the amount folowers she has that whoud comit crimes for her from lady to queen to high priest (rattrash is fighting air rn.)

Before we start, this is an AU. I don’t know if the High Priest can get married, so this does not involve Kosair. You were still married to King Wharton III, but he died before this point and you had not remarried yet.

Sovieshu

Upon hearing that the High Priest had died and you were taking his place, any chance of you becoming his concubine was out the window almost immediately. A High Priest or Priestess always remained unmarried so that they could spend all of their time worshiping and honoring the gods and goddesses.

That, in turn, started a long night of drinking his sorrows away. Not only had he lost his wife, but he also lost you. All that he had left was a woman who knew nothing about becoming a proper woman of the court, let alone becoming an Empress.

You were actually the one to officiate the wedding between the two of them, actually. All you had to do was officiate and then you were dipping so that you could go back to running the cult dedicated to you. And let me tell you, you left right after the whole ‘you may kiss the bride’ thing.

Rashta

When she heard that you became the High Priestess, she was absolutely angry at this. You just wanted to cause her more and more trouble. In addition to that, you were the highest power in the continent of Wol, which really put her in a tricky situation. She was definitely not on your good side, so technically speaking she was on the side that opposed the gods and goddesses.

However, she let out a sigh of relief when you said that you would be glad to officiate the wedding between her and Sovieshu. After all, the Emperor has been like a brother to you since childhood (worst way to friendzone someone, but bro needs it anyway). 

During the wedding, you were shocked at the absolutely horrible dress that she had chosen to wear, but in your mind it was their wedding, and they could decide what they wanted to wear. You had a bit of a tough time holding it together as you officiated the ceremony, and you had to excuse yourself before you burst into laughter.

Navier

You were helping her prepare for her wedding when you received the news that the High Priest had been killed in a carriage accident. Navier held you in her arms as you processed the information, and she sent a servant to call Heinrey into the room so that she could ask to postpone the wedding to give you time to take over as the High Priestess.

Once the ceremony was over with, you set about officiating her and Heinrey’s wedding. You have even been there to declare Heinrey and Navier the first Emperor and Empress of the Western Empire, and it had the seal of approval from the High Priests (AKA you). 

She was able to see your growing following, and she was honestly one of them. You were like a blessing to her, and you also were deemed a child of the gods when the High Priest was still alive and when you were a child. It only made sense, really.

Heinrey

A servant had let him know that the High Priest had passed and you were next in line for the position. This position was not inherited through family members, but rather who has more of a connection with the gods. Obviously you were the best candidate for the job.

Even though your entire life just changed, you made time in your schedule to be the one to officiate his wedding to Navier. After all, it was your duty as the former Queen of the Western Kingdom. Plus, you knew that Heinrey was wanting to turn the W.K. into the Western Empire.

You decided that there were enough resources within the Kingdom to be considered an Empire, and thus he got your sign of approval. You even crowned the first Emperor and Empress of the Western Empire. You, unfortunately, couldn’t stick around for too long after that.

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genuine question abt your don’t vote blue post, I’m asking in good faith:

the USA is a 2 party system. most people will vote republican or democrat bc that’s just how it works there. so if Biden doesn’t win then Trump definitely will and he is a Real, Actual Fascist. the Textbook Definition of one. and he’s got the entire republican party to back him up. like, just as examples, look up project 2025 and its policies. if Trump & the republicans win, what happens then?

again, I’m purely asking this out of confusion, I’m still forming my opinion on this and trying to understand your side, please do feel free to ignore this ask if you want /genuine

Assumedly in reference to this post. (Archived link)

Let's start here:

then Trump definitely will and he is a Real, Actual Fascist. the Textbook Definition of one.

Joe Biden is literally committing genocide right now as you read this response. Think about why you have decided Trump is a "Real Fascist" but the man literally, at this moment, comitting genocide, isn't.

Genocide Joe is literally comitting genocide as we speak. Do you think comitting genocide is only a fascist action when it's happening to privileged white Americans?

If so, how about...the Covid19 crisis? Which Joe Biden has actively allowed to worsen? Lots of Americans, both privileged, white, and not, have died as a direct result of Biden's refusal to protect the public from Covid19 by brushing it all under the rug as soon as he could to pretend it was all Trump's fault.

Genuinely sit and ask yourself why you consider Trump a fascist, but not Biden, even though Biden has been openly and happily comitting genocide against Palestinians for over a year now. Ask yourself why you only think Trump qualifies as a fascist.

if Trump & the republicans win, what happens then?

What's happening right now to everyone who's not a privileged white American?

Biden is committing genocide. He has poured billions into arming Israel. He has purposefully allowed eugenics practices to become normalized and has done nothing to slow or prevent the spread of Covid19, instead choosing the exact same tactic Trump did -- deny, deny, deny. Just like he denies the genocide that Israel is comitting against Palestinians.

Nothing good will be accomplished by voting for Genocide Joe Biden. The only thing that will be accomplished by voting for him is telling every single politician, both current and future, that you are okay with genocide.

You will be telling them all loud and clear that they can do anything they want, kill as many people as they want, commit as many war crimes as they want and be as blatantly fascist as they want, as long as they have a scapegoat on the other team to claim is "worse".

Palestinians are begging people not to reward the man comitting genocide against them. Indigenous people everywhere are begging people not to reward the man comitting genocide against Palestinians. Queer people, disabled people, poor people, every minority you can imagine in both the US and outside of it, is begging you not to reward Genocide Joe for comitting genocide.

Instead of asking what would happen if Trump won, ask yourself what would happen if Biden won.

What do you think will happen if the American public loudly declares for all the world to hear that genocide is perfectly normal and acceptable?

Do you think this'll convince politicians not to commit genocide? Do you think this'll convince politicians to be less fascist? Do you think this'll convince politicians to treat minorities like people with fundamental rights?

Telling politicians that you're going to support them unquestionignly even when they literally commit genocide for all the world to see is not going to do anything to protect you or anyone you care about. The only thing it will accomplish is encouraging politicians to keep playing this game of "well at least I'm not the other guy!" even harder.

You will protect no one by voting for Genocide Joe. Not even the privileged white Americans. The only thing supporting genocide accomplishes is ensuring that the world becomes a worse place for everyone.

Do not vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party and then be surprised when they turn on you.

Just because the Democrats and Republicans scream from the rooftops that it's impossible for any other party to win does not mean you need to believe them. Insisting that it's impossible for a third party to win is exactly what prevents third parties from winning. You'll never move forward if you refuse to even try taking a single step.

Trump is going to keep running for President until he dies. And when he dies, there will be another boogeyman in a red hat to take his place. This game of "vote blue no matter who, because the other guy is worse" will go on until this empire falls unless people refuse to keep playing.

You can vote third party. You can protest vote. You do not have to vote for the fascist in the red hat or in the blue hat just because they tell you they're your only options.

You have to choose whether or not you're going to support genocide. Any vote for Joe Biden is explicitly a vote for genocide, and it will go down in history as such. Everyone's actions now will be remembered. You will either be one of the people who voted to continue genocide, or you will be one of the people who did the right thing.

If you consider yourself antifascist, if you consider yourself a good person, if you consider yourself anti-colonialist and anti-racist, then you cannot vote for Genocide Joe. Voting to explicitly endorse genocide, which is what voting for Genocide Joe is, is completely and utterly incompatible with being antifascist.

Trump does not have some mystical quality innate to his soul that makes him "A Real Fascist" while Joe Biden somehow doesn't.

Joe Biden is committing literal genocide right now. He is fascist. And so is everyone who votes for him.

Do the right thing, and do not vote for genocide. Do literally anything else. Do not let this system keep you trapped in a loop of "but the other guy is worse, we promise" forever. Because it will never end.

You have to break the system, because it's fucked beyond repair. It was designed that way from the start.

Anything you're afraid of Trump doing, Biden is already doing and has been since day 1. Ask anyone who's not a privileged white person.

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"maybe people like star wars' Galactic Empire more than the rebel alliance now because they've grown to perhaps desire order over uncertainty' we're talking about people fanboying over the faction literally based visually and politically on the actual literal Nazis and they consistently either go something about cool vibes or more unsettling stuff like 'well ACTUALLY comitting genocide as a show of force is a good thing because it keeps order' and at that point their political alignment, as well as the inability for a group to be too evil for them to align with, is pretty clear

also if you're willing to side with a blatantly, even STUPIDLY evil faction just because they have fashionable uniforms or cool guns, kind of does not imply great things about how easily your loyalty can be bought???

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Why do you support genocide

Not confident to say that without anon, are we now? Okay. Let's start off with how it's literally not a genocide no matter which way you look at it. Why not to explain it to your itsy bitsy brain I compare the current situation in Gaza to an actual genocide, i.e. the holocaust.

FUN FACT:

The term "genocide" was coined by a polish Jew after World War 2 to give a name to the crimes comitted by the Nazis against their targetted populations.

The dictionary definition of genocide is, and I quote, "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." There's two main parts of this definition.

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group.

And...

2. Having the aim of destroying that particular nation or ethnic group.

In the holocaust six million Jews were killed. That includes the 2.7 million of us killed in killing centers (places specifically designed with the intent to commit mass murder), another 2 million in mass shootings organized by the Nazis, add in another million from concentration camps, and a couple hundred thousand in other acts of violence committed against the Jews during that time. Now this is very simplified and I can link to you my source right here, but all of this to say is that the holocaust took out 40% of the world's population of Jews. To this day, we haven't been able to get our population number back to where it was before WWII.

Let's now talk about Palestine, shall we? Now what I believe you are referring to is the "75 years of genocide". That's something that's been going on, but it can't be further from the truth. Israel as a nation has actually only been around for 76 years. Our independence day was this past month so obviously we counted up. That doesn't change the fact that Palestinians were not systematically murdered in those 76 years, and war casualties are not considered genocide. If they were, all the allies in WWII were also committing genocide when they bombed cities. In fact, almost every war would be a genocide then. In 1960 the Palestinian population was at 1.1 million. In 2023, there were 5.3 million. This is not a genocide.

This is taking a while so I'll wrap this up. Palestians have not be deliberately murdered in large numbers with the intention of destroying the entire population.

Now, you're probably not reading this, anon. I mean, it's a large wall of text and you get your information from 60 second TikToks, but I just wanted to say to you, personally, I really hope this is a geniune question from you to better understand the war. I would like to imagine that you have yet to hear the opinion of someone who stands for Israel and that this question came from genuine confusion from someone who's only heard from the other side. More realistically, you asked this not to learn or hear my thoughts, but to attack me. Please, can it not be the latter? I wish the best for you.

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derinthescarletpescatarian said:

Some people on this website will look at a relatively well off worker and think, “he makes a lot more money than me so he’s The Bad Guy”. It’s such a fundamental misunderstanding of the problems at play. Boyega is well and truly on our side of this line.

by "relatively well off worker" they're talking about John Boyega having six million dollars.

This is also the racist fuck from the Animorphs fandom who was joking about the British empire comitting genocide.

You heard it here, folks, having several million dollars to your name makes you simply "relatively well off" and not rich at all!!!!

you stupid fucks can call out the racism of people attacing John Boyega without pretending he's Not Actually Rich uwu.

Millionaires are not working class. Millionaires are not "relatively well off". They're rich. For fuck's sake.

It is immoral to have millions of dollars when people die preventable deaths every day just because they don't have enough money.

If millionaires are our allies, then why the fuck are they still millionaires? I'll give you a hint: Because they're not our allies. If they were, they wouldn't be millionaires, because they would be giving people that money to save their lives and keep them from starving or being homeless.

If you reblog that stupid fucking post saying that millionaires aren't included in eating the rich because billionaires are even richer than they are, you're also getting eaten.

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My friend once thought AoT and Isayama were imperialist or something a couple years back. Made sense at the time. This was probably around the time chapter 112 came around.

Fast forward to now and it's actually parts of the western fandom that are proudly wearing sweaters proclaiming on that they're proud Jaegerists rooting for Eren even tho the in-universe jaegerists were psychos who all died while the japanese fandom apparently made Armin trend twice while supporting the alliance.

Really makes ya think, huh?

Yeah, i mean he clearly portrays genocide as unimaginable evil and portrays both sides as capable of comitting cruel acts, but at the same time he portrays this as a struggle between people with power in their hands that sweeps along those who just want to live their lives peacefuly. Like this one family who wasn't cheering at Willy's speech at all unlike all the nobles and rich folk but seemed concerned about the declaration of War:

The kid is ignorant and smiling at a cool play, but the adults' body language and expressions express disagreement imo.

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I only side with Joshua Graham in my playthroughs because I agree that defending Zion is better for its native peoples, and its environment, than abandoning it to the White Legs, but I absolutely disagree with choosing to commit genocide to do that. Even then, I always spare Salt-Upon-Wounds, as that's the closest to the kind of ending I'd rather have even though, unfortunately, the White Legs canonically die after this. I wish there was an option to defend Zion, the Dead Horses, and the Sorrows without being, essentially, a White Savior (regardless of the fact that the Courier can be whatever skin color the player wants), and without supporting Mormon colonialism. Bonus points if the White Legs are stopped without slaughtering the entire tribe, without the 80s slaughtering them, without the Legion forcibly disintegrating them, and if there can be a diplomatic solution. Hell, maybe leaders of each tribe can be exchanged with the others as diplomatic hostages! Surely something like that could be worked out? I just... don't like the Mormon and colonial apologetics in the Honest Hearts DLC. I like the landscape, I love the abundance of natural healing supplies, I love the Survivalist's Rifle, and there are aspects of the characters that I like, but the overall "colonialism and Mormonism are good, actually," shit is tiresome. Hot take, but I wish Joshua had an actual redemption arc, where he can (given the right choices by the player) realize the error of his ways, realize just how horrid the war crimes he's comitted really were, and fight to protect tribal political and cultural autonomy. Especially if Daniel goes apeshit if you do that, and tosses his pacifism to the wayside, showing just how thin of a facade fundamentalist pacifism is.

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I wanted to add a bit more just about my own frustration with what's happening.

This whole situation is just proving that no improvements have actually been made.

All the people who have died to the holocaust, all the people who have died fighting for marginalised people in general.

It's like it's all been for nothing, the governments have learned nothing. Everyone is still as happy as ever that others are being systemically eradicated just because they were born on the other side of a wall.

How are we supposed to feel any sort of hope that things can get better if this basic fucking thing, y'know not comitting a genocide. Can be this difficult.

I am not exactly a positive person in general, I barely have any trust in any governments, and I also just hate my life and everything I've been born into. I have had little to no hope in any meaningful improvements for years now, and I've practically just been waiting for everything to collapse and for the nazis to take over again.

I obviously do not want any of that, I am trans, I am intersex, I am severely mentally ill and can barely take care of even my most basic needs. I know I wouldn't survive.

But with this on top of everything else going on, how am I supposed to have even a sliver of hope that things are gonna be ok?

I am constantly seeing people referring to Palestine as a "terrorist state looking for trouble" and I cannot for the life of me wrap around the logic of these people's brains. When, if ever, did Palestine look for trouble? Never, that's when!

I know this isn't really what you are talking about.

But this whole situation just shows how quick some people are to do a complete 180 turn.

You'll see bigots finally admitting that anti-semetism is real just because they want to seem more respectable when they advocate for the actual extermination of an entire people.

because Palestine genuinely did nothing to deserve this. "oh but hamas did this-" irrrelevant. Hamas wouldn't exist if not for Israel's conquest and destruction of Palestine.

Hamas is entirely a reaction to what's happening, not the other way around.

Sadly some people use this to continue or even fall into anti-semetism to begin with. And that is also just disgusting.

We cannot hold any random jew in the world responsible for the actions of a corrupt government.

Israel is no more actual Judaism than America is actual christianity. Both have twisted and molested what these religions stand for and just use it as an excuse to continue their sins.

Like nevermind that huge swathes of Israeli condemn their government to begin with, nevermind that Palestine has a sizeable jewish population that literally goes back millennia.

You have holocaust survivors and descendants of those survivors condemning the Israeli government.

And that's just the rise in anti-semetism, we haven't even gotten into the rise of islamophobia.

Islam has objectively done nothing wrong here, we're literally just seeing a people associated with Islam be annihilated, and fucking THAT of all things is emboldening people to see arabs in general, regardless of their actual religion. As nothing but monstrous, thoughtless terrorists.

I hate it. I hate that pretty much all we can do by now is to refuse to buy from brands openly(and just imagine how many brands might do it in secret) supporting the genocide and fucking beg our leaders to ask Isreal to stop if we're lucky enough to live in a country that hasn't made speaking positively about Palestine illegal.

I hate everything about this. It feels so completely unreal that supposed "developed" countries have learned nothing and feels nothing when this is happening so openly and obviously

How can anyone just sit and think what is happening in Palestine is not just acceptable, but the good option?

It's so completely fucking insane, that I barely know what to say.

My heart will always be with the Palestinian people, and I will always do everything I can to help them.

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I have come to bring this dead Tumblr back to life solely so that I can say this (S7 spoilers)(also really long because I like to write)

I absolutely loved Voltron season 7 and it is my current favourite season

I’m doing this post thingy because I’m seeing a failry big backlash from fans here because of the events of Season 7 and pretty much treating it like the worst season ever so I”d like to throw my 2 cents into the mix

The actual plot of this season (the Galra war on Earth and everything around defeating the fleet and the battle that comes right after that) is good, is just pure and of quality GOOD

the 3D animation was also amazing compared to other seasons, that fight coreography on the last fight was simply amazing

Just throwing that out there becauce the things that actually matter get buried by the hate

the main things I see people complaining about: the whole deal with Adam and Shiro, Lance and Allura’s relationship and Keith and Acxa’s possible future relationship

The big deal here is of course Adam, he’s Shiro ex boyfriend

and he dies

the shitty commander refuses to listen to the dude that knows bout alien stuff and gets all of the best pilots killed when the invasion starts, including Adam

the controversy here is that the crew has been hyping LGBT representation ever since 2016 and when they finally deliver it they kill the character

Personally I’m okay with it

the way they dealt with Shiro’s gay arc is that they completely ommited the fact that he was gay up untill now, and even then it wasn’t a big part of him or he’s identidity, mainly that the fact that he’s gay only affects wich person he has a romantic interest in, not who he is as a person, wich is great because it distances himself for any form of tokenism wich are rarely done well

Adam himself wasn’t much important, the scenes we got of him during the flashback were not the main focus, he was a side character on a scene designed to explain and develop Shiro and Keith’s relationship, counting the fact that the scene in question is him breaking up with Shiro since Shiro would put more focus on the missions than on Adam or himself, given he was sick

That (and the fact that Shiro spends 6 seasons without ever even mentioning him) shows that while they were a thing in the past, that’s it, it was a thing of the past, he’s still care for Adam as a person or friend, but lover was never the question, (also because Shiro is the calm and collected type and in the middle of a war situation like that it would be in character for him to hold anything back, specially since they were about to go discuss important stuff) and the scene that he dies? well a lot of people do, they likely just used Adam to try and get more emotional response of the scene where a bunch of people we never heard about die offscreen deaths

Characterwise, the whole thing with Adam was fine, he had one purpose and he filled it, while also introducing Shiro’s sexuality in a normalized way, instead of making it a big deal for his character, wich is indeed wasted potential, but when it comes to representation, normalizing it does better than bringing attention to it

the whole thing about they introducing a gay character solely to kill him, yeah I can see why people would find it offensive, specially since the crew did alluded to a lot bout a character being gay, but then again they were refering mostly about Shiro and most of the hype and attention drawn to Adam was made by the fans for the fans, so yeah

Next is the whole deal with Lance-Allura-Keith-Acxa

as we all know Klance is the big ship of the fandom, everyone seems to ship it and you can’t find a single Voltron crack video on YT without finding one with a Klance reference on it, that also likely led to the popularity of the theory that Acxa was Keith’s long lost sister that no one ever mentioned

long story short, fans wanted Lance to move on from his crush on Allura since she showed no romantic interest on him, and people wanted Acxa to be Keith’s sister because it would be different and if they used the scenes they had to build a relationship it wouldn’t be good since they had few scenes together and a lot of them revolved one of the two being attacked by the other one

I’ll do this quick, Lance’s entire romantic plot revolved around him going from “this chick’s hot I wanna date her” to “Oh my god I am in actual love with this beaultiful and amazing woman”, spending 6 seasons worth of development of that and just have him choose to get over it and not get with her is simply dumb and makes no sense, you don’t spend that much screentime of a character building said feelings up to then have they give up when the other one doesn’t immediately love them solely to sell this idea of maturity, if that was the goal they’d focus more on it on earlier volumes and deal with it quickly (plus he literally died for her, kind of awkward to not follow through with the subplot after that)

the deal with Allura not being in love with Lance, well it happened mid season, while she was still being woo’d by Lotor and before she learned he was comitting genocide on a global scale

Also note how these relationships were build up, Lotor did nothing but constantly tell Allura how awesome she was and how he’d never get anything done were not for her, he was constantly making moves on her by forcing this romantic vibe on a constant basis, basically he won her over by constantly using pick-up lines

the scene where she learns that LAnce actually loves her and not just hits on her like he used to do to every other girl, her reaction was that of pity/sadness that he felt that way because she liked Lotor

Then Lotor turned evil and on a non romantic scene (wich ironically is what makes it romantic) Lance comes to her and pretty much does the same that Lotor did, tell her how awesome she is, but unlike Lotor, it comes from a place of actual respect, Lance admires and respects Allura as an individual, and that is why he grew to love her, she realized it by the end of season 6, and knowing he liked her would help getting her to either start liking him or getting the feelings that were there to emerge and morph into love, culminating in the scenes from the last episodes where they make it clear she also loves him

Grantes, yes it short of came out of nowhee given that on previous episodes they basically had no interactions by themselves, specially on Allura’s part that would help show a progression

but then again next Season IS the last season to they might have rushed it because of that, this show has always had some pacing problems in the end

Acxa and Keith tho, they have had few interactions, and I think that is enough

unlike Lance, that had a lot of his character based on a romantic subplot, Keith has a lot of plot going on for him, so it is not necessary for him to get a lot of screentime dedicated to it, specially since Acxa is a really secondary character that doesn’t appear much on the plot

the whole scene with the other ones basically screaming at the camera that she had feelings for Keith were probably meant for the audience to make it clear, given how many people were still passing the whole sister theory around (even tho it was never shown to have any proof or anything that would led one to consider it being true, also because having them being siblings given the ammount of coinsidences that led them to believe and form a very weird and f**ked up “friendship” would just be bad writting) and because Klance was still a thing going strong, also the characters didn’t pay much mind to it because it was clear the others were just taunting them

it does seem that from now on they will build something that could become a relationship, since they already had short of a mutual respect and now they can build it up more without needing to kill each other everytime they meet

Overall, this insanely long post is solely my opinion on the matter, that Voltron Season 7 was amazing and that maybe I can get someone to look at it on a new light

Hopefully

seriously tho it was an amazing season, I mean have you guys seen the final fight? Holy S**t

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Voting third party is not a vote for Trump anymore than it's a vote for Biden. It's a vote for a third-party.

The only reason third parties ever lose is because everyone keeps insisting they'll always lose so there's no point voting for them. That's literally what the blue and red teams want you to think so that you'll only vote for them.

You definitely should not vote for Biden any more than you'd vote for Trump. Biden is comitting genocide. Voting for him is explicitly telling all politicians, both present and future, that they can commit genocide without worrying about public backlash, because look! Genocide Joe did it, and he still got X amount of votes!

Voting for Biden at this point is going to do nothing except further push this government towards open fascism, because it will be giving politicians direct approval to commit genocide and be as openly evil as they want without any fear of consequences.

The only reason people call Trump a dictator but not Biden is because they think Palestinians "don't count", because they're racist white supremacists who want to play pretend at being a good person who's on the right side of things, but not if it actually requires doing the bare minimum not to support genocide.

Voting for third party is not a vote for Trump, despite what all the blue fascists want to insist. If that were true, then it would also be a vote for Biden, the guy they like, so they should be perfectly happy for people to vote third party because by their own logic, it helps their favorite genocidaire.

Anyone who tries to shame you into supporting genocide by telling you you have to vote for Biden Or Else is just a fascist with a blue coat of paint instead of red. They don't care about anyone except themselves, but they'll drag out every minority they can think of as a shield for their support of literal genocide.

And as to why both candidates are both so openly horrible, it's because of the people who've spent their whole lives screaming "vote blue no matter who", which literally just guarentees that the blue team will get worse and worse, because they have absolutely zero incentive to get better.

Voting third party is not the same thing as voting for Trump. Anyone who tries to tell you it is is just a straight up liar. Anyone who tries to shame you into voting for Biden to protect democracy can just be directed to this post until they stop pretending otherwise.

As someone who has always been unimaginably disgusted by Trump, but also as someone who has grown almost equally sickened by Biden, I think I can only vote for a third party. I may not think Jill Stein (Green Party Candidate) is like the best person for president but she sure is better than those other shit shows. But then I gotta ask myself is it morally wrong to vote for someone who I know will lose the election (bc third parties never win)? Bc voting for a third party is kinda like a non-vote which is a vote for him? Should I just vote for Biden even though I think he would run this country into the ground just as fast as Trump would? Like I would never vote for Trump, but voting for Biden feels inherently wrong also. Why have our presidential candidates become so horrible that no one but extremists are happy with the choices? Idk, would love some advice because I feel like no matter who I vote for I feel like I’m doing something wrong.

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Yeah Sylvanas was molded into the role Jailer needed her to be.

That sucks. And the fucking Edge of Night rewrite going from Sylvanas agreeing to forge a pact with the val'kyr based on a feeling of sisterhood and not fear... to the fucking Shadowlands lore where she gets rushed and given a choice to either continue suffering or serve the man ultimately responsible for her torments and she agrees to the latter because of "having the same desire as all her prey - to live without pain".... Aaaaaa.

Edge of Night, original:

— Sylvanas, you are not alone in this and you have people to go on for. You're strong and you're needed.

Sylvanas novel:

— Sylvanas nobody has a choice in this life, the man who made the Lich King got dissapointed in Lich Kings and wants you as his pet instead, comitting atrocities for which you'd have to turn off your moral compass. If you say no you'll be left to be tortured.

I do say it's written in a way that is believable — she barely had a choice + that was already a plan in the making of his (if we consider Sister is Another Word for Always as 100% legit)... But really, Sylvanas put in a position where she barely has any agency???

Regarding Jailer imho the whole story just reeks of centrist take of "violent uprisings bad", so while they gave him initially 100% right motivation (the system is rotten, souls are cogs in the machine and its fuel, we need to break it and build it anew), they couldn't actually make Jailer right (because that would raise the interesting topic of whether all the slaughtered night elves are worth it when it comes to dismantling an unjust system), so they made him *cartoonishly* evil "haha my name's Jailer and I want everyone to be controlled by me"

Like with the Forsworn. Souls didn’t consent to be sent to the Bastion and some reasonably don't want to let go of their own identity and memories of their loved ones. The Path additionally makes kyrians blind to troubles of mortal vows (Frostmourne? Naaah the Maw is inescapable). Forsworn saying "We're sick of this shit" are 100% right. But narrative wants you to side with the kyrians and put these icky revolutionaries down, so they go "Oh, Forsworn uuuuh ARE WORKING WITH THE JAILER. And Jailer is SELFISHLY EVIL!"

But I do say Sylvanas *had* to bear some responsibility and I'm glad they hadn't killed her off and instead basically gave her a timeout. Even apart from the Night Elf genocide, Sylvanas did the crime of developing the Blight, testing it on living and undead subjects, and then utilizing it several times (even if Wrathgate wasn't her doing, others were). She also is responsible for conquering Gilneans, where she desecrated cemeteries and killed still living people to be raised as Forsaken, plus enslaved those Gilnean civilizans that still lived. And topped that off with Blight. Sure the attack idea came from Garrosh but that doesn't make her innocent.

I beg you, stop saying "Shadowlands" when referring to the Lands of Shadows. You haven't played WoW: Shadowlands, you don't know what they've done to us.

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[ID 1: A two panel "Pills that make you green" comic, showing crude digital stick figures for people. A regular black stick figure stands on the Left, and a green one on the right. Panel one shows a regular black stick figure standing on the side with arms crossed, saying, in a screenshot of text, with paragraph breaks added for accessability: "The obvious straw men here weaken your argument because it makes it seem like you need to misconstrue what you and your critics are saying in order to fake-win the argument. If 'green' here is a metaphor for 'male who is taking estrogen and altering his fat distribution,' I don't think anyone is trying to say this is nonexistent or impossible to achieve. "A male can absolutely become a male who takes hormones to alter his appearance, and we all know that. "It would be more accurate to have something saying, 'that person is green" and the green person responds 'I'm transitioning from yellow to blue, but I was never actually yellow because I identify as blue, colors don't exist anyway and if you talk about them you're a bigot, but I'm fully blue now and you have to refer to me as blue, and while you're at it you need to refer to grass as blue, too, to avoid making me question whether you truly see me as blue, and if you call me 'green' you're abusing me and comitting genocide against transblue people, btw I'm bluer than any other blue person because I have to fight to be seen as blue". Panel 2 zooms in on the green person's face as they say, "holy shit they don't even realize they're strawmanning while complaining about strawmanning". End ID.]

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[ID 2: A screenshot of tags that read, "Oh god it's a screenshot. you cannot be fucking serious". End ID.]

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