Hag-afying as we speak

if i had seen the transition from sepia to color in wizard of oz in 1939 i would have lost my shit i would've started screaming in the theater

The technique of switching between double and main actor without an edit is called a Texas Switch and it's still used today, it's very neat to have something so simple yet tricky persist pretty much just because it genuinely looks better to do it with timing than with editing.

I love the Texas Switch. My favourite one is in Return of the King, when Denethor throws Pippin out of the tombs, but they're all works of art.

genuinely and for real if you change your fundamental values because people are mean to you then you’re stupidddddd. “men are going to the right because leftists are mean to them” okay well they are stupid. “so and so became a terf bc trans people were mean to them” stupid behaviour. that was stupid of them. I don’t think “the left” is “failing” men. I think those men are stupid.

If you treat someone badly when you supposedly have no power, they're going to question what you would do if you DID gain power.

"So I beat you a few times, why do you want a divorce and a restraining order?"

This is all well and good as long as you accept that you can't train everyone to agree with you, even if you're nice about it. Not everyone is lacking in "education." Sometimes they really do have a different opinion on particular issues. I don't think JK Rowling was ever going to be okay with trans women in every single female space, though the hate campaign certainly pushed her further away. If you can't tolerate a single difference of opinion, you're going to have a lot of trouble holding a political movement together.

Plenty of people speak English without any cultural imperialism whatever. Many of them are just Ameriboos.

The Common Tongue used to be the Elven language, but they got so annoyed that everyone else was using it that they designed a newer, harder to understand and speak language to be more exclusive.

Now show me countries ranked by children shot in schools

you know what's crazy? when it's very very cold you can just do a few jumping jacks or run around and you will be warm. when it's very very warm you can do nothing but die

I usually drink icewater. Have rotating juice bottles in the freezer. About 750ml to a Liter, leave them in for an hour, too tired to convert, don't use metal or vacuum or thick plastic cause it'll crack.

Hmmm.

If America is 'superior to any other country,' why does it consistently trail many peer countries on life expectancy, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare outcomes, education, social mobility, public safety, incarceration, homicide rates, work-life balance and happiness?