Crushed to inform you that there are reviews on the Leverage revival that claim it’s “too woke” and “didn’t used to take sides.”
I knew it would happen, but I’m still baffled that you can be a fan of a show and misrepresent it so terribly.
I think this said it all
Leverage was "Take a Side: The Series."
EVERY WORD HERE 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 IS TRUE. YOU ARE THAT FROG.
I too have no space to worry about USA, already very worried about Poland and Ecuador, thank goodness Canada is still somehow holding up, but I’m horrified how far you let it go. FIX IT NOW or you’ll be sorry - truer words were never spoken.
Beware of requests for compromise when you are asking for justice and the other side is asking for consent to continue.
July 5th, 2021: A TERF-run historical girlboss account mysteriously fails to mention the French Resistance killed Violette Morris because they were a fucking Nazi.
Terfs are all basically Nazis now, is the takeaway.
No no no, not Nazis per se. The term is "Nazi collaborator".
But seriously it's important to remember that the Nazis could not have come to power or operate their war machine without a cavalcade of collaborators who had disparate but compatible ideas.
I almost added onto a post but you know what Imma be incoherent on my own post
I am once again asking you to consider physical infrastructure and why we need government, or at least an overseeing organization before you go off and make your anarchist-mutual-aid-utopia-commune.
We need government because there are people who think that this
is an acceptable way to hold up a house. What you’re looking at is two 2x4 beams supporting the floor joists for a two story section of house. The 2x4s are braced on a windowsill and a bit of broken foundation and are not secured in any way.
I should not have to explain that this is not how houses are supposed to be held up.
The building codes we have now were bought with a century or two of buildings falling down and killing people. It is actually important to observe building codes, and it is also important to have a body to oversee the building codes and send someone around to make sure that they’re being followed.
I am fully aware that the current implementations are biased could use a lot of improvement especially in the realm of doing things about reported problems. But step 1 is making sure that things are built well to start with. (With less capitalism, step 1 would be a lot easier and prevent disasters like grenfell.)
Without basic oversight, there are people out there who really think that this in an acceptable way to build a house.
Yeah.
(The other side of it is worse I just can’t get the picture off of my phone.)
I want fully automated luxury space communism as much as the next guy. But I also want building codes because people will cut every corner and pass it off as fine. They won’t do it maliciously: this person was building their own house, the people who shorted the cladding on grenfell were trying to stick to the construction schedule. Grenfell wouldn’t have been as bad if the tower had been up to code.
I’m just begging you all to realize that people are gonna people. They’re gonna do stupid shit that gets people killed for no reason other than “it’s probably gonna be fine”. We can learn from past mistakes but instead of everybody having to analyze every disaster for what went wrong every time we wanna put up a building, we can just have building codes, yanno? And an ideal government can make sure that everyone has to follow the same building codes.
not only do i support lil nas x appropriating characters and symbols from christianity to make horny, campy gay hip-hop videos, i think this sets the bar for lgbt media in the future. fuck that "were just like you!" respectability shit. i need all gay artists to make their work exactly as hostile and disrespectful to the christian right as the christian right has been to gay people for all of its history.
every photo of me is proof that I have a physical form, which I reject. I am a concept
The Outrage Is About Control, Not Breasts | Renegade Cut – Censorship is the suppression of an idea or image by an entity more powerful than its target. No entity more powerful than Square-Enix is forcing the design of Final Fantasy VII character Tifa. The outrage about her current design is a reactionary movement against an unequal status quo. Support Renegade Cut Media through Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/renegadecut
content warning: The video not only discusses the issue of gender and racial discrimination, as well as sexual assault, but also includes clips of real police brutality. Viewer discretion is advised.
A very comprehensive video explaining what we touched upon regarding the “pro-sexyness”/”anti-censorship” rhetoric multiple times before, especially here.
It’s never really about “the SJWs banning boobs” or something to that effect - it’s about upholding the status quo, so that cishet white dudes (and their presumed preferences) get catered to almost exclusively.
That’s how we get all the crybabies whining over “removed” butts, deriding the very presence of female portsgnidts women in gaming or doing “un-tumblrized” edits of pretty inoffensive character designs. Ultimately it’s all reactionary trolling, done specifically to assert the dudebro dominance.
Of course there must be some dudes stupid enough to actually think that sexyness, cishetness or whiteness (or “ethics in game journalism”) is being taken away from them in pop media, but ultimately it comes down to the tangible loss of control and visibility.
That’s why they feel legitimately threatened by something as simple as a woman who’s even slightly not a sex object in a video game.
~Ozzie
edit: Readers notified us that the video could use some content warning for police brutality footage.
This week’s throwback, since manufactured outrage over female characters’ boobs allegedly getting shrunk in redesign never went out of fashion, time to bring back Leon’s handy explanation on why exactly it is manufactured.
~Ozzie
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