exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Problem is once the government has the power to disarm criminals, they can make revolution illegal, call revolutionaries criminals, and prevent the population from rising up against the oligarchy. The only two good things America did is kill Nazis, and kill monarchists. And it looks like the second amendment is going to protect their right to do both after Project 2025. In my country we have very strict gun control laws, which is why I own a bow for self defence and Nazi killing.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd love to hang out with a sun bear.

Sun bears are shy and reclusive animals, and usually do not attack humans unless provoked to do so, or if they are injured or with their cubs; their timid nature led these bears to be often tamed and kept as pets in the past

Definitely would rather be in the woods with a strange sun bear than a strange man. What if he tries to get me into Magic The Gathering?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Okay so what you're getting at is that this kind of speech is violent. It acknowledges a conflict and seeks to further a particular side through the adoption of defensive behaviours and attitudes. And you're taking a position that all violence is bad. But you're wrong. Violence, as you and I are defining it here, is a necessary part of self defence. Violence in self defence can put a stop to violence in aggression. A pacifist who is concerned with all violence, rather than just their own, has a moral obligation to defend the weak, using violence if necessary.

Your racist grandparents were members of the oppressor class, seeking to do violence against the oppressed, and were therefore contributing to the cycle of violence. But the woman who wrote this article, is trying to stop the cycle of violence by engaging in a defensive form of violence against an oppressor class in response to violence by that class. That's not the same thing.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Le Roman de la Rose, a mediaeval French poem that informed the tropes of western heterosexual media for the last thousand years.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

The missile would start having thoughts about becoming the dark lord of mordor and would refuse to go off or land in the volcano. It would land nearby and seek to take over the orc armies.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Hey, 8 tried to tell a different story. It's a story about how the legend of "Luke Skywalker" is overblown and doesn't do justice to the man himself or to anyone around him. It's a story about how war has a big negative effect on the rest of the world, even places far away from the war. It's a story about how sometimes the world doesn't work the way myths do, with awesome magic powers and heroic sacrifices. It's a story about how everyone is important, and the "great man" idea of history is false. Those are stories that Star Wars hasn't told before.

8 redeemed the mistakes of 5 and fixed Star Wars.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer to call it the Sokka problem.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Of course. Everything important that ever happened has to involve a far-off backwater that nobody's even heard of.

(I actually like Tatooine's inclusion in KOTOR purely because it makes the planet an even more transparent Dune ripoff)

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

George Lucas created the Star Wars movies after R2D2 and C-3PO crash landed in an escape pod in his backyard, and they told him the story of the Empire, the rebels, and the Jedi. Earth is the only planet that has Star Wars because it's where R2 and Threepio ended up.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Workplace comedy about Jedi temple guards.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Big caves are called caverns

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