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When I went to the hospital after my botched hanging in college, my stay actually extended across two psych wards within the same institution: the third floor (where I was admitted first), and the second (where they transferred me for a while before eventually releasing me). The former was for the really severe cases (the homicidals, the suicidals, the dangerously psychotic), while the latter was divided into the half for “chemical dependence” and the half for extremely sad college students. In my case, they sort of graduated me from the third to the second as an intermediary step before release once they thought I was no longer an imminent threat to myself

As you can probably infer, the limitations on yr personal freedom on the third floor were a lot more severe: it was the one with the strap down bed in the isolation chamber, no access to yr own clothes, everything locked down, no razors or worthwhile pens/pencils. On the second, the atmosphere was friendlier, they let you visit the cafeteria for meals and take supervised walks on the grounds, and there were a few more little indulgences in what you could keep and use. And ofc you saw less use of physical restraints etc

But the more I reflected on my time there, the clearer it became how much more tolerable the third floor was. One difference was pretty straightforward: while you had to attend a certain amount of group therapy there in order to graduate down a floor, they didn’t force you to attend any particular sessions, and didn’t bug you if you wanted to spend yr time in yr room reading instead. On the second, you were obliged to attend every single ludicrous session every day, on pain of being stripped on yr right to eat in the cafeteria downstairs.* (Ofc you might say, Well that’s still an improvement bc upstairs you could not eat ANY meals in the cafeteria; this response totally fails to understand how stigma and isolation practically function)

But this merely points the way to the real difference between the two. The third floor had a sort of manifest, monomaniacal teleology, and every deprivation of yr personal freedoms served to optimise for this variable: the function of the floor was to keep you from injuring yourself or others. Everything else followed, in bloodlessly paperclip maximising fashion, from this basic goal. And while I could not and cannot agree to this optimising heteronomy of the ward’s institutional will, I could at least understand it, to an extent even respect it

The aims of the second floor, by contrast, were very nebulous. This went along with the staff clearly enjoying a higher opinion of themselves, and all the condescension to go along with that. The pretence of individual respect and affirmation suffused all the minor privileges with a vague sense of indebtedness, though ofc the staff would never put it that way. They would say, instead, that respect is mutual and trust is built interpersonally, meaning that their letting me eat shitty fake eggs straight from the basement dining hall once a day entitled them to my simpering perpetual deference. Where one storey above they sensibly anticipated fear in accord with conditional threats, here they expected gratitude in response to tenuous privileges

When I explained this to my gf, she replied that a lot of my stranger political impulses could probably be described metonymically as attempts at moving from the second floor back to the third. Which is pretty perceptive tbh

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Since “wildly vehement disagreements” are on my mind, here is the most brutal forum fight I ever witnessed, and I will try to present it with as little judgment as possible:

It was Fametracker, maybe 2003 or so. A discussion came up somehow: what do you do with your trash after seeing a movie in the theater? You know, popcorn buckets, candy boxes, soda cups, used napkins?

Two sides emerged, and each side felt that they were obviously, unquestionably, self-evidently right:

1) You leave your trash in your seat because they pay employees to pick it up for you

2) You throw away your own trash because you are capable of doing so (if you are)

That was it. I have NEVER seen such vitriol. The entire userbase got involved and people probably got banned over it. There seemed to be some kind of regional breakdown; whichever side you argued for, it was something that EVERYONE around you did, you had grown up in the obvious rightness of doing it, and it was OFFENSIVE to suggest doing otherwise. I am sure you are staring at this going, “You… you obviously [XYZ]?” However certain you feel about that, there were people on that forum (and maybe even here!) who were exactly as certain of the opposite.

classic wuxia trope: a flawed hero is tempted by unvirtuous feelings and fails to uphold the standards demanded of the righteous; as a result an innocent, particularly one they care about, is hurt or killed

spider-man is wuxia

classic wuxia archetype: a hero standing outside conventional structures of law and order, who uses their powerful martial arts to stand up for the weak and oppressed

spider-man is wuxia

Tie Xinlan sighed: “Not just quite good, his personal secretive lightness martial arts [The Flying Celestial Spider] is unmatched in the realm.”

Xiao Yu’er asked: “What is so special about this skill?”

Tie Xinlan said: “He has hidden some special lanyard made from the silk spun by a thousand year old rare spider in Nanhai. It is very strong, not even swords and sabres can sever it. The lanyard is put in a mechanized tube, when he waves his hand the lanyard will shoot out. It can reach about 40 metres and at the end of the cord there is a sharp silver needle that can puncture anything. He will go with the line and that is why he is so swift, he also makes him very secretive.”

Xiao Yu’er laughed: “He is not only strange and funny, but his martial arts are funny and strange too. But I wonder how old he really is, why is he so fixated on being other people’s seniors.”

Tie Xinlan said: “No one has ever seen his real face and nobody knows his true age. He hates when people call him young. Whoever makes that mistake will suffer dearly.”

Xiao Yu’er said: “Why am I not suffering?”

– introducing the Black Spider, The Legendary Siblings, Gu Long (1966)

When I saw this addition, I assumed tumblr user leahsfiction had riffed on my post by writing a short piece, in an excellent bit of yes-anding. I did a bit of googling, saw the novel existed and was published a few years after the first Spider-Man appearance in 1962, thought “oh well played situating it in an actual real novel, that’s really clever.”

He is in love with Murong Jiu but is afraid of confessing to her so he always watches her from a distance. When Murong Jiu ventures into the jianghu, he follows her closely and protects her with his life. They are married eventually. 

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25-35 is such a weird fucking age because you’re 100% a bread-and-butter Standard Edition Millennial but the cool teens are like “ok boomer” because you have a Real Job but the actual Boomers at your job are like “I’m not going to listen to a literal fucking child” as they download 16 self-replicating viruses and meanwhile the Gen Xers are telling you to refinance a mortgage for a house you don’t have and you’re sitting there at the Adults Table with the pretty tasty casserole you cooked because you’ve finally figured out how to do that now but everyone is eating the Boomer’s store-bought macaroni instead and admittedly they do sort of taste similar so it probably wasn’t worth all the trouble of cooking from scratch and you’re trying to comfort the freshly-graduated sobbing 22-year-old next to you because she just woke up here and doesn’t know where she is but you have like maybe 5k dollars in a savings account labelled RETIREMENT that grows approx. twelve cents a year and you keep eating dry macaroni while smiling incomprehensibly and periodically blacking out like ??????????

Omg someone FINALLY put it into WORDS

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love that this caused so much controversy the thread needed to be locked. over chicken sandwich

gang this does not even scratch the surface

Someone posted a picture of a piece of chicken between two hamburger buns titled “Chicken Burger” to /r/food. Another user commented “Chicken Sandwich” on the post, and was slapped with a 30 day ban by the mods. When they responded to ask why, the mod said

“Correcting someone in public is public shaming, on top of being incorrect, it’s a pretty shitty comment to leave.”

So now /r/food is on lockdown after being spammed with posts titled “Chicken Sandwich” and other variations. The mod that handed the ban down pinned a post doubling down, comparing the situation to “Pride posts that always fill up with bigots” and “removing racists from posts featuring POC”, and including a link on “how to correctly, correct someone.”

because someone commented “Chicken Sandwich” on a post titled “Chicken Burger”.

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Okay but this also does not scratch the surface either It all started when the sandwich guy posted about what happened to him on r/TIFU, which led to a lot of outrage including someone in the comments saying they were also banned from r/food just for saying they had diabetes (this was later confirmed by a mod). All this anger turned into a brigade which resulted in the entire sub being flooded with almost nothing but posts about Chicken Sandwiches, now known as burgergate. The mod who initially instituted the ban then went on to compare fending off spammers to defending the capitol building during the January 6 riot. You can see in the post that this made it into r/subredditdrama, a community which discusses ongoing drama across reddit. This particular thread in the screenshot is locked, an interesting detail for reasons that come into play later.

Someone else then goes and posts about burgergate on another sub, r/iamveryculinary , which is dedicated to making fun of food related snobbery and drama. This does not go over well, as it turns out that one of the mods of r/food is also a mod of r/iamveryculinary. This mod then proceeds to get slapfights in the comments, which notably includes her saying she would “rain fiery hell upon” anyone who posts chicken sandwiches in r/food, and complaining that she’s so focused on moderating burgergate that she has no time to spend with her kids. People then beg her to forget the chicken sandwich drama and take care of her children. I would love to give you some more details about this incident or tell you the other side, but I can’t since she deleted all the comments of the people she was arguing with so most of what we have left is just the things she herself said. Someone then goes on to post about the r/iamveryculinary drama on r/subredditdrama again. This post immediately gets deleted completely, because it turns out that the r/food mod who also moderates r/iamveryculinary also moderates r/subredditdrama. More people beg the mod to stop caring about the drama and spend time with her kids. The whole thing eventually gets posted to r/subredditdramadrama , a meta sub where people discuss drama that goes down in r/subredditdrama. Another post is then made to r/subredditdramadrama, where the sandwich guy who was initially banned posts his conversation with the mod that banned him. Up until this point, the original mod had been arguing that the permanent ban wasn’t because of the chicken sandwich comment (which was only a 30 day ban), but because he had been rude to the mods when asking why. Screenshots show sandwich guy simply asking why he was banned and then apologizing for the chicken sandwich comment, only to be smugly told by the mod that he needs to “educate himself”, who also insinuates that he’s a weirdo and calls his comment shitty. Don’t miss this mod showing up in the comments of these screenshots and arguing with everyone else over them. So basically the whole thing was one innocuous comment about a chicken sandwich which quickly spiralled into a multi-sub meltdown that has lasted for about two days now. Chicken sandwich guy has not, as far as I know, been unbanned as of yet.

All of us on Tumblr that never get on Reddit:

how long are radio stations gonna say “80s, 90s, and today!” We’ve entered the third decade of “today”

I work at an oldies station. Every six months we sit down look around the table and someone goes "Y'know, we could start adding '90s to the mix. It's within our format." We all nod and no one plays anything produced after 1989 because time stopped here sometime around 2003, and no one wants to be the one responsible for whatever consequences come from breaking that fragile illusion.

not to be boring, but I’m boring

There’s a reason for that, and it’s Napster and iTunes. People could suddenly buy and listen to whatever music they wanted to, whenever they wanted to. Starting around 2003, we were no longer all forced by media conglomerates to listen to the same few songs anymore, endlessly repeated on the radio till we were sick of them.

So our taste scattered, in a way that I find really beautiful. The long tail was born. The rise of the indie musician began. The 1,000 true fans theory (briefly) become a possibility, and record labels lost their chokehold grip on both artists and listeners. But! Also! Collective nostalgia also froze at that point. After 2003, we only culturally shared the experience of a song or two a year, and often we did that for a reason external to the song itself -- like a dance or a controversy or the rise of a new platform (“Gangnam Style,” “WAP,” “Old Town Road”). The songs that we have in common now, we no longer have in common because we are forced to listen to them four hundred times a month by record labels, radio stations, and MTV, but for other reasons. The advent of truly open personal choice in music was also the end of collective music culture. And that’s why time stopped in 2003.

people will be like ‘i fucking hate wizardywizardposts.tumblr.com they wont shut up about magic’ abnd its like. what do you want out of this website. nobody made you follow the wizard blog with evil spells, powers, beams, etc. you are in direct control of the number of wizards on your dashboard at any given time

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bitches HATE my spells and beams

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

Being on tumblr for years like:

When I was taking philosophy seminars in college I remember getting accused of scientism a few times. I didn't agree that I was engaging in scientism then and I don't agree now, but I'm much more sympathetic to my philosophy classmates concerns now. I see a lot of STEM students make staggering assumptions about ethics and politics, and apply naive conceptions of the "methods of science" to ethical and political problems. There is a plague of 19yr old STEM students, with awful communication skills and no philosophical education, making insane claims and getting a pass because everyone else conflates the student's aptitude at a skill (math, physics, bio, whatever) with a synthesizing, well-rounded intelligence. Aptitude is not intelligence, and technocracy is not "applying the methods of science to politics". I'm not kidding when I say that a minimum of 2 semesters of philosophical ethics education should be a prereq for all fuckin STEM degrees. You fuckers need to learn how to actually think and contextualize problems, not just solve narrowly defined puzzles.

Things have gotten so bad in North American life that sea shanties have become popular again. That’s right, the music sung by folks dying of scurvy in a cantankerous wooden bathtub about to plunge to the bottom of the ocean. The reason why is pretty simple. Everyone wants to have cool adventures, and make friends, and not be at a fucking desk. I ask: have you considered bus collecting?

A bus is basically the same thing as a tall sailing ship. You’ve got the large, unwieldy bulk, the single pilot, and the group of people vomiting in the back, doing every drug in sight, and wondering if a seagull tastes good. The only difference is that a used long-distance hauling bus is cheap; less than the cost of your average shitbox sedan. And look at what you get with it! Lots of big tires, lots of seats, a very large engine full of things to fiddle with, an extremely long runs of wiring for the packrats to eat. Is it broken? Even better! You can live in it, far more comfortably than your average decrepit Plymouth Fury or half-in-the-bag Asuna Sunfire.

Sure, there are downsides to bus ownership. For one thing, everyone you know is going to want you to give them a lift along with 60 of their closest friends. You won’t be able to merge onto the highway very quickly, or find parking downtown. The fascists in law enforcement will often want you to have ridiculous things like “an inspection,” “working lights,” or “a drivers’ license,” and fixate on it because you’re big, shiny, and can’t pull away from their cruisers very quickly even if you are a halfway decent driver. Small problems compared to the ability to wear a dorky bus-driver hat and open and close the passenger entry door with that cool lever thing.

All this is to say that you should join me down at the industrial equipment auction this weekend coming up. There’s a lot of low-mileage prison buses hitting the block, and I think if we work the crowd together, we can really convince the other bidders that there was a grisly murder in one of them. While they’re busy bidding up that one, we can scoop up the others super cheap, or at least cheaper than a seaworthy boat made out of fucking trees.

access to imperial benefits is clearly unevenly distributed across the united states, but the ferocity with which americans deny the existence of any imperial benefits is insane, especially when there are signs all around us. why do you think you can buy dole bananas for 40 cents literally any time of the year?

being a jack of all trades master of none is actually so awesome bc i can make the shittest clay sculpture and the ugliest drawing and the sloppiest painting and the worst hand stitches and the wonkiest earrings and it's like. who cares + now im surrounded by lots of different silly things i made with love and care etc

My great uncle, who loved cooking and engineering and traveling and far too many other things, always used to say:

"Among the cooks, I am the best engineer, and among the engineers I am the best cook."

I love that. It's one of the things I try to live by.

petty and stupid but i legitimately hate how many gays (everywhere on this site especiallly) equate "can't do math" as some kind of inherent queer trope. all these polls like "are you a FAILED MATH gay or a FAILED SCIENCE gay?" your idea of what "gay culture" is smacks of post-hoc theater-kid-ification relevant to only the people you personally talk to online. weird pride in being bad at something because it gives you points in a gay culture competition that doesn't exist do you think all the nerds in math club who have since grown up to be the furries maintaining server backends everywhere were 100% straight? do you know how many engineers are on grindr? there's a lot of engineers and physicists and chemists and architects on grindr. i have sucked them sloppy style.

I always wonder whether Batfam fans really get just how fucking rich the Waynes are. Like of course we shy away from thinking about the fact that we're talking Musk and Bezos money, and focus on how Bruce funds the freaking Watchtower and has what is functionally a high-tech military base and lab and the world's most expensive vehicles. But this is the one time you don't have to factor in the implications of wealth-hoarding, so there's nothing preventing y'all from understanding exactly how much money we're talking about here.

For instance, there doesn't seem to be any concept of how palatial Wayne Manor is, simply going by the outer facades of it that appear in the comics and movies. Or how decadent the lifestyles that accompany that kind of ancestral home. Alfred couldn't run that place on his own even if he had super powers, which is why even the movies occasionally show a rotating probably-temporary staff in the background. The house probably has like 3 hundred-foot pools. Their garden is a protected heritage park.

The Waynes are 10x richer than Crazy Rich Asians. They buy and wear the jewelry worth hundreds of millions that belonged to royalty. They own private islands. The art in the house alone is worth more than the GDP of a small country. They went to school with like every US President since Teddy Roosevelt and still think the Rockefellers are new money. They're personal friends with Beyonce and can get her to perform at private parties. They can rent out an entire three-star Michelin restaurant and fly out to one for every date. They have top-line penthouse apartments in every major city in the world. They can buy a luxury sportscar instead of hiring a vehicle anywhere they visit and then just toss the keys to the nearest person on their way out (Arab royalty is known for this appearently. There's been some very lucky parking valets in the UAE iirc).

Bruce is as rich as Ra's Al Ghul, regularly make social calls to heads of state and his family has a history of being king-makers. Every one of Bruce's children, from Dick to Jason to Cass, is poised to inherit one of the largest and most powerful fortunes in the world. That means every time Bruce adopts an orphan off god-knows-where, the entire global elite is thrown into consternation and horror. Even Tim is barely acceptable to these people because he doesn't have the pedigree. I don't follow the reboot comics so Idk if Duke is adopted, but it would be so fucking funny if he was because they'd react a lot like the British establishment did to Meghan Markle (except the family and WE would have Duke's back completely). As for Damian, the fact that he's not white would get him snubbed if everyone who's anyone didn't 100% know who Ra's Al Ghul is. And they're fucking terrified because, for maximum hilarity, they probably figure that Bruce doesn't.

I just find it incredibly fucking funny when I'm reading fics that the writers can only imagine Bruce and the kids's civilian privileges extend only to "big house", "a lot of cars" and "Gotham famous". Lol. Lmao even.

I’ve seen some folk make Kennedy comparison when it comes to the Waynes, which in terms of political influence and legacy, within Gotham at least that’s definitely the vibe a ton of the newer comics and at least some of the portrayals outside of the books try to give (the Batman most notably, while in Todd Philip’s Joker film they lean more in a Trumpy direction but due to large chunks of the movie being told from the unreliable perspective of the title character... just now accurate that is is uncertain). The thing is though, even the Kennedys have only really been a thing since roughly the mid-20th century (with the family moving to the States in the 1840s, with the first getting elected to government in the 1880s), with the Waynes though many comics draw their connection to Gotham all the way back to the city’s original founding in the 1700s or even 1600s.

They’re like Vanderbilt rich, they’re Rockefeller rich, if they were European they would be aristocracy they’ve been rich for so long (and in some stories like Batman: Scottish Connection, they are indeed Scottish nobility with even earlier roots in France). Within the DCU if there hasn’t in the least been a Wayne as President, most than likely there are a ton of Senators and Congresspeople among their ranks.

Frankly they’ve been rich for so long, it’s surprising that we’ve not really seen a lot of what must surely be a sprawling extended family (outside of their connections with the Kanes or the Arkhams, depending on the story). You would have thought that someone would have written a story about a like cousin or uncle or something of Bruce attempting to object in court over Alfred effectively being placed in charge of both the fortune and Bruce (who essentially, could be seen by less moral people as an obstacle in the way of inheriting enough money to buy a small European country).

Really some folk acting incredulous that in the Tom Taylor Nightwing book Alfred was revealed to have been a billionaire himself for decades (via inheriting stock from the Waynes to help him look after Bruce, which he “wisely and ethically invested” until he had his own large fortune), but chose to not spend any of it because he still enjoyed his job of looking after his adopted extended family, was a bit silly, really.

In terms of fanfic, there is a certain amount of amusing crossover between Cass not really knowing the value of money due to her not having to use it for most of her life (growing up in a bunker and as homeless as she did) while Bruce and Damian never had to pay for anything directly in their lives because other people existed to handle that kind of thing for them for the most part (presumably leading to situations like that cringeworthy video of now British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has a fortune around £700m, attempting to convince people to start shopping in physical stores again despite the pandemic not being over... only for him to struggle to buy a book in a photo op BECAUSE HE’S NEVER HAD TO BUY ONE IN PERSON BEFORE).

Plus side, unlike King Charles, I’m pretty certain that Bruce knows what clingwrap is.

Either way, Steph, Jason, Tim, Duke and Dick having to step in occasionally to avoid the whole Arrested Development banana joke could be pretty funny, although I’d imagine service industry folk must love Cass, with her putting down like a $200 tip on a $15 meal and all.

The Vanderbilts and Rockefellers were nouveau rich and barely accepted by the old money crowd themselves. It's why they were so hell-bent on marrying poor Constance Vanderbilt off to the Duke of Marlborough – he needed money, they needed pedigree. Idk what it's like now, but before 4IR, having a lot of money and being part of the elite were not the same thing.

The Waynes are actually kind of improbable because it's really hard to stay that rich for so long. They seem to have lucked out in not spawning enough to have the money get split up, and not having the inevitable grandchild who either gets fleeced or ends up gambling the house away. It's how a lot of the robber baron families lost most of their fortune within a few decades, and why the actual old money people aren't billionaires afaik. You can be obscenely rich for a couple of generations or generally affluent for several.

The thing about the Kennedys – see that's why I have a hard time believing that Ra's particularly cares about Bruce's background. The USA is such a young country that the USAmerican elites are very Johnny-Come-Lately compared to the nobility and gentry of like, everywhere else. Even if the Waynes were affluent and prominent from the 1600s, that's nowhere near a European aristocracy, most of which go back to the early Middle Ages. Asian aristocracies are like a couple of thousand years old. The only reason that anyone who hobnobs with the Sheiks and Sultans and Shahs and Emperors of Asia would care about the USAmerican elite is because of colonial world order. Ra's has seen empires rise and fall. White colonizers mean nothing to him. Bruce is just some mongrel from a settler colony whose family had made money from trading. 😂 So I guess his eugenics dreams are based on individual merit.

But yes. That so many people had a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that Alfred, Bruce's foster father and caretaker of the Wayne empire, was himself a billionaire, really points to the fact that Batfans just don't seem to process the implications of Bruce's wealth. Not the way Tony Stark fans do.

Some people are justifiably skeptical that Bruce could be rich as Ra's. Even I didn't think Bruce was on Ra's level until I started thinking about it. It's about the old world order vs. the new, the economies of the pre-colonial era vs. the European colonial economy that created the Global North.

You gotta understand that the kind of wealth that's being generated in modern times in unprecedented in all of history. Current British PM Rishi Sunak is worth twice as much as King Charles in terms of personal money, without either of them being billionaires. The British Royal family "oversees" $42 billion in assets. But the Ambani industrialists of India, the former Raj where the Brits got most of that money from, have private assets worth $84.6 billion. The Ambanis are that rich because they exploit the shit out of Asia as well and invest the profits in the West. Just like Rishi Sunak, they collaborate with white supremacy and colonial capitalism to become part of the Global elite. Similarly, for Ra's to have more money than Western billionaires, he has to have investments chiefly with the same colonial capitalist machinery that's stripping the Global South bare and killing the planet. Whereas if he's relying purely on his pre-colonial investments, just being rich as Bruce is an achievement.

The hilarious thing is that the character whom Ra’s al Ghul is most directly an homage to, the pulp villain Fu Manchu, is was specifically someone who opposed British imperialism, with the character being an amalgamation of various bits of xenophobia the British pulp-reading public had adopted about the places in the world that they’d colonised (to the point where Fu Manchu’s henchmen even included various Indian factions that were used in pro-imperialist scaremongering like the Thuggee, for example), and his archenemy is a British imperial policeman who while technically stationed in Burma/Myanmar (I think) was legally allowed to wander all British imperial territory and exercise his jurisdiction where ever he wanted.

You could very well do a spin on Fu Manchu that acts as a deconstruction of the negative tropes layered on the character from his inception (Hell, even his description was allegedly based on the stage hall magician Chung Ling Soo, real name William Ellsworth Robinson, a white American guy who stole the act of actual Chinese illusionist Ching Ling Foo so thoroughly that the public thought that the guy Robinson was ripping off racistily was the plagiarist instead)... But the negative associations with the character are so deep at this point that any examination or reclamation is done with other homage characters (like the Yellow Claw in Marvel’s Agents of Atlas) rather than the original.

But, yeah, I think that in universe Ra’s staying power is more due to his being a cult leader with actual supernatural abilities who may have started with honorably intentions (some origins have him deposing rulers he sees as unjust and tyrannical to help their subjects) who began to slide into authoritarianism as he began to believe his own hype, that only he had the power to “save the world“. Plus he collaborated with the Nazis in one story (Death and the Maidens) because like many rich people he found them “useful“, leading to an entire Russian Jewish side of his family (via his daughter Nyssa) dying as he viewed her children, grandkids and great grandkids as ultimately “disposable”.

good evening. tonight i will be abandoning a long held and deeply interrogated belief because someone agreed with me in a way that was annoying.

government reeducation program where they clamp your eyes open like in a clockwork orange and make you read nothing but tweets agreeing with you in a stupid and embarrassing way