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Symbolism aside, I think it's preeeeeetty obvious this comic veered hard into anti-semitism a good while back.

As an aside, whenever I read these glowing accounts of the religious, cultural, mystical power and role of "non binary" people in these erstwhile civilizations, it has the glow of "the noble savage" myth so much derided in our post colonial age. They were wondrous, and respected, and lived at the ap...

Pre-cursor: I'm not a fan of using broad terms like "woke" or "marxist". They aren't particularly useful labels. Not because people don't apply them to themselves (there are many accurate labels that the people being so labelled wouldn't apply to themselves), but because it's too broad and squishy a...

I guess two questions to try to move the dialogue forward is to ask: 1) What 'sources' would you consider to be reliable, and worthy of taking into consideration? I mean, in trying to talk to you about 'what is and is not happening' I referred to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Str...

Several baseless assertions (in the precise sense of not even attempting to give a basis for the assertions) Out of hand dismissals of arguments and/or evidences against the correctness of those assertions (again, baselessly, in the sense previously mentioned. The one exception to this is your argu...

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Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:49 am

Athletes don't force you to do anything. They compete according to the rules of their league as created by their league. This isn't complicated.

Because, of course, athletes and activists and lobbying and lawsuits have NOTHING to do with how league rules get set.

Nice response to me citing literally none of those, and in fact overtly disparaging some of those. Which goes to the point I made previously, re: the sad state of people on all sides of all these issues not caring about evidence presented, points offered, etc. because the point isn't to examine the ...

This is a laughable false equivalence. Demonstrate how so. For every newsmax there is a Huffington post. For every Fox there is a CNN/MSNBC. I can, if you want, demonstrate obvious instances of cherry picking and overt narrative spinning on, say, the latest shooting from news sources ranging from t...

So the "joke" of this storyline is that kids are being murdered by guns at school, but the fact that some people are trans is the real problem? Once again, no one is recruited into being trans. In the 80s and 90s, no one became gay to be cool -- they used to be bullied mercilessly. The same is true...

Seems like you understand what the joke is trying to be, as you say: a 'parody of something'. Whether you find that humorous or on the nose, or off color of a parody is, of course, a different question. You say it "is not happening". I guess it depends on what you mean by 'it'. If you mean, the extr...

Incidentally, isn't funny how transgression of borders (in the name of a greater unity), often is just a sideways effort at a new imperialism by presuming the eradication of the border must happen on the terms of and to the benefit of the transgressor?

Which border shall we defend?? Are not borders all historically arbitrary reference points, to be cast down and transgressed until they are functionally eliminated in our greater, ahistorical enlightenment? Nietzsche would be...well, not proud, probably. Shaking his head wishing he weren't so correc...

Oh I've no doubt a show like One Piece mines a lot of different territory - from the little I've seen of it, it seems like it's got a very broad ranging flavor of inspiration. Anywho... "Yahweh" is one of those really fascinating words (just linguistically), that the one thing everyone who writes se...

A lot of those sorts of things are taken out of Jewish/Christian tradition and repurposed. Bathsheba is the lady King David committed adultery with. Azazel is a Hebrew word referencing the scape goat that would be sent to the wilderness to bear the sins of the people. In some strains of later Jewish...

Ammorite god. Typically understood to be one to whom human, especially child, sacrifices were offered either as an attempt to avoid some crisis and manipulate future events (stave off calamity, ensure prosperity), or as part of the regular religious calendar. For more info specifically, I'd recommen...