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  • I have seen The Acolyte, as I have seen/read/played a majority of what has come out of Star Wars after Disney bought it, as well as plenty of the Extended Universe from the George Lucas days. And I wouldn’t consider any “gender/race related things completely out of place” in The Acolyte.

    If I had seen The Acolyte without interacting with the Internet, I wouldn’t even have considered that people would have a major problem with it. And if The Acolyte had been released as a book or comic instead, I doubt it would’ve made any waves on the Internet.

    In all honesty, I have a hard time believing that anyone accusing The Acolyte of having an agenda doesn’t have an agenda themselves. Especially among the content creators who make a living by publicly hating on stuff.





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    20 days ago

    I find it weird that when measuring height in metric, people using cm exclusively, i’ve noticed this a lot actually, people will use cm or mm in places where it arguably doesn’t make any sense. I could see the justification for doing math maybe, but like, that defeats the whole point of it being metric no?

    Why is that defeating the whole point of being metric? If you know someone is 183 cm tall, you also know that they are 1.83 m tall. If its easier to say the length in cm, you do. No need for “one meter and eighty-three centimeters” or “one point eighty-three meters”, just “a hundred and eighty-three centimeters”. Often you just skip saying the “centimeters” part as well, because most people can see that you’re not the size of a skyscraper without getting a ruler out.






  • Oh it is a democracy, but not “direct democracy”. We don’t choose what happens, we just choose who decides what happens.

    Still not a democracy, you just described a Republic, which is what we’ve always officially been even if die hard patriots prefer to say democracy

    What are you talking about? The people electing representatives that makes the final decisions is called “representative democracy”. A republic is a form of representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, like you find a lot of in Europe, is another form of representative democracy that fit the original description, without being republics.