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The same way we held accountable the perpetrators of the genocides in Rwanda and Armenia and Tibet and Darfur and Myanmar and Bosnia and Lebanon and Indonesia.

The hell is a USian?

The one that sticks out in my mind is the original BioShock. Spoilers if you haven't played it.

Sending drugs in the mail is illegal. The point of this bill is to create pretext for seizing data from servers. When they say "dark" they mean "encrypted" and when they say "illegal" they mean "private."

Yes, which should give ICE supporters a moment to pause and consider two things. First, anyone could be an immigrant. It could be their neighbors and coworkers. Documentation can be faked or doctored or just expired, and the immigration process is deliberately complex.

Second, ICE isn't being careful about who they abduct and deport. There's no process, much less due process, and it can literally happen to any person, immigrant or native born, legal or otherwise.

The goo inside of a tomato reminds me of chunky snot. I enjoy a good tomato flavor, even raw.

Despite? Sounds like a selling point for those cowboys.

Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is still white. Spider-Man (Miles Morales) has always been mixed race black and Puerto Rican. Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara) will be Mexican-Irish. Spider-Man (Hobie Brown) is black, although he frequently goes by Spider-Punk. Spider-Man (Takuya Yamashir) and Spider-Man (Yu Komori) are Japanese, and have been around since the 70s. They are different people who exist in universes with Peter Parker. There are also universes where Peter Parker is Peni Parker (Japanese), Pavitr Prabhakar (Indian), and then there are all the other Spider girls, Spider demons and Spider monsters, not to mention all the Spider-adjacent clones, offspring, and villains who posed as Spider-Man while Parker was incapacitated (which happened twice).

Unless they're in a riddle guarding a door or something.

Miles Morales isn't race swapped, though. He's a different character. But I do agree with your larger point that Rowling sucks as a writer and as a person, and that race swaps don't matter if the characters are well written.

I've never been a fan of Rowling. It always bothered me how much of her writing was lifted from better sources, but I let it go because the movies were fun and it got kids into reading. Discovering that she has always been a bigot, and her insistence on actively promoting discrimination, just erases all the goodwill she built up.

Case in point, Snape is a shit character. Just awful. People coo at the "always" moment from the movie because it came with a glowing doe dancing around the room, but it wasn't an interesting or poetic moment. First of all, it's not something that Dumbledore didn't already know. If Rowling was a better writer- You know what, no, that's not the point of this rant, and I don't have the time to enumerate all the shit great actors turned into gold.

But making Snape a black man puts a lot of story beats into a different context. Was James a racist? Were the other maurauders racist? Did Lily have feelings for Snape and suppressed them due to concerns about how an interracial relationship would affect her standing?

Changing the race of a character isn't a big deal when the characters are well-written.

Accurate in so many ways

Jokes on you, I'd probably enjoy that so I wouldn't argue. Especially if I'm crazy rich, what else would I have to do?

Lotto cashier. "I'm definitely going to hit the jackpot on this one, ya big dummy."

He's not, but that doesn't mean he should be arrested for opposing Trump's power grab.

That's also a fair point. Oligarchs aren't seeking out shady methods of funneling money to candidates to run progressive campaigns. In general, money always has motivation, which is one of the reasons Citizens United was so catastrophic.

Oh I agree with you. I'm just saying it's far easier to find crazy people willing to spout nonsense than it is to find a reasonable, persuasive person who is willing and able to shout into the void.

I'm not defending the DNC at all, but it is a tough process. Running candidates that lose takes a toll. The candidate is putting themselves at risk, painting a target on their backs, and they have to be passionate and persuasive in their campaign knowing they are going to lose.

Conservatives are much better at it, primarily because Conservative losers aren't afraid of being lynched, and they're permitted to say whatever bat shit nonsense happens to rattle around in their skull. They aren't required to be consistent or nuanced or honest, so finding sacrificial nazis in progressive regions isn't that hard. Chances are, people in the community already know who they are and what they stand for because bigots aren't usually quiet.

Progressives have to actually make an argument, one that resonates and establishes a foothold for reason. It's like climbing a muddy slope. Conservatives don't need to reach the summit, they just want to stop you from getting there.

Aaron Rogers.

I can empathize with having my stuff taken, but if you had $1.3 million in jewels, I'm going to bet you're still better off than almost everyone I know even after the theft. This is a minor inconvenience, and that's before we even begin to discuss the ethical implications of the jewelry trade.