Red Scare's trajectory from brocialism to outright explicit Trumpism is a really good reminder that a willingness to hate on the right people is not a substitute for having positions of merit.

That's how I watched Lawrence of Arabia!

Yet another thing he has in common with Daenerys Targaryen

The primary lesson of the Biden years was that US voters see themselves as consumers first and workers second. Four decades of complaints about stagnant wages, then they grew, and it just made everyone pissed off.

Beneath it 😉

Are you simple?

What kind of retort is that? Do better, at least introduce a secondary nonsensical point to distract from your lack of rebuttal. Is this your first day online or something?

Worse: reddit. Fanfiction has a built in awareness that the writer is producing something that is not in canon, the illiterate redditor thinks their "interpretation" that directly contradicts canon is somehow valid in debates

As Marx said, "To each according to need, from each according to if they feel like it"

It's just so hard to be Caesar Augustus 😢 working his fingers to the bone on behalf of others

See also the persistent anger among conservatives about seeing gay or interracial couples in TV commercials. The government doesn't decide what's on your TV, but to them "the government" is a parent-like concept that substitutes for anyone who runs anything in society

Approximately three of them total. The consensus is that he is a bad character because he does bad things and that anyone who enjoys him is too stupid to realize he did bad things. They are not an intellectual people.

Talent as an essayist rather than a novelist, sure. The fiction aspect is more or less the framing device for newspaper column level opinion pieces

A bad book is a doorway to the unparalleled joy of being a justified hater 🌈 📖

The highlights for me were the white feminism character that exists to act out every bullet point about how white women are uniquely oppressive Bad Allies and the fact that someone as nakedly exultant in their academic status as Kuang wrote a book where history turns on the heroism of grad students