dude, you're not arguing with me, you're agreeing with me.
but I'm glad for it.
thank you, I was walking down the street and doing speech to text wildly gesticulating and didn't check after I talked, haha
"and it's a little weird to be so invested in what color it is"
it is weird you care enough to continually rant about these issues and swear you don't care, so it's good you're joining me outside.
"conspiracy theories"
these are the documented, court-confirmed facts Jack.
doesn't matter if you don't like em.
keep up with your "cope and seethe".
for sure. I have the time though, so I don't mind putting up facts each time they spout off.
exactly.
it's bizarre that manual ballot counts with oversight are not the norm, all they can do is establish what happened.
there's no downside.
"I'm literally out there multiple days of the week organizing"
got it, thanks for that, but here you're venting futility all out here without any reason to.
"I don't think you're fixated on civil rights"
that's your problem right there.
"you're fixated on..."
remember how you were wrong the previous times you tried to make assumptions?
you're wrong here too.
If you care about helping people, be aware that your defeatist whinging here is counterproductive to your stated goals.
"not slapping a new coat of paint on..."
if you're living in the states then you are literally slapping new paint on the war machine every 4 years.
where do you think your taxes go?
"the thing you're fixated on is the futile thing"
The only way you can think civil rights are futile is if you have already given up.
If that's the case, then take yourself out of the equation and stop talking about issues you don't care about.
If you haven't given up, explain how making sure people have civil rights is futile.
"it assumes..."
no, it doesn't. you're making assumptions, don't do that.
"special interests" (it's the capitalist class..."
Yes, those are special interests.
"I don't think a qanon style campaign to stop the steal is realistic"
this is literally what I'm telling you. step away from qanon, Focus on real evidence and making changes that benefit people.
you're fixated on the futility of everything, but you are incorrectly assuming that nothing can be changed because you are not willing to fight for that change.
that is simply incorrect.
people thought Trump was going to have his second term 4 years ago, and then he was voted out.
change happens all the time, you're complaining that it can, despite overwhelming constant evidence that things are always changing.
Regardless of the outsized influence special interests have, Americans have had and still have a say in who they elect.
you are fixating on how difficult change is instead of understanding that things perpetually change and it's the fight to change systems that changes systems.
you're fighting for futility, I'm advocating realistic change.
you might be bummed out because of the election results, but that's no reason to stop making things better.
you're still here and so is everybody else, and in the Cassandric words of steve Harwell,
"We could all use a little chaaaAAAnge".
I don't remember much of this book, probably because it ends with some time travel reset nonsense.
This book really was "the forgotten" for me.
That ending scene with Jake remembering what happened and nobody else remembering is pretty good.
The title of the book kind of gives it away, but I hadn't read enough stories about androids at this point for them to be a trope and I like the series so much I don't think I even remembered the title, I just saw the spider and opened the book.
I think the part that sticks with me right off the bat was when they see Erek running and he hits a bus and then turns into a metal skeleton thing for a second and then turns back into Erek.
That sort of blew my mind, I was so confused as to what happened and just wanted to finish the rest of the book.
Oh dang this is the first we hear about the howlers.
And then of course that brutal ending scene where
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Erek destroys all of the controllers and saves all of the horribly dying animorphs
Fantastic take on the enigmatic god-gamer.
I definitely remember the bug morphing again, freaking termites, and Cassie has to demorph and crash out of the wooden planking.
Cassie is always an interesting character to me now, although I didn't like her because she wasn't practical enough for me when I was too young to understand how young the animorphs were.
And taking care of the skunk kits, almost getting trapped in morph, and the way they all work together to act as surrogate mothers.
A few things stuck out to me upon my initial reading of this book. I loved every time Ax ate something and freaked out in his human morph, I vividly remember his chili-eating gusto and picking treats and goodies off the floor in the movie theater. Literally every time ax eats food and freaks out it's so funny to me. And every time ax talks with humans is hilarious. They really managed to make a funny fish out of water character without taking advantage of inappropriate stereotypes of any kind. Do funny
This was also the first time we meet a Yeerk who is not hell-bent on destroying and enslaving for the sake of evil, where you start to realize that OG is even the yeerks love each other and have romantic relationships. This Yeerk wants to help the animorphs because visser 3 killed his sweetheart.
And we learn about Seerow's kindness, which is a much more realistic way to explain the animosity that led to a war between alien races than some boring cultural misunderstanding or regular diametric goodies and buddies war, it turns out that the andalites created their own worst enemy through kindness, through sympathy and good intentions.
I actually didn't remember that this was the first appearance of the ellimist, I thought that happened later.
Once I realized it, I remembered his very clever way of helping the animorphs out.
But I think what actually sticks with me is them morphing into cockroaches, because I grew up in a humid tropical land of cockroaches and hated them as much as I could hate anything at that age.
I'm pretty sure reading that description of morphing, I was grimacing and shuddering in disgust the entire time.
Yikes, this one was replete with horror.
I think there are two scenes from this book that hit me hard, but it was the description of the animorphs being ants and losing themselves entirely to the hive mind that stuck with me.
The absolute terror and horror everyone who morphed an ant felt, that even relative to getting shot or sliced or anything they've experienced so far, losing themselves was the worst experience of their lives, and how they were almost pulled apart and killed by that enemy ant colony. That scene is crazy!
And then of course,
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Marco's mom. He miraculously finds out his mom isn't dead only to realize that she is a slave that he cannot go rescue right away. Awful.
The machinations between visser one and three are interesting too, that you know it's not just good guys versus bad guys, everyone has their own motives for their actions.
