J.L. Switzer
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J.L. Switzer
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Surrounded by comics they never have time enough to read. Always tired. Writing nonsense about Robotech on the internet since the late '90s.
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Today is voting day in several states- go out and vote, local and state election do matter!
Do your part!
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so like are we also not allowed to celebrate this guys death or does that only apply to up and coming fascists who are still actively ruining society lol.
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Constantly thinking about this piece of Dunbine fan art from one of the Animages all the time
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On the court... IYKYK
Art by Nicolás R Giacondino #xmen
Doing this today. I always make sure to vote but SOMETIMES I get the satisfaction of voting against an old grade school bully who mourned a certain loudly & vocally mourned right wing figure on Facebook 2 months ago.

(2nd time I've had to vote against him, too -- he ran for county sheriff in 2020.)
Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.
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Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism.

We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-author...
The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built
We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
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Say what you want about Dick Cheney, but I admire a man who can shoot someone in the face and then get an apology for doing it.
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I can't disagree with any of this, except to say it's not even really about the money, per se: the bosses will happily nuke a perfectly profitable enterprise just because they don't like it, understand it, or think it should exist
It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on

And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring
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There's mixed media, and then there's throwing media in the blender along with some spray-painted Zoids and hitting puree.
Oh, have I got something that reflects what you’re talking about.

God bless you, South Korean Bootleg Knockoff Media.
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Kämpfer from Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (機動戦士ガンダム0080 ポケットの中の戦争) by hukutuuprunes
Oh, I do get that -- I blame my own feelings on it on being exposed to it as a very undiscerning five year old and it imprinting itself on my brain then.
Owing to the fact that it was on heavy rotation when I was a kid (the album of the score, not the film), one of the John Barry scores that always immediately jumps to MY mind is his score for (of all things) Howard the Duck -- and more specifically, this melancholy tune.
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Kämpfer from Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (機動戦士ガンダム0080 ポケットの中の戦争) by Takamaru Heavy Industries
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
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On Teen Vogue: It's an amazing publication full of talented journalists. It offers so much value. It's clear the monied interests in media aren't interested in preserving that value, especially if it threatens the status quo that undergirds their wealth. Capitalism and journalism are enemies.
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1. You lie and actively make the world a worse place with every word you utter, and the six-figure substack will be gravy on your staff position at a legacy outlet

2. You try to do good journalism and spend your life wondering what it's like to have health insurance

hmm, maybe needs a 3rd choice
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Chat, I'm not sure if a system that endlessly rewards being a cruel, dishonest, soulless hack and endlessly punishes doing something useful or good is a system that will survive, or a system that we want to survive.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Puma Sisters from Dominion Tank Police (1985). Art by Masamune Shirow.
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Big Barda by Jorge Jimenez & Matthew Nickerson