VindictiveJudge

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    Violet starts a romantic relationship with, and is implied to eventually marry, Gilbert, her former commanding officer in the military who was also her father figure, Violet having been a war orphan that Gilbert took in when she was 10. Violet was a child soldier from the ages of 10 to 14, at which time the war ended. Gilbert had faked his death at the end of the war because he had developed romantic feelings for Violet. Gilbert is 11 years older than her. By the time of the movie, Violet is 18 and Gilbert is 29, but he was in love with her when he was 25 and she was 14, and probably before that. This is portrayed as a romantic and happy ending.

    It also goes against the show’s themes and messages about grief and moving on, but the above thing tends to overshadow that.



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    1 day ago

    Anything you make them do also has to be something they might plausibly do on their own, or it just hits them with a heart attack. You also can’t make them kill someone else, though I think you might be able to fudge that by writing that person A will be shot by person B, and then that person B will shoot person A. I could be misremembering, but I think that trick was used at one point.










  • During Trump’s first term, Fox pushed back just slightly on some of the shit he was trying to pull. Turned out even Fox wasn’t entirely comfortable with Trump being president. However, this backfired and pushed some viewers to OAN because Fox had spent the last couple decades training their viewers to hate anyone who even slightly opposes a Republican president. Of course, that increased OAN’s profile, which got them on Trump’s radar. Trump loves them because they won’t stop sucking his dick, so he promotes them to his followers, so now a bunch of people that used to religiously watch Fox now religiously watch OAN and think that Fox isn’t conservative enough.

    They made a monster and it slipped its leash.




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    13 days ago

    She probably was legitimately attractive by Roman cultural norms and almost certainly leveraged that when dealing with Rome. The smear campaign was more playing that aspect up while downplaying the fact she was a genuine once-in-a-generation genius than making up things about how sexy she was.


  • Latinos, especially first generation immigrants, trend strongly toward being staunchly religious and socially conservative. As such, they tend to think Republicans, who are also religious conservatives, will be on their side. There’s also a subset of legal immigrants who hate illegal immigrants. Add in that first generation immigrants often aren’t fluent in English yet and that creates a layer of information exchange that conservative news outlets can exploit; if you don’t translate the overtly racist crap the politicians say, you can make your audience rely on your white-washed commentary.

    As for the folks who’s families have been in the US for generations and who grew up fully bilingual in English and Spanish, I’m honestly not sure.