Sara's Response

And like, them apologizing doesn't change the stuff about Steven belonging to a homophobic church and using Watcher to promote it, and it doesn't change the employees and spouses going on Personal Attacks towarda upset fans on other platforms, it doesn't change the comments of "We love when people tell us we got them through hard times " in the same video as making it so people going through hard times jo longer have access to them as a respite. Removing the paywall doesn't change them, subconsciously or consciously, thinking of poor fans as Worthless and Lesser, and unless they actively work at dismantling these notions in their minds They'll Do It Again. They showed, very clearly, that Fans Are Numbers And Not People to them. That Fans are this abstract concept of Praise and Adoration and Money that exist just to serve their endeavors. That's not something you can change your mentality around in 3 days- that's something that needs Active And Purposeful Dismantling Within The Deeper Psyche. And to be quite frank I don't believe they'll be willing to do such work, because it's not Profitable to remember that Your Audience Is Real People, Not Numbers.

I am but a cockatiel spouting relevant information about the latest controversy.

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consider:

Bullying a boy child makes you just as evil as anyone bullying a girl child. Maybe just.. don’t bully children?

Chat why are some of yall hating on 14 year old trans boys for being ‘soft’ like. Oh gee. Did a young trans guy like other guys. Did it make you upset that he had a gay flag and that he’s a child.

I think most of the hatred that Caitlyn gets isn’t just the standard misogynistic hatred that female characters get, it’s hatred for the system she represents.

People forget that the enforcers are literally vessels to show Piltover’s dictatorship over Zaun. Enforcers started in LOL as a joke about police brutality (VI’s old attack names anyone?). In our current day and age it’s more than understandable why people might hate the character meant to be the oppressor. Caitlyn isn’t like Ekko or Jinx, she’s not fighting the system she’s a representative of the system.

I’m not saying nobody’s supposed to like her, the show wants to test your boundaries and make you think about stuff like this, I’m just sick of people not acknowledging the very real reasons people may not like Caitlyn. Right now in the US it’s not very fun or calming to see people fawning over a character that gassed a “lower people” with the way our politicians are acting.

Having a stroke sounds like a euphemism for jerking off

I feel I must inflict this insanity on other people because I’m genuinely so baffled by it,

I keep seeing this one woman on Pinterest claiming that any man using the words “pussy” or “cunt” in ANY way is sexist. And specifically she harps on trans men and non-binary people for using them. And I just-

Why must cis women police the language trans men use for their bodies? Multiple people have confronted her about how trans men use it to refer to their own bodies and it’s still somehow sexist?

I fear certain cis woman feminists have lost the plot slightly

starting thinking some of these callouts for ai are made by people who just don’t write that much.

Em-dashes are some of the most common “odd” punctuation. Have a character with two last names? Two middle names? A street name? An interruption in dialogue? A mocking way to refer to something? A made up name for something? seriously these guys are annoyingly useful.

someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

Idk if this is a hot take or not but I genuinely like most of the G3 monster high designs. Like hey, just because it's not the same vibe as the original doesn't to automatically make it bad. I can also agree that the quality of the clothing/accessories has probably fallen (like with every other doll line over time) but the general designs are still pretty good. Sure there are a couple wonky ones, and plenty of critiques to be said about erasing certain representations to be replaced with other less tactfully done (who tf thought it was a good idea to make Lagoona a Latina stereotype?????) but I genuinely appreciate this generation trying new things in reference to diversity. Anyway yeah I'm sad that the cute cartoon got canceled because a bunch of millennials refuse to support new projects for a newer generation of kids. (Lowkey gives the same vibes as when a couple gets together in a show and all of the anti-shippers rally so hard that they end up just killing off one half of the couple or changing the story but anyway)

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. . . .

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. . . .

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. . . .

Excerpt from George Washington's farewell address

You can read the full address here, this specific quote comes from pages 13-14