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No reason to ruin a guy’s life over one little mistake. Plus, the man is grieving his daughter, give Leland Palmer a break.

TOS scene, and we're on a planet with a red backdrop. I think it's intended to be a sunset dusk thing but it's really just a red green screen. Regardless, partner, it's near nightfall l recon', and there's an old West looking building facade in the background. Front and center, celebrated work associates Kirk and Spock are standin'. Spock, with half his face in shadows, looks to be ponderin' sumpin' important. Kirk is lookin' down and away, with a slight twinge of discouragement. Closed caption reads, "Death is real."

going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now

I think the belief "Israel will inevitably become a better version of itself" was belief itself supported by that broad optimism that was very important to the successes of the pro-Israel lobby— and they didn't create that optimism, they piggybacked off it

We look at the same things people did a few decades back and are simply unable to believe in the nascent democratization they thought they saw, and these beliefs were load-bearing for how people thought about foreign policy

Of a piece with the assumption that with the collapse of the USSR and marketization of China, Russia and China would far more closely resemble liberal democracies a few decades hence

I suspect a lot of support for Israel was of a piece with vulgarized end-of-history optimism: this brought with it the assumption that whatever the present state of the conflict, the ONLY way the Middle East could look a few decades out were "more democratic"

yes, believing that lobby groups have so much sway they can create a broad consensus ex nihilo strikes me as an uncomfortably conspiracy-theorist way of thinking

such groups can be powerful but it does no one any good to think of them as all-powerful

I can’t remember the last time I legit cried laughing at something but the second verse of this song has done it

This sent me.

What was Gundam WIng like in its earliest planning phase? Sumizawa: To be honest, neither Director Ikeda nor I had actually seen Gundam before. So before diving into Wing, we sat down and marathoned everything from First through Victory Gundam to study up. But when you sprint through them like that, you don't really come away understanding "what Gundam is." Ikeda, though, declared, "I've got Gundam figured out!" (laughs), and drew up a structural outline. At that point, he already had a plan for over forty episodes. His idea was to reproduce every Gundam from First through Victory within this one series. But Ikeda is the kind of person who changes as he works. By the time we'd produced episodes one through five, his thinking was already evolving. So when we reached the point of airing episode ten, it was like, "Whatever happened to those original forty-episode plans?" (laughs).

thinking about the fact that wing was made by one person who watched all of gundam and went "I'VE CRACKED THE CODE" and another person who watched all of gundam and went "I don't think I get it..."

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.

PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.

DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

baseball has become Basically Anime for like 2-3 seasons now it's absurd

I wanted the Jays to play in their red Canada Day uniforms this WS lol

There's not many other good jumping off points for thinking about this sort of principled unseriousness

It's not to say they're 1-to-1 the same type of bigot, but whenever I see speech like this that's just so transparently disconnected from reality, I keep going back to Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew"

One unending theme in the history of Christianity is the powerful having a cosmic horror reaction to versions of it that take the stuff about 'the first shall be last' and rich ppl not getting into heaven seriously.

Not every powerful person, but an awful lot of them.

That indifference is a net benefit during good times, because voters generally don't care about expansions of trans rights. But it's a problem during bad times because, well, they're not going to get terribly angry about *erosion* of trans rights.

The thing to understand about the wave of transphobia plaguing our politics right now is that it does not nourish itself on the hatreds of ordinary voters. It nourishes on their indifference.

I think if I needed to sell someone on the franchise in the shortest possible period of time, War In The Pocket is probably the best ~3hr encapsulation of it all you could ask for

Anyway, TRANS RIGHTS!

*sick of bullies

god damnit, I'm tired

But seriously, I think we've really reached as far as it'll go, at least politically. They've pushed, and pushed, and spent absolutely absurd amounts of money on anti-trans messaging, and it's just putting people off. Nobody wants to hear it any more.

I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.

The parts of Metro Vancouver that aren’t reserved for agricultural or heavy industrial use should look like Hong Kong or Singapore

it makes me laugh that the likes of yglesias are all about trying to flip right-wing voters but all the actual right-wing voters who have recently flipped seem to be like "get a load of this asshole" about every one of them

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Every time "the internet is for seeing different points of view :)" posts go around I think of this post. the internet is about THIS 👇👇👇 I'm sorry if you missed the memo and think it's about politics or something

It's Yoshiyuki Tomino's birthday!

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A tumblr post by charaznablespeteevee (yes that's my tumblr url) Sunrise: Finally your two favorites are back. Char Aznable and Amuro Ray... their DNA spliced together to form the most powerful newtype. His name is Power Bottom Tomino in an interview later: [lying] I came up with this idea years ago. [not lying] I wanted people to think, Char and Amuro... could these two men father a child together? Sunrise: [ignoring him] This is our most heterosexual move yet

I still consider this my Worst Post but it keeps getting notes on tumblr