Honestly, filtering for, "the Nazis were bad, Stalin was bad, the correct side won WWII" is the easiest way to filter out 90+% of bad faith interlocutors if only everyone was honest about their views but the fascists and tankies know this and so sometimes falsify their opinions strategically.

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Both the Nazi regime and the Soviet regime are such easy tests. "Do you think a regime predicated on the goal mostly of murdering huge numbers of people was bad?" "Do you think a regime that claimed to be for the working man but mostly sent them into frozen prison camps was bad?" Not hard.

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Anyway I think Emily Wilson is so real for turning into a hater when her favourite book got a critically acclaimed adaptation that became an instant cultural landmark. I also have an essay on why Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings fails on every level

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finished a new book about ice cream, dragons, and magic, so there's only one correct way to celebrate 🥰

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Back from Great Wolf Lodge, where I fulfilled my destiny as the most prepared for any dance party! 😂

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