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Two more frames have hit the foundry

I'm curious, which socialist causes would you say have been helped in a major way by religion? I know liberation theology exists but that's about the extent of my knowledge, and my baseline knowledge says that of the current and former AES projects, while there might be some religious base supporting the cause in latin america, I am unfamiliar with the specifics.

On a separate note, I would argue that the relationship between religion and support for left-wing causes is unlikely to be the same in the imperial core as in formerly colonized countries. As you say, the creation of a nationalist, anti-colonial movement has been useful historically in countries like China, Vietnam, and Cuba, but obviously we wouldn't expect an American communist movement to seriously attempt to rally around the flag. Similarly, I wouldn't expect a revolution in the US to attempt to ally with the domestic bourgeoisie as they did in China.

Not writing off the chance that he comes back in 3 days as some sort of Easter thing.

Warframe, got a bunch cookin' in the Foundry. Still sitting on a mountain of platinum from back when trash rivens could sell for hundred so I'm good for slots for now but I fear one day I will run out. Anyway, there are too many syndicates now.

IIRC they noticed that Rand hadn't had any important plot yet, and he had to be there for some reason.

/c/fakenews?

Young Griff fans will be eating good.

The biggest thing I remember is that the entire gang goes into the Blight to find the Eye of the World, not just Rand and Moiraine, and their journey has some focus on just how evil a place it is, with every plant and animal corrupted by Satan to try to kill everything. IIRC it's revealed that Lan's entire home kingdom was taken by the Blight within his lifetime. They meet with the last treeman who isguarding the Eye, and due to his influence, a small area around it is still kept as pure nature not corrupted by The Dark One, then battle two of the Forsaken, who had been driven mostly mad. Both are defeated, but in the process the treeman is killed. The Eye of the World is a big pool of man magic that more or less awakens Rand's ability to channel Saidin which he uses to (somehow) teleport many miles to Tarwin's Gap and then magically nuke the trollocs and Ba'azamon. It's also where they get the Horn of Valere and the dragon banner.

Book reader here, I think some of the stuff they've changed are just bad choices, like Perrin having a wife who exists only to be fridged, or the mystery of who the Dragon is in S1 (everybody I spoke to predicted who it was correctly several episodes in advance), or either of Rand's big hero moments that are supposed to happen at the end of S2 just being skipped. Apparently they just skipped the 3rd book entirely for S3, and while much of the later books will have to be cut, some of the elements set up in that book are essential to the ending.

Wait, is there a trans character I'm forgetting or do you mean

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

You can just replace "anti-Semites" in the quote with "right-wingers". They don't care, they're just trying to waste your time.

The ragin' cajun said that? The guy who has been wrong every time I've heard him talk my entire life? Damn, we have no choice but to abandon entryism.