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The_Freecs posted...

ohhh I see!

answer is still no.

good. I'm glad we agree.

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Fenrimis posted...

I'm not up-to-date on One Piece, last I left off was just as the gang was leaving Big Mom's island, but god damn Luffy hasn't even beat kaido yet? I thought we'd be on to the inevitable 5 elder showdown by now

the alliance (the scabbards, straw hats, law, and several others) are just heading in for a battle at the capital of Wano.

I think they're going to get stomped, then another faction (marines/blackbeard) arrives and the distraction allows for an escape

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The_Freecs posted...

yes

that was actually a rhetorical question. the correct answer is No.

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can you really call it "plot armour" if the character in question has been beaten to within an inch of his life like 10+ times throughout the series and survived through sheer willpower? especially considering that willpower is one of the main themes of the series?

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"defund" is more ambiguous. the people on the ground actually doing shit to enact change largely want abolition

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Tsuyoi3 posted...

Shrek wanted to be seen as scary and left alone throughout most the initial parts until Fiona.
Good post though

it's not so much that he wanted to be left alone, it was that he thought he was better off alone because people saw him as scary.



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CedarPointcp posted...

so you think there's 0 chance that he signs gates's giving pledge?

there's 0 chance that anyone with that much money earned it in the first place and actually deserves to have it

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I'm sorry but I put too much into that last post to not bump this topic

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deupd_u posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_economics

everything about that article just screams "incel"

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The_Freecs posted...

oof thats fucking deep for one piece.

one piece has tons and tons of stuff like that

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The_Freecs posted...

Luffy stood in front of 3 admirals directly focusing on him and he survived. My bro dats top level plot armor.

are you talking about marineford? because they were not directly focusing on him

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really though, sanji and usopp's fights tend to be the most interesting to me:

Sanji is clever, and his opponents generally resort to some sort of trickery. he has to be a problem solver.
Usopp's fights generally involve him telling a bold-faced lie, getting beaten nearly to death (almost like some sort of divine punishment for his lie) and then finding it within himself to keep going.

Luffy and Zoro have interesting recurring themes in their fights too, but they're more... generic maybe? at any rate, I don't find them as interesting

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franky vs mr. pink imo

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Miletus posted...

I detest this person for mixing political compasses and fractals. This is either meth fueled or an attempt to be as annoying as possible. I spent significant minutes evaluating the content on their twitter feed and have concluded that there is potential for finding gold here just like in all other large piles of electronic garbage.

it's a joke

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

But Lord Farquaad? He looks like a tiny ugly evil selfish cruel vindictive man, has the reputation of a tiny ugly evil selfish cruel vindictive man.... then turns out to be a tiny ugly evil selfish cruel vindictive man That seems to counteract what they were doing with everyone else.

I don't think this is entirely accurate. he doesn't have the reputation for being tiny and ugly at the start. Lord Farquad wants to be perceived as bigger, both literally and figuratively (i.e. "more important") than he really is.

(note: it's been a while since I've seen the movie, so I'm going by memory. some of this information might not be entirely accurate)

I believe his first scene is him torturing the gingerbread man, someone much smaller than him. and it's set up to make him appear big.

Duloc is also notably an extremely artificial place (the mechanical dancers saying how "perfect" it is draw obvious parallels to Disneyland, though that's another issue). everything is fake, including Farquad's self-importance.

even when Shrek is fighting the soldiers, Farquad is far above him, giving an appearance of grandeur. just because this facade is shattered fairly early on in the movie doesn't mean it's not there.

Farquad wants to be seen as something he's not, making him a direct foil to Shrek, who wants to be seen as who he is.

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FortuneCookie posted...

The theme park ride at Universal also makes fun of his tiny penis. :v

shrek says "do you think he's compensating for something?" in the movie before they meet him

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the show has interesting ideas but it handles them poorly for the most part

to use one example, I feel like it could have been more critical of Korra starting a goddamn civil war and turning to her war profiteer best friend to resolve it

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Godnorgosh posted...

Not trans people! Not activists! YOU!

underappreciated post

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mach25687 posted...

I ain't fucking no drunk chick since that shit will bite you in the ass.

"hey, we've both been drinking. you sure you're cool with this?"

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CosmicShadows posted...

Oh this guy here.

"good" is more effectively thought of as a process of recognizing your own flaws and learning to overcome them rather than a state of being

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CosmicShadows posted...

No you doof. I said *more* crimes will be committed like never before. Because it will be an ultimate fact if that happened.

so how are you defining "evil" and "good" here?

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so... your definition of "evil" here is committing more crimes?

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you know why

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47

I was 24

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joe40001 posted...

Dexter, a show about a serial killer, was a successful show that had a complete run.

Are all cops worse than serial killers in your mind?

this might be the single stupidest thing anyone could have said in response to my post

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as shocking as it may seem, the way cops are portrayed in the media has an effect on public opinion of cops

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the people equating "no cops" to "total anarchy" have clearly never set foot in a rural community

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it's good. but not as good as the 2003 version

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"equality" is an extremely vague term, and can mean a lot of things in this context. this is a legitimate question:

lilORANG posted...

Does "equality" mean everyone is treated as well as straight white guys? Or does the rest of society get treated like Trans people now?

if by "equality for trans people" you mean "the permanent dismantling of the numerous societal structures that result in transphobia" I would take that in a heartbeat, but that would also mean an end to racism and capitalism, which I'm assuming is beyond the scope of the topic

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yes

your mom's the best

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GodIsImaginary posted...

It's funny, I don't hear BLM talk that much about sentencing reform and ending prosecution for non violent drug crimes, which I think would be more fertile ground for public sympathy and could be enacted as legislation faster than the other things they're calling for.

over 50% of people polled said the protestors were justified in burning down the police station

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VanananaHeyHey posted...

Fiiiiine, but calling eyes "blue" or "brown" or any color word is reductive too, then.

I could not care less about this

VanananaHeyHey posted...

The confluence of factors which results in a creature that creates ova is female and that which creates sperm is male.

you're making the same mistake as you were initially. sex is a lot more complicated than "sperm or egg" and this reductive binary is no longer sufficient for scientific purposes.

like if you were to graph the sex of every single person en earth, you'd get something like this:

people with two testes, a penis, a prostate, xy chromosomes, whose bodies produce certain amounts of certain hormones, etc. would be at one peak. people with two developed breasts, a uterus, a vagina, ovaries, xx chromosomes, whose bodies produce certain amounts of certain hormones, etc. would be at the other. every variation from that would be a little bit more distant from a peak.

treating it as though only the peaks existed worked most of the time, for most people. but it's not the way things actually are, and it's insufficient for our purposes now

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Frostshock posted...

I read it, and as I said, it is total bullshit starting at panel 1.

If it's going to make wild claims like the police were started for any reason other than enforcing the law, it had better be citing some fucking good sources.

preventing slaves from escaping was, in fact, enforcing the law

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I think the idea of "anti-racist" as a more extreme version of "not racist" is misguided and simplistic and doesn't recognize racism as a systemic issue.

being anti-racist doesn't mean that someone is suddenly not racist -- racism as a set of behaviors is learned through participation in a racist system, and it takes conscious effort to recognize and unlearn those behaviors

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VanananaHeyHey posted...

There are two sexes and multiple intersex conditions that are variations on those two, the exceptions that prove the rule. There is no third sex, all intersex conditions are not the same and intersex isn't trans.

saying there are two sexes is reductive. there are too many factors to consider. genitals and chromosomes are just the tip of the iceberg

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tc is correct for the most part -- most of the actual bad things he's done have been done by pretty much every president in recent history

that being said, Trump is also possibly the single worst person to be leading the country through a crisis. I can think of a few adults who might be as incapable as him, but no one who would actually be worse

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Solar_Crimson posted...

SO, is Togashi working on the manga again, or is he on one of his many breaks?

he's not on "break"

he has severe health problems

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people are conflating gender with sex

news flash: sex is also a spectrum

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Wii_Shaker posted...

Not the way it's being enforced now. There is a lack of accountability. It makes more sense to regulate how police are allowed to enforce the law than to completely do away with the law.

it's already being regulated. it's not working.

also, abolishing the police is not the same as completely doing away with the law

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EnterTheTekken posted...

Police are called to prevent escalations so they don't turn into emergency situations. Plus the city is liable if something does escalate and the police don't respond.

they're doing a pretty shitty job of preventing escalations right now lol

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abaddon41_80 posted...

A lot of people in this topic are simply stating things like this but as Patchwork has pointed out, there is no statistical evidence that "good cops" are the minority.

If you show me 8000 videos of different police officers abusing their power or committing "brutality," and I seriously doubt anyone could even find half of that, I will show you 1% of sworn law enforcement in the US. If you could somehow provide proof of 80,000 bad police officers, I will show 10% of sworn law enforcement. If you are saying good cops are in the minority, you are saying over 400,000 officers are bad.

I keep on hearing talk of police officers being murderers but they are significantly more likely to be killed by the general population than the general population is to be killed by them.

all cops, as part of the terms of their employment, agree to enforce all laws. this includes laws that are unjust or cruel.

cops are not bad because of the actions of a few of them; they're bad because they're cops.

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they should all just go on strike and see what happens

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Wii_Shaker posted...

Cute bird.

No. Cops are a necessary evil in urban settings. They just need to separate enforcing the law from terrorizing citizens. That's why people are calling for defunding the police, which won't exactly solve all problems either.

enforcing the law isn't separable from terrorizing citizens

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nemu posted...

It's an ecosystem that cannot be solved by just one thing. Gangs, the prison cycle, bad schools, higher percentage of cops who don't give shit, higher percentage of racist cops, broken families, etc. I don't know what the solution would be, but even firing all the current cops and replacing them would just be a temporary stop gap until they all either quit or became corrupt themselves.

defunding the police and allocating those funds into programs that actually help people and make the community safer

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nemu posted...

Those areas are their own ecosystems which need to be fixed. Basically, if the percentage of black people killed and harassed by police is primarily systemic across the country, the percentage should be roughly the same regardless of sample size. But if there are several major areas that alone account for that percentage, then it's more of a localized issue. It's the same thing with murder and gun deaths. If 20-50% of them are happening in one single area, it's a sign that a local area is broken rather than the entire US being broken. These numbers are just out of my ass obviously.

so basically what you're suggesting is that black communities being targeted disproportionately by police is their own problem

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Dreamscissors posted...

Well for women a good orgasm will turn their legs to jelly pretty much. I can't speak too much for men and anal

one time back in like January or February I ate this woman out for a really long time. she was extremely into it

after eating her out I left her room for about a minute to go wash my face. I came back, she was kneeling on her bed, legs apart.

she said "do you know why I'm in this position?"

I shrugged and said no.

she was like "I'm still cumming"

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nemu posted...

One thing I'd like to see is a chart similar to the coronavirus one where it shows a map of the US with circles to represent proportional cases of both reported incidents and those from surveys of people saying they were harassed. It wouldn't be surprising to see two or three extremely major circles representing the largest proportion of incidents. I'd bet money disregarding those areas would reduce everything across the board for all races.

why should geographic areas with more instances of police brutality be disregarded though

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Patchwork posted...

Though, Im sure certain cities are more pointedly direct at their own governments than others. NYC, for example, who seems intent on providing fuel to the fire every chance they get.

the cops are the ones adding fuel to the fire though. the NYPD trapped the protestors on a bridge

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