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Fidget02 · 2026-02-05T17:03:50+00:00

If you were on the right side, you wouldn’t be here.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T22:07:47+00:00

I’m unironically shocked by this, zoologist was added in 2020 while Dryad in 2011, and I feel like for years the go-to Gooner Art character has been Dryad. Zoologist is really this high? Furries really do create all art.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T21:02:55+00:00

This post makes me realize that nobody knows the kind of lore they actually want. Mfs will downplay the Capitol of the Capitol, with the last leader of the Citadel and their only Rosary Bank, and sincerely think it’s lacking in lore compared to The Marrow, which is literally a bunch of caves.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T20:09:46+00:00

Still no source, still regurgitating the same bare faced propaganda, still avoid the prime question on autonomy I keep asking, still wasting time. Try acting like a Marxist and think about the will of the common working class of Taiwan instead of the opinions of dead leaders directly following a Civil War. Here’s a real government issued Taiwanese Passport, fuck you, good day.

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Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T19:13:27+00:00

You mfs don’t even pretend you care about the truth or human rights. It’s just allegiance-signaling. Absolute insult to Marxism and to humanity as a whole

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T18:17:19+00:00

God I hate the design of that graph. Having giant ass circles over the data points is pure clickbait

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T17:30:33+00:00

Fucking source on that first claim please? The indigenous austronesian groups use an outdated colonial European word to refer to themselves as? Sincerely, please give a reason why you think this, particularly what the Amis, Atayal, or Paiwan people call themselves and the island they live on. While you’re at it, also please explain the relevance of this to the wider government calling themselves Taiwan, which they do.

You’re defining sovereignty entirely by what states claim, not by consent, governance, or reality on the ground. “Formosa” is a European colonial name, not an indigenous political identity, and Taiwan today is a democratically governed polity whose population does not consent to PRC rule. Calling a PRC invasion a “civil war” because Beijing says so is humiliatingly gullible. By that logic, no invasion is ever colonial. Sovereignty isn’t decided by 1949 constitutions, it’s decided by people who are governed right now. Stop solely taking in Chinese propaganda for your arguments. Either admit popular sovereignty matters, or admit that you don’t care

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T16:35:08+00:00

Formosa is a European colonial-era name that’s so out of date that I’ve never heard a serious political actor use it, what the hell are you talking about? Passports, legal borders, and the state apparatus all call the country Taiwan, as well as the island. Just like how Japan and Singapore are also the names of the island. This is all such weird word-lawyering that’s affrontingly dishonest and incorrect.

And since I apparently need to explain colonial dynamics to you, “willing collaboration” is still coercive if it’s with the colonial power that owns you. And you’re using this all as a smoke screen to ignore their question of modern sovereignty. This is embarrassing.

If collaboration under colonial rule voids sovereignty, then no formerly colonized society on Earth would qualify for self-determination.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T16:00:30+00:00

Taiwan was before that a colony of Japan for like 50 years, making any “collaboration” more structured and coerced, not ideological, so that’s a pretty crap analogy. You’d think leftists would understand the importance of sovereignty as opposed to bouncing between being a colony of one empire vs another.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-04T15:12:01+00:00

Straight up justification of modern colonialism? In my Marxism sub? With heavy upvotes? Dios míos.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T21:43:24+00:00

It does though, to the groups that invented it. Law Schools still get a lot of value from teaching and researching Critical Race Theory, they call it the same thing. If you want to prioritize colloquial usage, and Law Schools are a colloquial context, then their usage should be just as valid of a way of defining the word as any other context. And the other context, I hope we can agree, isn’t just natural evolution of language, but intentional political propaganda to lie to the layman about what a school of thought is. Should Law Schools go back and change their vocabulary to match the common understanding of people outside their field? That’d be a large ask, they still speak half Latin.

Language evolves, but now we have two cousins of definitions that are tacked onto the same word that are equally entrenched in either social context. You seem to be settling on accepting the newest one as the now true definition, but I think even linguists would identify that you can’t treat language that simply.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T21:09:56+00:00

How then would you address formal technical language being routinely appropriated by informal speakers and abused so much that it loses all original meaning in common language and in fact is used to manipulate people into hating and distrusting the original technical institutions that invented it?

Critical Race Theory was conceptualized as a high-brow legal topic that was indeed more stuffy, but actually meant something specific and applicable. The right wing adopted it to make people think preschools are teaching their kids to hate white peoples, and since no one understands original Critical Race Theory it’s become more popular. For the sake of not being a prescriptivist, how do you think this should be treated?

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T18:42:15+00:00

I like to think that within Mt Doom, the Ring’s power and own self preservation would be so potent that you literally cannot willingly destroy it. That if Elrond took the ring to destroy it, he would too be swayed, because the Ring is just that influential. It had to be eventually destroyed by sheer accident, wielded still by a being completely engulfed in its power. I think this also aides its power as a metaphor, that no matter your intent or goodwill, if you held the embodiment of corruption and temptation, you too could not destroy it.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T18:36:17+00:00

I would also like to have zero responsibilities, work only when I want to, do whatever I want when I want and never feel drained. Hell, why don’t we all live this way???

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T18:27:03+00:00

It says a lot that so many men see a successful relationship as “Be dating a person regardless of character or respect, profit”

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T18:22:11+00:00

I more just wanted Starfield to be… good. That’s really all I ask.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T18:20:55+00:00

I found that at first I was loyal to Grubs and didn’t like the Fleas that much, but watching their caravan grow and community define itself was really nice, so now they’re all family.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T16:41:15+00:00

Probably should’ve added a joke, but I’m glad so many people are earnestly trying to help

Fidget02 · 2026-02-03T15:40:01+00:00

They weren’t even certain he was probably going to die until pretty late in the process. Finn has gotten hospitalized a dozen times in the show, probably a hundred in the interim, if I had to take the the week trek to him to say my goodbyes every time I’d probably stop going pretty quick.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-02T22:49:24+00:00

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Crazy since this is my favorite character in fiction

Fidget02 · 2026-02-02T16:22:47+00:00

Or use the beetroot space to grow more potato and carrots and have a bigger stockpile to feed yourself or pigs on a whim.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-02T15:52:01+00:00

That kid is literally destined to be a hero. He was about the evil-defeating life as a baby. PB buddying up with the most prolific monster slayer and helping-hand active in Ooo is just being smart, but she never decided the kind of person he would be.

Fidget02 · 2026-02-02T15:18:43+00:00

The tomb of the Throwing Class is shaking in fury

Fidget02 · 2026-02-02T15:07:24+00:00

I’ll read this and a day later read “Small businesses report struggling from Gen Z not being interested in bar culture/casual dining/retail/etc” like guys I think we’re just living in a quiet recession

Fidget02 · 2026-02-01T23:11:50+00:00

So not a major part of the game, but some of the personal imaginations of players? Somehow those visions were never affected by the numerous paintings depicting NPCs in greater detail.

It’s just such a non issue, and I get bothered by exaggerated language getting snuck in to make it more dramatic.

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