Jack, the Cinephile

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[red-xavier]

fuck it sure. help

[seriousfic]

I get the feeling that most people’s impression of toxic masculinity–and this is quite possibly deliberate–is men hunting deer and eating red meat and reading books about WW2 and watching Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

While the opposite of toxic masculinity is men wearing skirts and dancing to pop music and reading Maya Angelou.

So if there’s one thing I hope people take away from this Ezra Miller shittery–besides don’t watch The Flash if you have an ounce of integrity about all that MeToo stuff–is that men can be as effeminate and gay and look as much like Tom Holland as it gets, and still be abusive assholes.

The guy who looks like this and enjoys outdoorsy shit and doing stuff with his hands can still treat the people around him with respect and compassion… why wouldn’t he?

While the guy who looks like this can be a fucking terrorist.

So, y’know, maybe we shouldn’t treat femininity like a virtue and masculinity like a vice. They’re not. They’re just two ways people can express themselves.

[forbiddenrebl9gs66613]

I feel like toxic masculinity is even the wrong word and works against everyone. It’s enforcing patriarchy. Just call it the enforcement of patriarchy. We don’t need a patriarch or matriarch we need freedom.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

So you think the better alternative to a term that’s controversial because it seems to be blaming men is…another term that’s explicitly blaming men.

Trying to duct-tape men’s issues to an ideological framework that was never meant to address those issues will not work.

[down-with-commies]

You ever notice there’s no consistency on what does and does not count as privilege/oppression?

Historical oppression matters when talking about systemic racism, but bring up Irish, Italians, and Slavs and suddenly it isn’t relevant because it doesn’t happen anymore.

Wealth disparity matters when talking about male privilege and the patriarchy, but somehow doesn’t count when applied to asian and jewish Americans.

The fact that one ethnic group is shot more often by police is proof of a justice system that’s dedicated against them, but bring up gender and it’s simply stated that men get shot more often because they commit more crimes and fight with police more often.

Palestinians are being occupied by settler Israelis, but the fact that they conquered the land from Israelis first is irrelevant.

European countries owe a debt to their previous colonies, but why on Earth would Turkey need to pay reparations most of Eastern Europe?

Racial disparities in higher education mean the institutions are biased against non white people, but not against men, and not against asians, even after openly admitting to discriminating against both 

Hearing a micro aggression in class means you’re oppressed. Entire classes on abolishing whiteness certainly don’t mean the environment is hostile to anyone, if you’re complaining you simply have white fragility. 

[cheshireinthemiddle]

[cookingwithroxy]

I just can't wrap my mind around how something having a big nose makes it a Jewish caricature.

First off, big noses isn't even a solely Jewish thing assuming it's a true stereotype in the first type, but it also boggles the mind that they see "Big nosed creature" and immediately think Jew.

It's entirely and purely them looking at racist caricatures (Most all of which are entirely inaccurate to anything resembling life) and internalizing the messages from those bigoted things, then turning around and claiming anything that they can find that vaguely resembles that bigoted caricature must be a reference for the group.

Seriously if you hear 'banker' and think 'jewish' you're a fucking bigot, full stop.

[atepa09]

This has always been my problem with the whole “orcs are black coded”

I’m sorry if you look at a humanoid creature from a fantasy game with prominent canines, generally extremely muscular body types, and a whole slew of skin tones (from tans/browns, to greens, to reds depending on the IP) and you see “African American” that is a YOU problem… not a source material problem.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I'm black and I don't even see it.

[wonderingwhereiam]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Just like that Hello Future Me video I complained about, Adam Millard virtue-signalled by denouncing Lovecraft’s racism, even though it adds nothing to his game design analysis video.

I’d unsubscribe like I did with HFM, but I was already unsubbed because he was woke.

[fiachdubh]

It feels like if they don’t mention he’s racist at least once per discussion about him, they will explode.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

In fairness, a lot of his stories have racist elements. Regardless of the context of his life and his growth, it’s still uncomfy to read.

[rap--skullion]

Then don’t read it. Simple as.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Fair

[itsvictorfreeze]

I have two takes on this. First is that you can have conversations about Tolkien without mentioning he is Catholic, despite that everything he wrote had deeply Catholic elements. It is not necessary to bring it up and I have heard of several conversations regarding him that do such and are still accurate. So bringing up Lovecraft’s racism in every single gond damned conversation about him is far from necessary.

Second, is that people seem to be uniquely obsessed with him specifically being racist, and I have literally heard people talk about how genuinely wonderful of a person he was, how he was absurdly generous to and deeply invested in everyone he met and how his funeral was attended by hundreds of people who knew him personally and whos lives he affected in positive ways. Then immediately disregard all of that by saying he was a disgusting evil man full of hatred.

Similarly, they will talk in depth about he legitimately fucked up childhood and the mass amount of abuse he suffered and how it impacted his health and mental state as an adult, then deliberately avoid making any connection between that and his negative traits.

So their denouncing them is just virtue signaling. They obviously don’t really care about who he was as a person. They just want to say that he was racist.

[sindri42]

It’s simple really. Lovecraft improved. And they cannot abide that.

He was raised in an extremely sheltered environment by extremely xenophobic (and frankly unwell) people, and his views on the world reflected that especially in his early work, but then over the course of the man’s career you can see a distinct and steady reduction in racism with almost every successive thing he published. We have numerous letters he wrote to his friends talking about how much he wished he could go back and redo all his early stories, knowing what he knew now.

So on top of all his incredible talents as a writer, and how hugely influential he was to pretty much all media in the century after his death, Lovecraft is a story of self-improvement, of recognizing one’s own flaws and growing past them to become a better person and influence others to do the same.

And if you build your entire worldview upon the concept that people are just inherently Good or inherently Evil, that can’t be allowed. If an evil person is capable of becoming good, then how can you justify the abuses you heap upon people who have been declared (usually without basis) to have done something vaguely Wrong in the distant past? And if you can’t be confident that the designated Bad People are still bad… you might have to take another look at the designated Good People and what they’re actually doing. You might, god forbid, even have to stop and think about your own actions, and whether you can still be called good.

Much simpler to keep hammering in the fact that he was once and therefore always will be worse than hitler.

[kahavave]

I will say that it can be somewhat harder to put aside the racism in a lot of Lovecrafts work because… well, when Tolkien input his catholicism he didn’t do it by constantly quoting the bible or referencing saints, he did it by weaving the themes of catholicism into his work itself.  While its very obviously catholic to people who understand that, if your understanding of Catholicism consists of “They like that pope dude, right?” it won’t necessarily ping to you just how deep it is.  

The more racist elements of lovecrafts works were roughly the equivalent of (to borrow an example from a tumblr post a while back) an orange blob rolling up, saying covfefe, and rolling away.  In a lot of cases its so in your face and blaringly clear that if you’re talking about a specific book its hard not to think of it and if I were writing a review I would probably have to consciously keep myself from rehashing that because its that apparent.

[starwarspissorgy]

I’m outside of this circle and I feel like it’s worth interjecting that like, the vast majority of people discussing Lovecraft are not Lovecraft scholars and literally aren’t aware of any of what any of you are talking about.

Is it that reviewers keep having bad views about self improvement by focusing only on some glaring issues in his early work or is it that most people only read a couple things if that and have very weak analysis skills so this narrative of “the main theme in Lovecraft is racism” just seems reasonable to everyone who reads it?

I’m sorry there’s a popular narrative that your fave is unforgivably problematic, but the people perpetuating it do not have an agenda they’re just humans who cannot be experts in every single thing who have no reason to question what they think they know about your topic. Also, even an expert has to know in discussion of Lovecraft audiences will expect a view on his racism and it *does* serve any review that touches on him to make your stance clear to avoid being inundated with “okay just praise a racist then :/” comments.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

>so this narrative of “the main theme in Lovecraft is racism” just seems reasonable to everyone who reads it?

I’ve read several Lovecraft stories without noticing racism in them, and anyone can tell you I’m a nitpicker.

>but the people perpetuating it do not have an agenda

That is not a logical conclusion from what you’ve said up until now.

>Also, even an expert has to know in discussion of Lovecraft audiences will expect a view on his racism

What “audiences”?

>any review that touches on him to make your stance clear to avoid being inundated with “okay just praise a racist then :/” comments.

[judarud]

I just want to note, Lovecrafts most famous racism in his writting is Shadow over Innsmouth, a racist screed about myscigenation, where the main character discovers hes actually one of the Monster Hybrids and inherits the insanity and deformities of the other Hybrids.

This as written by a man with from a family wiith a history of chronic physical and mental illness whose parents, both of them, died in a Sanitorium suffering from horrific Mental and Physical debilitation.

A man whom, by the way, explicetly stated in his letters that he had no issue with myscigenation btw.

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[physicsiguess]

[7wise]

[aridavid]

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[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I happened to stumble upon RPG.net forums while I was looking for a book quote. I found the quote in a Let’s Read thread, but it also had banners about Asian Hate, BLM, and Reproductive rights*, and how you basically had to support their politics, or else.

They are still up this year. 2022. On a site that doesn’t actually have a news or political forum. At all.

If they were as thought policing this hard back in 2018, I can’t imagine they’ve gotten any better.

No wonder they’ve been dying for years. I gather that https://www.therpgsite.com/ is supposed to be a replacement.

*Note how they don’t use the term ‘women’.

[unsolids-your-snake]

Why are people SO MAD that men who that they call dirty basement dwelling incels like Jordan Peterson, who specifically tells them how to pick themselves up and be someone they don't hate being

It honestly seems like open hatred of someone who encourages men to be someone they respect, as opposed to being pathetic and easy to walk on

Like god no wonder disillusioned men flock to him, he's probably giving them the only kind word and scrap of encouragement to problem-solve that they've heard recently

[darkwee009]

Probably the same type who just hates seeing dudes happy.

[cookingwithroxy]

The answer is easy.

They don't think Incels should ever have good things. Even, especially if those good things are redemption and becoming better human beings.

Remember that shrimp guy green text? Where people said that nobody should praise his growth because he was using terms that offended them?

That's basically it. 'Bad people do not deserve good things' presented as political praxis, only with a progressive veneer.

[ricwulf-banned]

Recently there were people who are against Jordan Peterson that were laughing at him for breaking down and crying during an interview with Piers Morgan, specifically about how Olivia Wilde mocked him as an "incel hero". But what I think that too many people are focused on is him crying and not what he is actually saying.

Are a lot of incels despicable people? Absolutely. Does that mean they are unworthy of redemption? No.

And far too many don't get this. They just want an acceptable target to bully. And bully is the perfect word for it, because it's so juvenile. It's literally picking on someone for failing to fit within the status quo. And people don't even realise what they're ultimately doing.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

I don't see how the people laughing and bullying are any less despicable than the worst of those they mock

[shaftking]

I don’t trust half you bitches who claim to have DID btw.

[oops-all-syscourse]

Please, PLEASE don’t pretend like we care about what you have to say.

[shaftking]

I never saw this when it was first commented but it is less about me personally questioning peoples mental illnesses and far more about how there has been an observable trend of people, especially teenagers and young adults, on social media claiming to have a disorder while acting out what they believe the disorder should look like based on stereotyped pop culture depictions where they somehow all have “alters” of their favorite characters who somehow all are entirely aware of each other’s existence and somehow can be called upon at the snap of a finger to make edgy tiktoks where they take the time to dress up as the characters. It is literally all the same same as depression and anxiety were done in the early 2000s. It is the same as the shocking amount of people on social media claiming to have other disorders like Tourette’s. This post is so obviously not about people who are actually diagnosed with dissociative disorders and refers to all the people LARPing as their favs or OCs or whatever and pretending it’s the same as a rare disorder that develops due to severe trauma as a way to protect the child experiencing it and fractures their sense of identity to do it.

Sorry if the nuance and detail of that was lost in the one sentence post I made in like two minutes and then literally forgot about until now.

[nijntjefem]

hey maybe it’s cause people see something trending and relate to it. Even then. Who the fuck cares if they don’t actually have DID? Who gives a fuck if they’re faking? If your main priority is to call out fakers and not lift up people with dissociative disorders either by educating others about these illnesses or donating to disabled people then you have some problems that you need to work out. Trends come and go. We’ve had this conversation since 2019 and it’s getting old. There’s not even that many people you’d call ‘fakers’ around anymore.

Not supporting all of us, unconditionally (with a few exceptions), is ableist and only drives more and more people to doubt and gaslight themselves over their disorders. That travels far outside the realm of ‘syscourse’. Nobody should have to explain that to you.

[shaftking]

> hey maybe it’s cause people see something trending and relate to it.

Literally stated that’s not what I’m referring to.

> Even then. Who the fuck cares if they don’t actually have DID? Who gives a fuck if they’re faking?

You should. Because it reflects badly on people who actually have a condition when there is a massive amount of people without the condition claiming to represent it and giving wrong impressions to others. If they are faking then they clearly have other issues that need to be addressed that aren’t being addressed if they are enabled.

> If your main priority is to call out fakers and not lift up people with dissociative disorders either by educating others about these illnesses or donating to disabled people then you have some problems that you need to work out. Trends come and go.

Wild concept, but I can do both. And especially if the goal is to educate about what and what is not a part of a certain condition, then acting to draw attention to people who are lying about or faking that condition seems like a good place to start.

You should find a serious issue with people faking illnesses and diseases for what is ostensibly internet clout and you should be concerned if it has gone far enough that you consider it a trend.

>We’ve had this conversation since 2019 and it’s getting old. There’s not even that many people you’d call ‘fakers’ around anymore.

That’s literally just not true. People might have shifted about what condition they are faking, but the fact that they are still faking it shouldn’t be disregard because you’ve seen it a lot. In fact, the fact that it’s “getting old” should tell you that it is a problem that is going unaddressed and unremedied. There are compilations posted basically daily of people on tiktok faking mental illness, especially DID. If you search the hashtags the same things come up on Instagram. It seems like every other week another person gets exposed for faking DID, Tourette’s, etc.

> Not supporting all of us, unconditionally (with a few exceptions), is ableist and only drives more and more people to doubt and gaslight themselves over their disorders. That travels far outside the realm of ‘syscourse’. Nobody should have to explain that to you.

Unconditional support is uncritical dogshit, and I don’t play that way. You literally only cause harm to people with mental illnesses by validating any mfer who comes out and claims to have something while they clearly just want to LARP.

I am disabled. I am a trauma survivor. I have struggled with my mental health for the better part of a decade. I shouldn’t have to explain to you that not letting people ask questions about disability and mental illness is not ableist, it’s using common sense and actually helps us in the long run. I get that struggling with mental illness is fucking rough and that it can be easy to doubt yourself despite things being obviously off about yourself and even despite diagnosis sometimes, but that doesn’t mean that you should remove criticism from your life entirely.

It’s not “gaslighting” to sometimes step back and listen to what people are saying and understand that when certain things involve enough people it can have a ripple effect, especially when concerning groups that already don’t have a great view in society like people with mental illnesses.

Do not try and play this off as if I’m attacking an entire community when I clearly explained in the post you’re responding to that I don’t believe that the conditions themselves are fake, but that there are people faking them. It’s not anyone’s responsibility to validate people else online. If someone wants to post themselves online doing something then they should be prepared for criticism and people asking questions.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Doctors Struggle With Navigating Abortion Bans in Medical Emergencies

Healthcare providers are concerned they could face charges for providing emergency abortions in some states, leaving them to defend their ac

Leilah Zahedi-Spung, a high-risk obstetrician in Chattanooga, Tenn., recently saw a pregnant patient with rising blood pressure who the doctor believed could be facing a serious health emergency. The patient was in her second trimester of pregnancy and her unborn baby had been diagnosed with genetic abnormalities that meant the child wasn’t expected to survive. Dr. Zahedi-Spung feared the mother was at risk of a severe form of preeclampsia that can cause seizures and ultimately death. The doctor said she thought the patient needed an abortion, but Tennessee has a total ban on the procedure. The state law, in effect since late August, allows doctors to argue the procedure was necessary to save the life of the patient, but Dr. Zahedi-Spung said she wasn’t confident the woman’s condition was dire enough to meet that standard and feared that being charged with a crime could upend her life for years, even if she eventually was vindicated. She decided to send the woman on a roughly six-hour ambulance ride to end her pregnancy in North Carolina, where she arrived with dangerously high blood pressure and signs of kidney failure, the doctor said. “She kept asking if she was going to die,” Dr. Zahedi-Spung said. “I kept saying, ‘I’m trying, I’m trying, we’re going to make it happen. We just need to get you to the right place where you can be taken care of.’” When she saw the patient a couple of weeks later, alive, the doctor said she felt a wave of relief.

For all forced birthers, may you have pregnancy complications, and may you be trapped in Tennessee.

The only defenses I've seen about no-exception bans are either that people should just die instead of having a life-saving abortion or that prosecuters won't actually prosecute. If you subscribe to the first, you're a Hitler wannabe. If the latter....what the fuck are you on!?!

No one would buy that for any law. "We don't want to prosecute doctors! We just made it illegal for them to save pregnant people's lives, but we won't actually uphold that law."

Bullshit. So may each and every one of you be trapped in Tennessee, pregnant with complications.

You can clutch your pearls and whisper about how horrible it is I wish this on you, but you forced it on everyone in Tennessee. Women, transmen, intersex, agender, etc. Even children! So why do you believe you have the right not to have it happen to you?

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

@prolifeproliberty Tennesee has no exceptions. Doctors and lawyers can read fine. They've been sounding the alarm, but selfish, murderous cunts decides to pass a no exceptions law. So may you get pregnant. May you have complications. And may you be stuck in Tennessee. Sound fair?

[prolifeproliberty]

Did they pass a new law after this one?

Tennessee 'trigger' law banning nearly all abortions goes into effect

Tennessee's 2019 "trigger" law banning abortion went into effect on Wednesday, criminalizing providing the procedure.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Law will punish doctors for saving women's lives via abortion | Opinion

The Human Life Protection Act criminalizes a medical procedure without exception, even if it's necessary to save a mother's life.

[prolifeproliberty]

The law includes an affirmative defense for situations where the mother’s life is in danger. This article is playing semantic games to scare you.

An affirmative defense is the same thing that lets you use force to defend yourself when normally that force would not be allowed.

Also, this law does not in anyway prevent the doctors from doing a c-section, which is the actual appropriate response to severe preeclampsia.

You remove the baby, make him or her comfortable (from what details are given in the article the baby wasn’t expected to survive even at full term), stabilize the mother and, if possible, give the mother the opportunity to say goodbye to her child.

This is NOT an abortion. It’s a medically necessary early delivery.

What pro-lifers are trying to ban is the deliberate killing of preborn children. The media is manipulating you to make you angry and scared right before elections. Stop falling for it.

[wherelibertydwells]

Don't forget the inhumanity of what these people said and did in 2021, and don't let them forget it either.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

So here's the thing about refusing to celebrate important achievements unless the person or people who achieved them is flawless by modern standards:

No one is flawless, by any standards. Everyone, even the least "problematic" people, have done bad things. MLK had multiple affairs and may have watched his friend rape a woman. Ghandi was a sex addict who abandoned his dying father to have sex. Einstein had an affair with his cousin and treated his wife so badly she had a mental breakdown. Does that mean we need to stop celebrating MLK day? Is the entire civil rights movement so tainted that we should just undo everything it accomplished? Should we stop teaching general relativity in schools? Should we start a movement to give India back to the British?

Modern standards for purity change constantly. 10 years ago everything JK Rowling has ever said about trans people would have been mainstream feminist thought. Anyone disagreeing would have been a misogynist. 10 years ago calling a black person "black" instead of "African-American" was offensive. 7 years ago questioning the outcome of an election was a patriotic duty. What is and isn't acceptable, or politically correct, changes all the time. It's impossible to hold anyone alive today to those ever-changing standards, let alone people who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and were held to very different standards.

The people who are held to these impossibly standards, both now and throughout history, are only held to those standards because modern leftists want to destroy their accomplishments. Just look at Joe Biden. If the standards of #MeToo were applied evenly, he should have been thrown off the Democrat ticket. The internet should have been flooded with articles and posts demanding he back out. Instead, those articles and posts demonized his accuser literally weeks after pushing "believe all women". If the standards for racism were applied evenly, there are a bunch of black comedian and celebrities who would have lost their jobs and been blacklisted from Hollywood for the things they said about white people. Brie Larson would have been fired from being Captain Marvel for saying her movie wasn't for straight white men. If the people inventing these standards aren't going to apply them evenly, then why should we ever adapt those standards for anyone? Ourselves or historical figures?

There's nothing wrong with celebrating, or at least acknowledging, the accomplishments of flawed people. Yes, MLK was a serial cheater. He was also instrumental in righting an injustice that had been allowed to flourish for way too long. Winston Churchill was a racist. He was also instrumental in defeating Hitler. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. He also wrote the Declaration of Independence. It's not wrong to acknowledge the flaws of flawed human beings. In many cases, those flaws just make the person in question more fascinating, because it shows that good and evil can exist in literally anyone. That's something that should never be forgotten. What is wrong, though, is using those flaws as an excuse to try and destroy or hide those accomplishments. To pretend that those accomplishments are tainted because of the same human imperfection we all have. That's wrong. And it will lead to greater evil than celebrating a serial cheater's civil rights victories or a slave owners fight for freedom.

[fuckblizzardbearlover]

Nah that aint it. It wasnt offensive to call black ppl black 10 yrs ago, rowlings comments arent feminist, they were proven wrong by activist 60 years ago and longer. No one questioned the election, people attacked the capital and were told to do it by a sitting president and got ppl killed (compare to al gore stopping recounts to keep the u.s. united)And idk what biden did other than sniff a womans hair but regardless the opponent was a known serial rapist who asked his generals to gun down protesters.

The trick is recognizing SOCIETIES progress. Yes many ppl were brilliant but every brilliant discovery was fostered by millions of humans before them. Each innovation could have been discovered by someone else (and the level of technology of many natives across the world before white imperialism prove this).

Is it great that this intelligent racist asshole invented X? Yes its great. Are they significant to history? Yes. Should we honor them? No. Recognizing history is something that never requires worship. We build statues to people we review and write warnings in books and plaques for those we dont. Everyone knows about many bad ppl in history. There isnt a single non idiot who thinks taking down confed statues is erasing history cus we all learned that history.

Just like with living people you shouldnt worship people

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I can't decide which part of this is my favorite, "proven wrong by activists", "no one questioned Trump's election", or "known serial rapist who asked his generals to gun down protesters". Regardless, almost every sentence of this reply is wrong. It's kind of fascinating, really.

[hard-core-logo]

[sadd--boi-deactivated20221219]

Hey guys, its working!

[burningabyss572]

...working? I’m confused what’s working? sure as fuck ain’t getting him replaced.

Just looks like bullying.

[takashi0]

That's because it is, but don't expect leftists to understand that

[emmaubler]

What gives cruel moralisers satisfaction is not enhancing their moral standing in the eyes of others but rather the suffering and humiliation of others as a means to achieve power and domination over them. Achieving this confirms the moralisers’ sense of superiority over others and provides further validation for their ideals and values. It is self-validation – not validation to others – that cruel moralisers care about and seek to confirm. Imposing suffering and humiliation on the guilty and morally flawed provides this validation, and this becomes a deep source of motivation in their own ethical conduct and responses. In the hands of the cruel moraliser, morality lends itself to misrepresentation and misuse, and is liable to become cruel and sadistic.

How the cruel moraliser uses a halo to disguise his horns | Aeon Essays

Cruelty and morality seem like polar opposites – until they join forces. Beware those who persecute in the name of principle

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Hey, everybody who doesn't like the movie's cast?

Don't go see the movie.

Simple, huh?

[the-prequal]

What gets me is they try to frame it as "Pratt stole the role from Mario's original actor!" But no one complains that none of the other original actors are voicing their characters. Bowser, Peach, and Toad all have voice actors in the video games, but nobody cares about them.

Because it's cool to hate Chris Pratt. Even to the point of bullying him and making him depressed.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

And Charles Martinet isn't even Mario's original voice actor! He started voicing Mario in 1992 in the Super Mario Bros pinball machine. Mario's actual first voice actor was Captain Lou Albano, who voiced him in the Super Mario Bros Super Show that came out in 1989. Chris Pratt's Mario sounds a lot more like Albano's than Martinet's, so the argument could be made that Chris Pratt is taking Mario back to his vocal roots.

But yeah, it's silly. Look, I love Charles Martinet's Mario, but you can't do a full length movie with "It's-a me! Mario!" for 90 minutes. Mario isn't even from Italy. He's from New York City. So the stereotypical Italian accent doesn't fit his character.

And while we're on the subject of Nintendo characters and voices, guess what? Link isn't mute in Breath of the Wild. He's unvoiced, but you clearly choose his vocal replies multiple times in the game. He's speaking. With words. Unless you think everyone in Hyrule understands sign language (which he never uses) despite them all talking too.

[that-catholic-shinobi]

If you have to “wish rape” on people in order for them to believe killing babies is ok then maybe your pro abortion stance isn’t the win you think it is

[knickerbockerkickaround]

Wishing rape on forced birth fascists so they learn a lesson is always morally correct.

Get fucked, forced birth clowns 😂

[that-catholic-shinobi]

See what I mean

[hostis-the-white-wizard]

“I am teaching women who disagree with me A Lesson by saying I hope they get raped, I can be trusted around women :)”, yeah a real teaching moment. Bet they don’t let you hand out candy on Halloween, too.

Like in the same breath this dude says that anyone who disagrees with him should be violated intimately, he also says you’re a “fascist”

Can’t make this shit up