@IRHotTakes
The Kessel Run is the most egregious example of this I've ever seen.
"The ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs" was obvious bullshit Han made up to impress an old man and a country bumpink. The script itself says so.
And they made an entire movie about it.
@thetyrantcbass
The fact that this extremely highly rated game, whose major themes include racism and white supremacy, has its most important black character turn into a violent savage once her revolution gains power remains one of the most baffling things I've ever seen in video games.
@shaun_vids
@Hbomberguy
Actually you're wrong. In fact the opposite is happening: most people consider their personal financial situation to be good, but the general state of the economy to be bad.
@InternetHippo
"How bad is this shit?", well, Project 2025 wants to ban pornography, and also their definition of "pornography" includes the mere existence of LGBTQ+ people.
And that's just one horrific proposal among many.
@InternetHippo
An hilarious aspect of Trump is the obsequiousness he shows to people he sees as "strong" is only matched by the utter contempt he shows to those he considers weak.
@JennyENicholson
@thelindsayellis
Still can't get over the fact that she's never fought for anything as hard as she's fighting for terfism. Not even for things she could have had a real impact on, like when they no-homo'ed the hell out of Fantastic Beasts.
Crazy that she decided that this is the hill to die on.
@SWTweets
There actually has been multiple Jewish Jedi grandmasters throughout the history of the temple. Isaac Bergstein, Anthony Goldberg, Noah Cohen... to only name a few.
@Kangaesugiru
@deportablediz
@CaseyExplosion
People who fervently demand the right to never have to question the culture they consume don't question their views on culture.
*surprised pikachu face*
@PartyWurmple
@opinonhaver
@0xKruzr
Yeah, like this thing is basically the Tory equivalent of singing the Internationale while flying the Soviet flag. It's a HUGE rhetorical change.
@steve81573937
@The_Law_Boy
The entire conservative movement is just one giant Allegory of the Cave, except the people brought to the surface have guns and they're threatening to shoot you if you don't let them go back down there because they're going to miss the 9 p.m shadow dance.
@Ettin64
@Hbomberguy
Even better is the fact that any attempt by these guys to produce anything of value outside the grift crumbles under the weight of their massive egos.
It's what happened to Comicsgate.
it's probably ok to bring a knife to a gun fight as long as you bring a gun too. honestly bring whatever you want except for a bad attitude—gun fights are about having FUN
@GoldwagNathan
I love that weird genre of jokes. My favorite one is in Discworld, where the first thing an innkeeper does after being introduced to the foreign concept of "inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea" is to try to commit insurance fraud by burning down his own establishment.
@ScottChalleen
@NateSilver538
"Something went wrong in Florida" is the only sentence that you can use in all circumstances, every single day of the year, and there's a 100% chance you will be correct
@IRHotTakes
Letting the Empire simply be a fascist dictatorship out of tune with the inherent spirituality of the universe would have been just fine, actually. And certainly way better than making your entire setting revolve around an eternal turf war between two gangs of space wizards.
@IRHotTakes
The Battle of France is the main pillar supporting the myth of the Wehrmacht as an hyper-efficient death machine, and then you read about it and it's just French generals making the dumbest possible decisions at every turn for months on end and it still ends up close.
@JonFox93
@CosmonautMarcus
Same reason why The Hobbit was made into a movie trilogy, with the third movie being entirely dedicated to a battle that happens off-screen in the book.
@opinonhaver
Here's another example of that: domestic abuser gets sent to jail for commiting violence against women; reacts by immediately commiting violence against a woman.
But viewed solely through the lens of aesthetics, this becomes an outburst of righteous anger at an unjust system.
@PopulismUpdates
Calling in early elections was a ballsy move —Sanchez's career would have basically been over if it had backfired— but damn it paid off. No majority, but Vox was humbled, the PP is in disarray and the left is reinvigorated after the disastrous results of the municipals.
@un_a_valeable
The cities that became the Mega Cities are sending me.
You've got, in order, Singapore, Shanghai, Stockholm, Brussels, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires and New York.
@MikeBlack114
@revhowardarson
In the twilight of Twitter, at the end of the world, the gates of the great Poasting Halls will open, and the gods will send to us their greatest warriors, who will ride without fear and without remorse do battle against the forces of darkness.
As has been foretold.
@himbopresident
@revhowardarson
This is something I feel deeply. What started as a commendable attempt to push back against media elitism turned into an all-encompassing flattening of culture itself. If all is equal, then low culture becomes de facto superior by virtue of being more popular and approachable.
@Chase_Hend
@cityafreaks
"They lie beneath the water, withdrawn, "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe.""
Dante describing median Florida voters.
@drmistercody
@JRubinBlogger
@Mediaite
Now, now, not so fast! Maybe the people who couldn't stop the producer of the Apprentice from taking over their entire party and turning it into his own personality cult have a thing or two to teach us about winning.
@muirab5
@Srirachachau
Pretty sure the prequels have been retconned as "actually good" by Star Wars fans now. Also George Lucas is also no longer a PoS who's ruined the franchise forever, but has always been good now.
In other news, you should never listen to fans about anything, ever.
@merovingians
That shit where they alternate between "FUCK YOU AMERIKKKA HAHAHA, IT'S OVER THE RED SEA WILL BE YOUR GRAVE" and "how dare you kill those smol beans freedom fighter heroes you monsters" is really pathetic.
@nothingface
@willmenaker
That's because they represent stability in the mind of the electorate. Which means that ironically in the US that might actually be more of a template for the Democrats than the Republicans.
@thelindsayellis
An explanation for the uninitiated: Republicans know they can only win through subtraction, not addition, so they're trying to lower turnout for Biden. This is them trying to scare people in the suburbs by trying to make Kamala Harris into the Queen of Antifa.
@IRHotTakes
Like the main principle of Blitzkrieg is to go fast to outmanoeuver your opponent at the strategic level, and French doctrine was literally just sitting around in total passivity waiting for the enemy to come at you. It was basically a free lunch!
@nise_yoshimi
@nikicaga
Polish resistance unit: Mali Bracia group. 1000 strong, blew up approximately 500 kms of rail tracks while only ever losing 1 man to the Nazis. After the war, the remaining 999 members were all executed by the NKVD.
@Hbomberguy
Anything that has meaning will eventually be emptied of it to be sold as a commodity, and paraded inside predetermined sanitized spaces constructed by souless corporate goons.