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Existence of envy/jealousy is just who we are. How we express it- up to and including attempting to combat the feeling- is a learned behavior.

That joke existed because the first three movies were made in the 70s. You know, the 1970s? Four decades ago? As in, May 1977 was 12 years and ten months after the Civil Rights Act? It's really, really, really not anyone's fault other than Disney's that they decided to invalidate the EU...

Leonia Tavira might argue with you there. Even if she, uh, didn't quite do it officially per se. That is a good point though. Palpatine's Empire was supposed to be both humanocentric and thoroughly chauvinist. I suppose it's meant to be all hurr blurr grey morality most of the Empire isn't...

And yet. If the book is bad it's so much chaff in the wind, unfortunately. On the plus side, if it is people might even learn something. The first time you buy something that's terrible because the marketing appealed to your political sensibilities is something you never quite forget going...

I've played as non-US factions plenty of times in strategy games (like, say, Hearts of Iron), to say nothing of shooters. So, no, not a problem for me.

Whenever someone points to diversity as a selling point for a book, I can't help but wonder if that's really the best pitch they've got for said book. Call me cynical, but I'd rather hear something about the actual quality of the yarn. Or to put it another way: "That's nice. Is it good...

Hmm. In so far as the expanded universe works go, to hell with Karen Traviss. It's so nice how I can sometimes carry over sentiments from one universe to another. In so far as the games go, I loathed the original, liked 2/3/ODST, and haven't played 4. I'm not a big shooter player as a matter...

You personally shouldn't be sorry or guilty or whatever the fuck. Remember it happened and that it wasn't a good thing to repress and exploit millions of people, sure. That's not the same thing as feeling guilty/sorry/whatever. That's awareness. Feeling bad about it won't unmake history.

A movie mythologizing about William Wallace has evil Englishmen. Oh, the humanity. I can only hope none of the people quoted in the OP ever saw the proto-Waffen SS in The Patriot.

Practicality matters. Most superhero/superheroine costumes aren't really the sort of thing you can put on/take off like normal clothes, and that makes accurately modeling the costumes in live-action adaptations kind of a fool's errand. Traditionally, Supergirl wears a skirt. Supergirl, as...

Well. It's all downhill from here, innit?

There was a point in the tweet, beyond deriding the phrase "punk rock conservative"? It's a ridiculous phrase, to be sure. It's kind of cute that you're trying this, but okay I'll play. We are not talking about a general rule. We're talking about a stupid political Twitter slapfight...

I meant you, hence my pronoun usage. - Looking him up a bit more I now have a general opinion. We'll see, I suppose. This sort of person is rarely able to keep their politics out of their work; eventually something's going to happen that'll push their "Look at me, I don't care! Come see...

I'd seriously consider calling emergency services because I don't think anyone anywhere ever can possibly be that high without death by overdose being near.

I don't have an opinion about this in general (yet), but this bit is bullshit. If someone says "In related news, punk is dead and I wish I was too", you don't get to pearl-clutch when someone calls them on their melodramatic idiocy. That's just beyond all sense.