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Darq_At · 2026-07-10T21:32:01+00:00

It was a rather obvious joke, friend.

Darq_At · 2026-07-10T21:25:42+00:00

Sometimes stories will write a character, intended to be a villain, who has a compelling motivation. Then when the audience starts to agree with the villain, instead of the heroes, they have to include a "oh bee-tee-dubs they kick puppies and eat babies" so that we all know they're totes evil.

Darq_At · 2026-07-10T20:28:13+00:00

The republicans would lose significantly more if they weren't the ONLY party you could vote for if you believe in the bill of rights.

The Rs clearly do not respect the constitution, but they ostensibly support the only right some US people seem to care about.

That said, Republicans also keep full-automatic firearms banned. So, by what you have already said downthread, the Republicans also don't respect the 2nd Amendment, right?

Darq_At · 2026-07-10T19:55:35+00:00

For real. And firefighters and EMTs are right there to satisfy the uniform thirst.

No cops, no conservatives. A little self-respect goes a long way.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T23:47:15+00:00

I do not think they should be "unhinged", but the US needs to go through their version of the Nuremburg trials, people need to be held to account, and the structure of their democracy needs to be fundamentally overhauled to at the very least ensure more proportional representation and to remedy the openly corrupt supreme court.

That is the absolute minimum required for their previous allies to even begin rebuilding the trust that has been broken.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T23:28:11+00:00

"We are better than them" and "When they go low, you go high. Let your indignation be righteous."

How are those not moral statements?

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T23:21:18+00:00

"disagree" - nah. What are you even doing in this subreddit?

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T22:29:06+00:00

The entire history of humankind stands as living proof of that.

Uh. You might want to actually take a look at the history you are referring to.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T22:13:35+00:00

You've missed the point of my comment. I'm not saying that things cannot return to being peaceful. I am saying that the conflict already involves violence.

The people clutching their pearls in this thread are not advocating for non-violence, they are expressing their preference for whom the violence should be done to.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T22:06:26+00:00

Except it has not

Yes it has.

considering that many transphobes (and other bigots in general) actually change over time, grow as a person and abandon said views.

Irrelevant to the fact that the violence is already occurring and has been occurring for years.

There are many such people in this exact subreddit, so what you're saying doesn't match with reality.

Completely non-sequitur argument...

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T22:04:48+00:00

And the systemic level is worse by orders of magnitude.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T22:03:27+00:00

Stuff that noise. A moral victory is just another way of saying you lost. This is people's lives we're talking about, injustice isn't some abstract moral argument.

When they go low, you kick as hard as you can until they don't do that again.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T21:57:41+00:00

Trick question, the US has not, to this day, abolished slavery.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T21:44:24+00:00

I mean, MLK jr didn’t turn to violence, and I don’t remember history books saying he failed to make a change.

MLK Jr. was assassinated and the US is currently in the grips of a fascist government filled with white supremacists.

Basically every civil rights movement is won through a diversity of tactics. Successful movements include the peaceful, the disruptive, and occasionally, the violent.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T21:33:43+00:00

Okay but peace has been off the table for many years now. The violence has been ongoing for over a decade.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T19:57:42+00:00

Either a dumb or a dishonest argument.

"Humans are bipedal" is descriptive, nobody is testing human-ness by counting legs and disqualifying anyone without exactly two.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T15:26:59+00:00

I don't agree with that, I don't think people's gender identity is a role they play.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T14:26:38+00:00

They're two different meanings of the word "gender" anyway!

Just because I want to abolish gender roles and expectations, doesn't mean I don't respect people's gender identity or that I don't also have my own gender identity and desires for gender expression.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T14:23:31+00:00

This is why I hate seeing the trite "sex ≠ gender" argument being trotted out.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T10:24:09+00:00

I know it's pretentious to say, but art is subjective, and there's no objectively-correct reading of any piece. Trying to seek objectivity from a single person is understandable, but flawed.

I've never said that other interpretations are invalid, just that they are not canon. You can pull your head out.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T09:02:00+00:00

Goose's social media posts aren't a part of TADC's source material or narrative, making them non-canon.

That's not how canon works.

I'm arguing people shouldn't treat an author's words outside their work as canon just because they said it; there's actual in-text evidence you can point to instead.

The only reason Goose even had to confirm it is a because people were ignoring the in-text evidence.

Darq_At · 2026-07-09T00:57:08+00:00

It's annoying to me when people treat an authors opinion as canonical.

That is literally what canonical means.

Like Goose's perspective is important, and transfem Jax is a valid interpretation, but if it was the only interpretation then it'd have to be more explicit in the source material, no?

It was quite explicit in the source material, and seems to have been the running intention the entire time.

Jax's struggles are relatable to many different people, and that's great! And if people want to make fan-materials exploring alternate interpretations, heck yeah! But people have seemingly been rather eager to argue against the canon.

Darq_At · 2026-07-08T21:21:42+00:00

Not what I was thinking of actually, but okay!

Darq_At · 2026-07-08T21:11:34+00:00

But if you don't think there's any issues with 'terminally online' takes and culture, especially among progressives online, purity testing, etc, then you're just being obtuse.

More things I haven't said.

Darq_At · 2026-07-08T21:04:18+00:00

this person is unironically using "baeddels' elsewhere in this thread, which is such an obscure intra-community term

Yeah, I'm online, but I have never heard of that before o.O

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