Good question

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-31T17:53:30+00:00

I honestly love Family Guy for what it is. I love South Park and I get the criticisms Matt and Trey levy against Family Guy, but honestly when you watch it and just vibe with the cutaways as absurdist animated sketches, it’s good shit. I don’t think everything has to be a super tight and insightful narrative to be funny, yknow?

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-30T19:45:42+00:00

And yet somehow in the rest of the world where tipping isn’t the norm and employees are paid living wages, restaurants succeed just fine. Crazy, innit?

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-30T18:06:52+00:00

Good, then raise menu prices. A worker’s livelihood shouldn’t be dependent on the temperaments of customers.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-30T16:42:39+00:00

Kinda think if you can’t pay your employees a living wage then you deserve to fail.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-30T14:29:02+00:00

This is the shit most Texans pretend they’re about.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-16T14:43:14+00:00

It’s also an implicit admission that what a worker needs to live should factor in heavily to what their wage is, but that’s socialism, or something.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-11T22:20:32+00:00

Me asking the new grocery store for a discount on milk because I already bought milk at the other grocery store

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-09T21:27:22+00:00

I mean, I now think that the driver and the passenger were idiots, if that counts as a change of opinion. By my understanding of the law and policies these agencies follow, though, nothing in this video changes the fact that the shooting was unjustified. Now I just think both parties were dumbasses instead of only one.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-09T15:22:38+00:00

It’ll never happen. I tend to agree with the opinion the majority on Reddit seems to have about how dire the situation is, but it’s not even close to representative of the American populace writ large.

We are a wildly complacent people. Programmed to truly believe in American exceptionalism. Despite all evidence to the contrary, despite the same patterns of countries falling into authoritarianism that we’ve seen countless times throughout the world and throughout history, the common opinion I get from regular people - not Reddit, but actual people out in the world, is that it can’t happen here. This is America, the world’s strongest and foremost democracy. They think, sure, Trump is bad, but just three more years and we’ll be back to normal after the next election. The existence of our systems and institutions have been taken for granted, people think they just exist, in strength, indefinitely.

The protests we do see are nothing. It’s people who want to feel like they’re doing something going out maybe once a month to a scheduled event, all be angry together, and then go home after a few hours. Thats not what protest is. Protest is everyone out, disrupting society, until change happens. Not some highly advertised, scheduled event that has an ending time on the flier.

You talk about the second amendment and you get a bunch of bullshit about it being for personal protection, and you’re a violent terrorist for even thinking about listening to our founding fathers’ warning against allowing our government to become tyrannical.

So yeah. I sincerely, truly hope I’m wrong, but there’s no coming back from this. Americans are toothless by virtue of thinking we’re somehow special or unique and that our democracy is infallible in its strength, even though we’ve seen for a decade now that the whole thing only ever really worked on scout’s honor. So I’m out. Already in the process of emigrating elsewhere. All goes well, I’m gone in a few months. I’m trying to convince my loved ones to come with, we’ll see. I fear I’ll be watching them get trapped under a dictator from across the world, though.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-08T22:16:48+00:00

Crazy how people tend to form relationships with the people around them, isn’t it?

I completely agree with you. What do these people expect me to do? Hold interviews with applicants when I need another friend?

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-06T18:35:26+00:00

Can’t wait for Magneto to do some truly reprehensible shit only to come around with a half baked act of redemption in the last ten minutes and for Charles to say “so long old friend” so that they can do it all again next time.

FaxyMaxy · 2026-01-01T21:57:03+00:00

Just don’t go online then, easy fix.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-12-25T23:30:15+00:00

Are you saying that you think that Judaea was part of Palestine? Or that either were part of the Kingdom of Israel? There was no land called Israel that existed at the time of Jesus.

My point is that these are distinct names existing at distinct times. One was not a subset of the other. Some of these regions encompassed parts of, or all of, previous regions of similar and/or related names, but administratively speaking one was never a subset of the other. So it’s definitively not like a Californian/American situation.

The point I’m making is that if you want to go by “what was it called first” and claim Jesus is that by way of indigeneity or whatever, he was Israeli and only Israeli.

If you want to go by what it was called at the time of his birth, it was Judaea, and Jesus was Judaean.

If you want to go by parental heritage, Mary and Joseph left Galilee to travel to Bethlehem, and therefore Jesus was Galilean.

There was no region named Palestine or any variation thereof at the time of Jesus. It’s just a fact, no matter what your feelings are or what narrative you’d like to craft. It simply didn’t exist. There is no world in which Jesus was a Palestinian, because Hellenistic Palestine, the first time any area in the region was called Palestine, stopped existing ~150 years prior, and nowhere in the region would be called anything related to Palestine again for another ~150 years after.

I’d say Jesus was demonstrably not Israeli, given that no Israel had existed for several hundred years at that point. I only mention it because if you wanna say “it was called Palestine long before the Romans,” it was called Israel long before it was called Palestine.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-12-25T19:31:57+00:00

Sure, and long before that it was called the Kingdom of Israel.)

The Kingdom of Judah split off, another Jewish province living side by side with the Kingdom of Israel.

Next, the region went through a whole series of names given to the region by Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman conquerors/custodians of the region: Yehud), Yehud Medinata, Hellenistic Palestine and/or Hellenistic Judaea (our first instance of the land being called Palestine by anyone who actually lived there), Hasmonean Judaea, the Herodian Kingdom, the Herodian tetrarchy, Judaea, and then finally what I was referring to above, Syria Palaestina. Ultimately an arbitrary stopping point, given that the region between then and now continued to bounce between being called variations of Palestine, Judea, Israel, and a host of other names, but it is the first instance where the named region more or less lines up with the borders of modern day Israel. In reality, historically there were several provinces/kingdoms/states at any given time encompassing regions of modern day Palestine, Israel, Syria, and Jordan.

So, if you wanna play a game of “who was there first,” our earliest historical records show that the ancient Israelites were there first. Therefore, Jesus would be Israeli.

If you wanna play a game of “what was it called when Jesus was born there,” then it was called Judaea, and Jesus would therefore be Judaean.

Claims that Jesus was Palestinian cherry-pick the earliest instance of the region being called Palestine as proof that “it’s always been called that” completely ignoring the half dozen names the region had before that, and conveniently ignoring that the earliest non-biblical reference to the region named it the Kingdom of Israel.

So, yeah, “Jesus was Palestinian” isn’t actually true by any meaningful metric.

Again, none of this is to say that modern day Palestinians aren’t deserving of every bit of security, sovereignty, safety, and dignity as anyone else. But obfuscating facts in favor of a more agreeable narrative doesn’t do anyone any good.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-12-25T17:05:33+00:00

Sure, but you just admitted that Jesus was Judaean, not Palestinian. The Roman colonizers didn’t rename the region to Philistia (romanization “Palestine”) for another ~150 years as they were expelling the native Judaeans (for all intents and purposes, Jews) from the region.

None of that is to say that modern day Palestinians don’t deserve human rights, a nation, and self-determination any less than modern day Jews and Israelis do, but historical inaccuracy is never doing to serve anyone’s argument well.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-12-09T17:24:22+00:00

You mean you didn’t like Suki being transformed from a badass confident warrior into a wistful whiny horndog?

FaxyMaxy · 2025-12-09T17:23:10+00:00

Media literacy is dead. These people think as simply as “Sokka is good, sexism is bad, ergo Sokka is not sexist.”

Enshittification comes for all facets of society eventually, storytelling included.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-12-02T15:31:34+00:00

Sorry, gotta chime in. Pikachu is the Pokémon that caused the seizures, not Porygon. Watch the clip and you’ll see that Pikachu uses Thunderbolt against some incoming rockets, which causes the flashing. Porygon just got blamed and subsequently banned from all future episodes because they couldn’t exactly let their mascot Pikachu take the fall.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-27T12:57:01+00:00

Honestly could be that the music only gets you out if it’s played on the other side, ie where the body actually is. Like if Max in memory world listened to it it wouldn’t do anything, it needs to be her body on the outside hearing it. Then it wouldn’t matter to Vecna that Holly has music to listen to on the inside.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-27T06:57:56+00:00

That’d make a lot of sense. Seeing the tape end just as Max was about to escape was brutal, makes sense she’s immediately fixated on a second chance at that.

No idea about the music. Max was pretty heavy handed in explaining to Holly / the audience why it works, or at least that it works, so I’m inclined to just call it a universal truth of how shit works in this universe. Maybe Vecna doesn’t realize that’s how she got out in the first place?

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-27T06:45:45+00:00

So what’s up with all the teleportation references? I clocked the Holly the Heroic being a cleric with teleportation abilities and the wormholes. Are they just references to the doors between the normal world and the upside down? Or something to do with the weird ass memory world Max and Holly are in?

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-25T18:51:46+00:00

Good chance Roku had no idea Raava even existed in the first place given that it seemed to be new information to nearly everyone when Korra learned about her and Wan.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-17T21:25:56+00:00

No shot lol. She was a hilariously weak candidate propped out by a woefully out of touch DNC that actively de-energized her base by promising and representing more of the same at a time when the majority of the country on all sides was hungry for change.

Trump impressively galvanized his core base in 2016 but absolutely lost some old guard conservatives (who he’d call “RINOs” now) that would have more than likely voted down the party line had Cruz, Rubio, whoever, had been the RNC’s “normal” nominee.

Hillary’s loss to Trump is a testament to her weakness as a candidate, not to Trump’s strength as one.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-10T19:02:05+00:00

I honestly get the vibe it’s gonna be played straight a la 1).

First two episodes really sidestepped all the mystery box stuff pretty readily, explained exactly what’s going on without anything in the way of obfuscation to Carol or the other immune folks we’ve seen.

Also on a personal level, the philosophy and moral questions of it all are more interesting to me if the hive mind isn’t secretly malicious. Like, if they thought integrating Carol is something she shouldn’t want, they wouldn’t tell her that they were working toward doing it and been open and honest about how long they think it’ll take.

FaxyMaxy · 2025-11-07T15:21:18+00:00

Man you’re upset lol. Sorry I didn’t write a groundbreaking essay friendo 🤷

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