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I think people are wildly overestimating how many people in the US identify as a leftist, can explain to you what a leftist is, and quite frankly, can even tell you what is happening with Israel and Palestine. You cannot imagine how profoundly checked out the average American is and I'm not even saying that to be mean

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I normally truly don’t care if companions I’m not romancing on this run get other partners but if Lucanis gets together with Neve after breaking up with my Shadow Dragon Rook for saving Minrathous when Neve did THE EXACT SAME THING I’m going to throw rocks through his window 😭

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Okay break from doomposting to post a Veilguard theory. I’m in Act 2 right now so please don’t hint or confirm or deny anything if you know.

I think Varric is dead and is either a spirit like the Divine in DAI or a lyrium ghost like Leliana. The way Neve and Harding talk about Varric is like he’s dead. I saw their conversation before the game came out and assumed he died based on how they were talking about him. Varric doesn’t really hang out with anyone else in the Lighthouse and no one hangs out with Varric. You’d think that people would come visit him since they visit each other all the time. You’d think that Harding would talk about the Titans revelation in Solas’ memory with Varric. You’d think that meeting Isabela would come up and he’d talk to you about her or she’d ask you to tell him hi or something. If Neve is injured in the beginning, when she comes in to the infirmary she only talks to and acknowledges Rook. I don’t know if this is also true for Harding. I’ll have to rewatch some of the scenes where he joins the rest of the companions but I don’t think anyone looks at him or talks to him in those scenes. Also Rook and Solas are bound in blood to each other but Varric also spilled blood at the ritual site and he’s not? Harding picks up the dagger and it drastically affects her but Varric gets stabbed in the chest with it with no magic powers resulting from that? The way he talks in the Lighthouse is also really different from previous games and the beginning where he mostly just says encouraging things to Rook but they don’t have many deep conversations. I think the only person who talks about Varric in the present tense is Solas and he’s the god of lies and deception.

Once again please, please don’t spoil or even hint if I’m right or not if you know.

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tweets that did get a chuckle out of me

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Do the right thing Baron

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gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

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A really sad takeaway I have is that we need to exclusively run men as candidates to win. Maybe in 50 years we’ll be ready for a woman president but we aren’t now.

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I think it’s so funny how we have to speak to men like preschoolers when it comes to having empathy for women. like hey buddy… I know you think girls are icky :( but remember your mommy? your mommy is a girl! and then they’re like ohhhh… mommy IS a girl.. and I do like mommy… this is starting to come together

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One of the things that Trump wanted was choosing who is in government at all levels including roles that are historically apolitical. This includes everyone who works for the National Archives btw which Trump has had issues with so you can imagine all of those archivist will be replaced with Trump loyalists who won’t save anything unflattering to him and won’t question his use of confidential documents.

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things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

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men aren’t nearly lonely enough

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If you live in the US and have out of date vaccines you should get them now. RFK has expressed a desire to ban vaccines. A total ban is unlikely but better to be safe than sorry.

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Stay strong my friend🫂

❤️

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