wideopenarms

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a vegan and will be until I die or I can't do it anymore for whatever reason, but it's the other way around for me. I don't trust other vegans until they say they're leftist/communist cause they're more likely way too into woo shit, bougie liberals that like the marketing term or health benefits, or right wingers/libertarians that stumbled into a good point/like the health benefits.

I also don't think it takes being a communist necessarily to see suffering in animals and want to stop it in whatever way one can. It's just if either non-vegan communists or non-leftist vegans honestly and critically looked at their beliefs, it would be hard to escape the correct conclusion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Thinking about all those liberal Chinese students in my Chinese literature classes ranting about the oppressiveness of the CCP or even the few straight up claiming to be right wing who despised "liberals", or my Chinese teachers that would suggest right wing reading material or the one that balked at me for suggesting China did the right thing wrt to covid measures, the same one that said their favorite historical figure was Winston Churchill and again balked when I said mine was Ho Chi Minh, or that Chinese writer for the school newspaper that voiced full-throated support for ridding the school of our Confucious institute because it was insidious CCP propaganda (they gave beginner chinese lessons to the public for $20 and threw a new years celebration party every year ๐Ÿ™„).

Yeah I know it's not Chinese people's fault, not suggesting that, just felt annoyed how these people were advocating against their own interests and encouraging a future like this cause they thought they had a good shot at joining club honky.

They would also put up signs like this ... (cw: sv mention)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Tf I was joking

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Female lead, woke

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, but so is cs (even more explicitly at that) and there's still a weird soft spot some people here express for it

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I was thinking specifically of Andor's fit when he poses as Varian Skye or a lot of the fits Tay Kolma wears.

E: streetwear poncho brought up good results, so that works too lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (32 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I love my girlfriend, she's really neat and I like making her laugh and cuddling before going to sleep, it's great stuff

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's true, so not only is it close, it is too close, I can't accept this

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Im gonna go on a tangeant, but am I missing something in the lore or is Yoda a fucking coward? The sith, with the assistance of the empire, comes in and murders all of his friends and even all the Padawans and he just says "nothing to be done" and goes into hiding.

It's incredible how Andor recontextualizes this because when this happens to other people like Andor or Luthen or Kayla or any other part of the rebellion and it's precursors, they choose to harness their hate and fight to make things better. Even the people we'd call liberals and co-opters like Mothma (debatable, she did sacrifice a lot and was very comitted), Leah's father, and other former senate members still did more to fight than these loser Jedis. People with everything to lose and a fraction of the power Jedis have and they actually commit to fighting. Even the fucking sith lords put themselves on the front line and commit to an ideology.

And after all of that, the Jedi suddenly decide its time to participate once the rebellion is already built up and flourishing, they send one golden special boy to fight, and suddenly they're the spear head of the movement. Fuck these assholes, I hate the Jedi, especially Yoda.

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