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It's a false dilemma, and one that is completely fictitious. The idea that the colonized and the colonizer would start intermingling after a long enough period of time, and a situation where the colonizer is actively engaging in a genocidal war of ethnic cleansing, is so unbelievable stupid that it isn't worth entertaining.

You're American, right? Are you living in a mixed culture with the Natives right now? Or do they live in their own lands that were deliberately selected to be inhospitable?

You're talking to a Native American who lives among the colonizers right now. I'm displaced and assimilated as fuck. The cultures haven't mixed, mine has simply been erased and denied to me.

If you want an example of what happens after 100 years of territory wars between the colonized and the colonizers, look at Israel. Palestinians who live in Israel are being subjected to Jim Crow on Nightmare Mode.

Ironically Israel also provides the answer to this false question: What happens to the Israelis if Israel is fully decolonized? They become Palestinians, and the Apartheid is abolished.

Yu Dao as it exists in universe is colonizer propaganda. Something designed entirely to make the issue of decolonization sound harder and more ethically dubious than it actually is.

The question about Yu Dao is very simple.

Yu Dao: "This is my home!" Zuko: "I'm giving the land back to the Earth Kingdom. You're welcome to repatriate to the Fire Nation." Yu Dao: "But I don't want to leave!" Zuko: "Then I guess you're an Earth Kingdom citizen now." Yu Dao: "But I don't want to be an Earth Kingdom citizen!" Zuko: "Not my problem. Make your decisions at your own peril."

Anakin became evil because he fell to the Dark Side

Anakin became evil because he coveted his wife like an object and was more concerned with not "losing" her than what she would want. The Dark Side was a means to an end.

Fascism didn't spawn from the deepest bowels of the Force, it was created by people.

The ones who embraced the Dark Side have always been the ones trying to take over the galaxy.

Palpatine was a career politician who took over the galaxy without actually using the Dark Side at all.

Or did you forget the most raw, powerful line in the entire franchise?

Without the corruption of the Senate, a body overwhelmingly NOT Force Sensitive, the Empire would not exist. Furthermore, plenty of people who don't use the Dark Side have tried to take over the galaxy. The Vong, Zakuul, the Hutts have made more than one attempt, and the leaders of the Separatists were largely blind to the Force as well.

You're scapegoating the Force for human failings.

A single conversation about "power" in a video game doesn't mean the Sith are the good guys now.

My point has always been that the Sith, being an organization and therefore largely subjected to the beliefs of the people in them, can be whatever a writer wants them to be. Unfortuntely you seem to think that the Sith were literally spawned from the Force and are under the edict of a sentient Dark Side.

Which is stupid. This isn't D&D.

Regardless of lore or in universe justifications, having the theme of your story be, "Everything will be fine so long as this singular religious institute is not only the dominant, but the sole spiritual and moral compass of all creation because everything else is clearly evil and a corruption," is actually really fucked up.

Well, actually, the Sith were a colonized people whose beliefs and inconography were appropriated and misrepresented by fallen Jedi going on their own dark side benders, but for thousands of years, they were also a religion.

And religious traditions and scripture are always open to interpretation.

Nothing can hurt you anymore.

I'm of two minds about this because in the case of Morrigan... I do get it. Throughout DAO she is dismissive or antagonistic towards men. And considering this is dragon ORIGINS we're talking about, where there are more rape victims than loading screens, you can't really blame her. It's a vile world for almost any woman in ferelden, especially if you're an elf, a mage or both. Sure, hating the patriarchy alone does not a lesbian make, but if a character like Morrigan was going to be romanceable by any gender, men make the least sense.

But of course, because this game was written by the game dev frat boys, Morrigan's views on men is considered a character flaw that has to be overcome. The Morrigan romance is about a very specific fantasy for male gamers. The one where a nice guy fucks the misandry out of the bad girl. It's orientation play with deniability.

On the flip side, I cannot understand why Lesbians are so thirsty for Cassandra. Yes, she has short hair and is a Frontline soldier, but now we're just using the imagery of lesbianism to carry the justification. My grandma jo had short hair and a broad build and she wasn't gay. She was just racist and called 7 year olds fat cunts.

To that end, Cassandra is also a French Catholic crusader. And we just had two games talking about just how vile the chantry as an institution is to minorities. One who encourages the player to present themself as a prophet to the masses even if they don't themselves believe that they should. Nothing about Cassandra's characterization to me even screams closeted lesbian. Just an... Unpleasant person through and through.

I mean sure, Sera's sapphic and she's also the fucking worst, but it makes sense for her character. As my wife said, she'd probably jump into bed with anyone who'd call her knife ear.

Well they're suffering from two primary fallacies.

One: That the Russian Federation is the Soviet Union

And Two: That the Soviet Union was anything other than a geopolitical pantomime of staggering incompetence cosplaying as an Empire.

A lot of American socialists are under the believe that the Soviet Union was actually an amazing place because Communism is perfect and doesn't make mistakes (the same belief that led to the Soviet Union being such a horribly incompetent idiot pit but I digress) and all claims otherwise are CIA propaganda.

Because the Soviet Union is perfect and above reproach, any movement that Russia makes against America is therefore automatically good and just because it's a move against the capitalist pigs in the west.

Well to an extent, everyone's at a different place in their recovery. Lamb just took longer to start wanting his life to be better. It's grueling work that a lot of people try to avoid doing.

But also, there's the fact that PTSD and C-PTSD are two very different beasts. Prolonged, long-term trauma numbs you and you learn very quickly to deaden your own nerves or else it'll literally kill you.

It's like developing calluses.

I don't like the notion that being more stable means you're doing better. People with singular acts of childhood trauma (like Lamb) may act out more, but people with C-PTSD aren't automatically doing better just because they're stable.

Sure, I'm stable, have my own business and am happily married. However, I'm also extremely reclusive, a misanthrope to an extreme degree, and the reason I go on nature walks so much is because there are no other people there.

And here's the thing: That's never changing. After Brittany, Patch, Lizzy and the like that has gone from a coping mechanism to a conscious choice. I want a quiet life with few people around me. All that childhood trauma is the reason I have zero ambitions, and my work is just a way to pay my bills while retaining as much free time as humanely possible.

I'm that bitch who would stop working if UBI became a thing.

No professional worth their salt would look at that and go "She's the picture of mental health." So much of my advice to others is "Do as I say, not as I do."

We judge people's mental health way too much on how much they inconvenience others, to the point that we consider people who are quiet and undisruptive as not having real problems. Need I remind you: That perception is the reason Courtney is the way she is.

A variety of reasons, but the main one is that they grew up in an environment where cleaning was a punishment.

I am terrible with the dishes. It's a thing I'm the worst with. I'll let the dishes pile up before it occurs to me to do something about it, and even then the energy for it doesn't last long.

And I know exactly why that is: My entire life, my father made the dishes into a fucking battleground. They were the centerpiece of all of his worst tantrums, he refused to do them himself, and it was the housework that always got pushed onto me as a punishment.

And if I said "No" oh that fight would last all fucking night.

He turned this very basic housework into such a traumatic experience all the time that now I look at a sink full of dishes and just feel sick. And the thing is: I'm good at cleaning. Extremely good. I'm like my mother. You set me on a mess and I'll destroy it. I flew down to Rochester and cleaned out a hoard that usually takes a team to do.

It's just this one thing, that happens to be the thing you need to do the most that gets me.

Apparently, it's Nami's birthday today so I'm posting this.

Listen to what Yoda says to Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, and pay attention to the important words.

"The fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side. Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is."

The Jedi aren't forbidden from loving others, but they have to love others selflessly.

Anakin's problem is that his love for Padme was possessive. He didn't love her, he coveted her. He was completely consumed by the fear of losing her. This is why he strangles her when he thinks she's betrayed him, because whether by death or divorce, he is losing her at that very moment.

He is so consumed by his greed that he destroys everything Padme ever cared about or was passionate about just to keep her from dying, even though Padme would have given her life to preserve the Republic.

Padme's happiness is secondary to keeping her around. This is why Yoda warns Anakin about mourning or missing someone, because these are actions fundamentally centered around the dead no longer being around, and you no longer have access to them.

Anakin loves Padme the way Ashley loves Andrew.

This is how a lot of people experience love. This is why some people get depressed, bitter and angry when they have unrequited feelings, because their love is fundamentally oriented around "having" someone, like a possession.

The shadow of greed, that is.

This is what Yoda is trying to tell him. That whoever Anakin is afraid of losing, his love for them is being poisoned by his greed. A greed so all consuming that he ignored and disregards every value Padme ever had all in the name of keeping her alive.

The only thing there is to say to him is "This is not a healthy or good way to view other people. You have to let go of this desire to own others or you will continue to rot from this irrational fear."

mr director please take zwei don out of cameo hell

drawing the this . awawa.