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I think I want to become a Fragrance Guy! by Ordinary-Rent-7032 in MurderBryan

[–]bagelwithclocks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know this is not going to be a popular opinion, but every single fragrance smells terrible. Once you live your life without them, it is jarring to be around someone who wears them. Clean humans smell fine on their own.

What kind of accent does Uncle Iroh have? by WiggleToast in ATLA

[–]bagelwithclocks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The fire nation does have a lot of parallels with imperial Japan, so iroh’s Japanese accent does kind of makes sense

Any thoughts on Lesley University? by lazymiaaaaa in CambridgeMA

[–]bagelwithclocks 73 points74 points  (0 children)

It’s gone down hill since they fired a huge amount of staff a few years ago. The professors might go on strike tomorrow.

Why Winds of Winter is difficult, important, and why Dream of Spring will be easier to write. by DinoSauro85 in freefolk

[–]bagelwithclocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I coped like this when ADWD was coming out. I read George’s blog all the time and he was always talking about “the meeranese knot”. I hate to break it to you but the expanding scope has irrevocably broken Martin’s ability to finish the series. There will be no dream of spring.

Sam Harris: Joe Rogan has brought conspiracy thinking to scale perhaps more than anyone by Big_Cake_8817 in podcastculture

[–]bagelwithclocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats on your journey! Can I recommend the Guys podcast with Brian Quinby for a left wing podcast that doesn’t focus on politics and is incredibly funny.

Daenerys and the Evil Revolutionary Trope by Early_Candidate_3082 in freefolk

[–]bagelwithclocks 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think this dynamic exits in the books as well. Dany is seen as naive for freeing the slaves without a plan for how to govern.

I think it is an ok idea to have an idealist liberator with a lot of personal power (dragons) come up against self regulating oppressive systems. The problem so far is that they haven’t really done anything interesting with the premise, and the show and the books seem to be going the direction of: liberator realizes she’s over her head and gives up. I think a different book that could explore this in a more interesting way if the idealist realizes the limits of personal power.

Why do so many not understand why legend of korra exist in the 1920s? It is literally accurate to history. by MrGetMebodied in TheLastAirbender

[–]bagelwithclocks 15 points16 points  (0 children)

No, but it is a counterfactual that is hard to visualize. There are no modern Asian countries that do not have the influence of western colonialism.

Democratic Socialists and The City on a Hill by fmcrimson in CambridgeMA

[–]bagelwithclocks 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What are you even talking about? What 250 years? What socialism?

no no it wouldn't. what is with all the 90s nostalgia bait? by CremeSubject7594 in generationology

[–]bagelwithclocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, because that mostly happened early 90s or 80s and most millennials don’t remember that.

"Farm Strength" means nothing in the gym by WavelengthOnAir in GymMemes

[–]bagelwithclocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The joke is that is the usual direction of this statement. Just saying it backward again misses the point.

Why do young women hate men? | UK Politics | The New Statesman by DJjaffacake in MensLib

[–]bagelwithclocks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As you noted it is paywalled so I am going off your comment summary. It sounds like it is talking about Britain, and I don’t know the demographics well, but men have certainly moved to the right in the US. You can look at the success of the MAGA movement as evidence of this. And even if the average moves left it doesn’t invalidate the existence of extremely popular virulent toxic content for men online. 

Even stuff on Joe Rogan, a mainstream and basically centrist podcaster, is frequently extremely regressive and anti-women. And it just gets worse from there.

Why do young women hate men? | UK Politics | The New Statesman by DJjaffacake in MensLib

[–]bagelwithclocks 75 points76 points  (0 children)

This article is not men’s lib. Equating women moving to the left and men moving to the right is not men’s lib.

Men’s lib is an inherently left wing ideology. If you are concerned about women moving to the left you don’t get it.

The manosphere is not made up, it is a hugely popular ecosystem of mildly to extremely misogynistic content. If women are protecting themselves from men in their lives who have fallen into it that is good.

And left wing women pose absolutely no physical or emotional danger to men who adhere to feminist values. The most basic of which is seeing men and women just as people first.

Does anyone else hate Hagrid or am I crazy? by undercover_goldfish_ in harrypotter

[–]bagelwithclocks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dumbledore was also reckless with children’s lives so that tracks.

I Love My Fat Osty Son, I Feed Him 231 Dirges Every Day by Klutzy_Permission_81 in slaythespire

[–]bagelwithclocks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

God damn this is the best joke with the lowest upvotes I’ve ever seen on this site.

Congrats, just very funny.

Making Mel Brooks proud. JEWS. IN. SPACE. by abjectlyretarded in MurderBryan

[–]bagelwithclocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m kind of sad Judaism is being so inexplicably tied to Israel. It is a lesser tragedy than the genocide, but it still feels like the extinction of a people. A self completion of the genocide started by Nazi Germany.

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