lath

I would think it pretty obvious why: to replace them with yes-men figureheads who will do the dumbest shit possible at a whim.

Seriously, like Gandalf just means magic elf. So he’s just the magic elf that wears grey. Then he’s the magic elf that wears white.

Names are just that, things we observe, want or expect.

Yup, completely accurate. It’s not MAGA, it’s not fascism, it’s not climate change. It’s all you. Be better and stop believing all the propaganda!

Gamerpoop moment.

Maybe he could, maybe he should, maybe he would. The character might, but if the writers don’t, then that’s not on the character.

I’m taking batman, you’re talking the company writing him. So there’s no reason why I should feel shame, but you might for mixing up the two.

He gives it away to charities and organizations that embezzle the money, use a part of it to bribe and threaten their way into decriminalizing their actions and use the rest to steal and hoard even more money in order to wrest control over the populace and treat everyone as less than shit.

Better?

Of course he is, because both his playboy persona and activities as Batman require him to have someone else manage his wealth for him. Publicly he’s Wayne Enterprises’ pretty boy and the board is making the actual decisions. Privately, all he has the time for is to see that they don’t go all evil behind his back.

Money gets made with or without you. And when you’re in that kind of position, you either stay around and make sure a larger part of it gets used for doing good or you walk away and be sure others will hoard and use it for doing bad.

Yeah, it’s because the world loves you. When the escalator stops, it’s to stop you from meeting the serial killer that would otherwise make you their next victim.

Bad things happen to prevent worse things from happening. Or so we comfort ourselves at night.

Stockholm syndrome was supposedly debunked recently.

What it actually looks to be is a stripped out and twisted version of meritocracy.

“I’ve worked for my achievements and earned my rights, everyone else should do the same or not share in my privileges.”

For me that remains open to interpretation. The colonies were of different countries and up until Lincoln, they mixed together with the natives (what was left of them anyway) and the black slaves. And though his work was cut short, tangential evidence suggests to Lincoln working towards a complete integration.

Many use that vision when mentioning Lincoln and it’s possible that’s why it was also used as an argument in the article.

Then again, deconstructing it into a form of colonial dominion is also an opinion.

Of course. People change, ideas change, needs change. What was can’t always be.

Can you guarantee generations after you will continue to do that or won’t backtrack on that work? Because the US did do what you’re saying in the past.

Point is, you’re judging a country’s entire history from a position you’re in at the current moment in time. A position which isn’t guaranteed to last.

Every country is built upon the bones of the oppressed. Why pick and choose?

Weren’t there stories about sheep following their leaders off cliffs?

And don’t lions win territories by being more suicidal than their opponent?

Animals are quite similar to humans. We’re all just trying to survive with whatever we have at hand.

Far as I recall, the electric vehicle’s cameras were (perhaps illegally) used against the protesters for surveillance and identification purposes.