theywilleatthestars
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- Comment on Galinda and elphaba's names both start with the same letter as gratitude and envy. The opposing virtue and sin. And Elphie is "green with envy". 2 days ago:
You seem to be implying that Elphaba’s opposition to wizard’s status quo is a bad thing, while Glinda’s support is a good thing.
- Comment on Galinda and elphaba's names both start with the same letter as gratitude and envy. The opposing virtue and sin. And Elphie is "green with envy". 2 days ago:
I think you have some fundamental misunderstandings of the themes of Wicked
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 5 days ago:
Do you think people aren’t intrinsically motivated to feed themselves? Also, those famines happened because of a guy named Trofim Lysenko got into Stalin’s good graces while having some batshit unscientific ideas about botany. You don’t need communism for that, see RFK Jr, or the cigarette industry, or everyone who denies or downplays climate change because they don’t want to have the deal with it.
- Comment on Eventually, coffee moves from a drink that gets you going to an emotional support drink. 6 days ago:
99.999% of caffeine users stop before the drink that will cure all their mental illnesses forever and ever and ever.
- Comment on What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth? 1 week ago:
Andor
- Comment on Sometimes I wonder if the "Quantum Immortality" thought experiment is actually real... considering how many times I could've died. 1 week ago:
Sad to think about the universe in which I choked to death on mac and cheese in front of my four and a half year old niece and nephew
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 2 weeks ago:
Aliens?
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 3 weeks ago:
Think the fishy smell thing comes from men who see women as vaginas with some other stuff attached.
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 5 weeks ago:
saute some broccoli in olive oil and garlic
- Comment on People who care deeply about important events they have no impact on are abnormal, most people just go about their day without giving a shit. 1 month ago:
Ok, and?
- Comment on Most people who help others are doing it as a performance 1 month ago:
We’re not fucking him so he doesn’t care about us
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
If you take the toilet seat up or down debate seriously I can only assume you’re a tulpa conjured from the brain of a hack boomer comedian
- Comment on People with no friends needs to get the fuck up over it 1 month ago:
Everything you post is more evidence that you lack a soul
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 1 month ago:
My intuition says that I’d wind up having a headache for the rest of my life.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 1 month ago:
Liberals
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Weird dichotomy here. I have literally talked with fellow volunteers at a food pantry about my plans to go home and get stoned afterwards.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 2 months ago:
Whenever I relive happy memories in my dreams I wake up sad because I remember what I’ve lost.
- Comment on What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation? 3 months ago:
Then that.
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 3 months ago:
Probably a couple years later when I started learning more about World War II. I had a decent History Channel phase back when that’s what it was mostly into
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 3 months ago:
10 I think. I originally thought it meant bigotry based on fashion choices.
- Comment on The real tragedy of the culture war: the right fights for something that never existed, the left for something that will never be 3 months ago:
yeah that’s what I’m saying
- Comment on The real tragedy of the culture war: the right fights for something that never existed, the left for something that will never be 3 months ago:
Not with that attitude
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
Because he was a very stupid person
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 4 months ago:
beep boop
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 4 months ago:
?
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 4 months ago:
Even if true not particularly encouraging
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 4 months ago:
I was thinking more along the lines of someone in 1810 thinking the same thing you think about the internet for, like the French Revolution
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 4 months ago:
And so it goes for all of history