foundlingmother:

*deep breath* 

The second most irritating thing a person can say in regards to Loki is that that he faked his sacrifice in TDW. Bonus points if they’re a fan of Ragnarok, which goes out of its way to point out how Loki’s illusions are not solid. THEY ARE NOT SOLID. They become distorted when touched. So how the fuck did Loki fake being stabbed? And when he nearly got sucked into a black hole grenade saving Jane, was that part of his master plan to take the throne of Asgard, too? What about offering said throne to Thor? Ugh! 

The most irritating thing a person can say in regards to Loki is that he faked his death/suicide in Thor. I have no words for these people. They render me speechless.

#there are some opinions i cannot stand#because they make no sense#and create a divide between good and evil loki#when really there isn’t one#loki is always just loki#he can have sacrificed himself for thor and taken advantage when death didn’t stick#because that’s who loki is#simultaneously loving and devoted and cunning and opportunist#and again i have no words for those who think falling into the void was faking death#just no (original tags)

Logic? Consistency? Attention to the content of previous canon? What are those?

Moral complexity? A person who loves the hero but doesn’t always do exactly what he wants? What is that?

I’ve been told that there were people who claimed even before Ragnarok came out that Loki threw himself into the black hole at the end of Thor to escape being held accountable for his actions. If there are such people, I suspect that they started advocating this view as part of the backlash against the “Loki apologists,” so called, of “Loki’s Resistance,” who at the extreme end claim that Loki does not deserve blame for anything he has done, and instead lay all the blame on Odin’s terrible parenting, Thor’s bullying and alleged abuse, and Thanos’s brainwashing and/or full-on mind control. The reaction of Thor’s defenders has been to insist that Loki deserves unmitigated blame for everything and to undercut anything that appears to make Loki deserve our sympathy – including his suicide attempt. You might *think* Loki suffers from severe mental illness and profound self-loathing, but no: he was planning genocide even before he learned that he was Jotun (I have seen people claim this), and what looks like a suicide attempt was just slithering out of punishment.

Ragnarok has exacerbated and given canon legitimization to this tendency by trivializing the issues of Loki’s heritage and his attempted suicide. At a party on Sakaar, Loki tells a story that ends with him hanging over a rift in space, and “at that moment I let go.” Everyone laughs, including him. People have offered all kinds of explanations for why this isn’t as unbelievably insensitive as it seems: we all make light of our trauma to keep it from overwhelming us, of course Loki would do the same; or maybe he’s gone through a course of therapy through theater and has recovered from all his issues and moved on. But the other obvious explanation for why Loki might be laughing about letting himself fall is that it was never a suicide attempt; it was just him being his incorrigible trickster self, cleverly faking his death to get away with mass murder.

mikkeneko:

continue-5-4-3-2-1:

apparentlyeverything:

skramza-stark:

bandana-roja:

Girl is a cop

I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical. 

The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.

Why do ya’ll look for a reason not to support people?

“Now there’s this about cynicism, Sergeant. It’s the universe’s most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If there’s nothing that can be done, then you’re not a shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink yourself in perfect peace.”

Quotes aside, I really… really kind of feel the need to remind people of a few pieces of perspective:

I don’t particularly care about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s nowhere near my neck of the woods and it’s unlikely I’ll ever run across her on a voting ballot, nor that her positions will have much effect on where I live. That’s really not the point.

What IS the point is that the reason the Democratic party, specifically, and American left, generally, are flopping around like worms cut in half for the last two years while an increasingly hostile fascist force occupies our offices of government is because every time, every time, every goddamn time  anyone raises their head an inch above the crowd and begins to look even slightly  like they might become some sort of the leader for the Left, this. Shit. Happens.

The smear machine will stop at nothing, they’ll go back twenty years or five thousand miles or pull one sentence out of War and Peace to present out of context or just flat out make shit up to present the would-be leader as a Failure and a Sellout and a Traitor To The Cause. And every one of y’all that goes along with it and declares that people like Ocasio-Cortez or Kamala Harris or whatever is “cancelled,”  every one of you is part of the problem.

I don’t know whether the OP is a genuine leftist purity zealot or a Russian dissent monger, but either way, they’re doing the Right’s work for them.

philosopherking1887:

I actually spent most of this afternoon outside getting that sweet sweet vitamin D (and a sunburn, oh well) and had several in-person human interactions. And I did do some things when I came home other than just watch “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” though I did some of that as well and now I’m out of episodes.

I should try “Parks and Recreation” again. I only got a few episodes into season 1 because I couldn’t stand how stupid people were acting… but I’ve heard it improves. And I really love Michael Schur and want to understand all the gifs and memes people use.