Cats are people, too.

mom's minion memes for real justice

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

Addendum 5/23/26:

I reblogged ages ago and now I’m working a great job I love and had absolutely zero qualifications for.

"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means

Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??

If you are invested in JD and Elliot being a couple, you'll probably hate it.

If you love JD and Turk's bromance, you will be annoyed that they don't interact more, but if JD is your fave you get to see how he has grown.

The new players are super fun and there's a couple nods to the old show that present positive growth (imo) and I appreciated the subtle acknowledgement of a few places that the old show was weak.

That said, there's a trope i genuinely hate (bisexual slut) but it's inverted (both guys!) AND lampshaded and somehow even tho the one character is a total antagonist I love him. And because I love him I don't mind the Todd and NewGuy being the worst bi trope ever. Go figure.

Additionally, the Dr Cox storyline towards the end is brilliant and brings to mind the best of the original show.

"Human capital" is an economics term. Much like "human resources," it's the bloodless term used to take all humanity out of the business office.

This is a feature in that world.

Charles Xavier is privileged as fuck. Yeah, he's disabled, but that didn't happen until he was a grown man. He's white, male, cishet, Christian, well-educated, and wealthy. He spent years just traveling the globe for the fun of it. Charles Xavier is the epitome of privilege. Charles Xavier has never entered a room where his voice wasn't heard. He has always had that buffer where things come easily to him because of who he is. He expects that if he asks nicely, humans will treat mutants with respect. Of course he does! No one has ever taken an aspect of his identity and used it as a reason he shouldn't be listened to! He truly believes mutants will be fine if they help humans and follow all the laws and have conversations with men like Senator Kelly.

So the way Charles handles the treatment of mutants is totally different from how Magneto handles it. Magneto is Jewish and lived with Romani people for a while (presenting as Romani, while not being Romani himself). He watched his country turn against his family for being Jewish. His wife left him when she found out he was a mutant (also he killed a whole ton of people, but w/e). His daughter was murdered because he was a mutant. He has no belief that he will be accepted. He expects that his mutation will be rejected, and he's right. He expects the hatred that he grew up with. Magneto watched his father, a WW1 vet, ask a military friend for help only to be rejected and told that he was wrong for even asking, that he would expect an Aryan to treat him like anyone else. Magneto knows what happens when you ask nicely and play by their rules: you get put in camps. He knows that the legal system made by humans doesn't work. He knows it can be abandoned at any moment.

If someone's read of the character requires that Xavier come from unquestioned privilege, I really wonder how much of the history of the character that person can really understand. Since the 60s, common wisdom, and repeated statements from various writers, has been that "Xavier is MLK and Magneto is Malcolm X". How does that at all square with this idea that Charles has to be white?

Just off the top of my head, you could have a Charles Xavier who grew up as the child of 1960s civil rights leaders who were able to make political careers from their activism, and thus experienced a great deal of relative privilege in terms of his economic status, his education, his connection to powerful people from a young age. This is someone who gets as high in the world as a Black man is allowed to get, and yet he is never allowed to be really equal. The system has worked for him, most of the time, most of his life, and so he believes that the system can be made to work for everybody. (The more I write this out, the more I am saying, "kind of a VP Harris, tbh, with the very significant gender difference.") That is his contrast with Magneto, his belief in humanity and existing human institutions: he believes that what exists can be reformed and mutants can achieve freedom by that reform. That is the core of his conflict with Magneto, not his whiteness.

And then you put that up against a Black Jewish Magneto who has seen the best and the worst of humanity in all the parts of who he is — the solidarity and the racism within American Judaism along with everything else — and who believes that what exists must be destroyed for mutants to achieve real freedom.

There are so many very interesting ways to approach that contrast, and absolutely none of them require either one of them to be white. I would actually argue that a biracial Xavier played by someone like Esposito, who was born in Denmark, lived in Rome until he was 5, attended a private Catholic college in New York, and then struggled as an actor after his divorce due to being typecast as a "thug" until he actually actively contemplated killing himself for the insurance money to provide for his kids might bring something new to the role that speaks to where a lot of people are now. We literally have the Supreme Court saying with a straight face that "racism is over and we don't need the VRA anymore," and then handing the keys to the racism bulldozer to Louisiana, you know? What does "being equal and being free" mean in a world where we get a Black President and VP but it's followed by legal maneuvers that will probably decimate Black legislative representation for generations, and we get "marriage equality" but disabled people are still locked out of marriage in many cases, plus the fact that they lost Obergefell just meant that Republicans turned their hatred onto trans people as their next target? Can you meaningfully "reform" a system like that, or must it be razed to the ground?

The essential question of the X-Men is and always has been "reform the system" vs "destroy the system," and absolutely nothing in that question requires Xavier to be white.