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The fact that there's a decent chance both Roe v Wade and Obergefell v Hodges will be overturned in 2022 while democrats control the house, senate and presidency is a pretty good summary of where U.S. politics is at rn twitter.com/dataandpolitic…
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This is actually true of a lot of government things. Policing and other services aimed at targeting homeless people cost more than giving them houses. Means testing welfare costs more than making it easier to get. The problems exist for their own sake twitter.com/chaoticgaythey…
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side effect of the internet turning all media critique into "thing good/thing bad" is that if you have mixed feelings on something that is widely beloved people call you a hater and if you have mixed feelings on something that's widely hated you get called a delusional fan
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the "not like other girls" to "not a girl" pipeline
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Every so often I think about how the dude who made earthbound is on record as saying that when he was a little kid he walked into the wrong movie theater and saw a murder scene that deeply tramatized him and his goal with making the mother games was to recreate that feeling
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BBC Sherlock not only refusing to solve the mystery that fans had spent two years speculating on but also spending a huge percentage of that first episode back straight up mocking their fans for caring so much has to be one of the dumbest moves in TV history twitter.com/PlanetofFinks/…
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Is there fanfiction that's better than a lot of published fiction? Definitely. Does fanfiction deserve respect as an artistic medium? 100%. Do I trust someone whose media diet is like... five pieces of media and 80 shitzillion fics for them? Absolutely fucking not
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men need to get sluttier, women need to get more deranged, non binary people keep up the good work
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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance deserves a prize for telling a story where a kid gets transported to a fantasy world that's all about how escapist fantasy is a form of running away from your problems that encourages bad behavior a full decade before the Isekai boom proved it right
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Revolutionary Girl Utena sets itself apart from other anime by featuring dudes who want to fuck their sisters, but portraying this as a bad thing
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