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T-Rob
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T-Rob
@TRobison110
Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | MAGA 🇺🇸 | CrossFit | Runner
Katılım Nisan 2015
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People focus on Rey's unearned power and skill, but honestly the worst thing she did that displayed her status as a Mary Sue is in the ending of the Force Awakens.
After learning her husband and father of her child Han Solo has just died in battle, what does Leia do?
Console Chewbacca? A grieving friend who was literally honor bound to protect Han, who saw him as family and was equally family to Leia having gone through years of adventures together?
No. She hugs the nobody scavenger girl who showed up five minutes ago, barely knows, and leaves Chewbacca to grieve alone.
The whole movie was bad but that one moment offended me in a way I can't describe. It was anger that can't be put into words.
THAT demonstrates why Rey is a Mary Sue.
John Carter@martianwyrdlord
Naturally she fails to understand the meaning of Mary Sue entirely. It does not mean "girl character", it means "perfect character who can do anything with no limitations". Luke Skywalker was a half decent pilot with a degree of natural ability with the Force that takes him years to develop. He isn't particularly good at anything else. From the very beginning of The Force Awakens, Rey is an expert pilot, a master martial artist, a top spaceship mechanic, and within five seconds of finding out that the Force exists ascends to the level of Jedi Master. She's also hot, smart, brave, and all the other good things. She needs neither assistance nor instruction. Character growth is unnecessary and impossible. Her only struggle is getting people to admit her natural perfect awesomeness. And even this comes easily to her.
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It's crazy to me how Robin Hood is now popularized as "stealing from the rich to give to the poor"
(Socialist messaging)
In reality, Robin Hood stole back the taxes that a cruel leader unjustly levied against the population
(Anti-socialist messaging)
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@CultureCrave “I’m just gonna say it”
*parrots the only political opinion you’re allowed to have in Hollywood without repercussions*
Wow, what a brave trailblazer.
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The world needs more pediatric neurologists.
If you are upset that this family is serving their community so honorably because the neurologist happens to be the wife, please, stop.
The Lord has blessed her with talents and we should all be proud she is mutliplying them
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints@Ch_JesusChrist
“I grew up in Arizona, served a mission in Mexico, and went to college thinking I had a pretty clear path for my life. Then I met my now wife Victoria, and everything changed in the best way. “She always knew she wanted to be a doctor. Pediatric neurology isn’t an easy road, but it’s who she is, compassionate, steady, brilliant, and drawn to help kids and families through the hardest things life hands them. When she got into med school in California, we packed up and moved. “Stepping into her dream together was an easy choice. I wanted to support her the way she has always supported me. And honestly, watching her work and sacrifice and love people like she does has strengthened my faith more than anything else. “My path hasn’t been as clear. I’ve tried different directions, learned a lot, prayed a lot. Some days I still feel like I’m figuring it out. But I do know that God doesn’t measure timelines. He measures love, humility, and the way we show up for each other. “Supporting her doesn’t shrink my purpose—it expands it. Our callings from God can look different, and that’s beautiful. I’m building my future too, but I’m grateful that right now, part of my purpose is cheering for the person I love most as she steps into hers. “There’s not one 'right way' to build a family or a future. For us, this is ours. And it’s sacred.” — Nate
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5 years ago today, John Walker did nothing wrong.
Cosmic Marvel@cosmic_marvel
5 years ago today, John Walker brutally murdered a Flag Smasher and tarnished the Captain America mantle in ‘THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER’
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@Conmanay @LavenderGhast In real life terrorists don’t have superpowers. With the super soldier serum in their veins they need to be treated like they are ALWAYS armed. ESPECIALLY with civilians around.
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@LavenderGhast The problem isn’t John killing that guy, it’s John brutally decapitating him. He went way too far with the kill. Soldiers are expected to be surgical instruments of violence, not executioners.
In real life he definitely would’ve been courtmarshaled
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What's wild is how this ever became a controversy and I know the show tried its hardest to victimize the super powered, civilian murdering terrorists but he neutralized a threat when they were surrounded by potential civilian casualties and just throwing your hands up last second after trying multiple times to kill him and injure or kill people around him doesn't mean he has to give him a chance to escape or hurt more people. As soon as you engage in open attempted and actual murder/terrorism and endanger innocent civilians you don't get to call time out when it stops going your way in the ensuing fight.
Not to mention I don't know where this idea of Captain America not killing came from. I recently rewatched some of the MCU movies and Cap was killing all the time. Not just in WW2, he was kicking dudes off ships before they had a chance to say anything or even surrender to drown in the ocean because he was on mission and they were all classed as enemy combatants. And he kicked innocent mind controlled people to their deaths off the helicarrier because the film didn't want you to really think about that at the time and just needed canon fodder guard enemies to shoot at the heroes, even though they were in the same position Hawkeye was.
Cosmic Marvel@cosmic_marvel
5 years ago today, John Walker brutally murdered a Flag Smasher and tarnished the Captain America mantle in ‘THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER’
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I’m not saying it’s the end of the world. I’m not saying it shakes my testimony as I understand that though it is posted by an official church account it was imperfect people who posted it and it isn’t “the church speaking”. I’m just voicing a seemingly common opinion that I don’t like it. Other people can like it.
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A guy has a wife who is the bread winner and you guys are mad at that?
Wow, chill out.
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@DravenDon @TPUSAatUVU The First Amendment protects her right to speak, and our right to call it distasteful and tone-deaf, especially after the assassination on campus. Criticizing a speaker choice isn’t violating free speech.
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Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction:
"In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in only two ways: the followers are ignorant and stupid and easily fooled, and the leaders are exploitative and cynical, manipulating others' faith for their private benefit.
I know some people who fit those descriptions. But they are in a tiny minority. Most religious people I know are smart, well-educated, independent-minded, stubborn, honest, and generous -- at least as much so as the average intellectual, and usually more.
The hostility toward religion among American intellectuals arises, I think, from a clear awareness that it was against a publicly religious culture that their own culture rebelled. Now that rebellion is completely successful in terms of capturing control of all the public instruments of transmission of culture -- the universities, the media, and the literature and art -- but it has become such a shibboleth of intellectual life to snipe at religion that, like the aging "revolutionaries" of the old Soviet Union, they mindlessly continue to "rebel" in order to defend their tight grip on the establishment. Indeed, those intellectuals are the establishment. And what was once a daring and rebellious stance is now just another example of lockstep conformists mindlessly echoing ideas that they haven't examined.
That's when contemporary fiction mentions religion at all. Most of the time, in and out of speculative fiction, religion simply doesn't exist. Characters don't believe in God or even think about believing in God. Nobody talks about religion. Nobody belongs to any kind of church. Religion simply doesn't exist. ...
This is, I think, a serious lapse, a dishonesty in our contemporary literature. It is most seriously dishonest because in fact, even the supposedly a-religious intellectuals behave exactly as religious people always have. That is, the behavioral and cultural patterns that we have always associated with religions are indistinguishable, except by vocabulary, from the behavioral and cultural patterns of the a-religious intellectuals. They band together with fellow believers, feel sorry for or hostile toward unbelievers, immediately punish heretics -- intellectuals who, having once been accepted in the 'faith,' dare to question its premises -- anoint their priests and theologians (psychologists and therapists being their ministers, scientists and, more usually, science popularizers being their doctors of atheology), and insist on their absolute right to put forth their religious ideas with public funding and the authority of the state behind them, while doing their utmost to silence or marginalize the beliefs of others.
Most fiction has become, in short, an instrument of propaganda for the established religion of our time, which differs from other religions only in the particular content of the faith and the vocabulary used to describe it. Naturally, the true believers are sure that the real difference is that their beliefs are objectively true. But then, true believers have always believed that. This is not what distinguishes them from other established religions, but rather what makes them fundamentally identical to them.
The honest depicter of human life will include the religious aspect of that life. This is not to say that stories need to be about religion, any more than stories about our contemporary culture need to be about cars. But the cars need to be present, at least by implication, and if a character doesn't know how to drive, we'd need to know why."
Is this why Hollywood stopped adapting his books into films?
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So many people in the comments are missing the point. The beef isn’t with the couple, it’s great that they’re happy and thriving. The beef is that the church’s official account shared the message. The Family Proclamation outlines what the norm should be, but individuals making the post on the church’s account are normalizing a dynamic that the church’s official stance dictates should not be the norm.
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@surskitmaxxing @LukeFHan “Should” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
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@LukeFHan They should have consistent direction coming from the top down, though
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As someone who works in social media, there's no mental gymnastics involved in questioning Church social media posts.
Do people seriously think the first presidency signs off on every single post, video, ad, and email put out by the Church?
Jared Cook@jkimballcook
it's a kind of mental gymnastics to simultaneously believe that the leadership of the church are prophets, seers and revelators who administer the church according to constant revelation and that they are also constantly being hoodwinked by PR employees
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No one is saying we shouldn’t have free speech. We’re saying Charlie Kirk was assassinated because leftists can’t handle truth.
He spent years debating people on campus, not silencing them. He championed free speech because he believed ideas should compete in the open not get you shot for saying things some found “shocking” or “abhorrent.”
Dismissing biological reality, the importance of family, secure borders, or the failures of progressive policy as mere “opinion” is exactly the mindset that turns disagreement into dehumanization. That’s what led a radical to put a bullet in him on a college campus in front of thousands. Not “outrageous speech” truths that challenged the narrative.
We’re not abandoning free speech. We’re rejecting the lie that you can call half the country hateful, celebrate or equivocate after their leaders are murdered, and then lecture the rest of us about tolerance. Charlie’s death proved the cost of that intolerance. We won’t pretend otherwise.
Camille Maddox@csmaddox2008
@VoteTrevorLee I disliked much of what Charlie said—things that were opinion, not truth As a champion for free speech, he made statements that were shocking & abhorrent to some “You should be allowed to say outrageous things.” It has been strange to see many of his followers abandon that idea
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Illegals don’t deserve amnesty and their babies don’t deserve citizenship.
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Who benefits when we teach kids that all villains are just misunderstood and there’s no evil?
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First look at Cinderella in ‘STEPS’, voiced by Amanda Seyfried. The film follows Cinderella’s evil stepsisters who are actually depicted as kind & misunderstood. Releasing later this year on Netflix.
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@TRobison110 @NoblestCalling Sounds like something a fellow spy would say
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“Listen, folks. Our immigration system is broken. Too many people have entered this country illegally. Which is why I’m proposing that we keep them here and then invite many more of them to come here—legally!”
Uh…come again?
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