I do not buy from bp, and I only buy from Walmart if there’s literally no other option. My go to department store is Target or whatever local store has what I need, usually it is the former is Walmart is the reason why Mom and Pop stores don’t really exist anymore unless they fulfill a very specific niche.
My local Walmart does not get any of my business, if I go in, it’s probably just to visit the Checkers renting store space from Walmart
Sadly it is the old assumption that rape is just “One of those things that happens to women, like periods.”
It’s getting better now, more editors are catching it (Laura Croft was supposed to be a “innocent flower” at one point who only became badass because she got raped… this was not only removed from the final game but the person was fired)
But… the idea of rape as a “Female Problem like broken finger nails and not being able to go to the mall” is definitely a major sign that the writing you are looking at is from the 90s when they want edge and they want women, but no idea how to do both.
I’ve even done it once and I’m not even a man… and even then it was in something meant to be sleazy with a B grade horror vibe and as an homage to I Spit On Your Grave
I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at...
As much as I like the Marvel movies, or rather did, the problem is that they were never a series of movies, and it could be argued that they should not be taken seriously as pieces of Cinema at least as far as movies are concerned. Because they are not movies, it’s more of a continuous show where all the episodes are very long and very expensive. None of them can truly be considered a self-contained experience. Which is a problem the comic book industry faces all the time as they need to continuously find ways to keep things recognizable yet continuously moving in new directions, there isn’t a chance to actually sit down and tell and develop a single story like there is for manga
All I know about the Halo show is that it ignores the entirety of the Halo lore in order to basically try to be a note for note rip off of the Mandalorian. But the fact that it has sex scenes bothers me, I mean isn’t it cannon that the Spartan project killed Master Chiefs libido and therefore he is effectively asexual?
Actually I think they have the same problem with it we Millennials do, and that we don’t find it Charming when a guy acts like a total creep and is rewarded for it because the movie was written by total creeps. Or if our lead is a woman, I’m tired of hearing about how successful and fulfilled she is with her brilliant career that no one takes seriously, because she hasn’t found the right man yet, but then she does and discovers that all of her problems are solved by his penis. Because those movies are also made by creeps
Unfortunately America is way too concerned with decorum in order to actually follow the rule of law. There is this idea that if we just simply pretend that everything is fine and that are enemies simply have different ideas instead of actively Desiring our debts, that everything will work itself out in the end.
If we had a functioning government that actually gave a shit about criminal justice and stamping out corruption, they would have slapped the cuffs on Donald Trump on January 6th, and his public hanging would have been a ratings extravaganza.
I am not advocating for violence against Donald trump, I merely stating that our constitution says that if a president refuses to give up power or behaves in a treasonous manner, hanging is how you deal with that.
Actually that is something I have wanted to ask about but I haven’t really found the right person to ask or the right forum, that being, how many instances do we see in which something that was previously completely written off of pseudoscience turn around and actually become established science.
Off at the top of my head the only thing I can think of is how the existence of germs was originally thought of as complete Insanity, and the paranoia of one addled individual who swore up and down that these invisible creatures where everywhere and were making everybody sick.
There is the matter of the Earth revolving around the sun being the reverse at one point, which is mistaken for a religious claim however at the time of galileo, other scientists came to completely different conclusions with their own telescopes and had refused to endorse his position due to a lack of evidence.
If I remember correctly, Galileo had an obsession with pillars that would have been even stronger evidence than what he thought he saw in the telescope had he just looked a little closely. One of those crazy little ironies I suppose.
And finally, the Big Bang Theory in a weird inversion of expectation was actually established by a priest, who was mocked by scientists who came up with the name Big Bang as a way of writing off his idea as a uniquely Catholic perspective that no way resembled good science. And then the steady state universe theory kind of collapsed and was replaced by the Big Bang Theory that had been so mocked. If I were correctly I believe Albert Einstein had his photograph taken with this priest.
But outside of that, I can’t think of anything, it would be cool to find a list of these somewhere.
What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
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