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I like Michael Moorcock's Elric series quite a bit. Love that the character is sort of a deconstruction of the typical swords and sorcery protagonist. Rather that being a muscular, rugged powerful dude he's a skinny, sickly pretty boy that manages to be bad ass because of magic and cursed...

How do you determine "truth"? And were do you draw the line of what's acceptable and what isn't? Do you tell people who's religious beliefs might be different than you they are wrong? I don't know. Activism and visibility would have sure as hell helped me growing up, as an asexual person...

Political organization/corporations aren't individuals, my dude. I don't care what GLADD says. But over my life, I've met trans folks that are good people. Polite, caring human beings that actually give a shit about their neighbor. If they want to live their life as another gender, why...

People believe all sorts of things. I mean, the entire Mormon religion is based on a dude swearing that =9112&hash=bdfdd3834460d2ef60c7539e0881b2cb']Attach filesGod gave him golden tablets only he could read... But most of the Mormons I've met in my life were kind, loving, generous people who...

...Or you could at least summarize it, with the broad strokes, since a three and a half hour documentary is a lot of time to invest, especially when I spend like like two hours a week watching things? And I don't exactly trust anything the government says in the first place. But lies and...

Singular they has been used for a long ass time and I guarantee the vast majority of people who bitch about people wanting to use it for their personal pronouns have used it. On multiple occasions. Let's pretend you go to a restaurant. You sit down in your booth and see that the previous...

The Two Towers in Tolkien's stories refer to two towers in different places. Trying to make a 9/11 connection is a reach that would impress Mister Fantastic.

If we hadn't gone to the moon, Russia would have revealed it at some point during the cold war. The world might be a stage, as someone said, but not all the actors are from the same troupe. More importantly, if it didn't happen... What is the point of lying about it? Conspiracies don't just...

It's fairly common in neo-nazi groups, or at least was until more people became aware of Tolkien's actual views on race became more known. They paint the story as some sort of racial allegory, with the fair-skinned men of the West and the fair-skinned elves fighting the dark-skinned men of the...

I mean, it's not like Tolkien didn't have a decent amount of "progressive" ideals in his work. The elves did not have cultural gender roles. No one would have thought it strange in an elven woman wanted to be what Men would consider a traditionally masculine profession or an elven man in...

I've always found the take that magic, as presented in fictional settings, is "basically witchcraft" to be a weird as hell (no pun intended) take. As someone who's studied various real-world occult philosophies, they bare little similarities to how magic is portrayed in fiction. You might...

There's a lot wrong with this comment 1.) It was the Greeks that had small penises in their art, not the Romans. And it was not because "children's genitals" were preferred but because ancient Greece had a obsession with logic, civilization, and order... Some ancient Greek are did feature...

If you can't find a significant other, there's a big chance that's because of you... Not feminism, or whatever else you want to blame. I love how so many people are so close to realizing that capitalism is central to the exploitation we face, but can never really admit that it's capitalism.

"A four-day work week will make you lazy!" Would it? Ignoring the fact that many jobs have a lot of "busy work" (i.e.: shit your boss has you do so you look like you're working for corporate), almost everyone I know gets more shit done in their personal lives when they have a day off of work.

While I'm definitely not a fan of the road to making landlords into feudal lords again... "Home-ownership" is largely an illusion the elite use to make the middle class think they have some freedom. You know, despite the fact that most people have a mortgage they'll be paying off for the...

The company behind the shoes, MSCHF, sort of wants that. Their an art collective that does a hell of a lot of crazy things. Like... They bought one of the Boston Dynamics robot "dogs", attached a paint gun to it, and allowed people to control it remotely through an app... To basically raise...

1.) Lucifer was the Devil's name, pre-Fall. It was his angelic name. 2.) The number of the Beast, in revelations is six-hundred and sixty six. Specifically. And it's a number of a man.

Some certainly were. But those folks weren't exactly unquestioned even at the start. And I don't know a single person in the modern era that thinks pedophiles should be welcomed. So again, it's bullshit people like to bring up to try to make every single LGBT person into some monster...

Pedophiles claim to be part of the LGBT community... But the LGBT community has soundly rejected them. The only people who feel they belong are other pedophiles, or the occasional right-wing grifter, pretending to be part of the LGBT community.

American lefty here. You're wrong. :p Since again, the Jeff Bezos sorts are capitalists. Therefor, not leftists.