Joanne Rowling is a hateful fucking bigot.
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Joanne Rowling is a hateful fucking bigot.
As a former wait staff who worked the Sunday brunch, I'd take a table of Karens over their fucking handsy husbands any day. Tbf, I never had a table of Karens. All the chuch ladies I met were timid and hopeful that I didn't spit in their husband's drink. I did spit in their husband's drink though.
yah. that's the real question here.
The character fell into the trope eventually though. No surprise, really. The whole show was a series of tropes strung together with a couple inspirational shots. There wasn't enough K2 but he was good value for the tiny amount of screen time he got.
Sure, sweetie. You alone rise above the patriarchy.
Oh, for sure. Kleya got Cassian's original back story. Only it was Draven that played Luthen's role for Cassian. Kleya was great right up until they turned her into a damsel for Cassian and Melshi to save.
My point was that he was re-drawn into a Han Solo-like character. I preferred the life-long resistance fighter that understood oppression. The series makes Cassian in the movie into a liar or an asshole. It's better for me if I just think they're different people.
The statement was that she didn't pay enough in tax and the question was what did she pay in taxes last year.
Yeah, in the series. In the movie, he is a committed rebel that had 'been in the fight' since he was 6 yrs old. The character was inspired by Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Israeli tanks during the Intifada. Andor grew up in resistance. His girlfriend didn't emotionally manipulate him into it.
This comment thread is full of misogyny. If Taylor Swift was a man, you'd all be lining up to metaphorically suck his dick. You're all so predictable, it's painful. I only wish it was painful for all of you. Instead, you get the pleasure of confirmation bias and self-righteousness.
Do you have the numbers though?
I'm so sorry to hear this. I wish there was something I could do to support you other than comments on bluesky. I hope you and your daughter are okay.
A bus sounds nice but I'm going to Hell in a handbasket, actually. It's a lovely basket and I've been working on the cushions and decorations for some fucking time now.
I have been promised that he is dying any day now and yet, like Walter White and his terminal cancer diagnosis, I am forced to endure years of this fucker living.
Is the word epigenetics? That's the idea that the effects of trauma can reverberate down through generations. Or maybe it's just patriarchy?
It's moderately disconcerting that the order of things being threatened started with the economy and ended with rights. Like. Maybe start with rights next time?
If the left can see Gaza in Frenchified Ghorman, then why couldn't a MAGA see themselves as rebels against the oppression of the 'woke' left. Gilroy talked to Ross Douthat about that very thing.
That's the thing about corporate entertainment; everything stays vague enough that you can see whatever you want in it. The left thinks Andor is a revolutionary work even though it is full of patriarchal and white supremacist tropes. They buy Coke cans with Andor's face on it and corporations laugh.
Surely it's been that way since 2015?
Andor is a just a different character in the series versus the movie. And K2 isn't even that much of a buddy in Andor. It's not a good prequel. And don't be silly. Obviously all those reluctant rebels with non-human buddies in SW are Han Solo. But Rogue One Cassian isn't a reluctant rebel.
I take the opposite position. Favreau should stay quiet. The more Gilroy talks about Andor, the more I hate the show and him. I don't need constant reminders that mediocre white men think they have sublime insights to share with us about art and revolution.
Andor has nothing to do with Rogue One. It's not even the same guy, even though they have the same name and both have Diego Luna's face.
I detest that in just one week this story is gone from the media cycle. An Israeli citizen & report of Netanyahu was charged & arrested for attempting to rape a 14-year-old child. He was bailed out & flew back to Israel, despite an Aug 27 court date. WHY??? www.qasimrashid.com/p/netanyahu-...
Is that why they colonized the fucking world? Were they just super tired of Shakespeare or something?! Because, if history teaches us nothing, the British sure liked leaving Britain.
I wish I could help, but I have Doug Ford hanging around my neck.
Agree with Wab on all points. "The premier said he would instead like to see the federal government remove tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles so that country would drop its duties on canola, "if we're in the business of removing tariffs." " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
That sounds like an Alberta problem.
But has the Democratic Party abandoned him?
No one ever complained?! She should have known what the outstanding issues were BEFORE she invoked S. 107, don't you think?
She's trying to save face because CUPE just spit in the Liberal's.
It's almost like there are more of us than there are of them and when we band together in - what's the word? - solidarity, then we win.
If it's so important, why not pay the staff?
Fuck you. I know exactly what you would have been saying about them when they were breaking unjust laws. You fucking simp. If you want to suck Carney's dick, just get under his desk. No need to waste time on Bluesky.
It's the employer and the government that are ignoring the law, dumbass. Once they've broken it, the workers aren't obliged to give their labour anymore.
Yeah. One of the rules is that unions have the right to strike and fucking gov't should keep the fuck out of it rather than putting their thumbs on the scale for employers. When the gov't ignores the law to exploit workers, then workers don't need to follow them either.
I wonder where the circle would fall of people who have limited mobility and require pre-boarding at the start of the flight but are suddenly cured when they sprint off the plane after arrival?
Yes. And his daughter accused him of CSA as well.
At this point, would it be easier to post pictures of Republicans that aren't rapists and pedophiles? I'm just thinking about efficiency here.
I know because people love Cassian Andor and Han Solo, the other great reluctant heroes of SW. They have dicks though so their failure to commit is complex and cool while Jyn is a "flat character" with a "simplistic character arc."
So Jyn becomes a secondary character in the movie that was created for her to be the protagonist. Felicity Jones clearly has better things to think about than what stupid SW fans think about Erso but she did an amazing job bringing to life a character that, were she a man, would have been loved.
And there's the Fandor sobbing about the tragedy of Andor dying with a son he doesn’t know about in the “Great TragedyTM” of SW, ignoring/diminishing Jyn's sacrifice. Because she doesn't have a HopeBabyTM to carry on her her legacy and a heartbroken madonna to weep for her.
Melshi gets 2 seasons of back story because Gilroy liked the actor but Jyn doesn’t get a mention, though the rebellion is busting her out of Wobani with days of the end of Andor.
That’s not fan service but mentioning Jyn’s name and mentioning that they found her in Wobani under a pseudonym would have been “lame” fan service.
Gilroy, the fucking genius, couldn’t imagine how to introduce Jyn into Andor but he could manage to get Krennic into 3/4s of s2, because the project manager of the Death Star would be interrogating an ISB officer like he had the fucking clearance to even know what’s in her emails.
More than one Fandor has said that Rogue One is all about Cassian now but Rogue One was written with Jyn Erso as the protagonist. It’s the only Disney SW product that allowed a complicated, sometimes unlikeable, female protagonist have her fucking story and now it’s Cassian Andor’s story.
"How exactly is her legacy shat on? Like. She's not in the show and I don't really recall anything happening that retroactively diminishes her role." Clearly you lack critical analysis. Andor erases Jyn from the story while expanding secondary characters like Krennic & Melshi.
because Tony Gilroy is nothing if not predictable. The difference is that once Jyn commits to the rebellion, she fucking commits, unlike Cassian in Andor who keeps changing his mind and refusing to commit.
"I'm gonna step over caring about Jyn Erso, a flat character who goes thru a simplistic character arc" Clearly, you’re not going to step over it. You had to insult the character (whose arc was written by Gilroy, by the way) even though her character arc is identical to Cassian Andor in Andor;
I'm gonna step over caring about Jyn Erso, a flat character who goes thru a simplistic character arc to hop onto my actual puzzlement of this statement- How exactly is her legacy shat on? Like. She's not in the show and I don't really recall anything happening that retroactively diminishes her role.
Meanwhile their workers have been living in RVs and going to food banks to try and make ends meet
Isn't the King a German?
Me too. I remember saying the same thing on the way home from seeing the movie in theatre. Brilliant. Felicity Jones was incredible.
The lack of empathy and critical thought is shockingly common.
I'm an atheist, so I don't define God, but that's how Christians define him; he's perfect. All knowing, all-loving, all-powerful, ever-present. And not compatible with actual free will, gifted or otherwise. It's an ancient debate that is only settled if you have faith, which I do not.
Well, omniscience and omnipotence and all that. A perfect God cannot exist with free will in its creation. But, yeah, that's the usual excuse.
If God is God, why would he let us?
Kristi Noem?
Huh. I wonder where they got those fucking flags from, pookie? Seriously. Your country is a cancer. I can manage dealing with domestic issues and learning something about a foreign country. I know that might be a surprise to a USians but it can be done. Pookie.
It's hard to worry about our issues when you fuckers live next door. Do you know what it's like having a bunch of redneck yokels next door that can't even get universal healthcare worked out and keep shooting guns? If you would just the fuck up for 5 mins, maybe we could worry about our issues.
Wow. All you Americans are really assholes, huh? Okay. Soooooorry. Not sorry. Fuck off.
As a Canadian, I think you're insane. Centre Democrats offer nothing, and certainly not truth. Also, Sanders and "the Squad" aren't far left. They are rational. If you're going to lose, do it on your principles, at least. Unless you don't have any?
That's what made him popular. Folks like to see themselves in the president. Case in point, Trump.
Well, I think shitting all over Jyn Erso's legacy is pretty scummy but I guess that was mostly Tony Gilroy's thing but Luna did put a face on it so we'll have to agree to disagree. In any case, this thread is about Ahmed working with JKR which is definitely scummy. We can absolutely agree on that.
Holding his SLEEPING baby while looking at his computer.
Oh, I just hated Andor. It's a small club, I know. But I think they ruined R1 and gave us a mediocre series as a consolation prize. I really hate Tony Gilroy, though. Diego is by association. Well, that and the Woody Allen film he did. 🤮
You are much more generous than I. But that's why you enjoyed teaching intermediate kids and I ran screaming from the profession in university. I'm a misanthrope at heart.
Yeah. It's like Diego Luna was all, "I'm going to ruin Rogue One for everyone." And then Riz Ahmed was like, "Hold my fucking beer, dude."
I live next door but I get it. I want time online to be an escape from my work but I can't turn off the bullshit. I just want to read fanfic and bitch about SW but there's a fascist coup next door and my gov't seems to be using this moment to take our freedom and destroy our quality of living too.
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Why would they ask that? Like, you're a grown adult and you're wearing a toque. So? Who cares? I presume you dress for comfort and to please yourself. Why would anyone care what you wear?
To be fair, all capitalism is about exploration, not effort.
I don't feel like this will be detrimental to her political future in Alberta. Do you?
This is funny because, as an atheist, I have often stated that butter tarts (with pecans) are proof of the existence of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. This is exactly how religious wars start, you know.
Canada is jumping on the censorship bandwagon. Sign the petition and stop it.
What a surprise; Woody Allen was a frequent Epstein guest.
Et tu, Riz?! Et tu? So very disappointed by all listed here, including Laurie and Macfadyen. Working for JKR puts money into anti-trans campaigns.
Do they not have deer where you garden? Because wait until you meet deer.
I don't think you can do it with just one death but John Ehrlichman would be a good place to start.
Like I said; slow. Glacially slow. I don't expect she'll get to understanding that women who aren't white and/or Republican shouldn't get mistreated either. Not in this millennium.
She's slow but she's getting to the truth.
He's positioned himself to replace Trump when he dies. And that is terrifying.
The US is a banana republic that can't even grow its own bananas.
I thought that Gotham being New York was canon. How is this a debate? I never thought of Metropolis being anything, to be honest.
Well, at least you didn't deny the patriarchy. Later!
And yet, it failed to feed into Rogue One. The whole series (both seasons) was mediocre at best. It fails as a prequel to R1, the simplest task before it, and manages to maintain patriarchal and white supremacist themes while convincing liberal Americans that it's revolutionary.
I believe "Rebellions are built on hope" is credited to a Ghorman bellhop now. Anything interesting about Cassian Andor was eliminated by the television series.
More non human aliens? Don't you mean any non human alien representation? I'd just be happy if Gilroy didn't make all his drug addicts people of colour. You know, just in case he didn't want to advertise his white, rich, man, liberal worldview.
1989 ended in Canada with the massacre of 14 women at L'Ecole Polytechnique because they were women. I started the 90s debating my humanity with my grad student colleagues - all male - and arguing that the Montreal massacre was a hate crime indicative of the daily violence women experience.
1st, this is not what I thought the farmers' market in Martha Vineyard would look like. 2nd, I never want to see Dersh in shorts again. 3rd, this is the exactly the kind of thing I want to see on Bluesky every single day. Thank you. You're doing good work here.
Yes. She named him.
From your lips to Trump's ears, I'm sure.
In my dark moments, I think people should pass a test & get a license before they can be parents. But there's no way to do that without getting all eugenics-y. The only alternative is a strong, supportive community for parents & children. But then there's fucking capitalism fucking that idea up.
Yeah, I'm sure that it is hard. It was hard to talk to my daughter too, since I was raised with a lot of shame and silence around being a girl. I was far from perfect but sometimes it's the effort that matters.
I watched a video on the manosphere and the presenter said it was hard for parents to understand the algorithms but, like, it's not hard for them to talk to their sons, right? Boys need more upbringing than a game console and the occasional ride to a sporting event.
Good.
It's almost like the media is being disingenuous.
This man is ridiculous but he's also a rapist. There are credible allegations against him and he doesn't deserve freedom let alone pierogi.
Wow. I'm the opposite. I didn't like Andor at first but now that I've listened to Gilroy's interviews, I actively hate it. He strikes me as every white, male "liberal" who thinks he's the shit when he's just kind of shit. Mediocre white man syndrome.