People want to have it both ways.

It’s more a thing with books, “death of the author”, cause the author might say it means one thing but you can look at the text and question what it’s actually saying, infer new meaning etc.

Like Tolkien insisting that his books contained no allegory. The amount of accidentally allegorical content in LotR is staggering.

It’s not as close to an exact quote as I thought, to be honest, but I stand by the sentiment that the statement was unsupportive of the trans community.

My espresso has arrived. Clinton asks for more iced tea. I cannot allow the lunch to end without questioning the direction of her party. I say that Democrats seem to be going out of their way to lose elections by elevating activist causes, notably the transgender debate, which are relevant only to a small minority. What sense does it make to depict JK Rowling as a fascist? To my surprise, Clinton shares the premise of my question.

“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” she says. “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”

From an interview with the Financial Times

I’d note 4 things:

1. The question is obviously heavily framed as an anti-trans question
2. A lot of right wing news outlets reported the initial question as if Clinton herself was the one who said it, which isn’t true.
3. Most non-right-wing outlets didn’t mention the context that she was responding to a question about trans people at all
4. She never retracted or clarified her statement after the fact

Why subtweet Hillary Clinton on this one? It’s almost an exact quote.

What are they gonna do if Trump gets a second term? Just cancel themselves?

Is there a non-sexual way for that to look cozy?

What is the “good” that I’m somehow opposing with my perfectionism? What is good about this bill? Preferably not in the form of the Wikipedia article for another thought terminating cliche.

Legit, let the stopped clocks be right. What, should we prefer they be wrong even more often than they already are?

She’s literally supporting signing a bill that funds building the wall. How is that not going back on her opposition to the wall? Not to mention the wall is probably one of the less egregious parts of that bill.

Right? I didn’t know he’d said he would use the power like that before I’d read the article and I had to double check it was a Biden quote. What an evil fucking ghoul.

Well first of all it gives the president the abilty to shut the border down until they figure out what the hell is going on

Where in the bill is this stated?

Biden said of the bill, “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

source

To anyone saying to just go read the bill, I’d love for you to point me to an article that even names the name of the bill in question, let alone links to the full text of the bill. I just spent 10 minutes searching for it and I’m giving up because I have better shit to do.

Seems like stealth checks at higher levels could alter DCs for this phenomenon

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about. Funny how Trump is a fascist no matter what definition you use.

Umberto Eco completely ignores the material basis for fascism, which is usually the downwardly mobile petit bourgeoisie. Fascism takes advantage of superstructural elements, which is why Eco’s list contains the elements it does in a kind of grab bag fashion. But it still has a material basis, itself being a response to a crisis within capitalism. Would highly recommend The Jakarta Method for further reading on what people are discussing in your replies and in this thread.

On Hexbear I’ve only ever seen it called Molotov day

I spend 8 hours a day gluing together spells my company purchased from a proprietary caster’s book to serve increasingly arcane (no pun intended) business needs. In my free time, I like to read about the latest advancements in corporate spellcraft, but most of the new spells are either patches of old spells or new spells that fix problems created by popular spells of the past 5 years. These new spells inevitably introduce new problems that will be “solved” in another 5 years.

$130k? Is that for real? What a scam

How people think wizards would talk:

Behold! I have unfurled powers beyond mortal comprehension!

How wizards would actually talk:

If I hear, “why don’t you just channel the infernal essence through an ephemeral plane?” one more goddamn time from someone who hasn’t actually read the fucking rune diagrams, I’m going to lose my shit.

Oh shit I’m so owned