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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 57m

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 36m

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 16m

Every chest splits in two!

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 22m

Especially since our chest splits in two right down the center! Right where the things we hang from the neck hang, making a perfect little visually pleasing and secure spot for it!

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 54m

necks are just so perfect for hanging things around. really good that we have them. good character design

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Coop @riderstrike.bsky.social · 1h

Looking for further context on this frustrating recurring story? Earlier this year, I spoke with librarians from across the country about manga become a new target for book banners.

It’s only gotten worse since then

www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 9h

Apologies if anyone felt I was being short (emotional) I was trying to be short (material) bc I was attempting to reply to too many people too fast and I'm kinda mentally drained rn!

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 9h

Its chill, I'm just calling this session closed, I was exhausted from all the conventions this week anyway and not rly prepared to engage on that scale meaningfully!

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 9h

I love you all still! Thank you for the impromptu philosophers' senate, I just have spent all the time on the topic I want to now!

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 9h

I did not expect this to break confinement & get told I have brain damage for saying its ok for Aku not to have some UwU relatable reason to be a shapeshifting master of darkness unleashing evil OR be misunderstood as saying that villains should never be sympathetic

SO I have muted it now thanks 💖

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 10h

Its really not really recontextualization though to me? We didn't know about Demise, but we knew he was ganon, and we knew Ganon was an evil tyrant hellhog, and we knew that for ten years at least prior (royal we because I was not alive for most of those years, but I'm sure you werent either)

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not saying you can't do any of that! The stance I'm taking in fact is that people shouldn't tell OTHER people they can't do something, and that that limits what can be created by placing an objective "good" or "bad" on these qualities in a villain. Aku is just an evil shapeshifter and thats fine

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know much about UK gang politics but in the US generally gangs arise and take power by exploiting and recruiting a class or demographic of people that is highly underserved and actively stifled by the govt or economy, and treated the underlying problems tends to greatly alleviate gang ranks

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 11h

Dude is Ganon, the remnant of demise and tyrant of the triforce of power persisting by spite generation after generation. Ganon just took a human skinsuit this time: he never would have been satisfied by merely controlling the hyrule valley- its a thing he didn't like, but it isn't why he is evil

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 11h

Windwaker Ganondorf was and has always been my least favorite of them, and its partially because people hear him say this stuff and just take it as sympathetic motivation like he hadn't already fully abandoned the Gerudo and embraced monster summoning and abhorrent evil by the time the floods came

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 11h

Why are heros not allowed to just destroy evil and restore balance? Aang didn't have to see himself in Fire Lord Ozai

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 11h

Big disagree, we don't need to know WHY Aku is a shape shifting master of darkness who has the power to unleash an unspeakable evil, we just know he IS and he DID.

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15h

Yes!! It was an interesting dynamic that people kept falling for it and Frieren is just like "ugh, you idiots, you fall for it every time just because they're pretty."
Humans want so hard to empathize and that's good but when someone isn't going to you also have to learn that lesson!

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15h

I love it though lol. I mean, I saw it coming a mile away, but it was just so funny

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15h

My point isn't that your preference is incorrect- its that this thing you DON'T prefer also isn't incorrect. Aku isn't WRONG as a villain just because he isn't sympathetic- in fact, I'd argue it would not serve the story of Samurai Jack for him to be, because itd distract us from Jack's Odyssey.

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry, I'm not trying to dismissive I promise! But like... I like Aku more. I just want to make sure we aren't stating preferences as objective facts, you know?

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15h

*in your opinion

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 19h

I still need to see this!!

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 19h

Beyond turning*

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, I vote let yourself write that kind of villain, and a hero who tries to empathize and get them to see reason, and simply... can't. And must reckon with the fact that some people are being turning good, but that it shouldn't stop them from trying every time. I think that is very interesting

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