TrueMetis

If the Cherokee nation decides to blow up the Oklahoma State Capital building I expect to hear no complaints from any of y'all.

Seems to be given the massive disparity in who's perpetrating said shootings. Honestly tells you a lot about the difference in mindset between the left and right that the people committing these shootings, police that coddle them, and perhaps most importantly politicians who sit there and continue to enable both of the former aren't turning up dead. Like would any of use be surprised if one of the Uvalde victims parents killed Ted Cruz? You think these idiots ever realize how lucky they are?

No training in the world will help with the type of people who want to become cops.

A lot of black people (and other people in general) do avoid calling the police. It's not out of any sort of protest, it's because it's not fucking safe. And the idea that LE aren't expected to help marginalized communities (or again communities in general) is already formalized in the US, by the fucking supreme court no less.

It is, because the only people getting the "we don't want you here" message are as I said the weird fucks who take on cop as part of their identity, and to them that's absolutely the message as it should be. This is no different when someone makes some comment about "men who do x thing" and a bunch of men whine and #notallmen about it. If the action or comment bother's you, you are part of the problem group and should fuck off. Quite frankly, no cops at pride is an excellent filter.

It's absolutely a worthwhile distinction, cop is not an identity, it's a job. And if you treat cop as anything like an identity you are the absolute last person that should be a cop. Seriously if cop is "what they are" that's a massive red flag.

I think you'll find that a significant number of LGBT+ people are in the anti-cop group, with good reason. Also note that this doesn't ban gay people who happen to be cops, there'd really be no way to tell, but cops in uniform.

Good news, they've changed their minds. Well I say changed their minds, but it's more like the teachers that would have been doing the language training refused to come back in person in sufficient numbers so they scrapped the whole thing. Unfortunately things aren't quite better, still struggling with getting work done (the really concerning thing is how little I care about getting work done), and I think the stress is causing physical symptoms that I'm gonna be talking to a doctor with tomorrow. acid reflux, trouble keeping food down, and my appetite is gone.

So my work has decided that they want me to move from where I currently am in BC, to Ontario because of a training requirement. I'm more stressed out than I have been pretty much ever and my ability and will to get work done has pretty well tanked in the little over a week I've had since I found this out. I'm not sure what the worse part is, having to fly with this shit going down (And I don't like flying at the best of times), or that once I get there I'll be cut off from pretty much everything I was able to do that made it possible to cope with this shit. I really hope they come to their senses and accept that a whole bunch of the training they wanted done just isn't going to happen. But unless and until they do I get to sit here stressing

I don't have that notion, but this was a western show, created by westerners, for westerners. Everyone and their grandmother looked at what was happening there and went "that's God fighting Satan." People who like LoK thought that, people who don't like LoK thought that, non-western fans thought that. I've got a pretty wide group of fans I interact with and you're literally the first I've seen dispute the obvious Christian parallels. If the creators meant to invoke something else, they failed, badly. With that specific design and as a force of destruction? Yeah pretty much. Like the above, if they meant to invoke anything else but Shiva they failed. I thought I had covered that, but in more detail Energybending exists only so Aang doesn't have to properly tackle the challenge put before him, not just in the value of human life, but in his people's philosophy. This might be excusable if it turns out to not just be for that but to also help in restoring the balance that they were always banging on about. They even set up a group of non-bender earth kingdom refugees in the NAT that Aang thinks have the Airbender spirit and never made that connection. That's bad writing. But no, Energybending only exists so Aang doesn't have to kill (well kill directly, he's certainly indirectly killed a bunch of people, but the show never really explores that either) a benefit I will note they don't give to Toph, Sokka, and Suki who kill the fuck out of a whole bunch of people during the fight on the airships. So it's not even like the show has decided at the end to put in a "killing is bad" message, no this is all about not challenging Aangs simplistic (and selective) understanding of air nomad philosophy. Well just ignore that Gyatso killed the fuck out of a whole bunch of firebenders so there's clearly more to it than that. Instead Aang gets to cling to his childish view of the Air Nomads. It's not a matter of perfect, they were very much not perfect in the show, and that was great. They were screwed because they become completely different people and not in a "characters change as they grow older way" Can't say much about Suki, cause she doesn't get to show up. Sokka, a nonbender, was instrumental in setting up Republic City a city that would latter have an anti-bender rebellion. Sokka's been the non-bender surrounded by benders, he'd know whats up. And he's smart enough to set things up better than that. And smart enough to not let it happen in his own family. Aang has apparently taken a page out of the Ozai guide to parenting, blatantly favouring one child over the others. He does this so much and so badly that the air acolytes do not know that Aang had more than one kid, so much that his kids are in the forties and are still pissed at each other over this, and so badly Bumi goes to a statue of Aang and says he hopes Aang is proud of him despite not being an airbedner because he'd come to the conclusion that the only thing Aang cares about is the ability to Airbend. Katara at some point lost her spine, allowing Aang to do all of the above and sitting out of the actual civil war going on in her home. Apparently having gone from "I don't want to heal, I want to fight." to "I'll just go to the the healing huts with the other women." Like even if she's decided she's to old fight (which has never been a thing in the series before) she should have still been an active participant. Toph become a cop. Do I really need to say anything else? Zuko comes out probably the best, Was a good parent, still actively participating in things, but like Katara and Sokka, saw Aang being a shit parent and did nothing about it.

But Raava's not a god, and Vaatu's not a demon. They're spirits, the spirit of peace and light and chaos and darkness respectively. It's eminently clear that they were attempting a duality thing like with Tui and La and failing spectacularly. Instead of an actual duality, dark is bad and evil, light is good. Very Christian. But hey, if you watched that and thought that the creators understand Hinduism enough to make that sort of connection then I admire your optimism. They gave Shiva's third eye to two assassins, So I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that one. And that's dumb. Either have there be air nomad survivors (we see a lot of grey eyed people running around) or have the 11th hour superpower Aang got have more of an impact than just letting Aang pretend his hands are clean. Erasing the comics really, Korra could only be improved by not relying on a back story that screwed over most of the Gaang.

Going from semi-primodrial beings to cute and cuddly in Korra was weird, like wasn't Korra supposed to be more mature? Kind of feels like it was the opposite in a lot of ways. And that's without going into the addition of the evil Satan avatar to Christianize the whole thing for no reason. Also Energybending was a bad enough addition to TLA, then Korra made it explicit that energybending could be used to grant people bending, so why was Tenzin the only airbender? Man I wish we had gotten Ehasz's book four instead.

Eh, it's not like Bryke aren't responsible for a lot of crap ideas, after all they were all for the movie version until it bombed and suddenly they hated it all along. And Netflix currently has Aaron and Elizabeth Ehasz on their payroll and they were responsible for a lot of the good in the show. (Remember Toph? Yeah that's them, Bryke wanted Toph to be a guy and in a love triangle with Aang and Katara, just see the crap relationships in Korra to see how that would have worked out) I mean the show's probably still gonna be garbage, but it's was going to be garbage with or without Bryke's involvement. Also don't trust to much on the reasons why they're gone, there's apparently been a lot of deliberate misinformation being spread around.

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