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@jroberts332 I dont have a funny reply for that so ill just enjoy it

@JustReadNtweets Sculky was my favourite

One of the reasons The X-Files was a success was that it arrived at *exactly* the right time. Five years earlier/later and it wouldn’t have worked at all. Maximum cultural salience, unrepeatable and impossible to contrive

@shebringsjoy As a serious non confrontational question, what IS being said about them thats bad?

I think this is a really valid part of the chaste/unchaste woman conversation. While we definitely should understand previously unchaste women, who convert and are chaste after conversion, are just as worthy of being cherished- a lot of what’s being said about faithful women who remain chaste until marriage is kind of terrible.

@Chaos_and_0rder What else to do with dusty floors?!

You’re. . . proud of this?

@KyleLeeWriter @memilies Maybe they will flip the script accordingly

I agree completely. I have faith in Coogler but I think that our society has become Mulder in the years since the show came out. In the 90's, the government skeptic, conspiracy theory believing Mulder was the weirdo. Now he's the everyman and the scientific minded Scully is the weirdo. There's a lot to play with in regards to government corruption, conspiracy theories that are proven true and others not, and of course police detective work is an infinite mine to work in, but it's not going to be easy.

love the casting for coogler's reboot, but I genuinely wonder whether a show like the x-files has any real stickiness in the world these days. cameras are too good for cryptids, governments are nakedly corrupt, and The Alien doesn't hold the same cultural weight as it did then.

@Chaos_and_0rder I did

NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS

@SixoTF Looks great

Optimus Prime has been many things over the years — a camera, a watch, a shoe! — so why not an Autobot logo? I wrote a thing about the new Icons toy - LINK BELOW Are you excited for this one or not convinced?

@SixoTF Happy about this one, i think the back and forths were getting stqle and very dependent on random divine luck to not get a team crushed every time. This dynamic might work better while keeping the overall setting that has been really nicröe

Skybound's Transformers #30 is now on release — and boy, is there *plenty* to say. Get the full deep dive on this latest eventful issue here, with MAJOR SPOILERS LINK BELOW What did you make of this issue?

@ChangFrick Identitetspolitik

Why do so many Europeans support Trump despite threats to annex Greenland? Several intellectuals in Sweden and other EU countries are asking the same question, albeit worded somewhat differently. Why is Trump supported, both openly and covertly, by a not inconsiderable number of individuals in EU countries? This despite threats to annex Greenland, undermine cooperation within NATO, and open threats of trade conflicts. “I don't get it”, writes an otherwise observant and talented Swedish right-wing debater on Facebook. Are these Trump and MAGA supporters influenced by Russian propaganda? Are they retarded? Fifth columnists? Some of these intellectuals who ask these questions are trying, without ulterior motives, to actually understand how people in Europe end up in this position. They ask questions on Facebook and on X and try to understand the answers they get. But they still can't make sense of the logic. For them, it doesn't compute. To understand the inability to comprehend what another person is trying to explain, despite speaking the same language, growing up in the same society, and otherwise sharing cultural references, we need to view society from a class perspective. But before we dissect a modern, enlightened and democratic EU country from a class perspective, we must first create an understanding of what a social class actually is. If we consider social classes based on strict material conditions, as Marx did, it becomes even more incomprehensible to understand Trump supporters in the EU. An academic, with a solid background in, for example, gender studies or postcolonial theories, statistically has a significantly lower income than the blue-collar worker who secretly cheers for Trump. One or more variables are missing to put it together. Instead, we need to understand social classes based on a multidimensional analysis. This idea was first formulated by Max Weber. According to Weber's class theory, economics is one of several factors that explain your class affiliation. Other factors can be education, background and social status. Even though the blue-collar worker earns more money than the academic with oh-so-advanced gender studies, the academic is still considered, by himself and by the media and cultural establishment, to be of higher rank. In the public debate that shapes our worldview, we do not view the world through the eyes of the worker – it is through the eyes of the academic, the journalist or the professional politician. In the Soviet flag, the hammer and sickle symbolize workers and peasants. It is a social class that basically supports society purely materially. Without them, we have no food on our plates, no houses, roads or infrastructure are built. Without them, there is also no tax base that can finance the academic's gender studies at the fine universities. Or the journalist's income or, for that matter, the politician. Despite this material relationship, we can reasonably assume that the typical academic, journalist or politician, in terms of probability, feels contempt for the lower classes. Despite the fact that they purely materially parasitize on the work of the lower classes. And this contempt is experienced by the social class without fine titles and LinkedIn profiles. But unlike the Bolshevik Soviet Union, workers and peasants have a significantly better material reality within the European Union. Working conditions are much better and the standard of living cannot even be compared to the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, one can ask the question whether these social classes are not even more dissatisfied in the EU than they were in the Soviet Union. It is not inconceivable that this is actually the case, although it is difficult to measure precisely. In eastern Germany, support is strongest for the AfD, but they are also achieving increasing success in western Germany. In Britain, the political map is being completely redrawn with Reform UK. In Sweden, the Sweden Democrats have gone from being a small, reviled racist political party to becoming a dominant power factor. It is not the establishment that has become "far right", it is an increasingly large part of the working class. When the Mercosur agreement was about to materialize, we saw violent protests from European farmers. Tractors ramming police cars, fertilizer spreaders spraying feces at parliament buildings and pure brawls. The background is simple. For environmental and other ethical reasons, the EU has increasingly regulated what farmers are allowed to do in their operations. There is no shortage of absurd examples of how rules are interpreted and implemented. In Sweden, for example, we had a debate a couple of years ago about new EU rules that, in short, require forest owners to inventory all birds living in the trees. "The forest near the residential building in Hillsand is Tommy Blomberg's second home. He grew up here and spends both work and leisure time. For four generations, his family has managed the forest. But now, as he himself says, he is no longer allowed to touch a single stick in his own forest," reads the introduction to the Swedish local newspaper, which draws attention to how the new rules affect a small local forest owner. On one end, academics, bureaucrats, Greta Thunberg and politicians. At the other end, a forest farmer. The forest farmer has no chance, he has no power or influence over the EU bureaucracy or the political and cultural establishment. It is not that the Swedish music artist Zara Larsson will make a song or a media statement about a simple forest farmer in central Sweden. Instead, she defends "criminals" and strongly opposes the American immigration police ICE. And in the Swedish media she is praised for her statement. "More likely Zara Larsson to get Nobel Prize than Trump," reads a headline in Sweden's largest newspaper Aftonbladet after Larsson's statement. In another headline, in the same newspaper and on the same topic, we learn that Larsson has "backbone". But no matter how I search for the forest farmer's name and location in Sweden's largest newspaper, I get no result. He has lost control over his own forest. A forest that has been owned by his family for four generations. And those who should actually be on his side, the cultural elite and journalists, are instead busy "loving" criminals, immigrants, gender studies and other things that are much more chic. And most of all, they are of course more busy hating Trump. Of course, I have no idea where this particular forest farmer stands politically, but just a few days ago a survey came out in Sweden that confirmed that the Sweden Democrats, the only Swedish party that plays the same political role as Trump does in the US, is now the largest party among Swedish farmers. I could write long books with more similar examples where the story is the same. People from the social classes represented in the Soviet flag who find themselves completely powerless. And a kind of cultural and media bourgeoisie who not only ignore the lower classes, they actively mock and ridicule them. We saw the same thing in the US when Hillary Clinton uttered the catchphrase "basket of deplorables". But in the US, unlike in Europe, there are safety valves. In the US, concepts such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and other freedoms are absolute. Not least the right to property, a fundamental liberal principle. In several EU countries, the police knock on the door if you criticize immigration, for example, with the wrong kind of wording. But when a forest farmer no longer feels that he owns and has power over the forest that on paper has belonged to the family for four generations, when the country is filled with people from the other side of the globe who live on welfare from sky-high taxes and when environmental regulations acquire such a strong religious status that entire industrial operations are forced to move to other parts of the world – then the country no longer belongs to the workers or farmers. They are unwanted in this social construction. A basket of deplorables. Why should they defend Greenland, an abstract landmass where very few have even set foot, which on paper is considered to belong to Denmark and thereby somehow considered to be part of the EU? If a forest farmer cannot even feel that he owns his own forest, how can he feel that Greenland is something that belongs to him? And why should he defend something that he does not feel belongs to him? Even less do these social classes "workers and farmers" feel that the EU, or the left-liberal establishment, belongs to them. It is rather that Trump, from across the Atlantic, is better able to articulate their feelings and experiences than mainstream journalists in their own countries. These people want to see the world burn. For good reason. They want to see Zara Larsson burn with her beloved criminals. They want to see Greta Thunberg burn with her beloved Hamas activists. They want to see the academics, the environmentalists, the journalists, and the cultural and political establishment burn. And anyone who takes their eyes off the commercial and virtue signaling of Zara Larsson or Greta Thunberg for a moment and reads a history book instead can learn what happens when workers unite. Revolution. I can't explain to my intellectual friend any better than that why support for Trump, although not always open and well-articulated, exists and thrives in large social classes among countries in the European Union.

@WomenReadWomen At some point, people started believing that identity comes entirely from within instead of being a social construct that only exists in a societal context. This then made concepts like gender or even identity politica completely useless.

Feminists said that women aren't simply walking stereotypes, sex objects, or cheap labor. Trans activists have defined womanhood as “an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,” and said “the asshole is a universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed.” In the former, women were rejecting stereotypes, and in the latter, womanhood is reduced to stereotypes and sex objects. Trans activism is the EXACT OPPOSITE of feminism. Transgenderism defines womanhood as porn, a male fetish, and sexual receptivity. It was conjured up by sexologists who sought to normalize a pathological male sexual fetish. A castration fetish. I fully believe that any man who can't understand this is either a pompous moron or a porn addict, and likely both. It's as though they take a sadistic pleasure in wreaking psychological revenge on women for refusing to be subservient sex dolls and housemaids. Which in my experience - years of writing about men with sexual pathologies - is frighteningly similar to the motivations of transvestites. Both trans activists and so-called "gender critical" men who blame women's rights for gender ideology believe that womanhood can, and should, be reduced to a performance of femininity.

@mightydudbolt @Torgan616 You cant say that scene is the culmination and at the same time object to someone saying it is in fact not the culmination of his arc

I'm talking about the shot that I'm talking about. You seem to agree with me about what it's supposed to be communicating, and I'm saying it's a tedious cliché. You are incapable of responding to someone who disagrees with you without accusing them of dishonesty, because you are insecure about your own opinions.

Syril is giving a long dramatic scene in which he sees that the stability he fought for was a lie. It's a heavy-handed turning point for his character. ... And then he sees Cassian and seals his fate. That's the subversion. You're being disingenuous.

@Torgan616 Its actually sub grade school level blindness to say this is the culmination of his arc, the "subversion" is. That and the fact that neither his side nor the other side knew who he was thos whole time.

@dumbjakeworld Hes one of the top minor characters id say, with a decent intro in the first show, a defined powerset and a popular role in idw. So im not suprised, but i think it was a reasonable bot to sacrifice

@HariciiFortress How can that hot rod win every pose contest ever

@AriDrennen If, and its a big if, this was a meaningful comparison at all, it would be whether all the people in the picture should be allowed to self identify as bipedal

The “trans logic” in this analogy is that some of these people should be allowed wheelchairs

@esjesjesj Why does everyone in the comments seem to think whether 39 is fertile or not is the issue here.

Remember that study that showed right wingers are sociopaths that they are too stupid to understand

@saxandviolins77 @Autobot_Sonic The wold thing about mtmte was that they played it as if they would have thousands of pages to develop from day 1.

@Autobot_Sonic sometimes to the detriment of the story. At least Rung's presence was somewhat understated in the first few arcs. Shredhead came out of nowhere and has only aurafarmed (plus idk if Kirkman is interested in developing them), and Arcee's upgrade was pretty rushed (IMO).

Transformers writers trying to leave their mark on the franchise for the fleeting moment they're writing. DWJ had Shredhead, and now Kirkman has Arcee Magnus.

@Zedortoo As opposed to RiD because its the only one about robots in disguise

Y'know the fact Transformers Animated is called that is incredibly funny. Buddy you'll never guess how they made all the other transformers shows

@esjesjesj Isnt it though? How much of a leg do you need to have a leg? Im not sure theres a real difference between arm and leg that isnt entirely social.

Legs aren’t a social construct moron

@swashpickler2 @TFHypeGuy Yeah im not saying it couldnt be better, but i think some of us tend to judge background characters a bit harshly because to us they arent just filler, we know them already. But thats not really a fault of the run (yet) and we should try to look past it

@JustReadNtweets @TFHypeGuy cliffjumper is kinda fine cuz he was a decent character at the start, but he's been how he is for a while now, he's gotten a lil stagnant is what i mean

Oh my child, my sweet boy. If they unceremoniously kill you off without giving you a shred of character like most of the Autobots I'm gonna write some very angry letters!!!!