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Mark4-40 3 points ago +3 / -0

This does seem to be one of the new theme in literature. The bad guys are just misunderstood would be heroes. Don't have to take responsibility for ones actions if all those actions are due to uncontrollable circumstances. taps forehead Take your cake and eat it too.

I think Wicked was one of the early purveyors of this trope (in thr modern era... I cant speak to older lit), which was also heavily monetized by Disney in several projects, notably Once Upon a Time.

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Mark4-40 6 points ago +6 / -0

Imagine moralizing at people in this economy for not going to see a movie when everyone knows the book is always better and anyone interested read it one to two decades ago. Or saw the Broadway play that ran for a decade and prefers Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith to whatever Gen Z trash this is.

But yes, blame the Christians (who were logically consistent with also not supporting Harry Potter) for the poor showing.

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Mark4-40 -1 points ago +1 / -2

Turkey did the same thing in 2016 with Operation Euphrates Shield, in 2018 with Operation Olive Branch, and in 2019 with Operation Peace Spring (but arguably as early as 2013 with their border control maneuvers and support of ISIS). How is this different?

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Mark4-40 17 points ago +17 / -0

The Habsburgs looked favorably on consanguinous marriage as well. The difference is, they were actual royalty and could afford to care for their genetically malformed offspring, whereas the inbred offspring of foreign origin become state burdens given that their parents aren't as superior in actuality as they are in their own minds. Foreign poors have no estate to protect, and thus have no legitimate reason to marry within their closer relations other than perhaps nobody else wants them so their options are limited to those who are required to feel some modicum of affection through accident of birth.

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Mark4-40 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's regular psychopaths, in purple, on the left. We'll call them purple left.

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Mark4-40 8 points ago +8 / -0

Uh... you should definitely point out that their western white supremacist bias is coloring their perspective lol... I'm sure they'll love that. One cannot mock the shock of those of one culture when an invading unassimilated culture clashes with our moral and societal standards without necessarily leaning upon those superior standards.

China and Korea are well known to eat cats and dogs. Currently. Starving people eat anything they can get their hands on. Broke ass Cajuns still eat roadkill. In the Great Depression, southerners decimated wildlife within months to feed their families. By the grace of God, our fathers built the most affluent society in human history, and our need to scavenge is minimal (currently... God forbid we Haiti for our food in own country again). We keep animals around because we like them, not just as food. Societies without high standards don't get that animals aren't just food. Apparently, they also don't teach that theft is wrong. Finders keepers isn't the moral standard in a highly moral society. If you don't exchange your time for it, using proxies for that time (like cash or goods), then it's not yours, and you've stolen it.

What I want to know - where are the game wardens? Surely there's a bag limit on Fido and Garfield lol

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Mark4-40 4 points ago +4 / -0

The denisovans and floresiensis live on! Haha

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Mark4-40 25 points ago +25 / -0

This scale is hilarious. I love it.

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Mark4-40 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's def goals for suburb life lol... lawns are useless. Gardens and chickens are what's up. Sustainaburbs!

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Mark4-40 1 point ago +1 / -0

Mufasa was the usurper all along, and the throne was rightfully Taka/Scar's to take!

Sympathetic Satan

by Lethn
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Mark4-40 11 points ago +11 / -0

You forgot to add: she's a stepmother. It puts the evil cackle in a whole different load of context. Our country is run by a senile pedo granddad and a wicked stepmother.

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Mark4-40 4 points ago +4 / -0

Great video. I enjoy Japanese joinery techniques. Their artisan philosophies are fascinating. I should be a Shintian lol

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Mark4-40 4 points ago +4 / -0

400 is symbolic in the Bible. Hebrew uses the letter tav for the number 400, but it also symbolizes completion or perfection. The meaning of the passage is that there was a complete destruction of the synagogues, teachers, and students in the last stronghold (Betar) in Judea. The passage confirms that God allowed it, bc He predicted it through Moses ("all the curses not mentioned in this book").

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Mark4-40 5 points ago +5 / -0

400 is symbolic in the Bible. Hebrew uses the letter tav for the number 400, but it also symbolizes completion. The meaning is that there was a complete destruction of the synagogues, teachers, and students in the last stronghold (Betar) in Judea.