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You know that fictionalized love story of Cyrano de Bergerac saying he wrote love letters to Roxane, the woman he was in love with, on the behalf of Christian whom Roxane was in love with and vice versa?

I think Eleanor was a little like that with Chidi and Simone. She didn’t exactly write poetic letters but she did lend her greater eloquence in matters of love to Chidi, just as an initial push, because she knew how she would court Simone. She wouldn’t get between Chidi and Simone when she knew they were attracted to each other, though. She loved both of them too much, these good and brilliant (and hot!!!) people who were doing so much to help her. And now Simone will never know 😭

Any group of gentiles has a propensity for antisemitism. Definitely, the Nazis weren’t socialists, but the Soviet Union was horribly antisemitic as well. That’s why any solution to bigotry that focuses on a group of people being the sole perpetrators of that bigotry (like Christians, Right-Wingers, etc.) ignores how common bigotry is in the opposite groups when practiced by privileged people (white gentile Atheists, rich Left-Wingers, etc., respectively). (Moth)

I suspect that’s why Nazis get played up so much as a Special Kind of evil. It helps other them from the other nice white Gentiles, and it doesn’t do to admit that their bigotry is rather mundane in the West and baked into the entire project of an all-white, all-Christian Europe/U.S. etc.

Star Wars: Resistance S1E02 spoilers

This one was a nice, solid episode showing Kaz going from wanting to be a flashy hero to realizing he has to make the Colossus his home to be effective at his job. It was nice to see him doing the right thing in quiet ways that come at a personal cost.

I love how Tam good-naturedly ribs him and that she’s far too sharp to believe his admittedly terrible cover. I said before that Tam reminds me of Rey, but there’s a charming contrast in how Rey was all too eager to believe Finn’s equally terrible cover while Tam knows something’s up. It probably has something to do with Rey being a nerdy backwater hick while Tam’s been living and working at “a hive of scum and villainy.” She probably saw a thing or two being with Yeager’s crew, too. Tam and Kaz’s interactions throughout the episode felt like an extended
version of Rey and Finn repairing the Millennium Falcon.

Speaking of Yeager, Idc about his protestations about being above intrigue, the guy is Poe’s trusted contact and he’s way more deeply tapped in than he likes to let on. I wonder if his name comes from jäger?

Neeku saying he wouldn’t want to look under a Stormtrooper’s helmet had me laughing and makes me wonder if we’ll be seeing Finn at some point, especially since we’re seeing FO scenes. Speaking of which,

PHAAAASMMMMAAAAAAA I MISSED YOU, YOU HORRID BITCH

Also one of the pirates is actually in Stormtrooper armor? Probably got it off some sod they killed, but the red markings on it came across like an evil version of Finn’s blood-marked armor. This isn’t the first time we see repurposed Trooper armor in the ST timeline, see Agent Terex, and it helps give the feel of a post-war–very soon to be mid-war–world where there’s a surplus of found, bought, or “liberated” military equipment.

It appears the pilots of the Colossus aren’t just fancy sports stars but constitute its defenses as well. But why are there so few of them? Maybe wasting talent and resources in basically a blood sport isn’t the most conducive to the place’s long-term survival. Just saying.

It could be just the quality of footage I’m getting, but the animation looks terrible. The motions are generic and unconvincing, and the contrast between the 3D models and drawn figures is jarring. It’s a far cry from TCW and Rebels and has a low-budget look. It’s not unwatchable, though, and the stories and character are keeping me interested so far.

Nazis were socialists. Neo-Nazis… not so much.

thehungryvortigaunt:

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I mean sure Nazis spouted socialist buzzwords for political reasons while undermining actual socialist tenets, but who cares when you can buy into and repeat propaganda that they spread to peel off leftist support (link)?

They were fascists who deliberately called themselves “national socialists” to seem more appealing to working-classes, even while their “solutions” involved scapegoating the same kind of people that Christians have always scapegoated.

Pretty funny considering how much hatred fascists had for actual socialists and communists; even funnier when you remember the commies were the ones who eventually laid waste to the Germans.

The leftists who could be convinced by antisemitic rhetoric (thinly veiled in anti-capitalist buzzwords) to support the Nazis were probably always there and just needed the push. It’s not so much Nazis being socialists as socialists harboring a fuckton of potential Nazis, which is still true today. Hello British Labour Party and other trashfires!

Hitler was right in his fear of Communists I guess 😂 (Though it was really Russia that beat the Germans back, not Stalin.) I read a book about Berlin near the end of the war and how desperate Nazi officials were to surrender to the West before the USSR got to them. The Allies were all hemming and hawing uhhh maybe idk while Stalin’s forces single-mindedly marched toward Berlin spitting blood and hate. It would have been funny if the consequences weren’t so tragic.