Funnily enough, ignorance is a valid excuse here. You can’t be expected to investigate the companies behind every single product you buy or use in the day to day, but that’s not what were talking about here.

We’re talking about Brandon Sanderson, specifically, and how his tithes to the Mormon church significantly contribute to the open oppression and abuse of LGBTQIA+ communities. You, buying your mistborn and stormlight archive books, are DIRECTLY supporting that behavior.

Every time he tithes to that house of abuse and oppression, he IS actively doing something bad. Is that not enough for you?

Because there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the franchise as long as you aren’t supporting it.

Books are available secondhand. Games and movies can be pirated. It doesn’t cost anything to talk about a shared interest with friends.

Just don’t give them money. Don’t go to their theme parks. Don’t buy the merchandise.

You can like a thing and still make a conscious effort not to support the creator. You just have to be clear about the why if anyone asks you about it.

I made the same decision with Brandon Sanderson and his fuckin fanclub takes it extremely personally when I point out how problematic he is as an author.

Yes, his writing is good. Yes, his writing is remarkably inclusive with regards to sexual orientation, disability, and mental illness.

However, Brandon is a Mormon first and foremost, and actively tithes to his church. That means a significant percentage of ALL Dragonsteel profits go directly towards the suppression and disenfranchisement of LGBTQ+ programs, sex education, and effective mental health services.

He might write a good story, but his IRL politics are repugnant.

Swiss Family Robinson

Nobody remembers Swiss Family Robinson

They are designed specifically to be street legal commercial vehicles (aka no CDL required) in most US states.

2x insulation, 2x windows motors, wider seats per person, and busses are actually noticeably wider than cars. Cars should take up between 1/2 and 2/3 of the lane they actually occupy, while busses and big rigs puch a lot closer to the actual width of a car lane.

I never understood this take. Like, did you not actually listen to the shit he said when you “liked” his shows? Did you not see the skit where he went on a morning interview and told his female interviewer that he was going to jerk off to her later and there was nothing she could do about it? If so, how was it actually surprising to hear he jerked off infront of a female coworker after he told her he was going to do it? You can separate the art from the artist all you want, but at some point you have to realize that all that art came from somewhere.

Hana mean what mana mean and gana mean that too.

Well Jimmy was talking about a northern CA hippie with a weed growing operation so yeah I’d say odds of being a vegan were pretty high. Would all that fiber make more or less shit?

Sandman slim taught me that you can shit on a tarp for a year, dry it in the sun, and all that shit will fit in a shoebox at the end of the year.

No, I’d hunt deer on the reservation. Fuck you very much for thinking tribal living is unsustainable.

You’re missing the entire point of government.

The goal of communism is control. It always has been. It always will be.

Why?

Because it is a system of governance designed by and used for controlling humans.

Government owned does NOT mean it is owned by the people. It simply means it’s owned by the people who control the government.

It’s even cooler when they actually die. Like a nice fresh breeze on a hot day that only you can feel. Nothing beats updating the book of groojes

Ita kinda neat imo. It’s like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.

Oh good now we can give motion sickness to the handicapped.

Like I’m not gonna say it’s not good for them, but everybody has a limit on how much ripping and tearing they can do before the headache sets in.

Also fuck ID software in perpetuity over the shit they put mick Gordon through.

Redline is a great animated movie for a stoner party. Imagine if the old speed racer cartoon was remade 40k style for one feature length movie.

Funky boy did nothing wrong.

Counterpoint: leash laws for cats on non-private property. You can and should be able to take your cat for a walk, but you definitely shouldn’t let those little murder machines out on their own.

My claim is that humanity made the Amazon rainforest what it is today. I stand by that, and my claim grows stronger with each new ancient city discovered under the trees.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amazon-rainforest-is-much-younger-than-commonly-believed/

You can think what you want but the science is there. People took grasslands and farmed them for generations, then died off and the forests took over. 1-2k years is nothing when it comes to geologic time.