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  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    21 days ago

    Think about being a child with Professor X’s abilities. He can get anything he wants, make anyone believe anything he wants, he can know everyone’s deepest most shameful secrets. How could a person like that even form a moral framework? From his childhood, he’d have every reason to believe that he was immune to all discipline and that rules simply don’t apply to him if he decides they don’t, because for him those are true facts! By all rights Professor X ought to be a an exceptionally dangerous egoist and megalomaniac.

    Oh, also, if there is any Marvel character who ought to be canonically omnisexual, it ought to be Charles. He doesn’t see bodies, he just sees minds. That undersea prawn monster that Namor was making out with ought to be just table stakes for Professor Xavier.





  • Of course politics will always disappoint you. Politics is the means by which large groups of people aggregate their desires sufficiently to achieve collective goals. It’s a massive process of millions of compromises. The goal is explicitly not to make everyone happy. The goal is to have enough people of good will and with enough information avaliable involved that the series of compromises move enough of us in the right direction.







  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOglaf Rule
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    4 months ago

    There’s a point worth considering here which is that even the lion who founds the school thinks that he’s helping the gazelles, and many of his lion friends seem to think he’s crazy. Even starting from supposed good intentions, the lessons taught in the school are fundamentally based on a lion-centric worldview. Even with a “top-tier” education, the gazelles aren’t being prepared to question the fundamentals of their situation in life, which is why they are still being eaten.





  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGenius
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    5 months ago

    Just tell them that voting is a reptilian conspiracy to steal testosterone so that enough of them stop that we can elect some representatives who will improve public education to the degree that people are generally less likely to believe conspiracy theories.