J.I.D.1.2.3
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Star Wars Nerd, She-Ra Fan, and Pop Culture Enthusiast, Single. He/Him
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1. Tim Burton
2. Alice and Wonderland.

Thats pretty easy.
WHY DIDN'T YOU MFS SEE THIS MOVIE IN THE SAME NUMBERS YOU SAW ALICE IN WONDERLAND?!
I think Star Wars book fans gotta get to a point where we realize what happens in the books and comics is probably never gonna really have bearings on the films.

At least in a major way.

Like MAYBE a cool design or character comes in but not like plot points or story threads.
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It's 2025 and still: folks, you don't have to tag writers with what you didn't like about their books. Like if we go looking up reviews and get stung, that's on us, but we shouldn't have to brace to even open our mentions on social media. Christ.
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...that "being into HP" was anything other than good. If anything, if you DIDN'T at least casually endorse it, you were AGAINST "the concept of child literacy" and "success for women in publishing" 🙃
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The *closest* to pushback HP got was some toothless Evangelical anti-witchcraft stuff but New Age went CRAZY mainstream in the same era - Fundies were a punchline. Meanwhile, Rowling had her BS feminist-bootstrap origin story to counter it; there was NO meaningful vibe telling fans...
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HP got/stayed as popular as it did (as an IP) because it bullseyed a popcult "moment" where it managed to both hit AND face absolutely ZERO meaningful 'resistance' - it was only ever endorsed: Kids liked it, teachers/parents agreed "Hooray kids are reading 'really books!," the movies were solid, etc
If you're wondering why I was asking about fantasy movies, my wife and I, who are not fans of Harry Potter, are trying to figure out if the fact that the Harry Potter movies are basically competent was a huge factor in its longevity because so many fantasy films are weirdly bad
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If we pull out of this a smart observer is going to prove that Elon Musk’s X created a doom loop that they couldn’t escape.
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It's wild how often on social media what feels like you having a disagreement with someone is simply you both talking about different parts of the same thing, its all blind men and an elephant out here
Its also why i don't mind the whole OT trio lives getting dark, because ultimately they still had good times and those good times meant something.
Sure SOME regimes are total failures in a academic sense.

But i think on principle having a thing end doesn't automatically make it a failure

EVERYTHING ENDS the cycle begins again
In general im a firm believe that EVERY SYSTEM will end at one point. There is no forever Star Trek Utopia where we live happily ever after, things will decay and decline over time. But that doesn't mean when it was around it wasn't real
I hate it when people say The Republic in Star Wars was a failure because it fell. I feel like that undermines the point a bit of just because it feel doesn't mean it was never real.

Plus it lasted for a 1000 years so come on! That's a long time!
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This rally has one of my senators, the dem gubernatorial candidate, and the DNC chair. An unexpectedly good lineup.
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It doesn’t make more aggressive forms of protest and resistance less effective. It makes them more effective. It can raise public tolerance for protest, introduces new people to acts of resistance, and lay the groundwork for larger networks of solidarity.
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Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
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When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.
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Fun and play are often a part of social movements as the people trust the larger group to hold their values as the conflict with the state expands. The anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 were full of folks dressed like loggerhead turtles and dolphins and stuff dancing to RATM. Very fun + serious.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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A videogame is good when you don’t have a bitch in your ear telling you it’s shit.
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A lot of the Left try the line "you can't be happy under capitalism, only revolutionary struggle can help you". Maybe, but if revolutionary struggle makes feel worse because the Left treats me like shit (true story), guess I'll die and the Left won't miss me
imo the left implicitly cedes a lot of mindshare to the right by trying to make individual advice societal advice. while it's just objectively true that structural forces determine most of your life, that's not really good advice *for a person* to hear. gotta focus on the 20-30% they can control
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It's striking that some anarchists and ultralefts - although they reject the Leninist conception of the "political vanguard" - talk about themselves in such a way that it's clear they seem themselves as a *moral* vanguard. Or even an ethical elite. They're simply *better people* than normies. 🧵