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Or have read a book. Mary Shelley used them constantly in Frankenstein and so have authors for hundreds of years.

My fault for being so autistic to not see this as the blatant trolling it is up until now.

I mean… I do. But I’m well aware of the fact that most don’t. Alt code is 0151 baby. Have had it memorized for years.

Are you being intentional here? They answered your question.

Tf is em dash

A normal dash, otherwise known as a hyphen, is shorter. It looks like this: -

An em-dash is a longer version of a dash, meant to be the same length as the letter m in type (thus the name) that is often used in literary devices. It looks like this —

The posts link is a blog rebuttal from a personification of that em dash itself. The reason the post was made was because ChatGPT, and other AIs, seem to use em dashes far more than normal writing works would. If you even ask it to stop using them it will just continue to do it anyway.

Does that fuckin’ help?

Edit: I fixed a fuckywucky. Thanks ChaoticNeutralCzech!

Honestly? That feels like semantics

Everywhere should do this. If you’re able to kill a politician and it triggers an election for anyone, then you’re just sort of implying that political terrorism works. At least to an extent. The violence was able to indeed effect change because some loner or a group of lunatics is able to kill someone and stop the line of work of the party they disagree with. Now, that may not affect votes themselves in a byelection but still. It’s not a message you want to send.

Edit: Oop sorry OP. Only just saw the text you had on the post. I’m just whole ass repeating you.

Edit 2: From the wikipedia… Conservativism as a political moviement is a blight on humanity.

On 18 June 2016, Liberty GB announced that Jack Buckby, a former BNP politician, would be its candidate in the by-election.[14] Liberty GB registered the description “No to terrorism, yes to Britain”, which appeared on the ballot paper instead of the party name.

I kept seeing memes about Death Note a couple months ago and it was driving me insane. So, I watched a sort of recap/summary thing of the series. Thought “Well that’s dumb. I’ll never watch it.” Couple hours later I’m on episode 3 like “What the fuck happened.”

But what I did learn from the summary was the ending was so incredibly stupid that I just noped out entirely. Just said fuck it when L leaves the show and ending on that message being sent to the orphanage. Seems like more of a narratively satisfying conclusion

I recently watched the series. Well, at least up to a certain point anyway. I’m convinced that L isn’t so much a genius detective as Light was just overwhelmingly fucking stupid

from a show that I think is maybe 10 years old?

Time really does pass us by, huh? As a massive Dara fan, let me be the unfortunate one to tell you that that special (Live from the Theatre Royal) is 19 years old. It’s from 2006…

Yep. Points being wrecked. Uh huh.

Alright. I’m out. Have fun, Republican.

You know, I’ve spent a good chunk of my morning dumpster diving for food. I don’t have the energy for any of this but I still did it anyway because why not have a discussion. I’m not some rich simp, I absolutely hate them considering I have to dig through the trash to find something to eat today. Hopefully. But seeing you just straight up ignore giant chunks of my comment because you either cannot explain it away or just because it challenges your narrative makes me walking away from this comment and going to take a nap a whole lot easier.

Have a good day.

First off, having that much money in and of itself is going to generate fuckloads of money. He is also the CEO of one of the largest companies on Earth in his world. There are no numbers on the amount of income he has or the amount that he donates, just stupidly high numbers constantly thrown on either side. Like in the billions or trillions.

If that were true he wouldn’t be rich.

You know exactly what I meant and that is just being absurdly pedantic.

You say that as if it’s a good thing. Unless that philanthropy is actively making him poor, it’s just something he does to make himself feel good.

I am utterly incapable of seeing how someone helping others to make themselves better is actually a bad thing overall.

And then he goes back to his mansion where his butler helps him get ready for bed.

And?

His money is the source of the problem, and he never seems to get any poorer.

His money? HIS money? No. Money. You seem to be conflating the two and getting weirdly angry over the wrong dude.

Is he cursed to be rich?

No but he is cursed to be intelligent and realize that he can do more good with his absurd riches than he can without it. His character builds Orphanages and community centers because he is rich. If he was broke he’d help in that way. But he’s not. Because he’s rich. He’s just taking advantage of a world that’s fucked and using the fucked things for good. He was born rich and knows how to be rich. He also wants to use that rich for good. By being rich, he just becomes more rich because that is how the world works. Unless you give away literally every dollar, you’re going to make money just by being rich. It’s stupid but that’s how it works.

The problem isn’t Bruce Wayne, the problem is the system. The dude cannot fix the system by snapping his fingers because he is dude. There are other rich people in this world who want to keep things the status quo. Batman has openly said on multiple occasions that he doesn’t want to be rich and have this type of inequality but what’s the other option? Seriously. I want you to actually name me a legitimate option of what he could do and then I will demonstrate when that happened in the comics or when it was pointed out in the comics that it cannot happened.

No because I’m lonely and want someone to hate out of jealousy

I feel like that’s more a limitation of writers imagination than an actual block to stories. The whole reason why Superman is my favorite hero is because while every other hero focuses on having an actual physical weakness or limitation, Supermans often focuses on his mental limitations of being the goodest boy to ever scout. Lazy Superman writers fall back on Kryptonite being the key weakness and have it all revolve around that. Good writers focus on his emotional state and Kryptonite would be used as a representation of that emotional state.

For example, I can see why Superman wouldn’t involve himself in everything that he hears. His whole thing is to inspire hope and goodness but by showing up to every single crime all the time, he’d just instill fear in everyone. He also can’t rock up to every Dictator or everything on the planet because then you’ve just got a God who is showing up to tell you how to run your country and there are already people who are terrified of that idea becoming a reality. He’s also aggressively American and the imagery of an American rolling around the world telling you how to do your shit also won’t fly. Not then and ESPECIALLY not today.

For Superman to continue inspiring people, and not scaring them into submission, he just… can’t react to all of those things around him. Not without inherently changing the entire status quo of the whole planet.

And that’s just one idea as to how you could explain that off to write a good Superman story…

Genuinely and fully believe that the reason most people don’t like Superman is because most writers of Superman don’t understand the source material. Also genuinely believe that Zach Snyder got it better than anyone wants to give him credit for because he actually demonstrated those sides of Superman and had him deal with it. That’s the origin story I wanted. Not something sanitized to high heaven and dripping with nothing but optimism. Reality doesn’t work like that. Clark isn’t blind to reality. He had to learn his lessons in hard ways and has limits he has to deal with that no one else can relate to. Also not like he can easily go through therapy. Cavills Superman was both a genuinely good person but also struggling to find out how to be one with the person he was and the person the planet expected him to be. People can not like it all they want, that’s fine, but he created a more realistic version of Superman as a man instead of just a Superhero.

James Gunn is going to churn out YET ANOTHER FUCKING ORIGIN STORY FOR SUPERMAN AND THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, slap bright colors on everything, have him flying around with a fucking Dog and just spam Donner references repeatedly while not even demonstrating a single hint of a struggle and everyone is going to shit themselves over it because it will be pure nostalgia with nothing new and no hint of Superman beyond a lunchbox image of him. I have no fucking faith for Gunn whatsoever. Don’t get me started on the suit looking like it came from a fucking Spirit Halloween. Also Krypto can fuck off.

God dammit I am so fucking sick of James Gunn. And this isn’t me being like “Oh Snyder got it better therefore fuck Gunn.” It’s because I genuinely have no faith for anything that Gunn ever touches. He ends up backflipping away from the source material with his head up his own ass. Asshole called the 2023 Flash movie the “Greatest Superhero Movie of All Time”. Dude oversaw both that movie and Aquaman 2, coming in to fix both of them but given they’re both dogshit I don’t know how much he fixed. Don’t get me started on calling the second Suicide Squad movie the same fucking name.

His movies don’t amount to anything in the run of story. The only thing he does is find a ridiculous character and make the audience emotionally invested. Every goddamn movie. Groot in Guardians and it’s going to be Krypton in this upcoming bullshit. They don’t have ANY STORY. They’re just surface level garbage that builds tension only to slap a joke in to remove it because the made is terrified of any suspense. His movies just end up being the same schlock over and over and over again, being wildly self indulgent on pop-culture or meta-references without any hint of a vision or linking thread.

Worst Director currently working because he keeps getting jobs he isn’t qualified for.

Brother, as someone who actively wants a circumsision, knock this off lmao

If I snip off the Snuffaluffagus trunk that I’ve got a foreskin, that shit isn’t growing back because it’s causing damage.

Ear piercings grow over. Back braces fix damage. Dental braces fix damage. Hair grows back. Vaccines prevent damage.

Fuck off or come up with a significantly better argument so this dismissal isn’t so trivial.

anybody who claims to not want to put people on ADHD medicine should have to sit next to me explaining F1 drivers and shit at a restaurant where I’m not getting the social cues to shut up

Gestures to the entirety of my personality and all of the Star Trek within

Mood

Bro, I fucking hate Batman and think he’s the worst comic book character of all time but when it comes to his philanthropy, you’re just wrong.

Bruce Wayne spends an absurd amount of money keeping Gotham running. He’s the one who actively funds all of the programs that are for orphanages, he hires thugs to keep them out of crime and he has a metric fuckload of low income programs.

Bruce Wayne CONSTANTLY lobbies for progressive causes. Straight up. He’s aggressively leftist. The Wayne Foundation funds all manners of charities, medical research, and all kinds of stuff to fix the buildings he admittedly destroys. He will pay for college tuition for his employees and he will set up entire youth centers. The man perpetually puts all of his money back into Gotham.

If you want an example of this, issue #32 of Gotham Knights does a lot to focus on that. The entirety of that issue, and a lot of that series, is just Bruce Wayne living his normal life and the whole life is just philanthropy. He ends up supporting environmental policies, takes old people out to lunch, tells a mailroom employee to go to college and pays for his tuition. He goes off to a dedication ceremony for a statue and then goes golfing with a rich fuck and convinces her to build a recreation center instead of a Starbucks. Even shows an ex-con applying to a new job, and Wayne sending a ton of new bulletproof vests to Bludhaven PD.

Gotham itself literally would not exist without Wayne as it currently stands. It is a cesspit? Yes. But it would be worse without Wayne by a significant margin. Why? Because, and I feel like this isn’t mentioned nearly often enough, Gotham is cursed to be this way. Like straight up literally cursed. You’ve got a bat-demon who’s locked in the center of Gotham, that the city was built around an asylum that was created by a serial killer, and that Arkham Asylum has a literal portal to hell inside of it.

Bruce Wayne is another side of Batman. As in Bruce’s own words: “As Bruce Wayne, I can utilize every division at Wayne Enterprises and the money we possess to improve the social and urban infrastructures in Gotham. And as The Batman, I can help the Gotham City police take on the criminals who prey on our city.”

Saying that Bruce isn’t a leftist and doesn’t push for social change could not be further from the truth. He’s a playboy, 100%, but he’s a playboy philanthropist through and through. And I say all of this as someone who up until a few months ago thought the same thing. Still hate him for all those other reasons but that one had to be dropped when I realized it wasn’t true. Dude is a genuine force for good in the world when it comes to his money. He got all of it from inheritance and the only things he does with it publicly is invest in Gotham and the world as a whole and be a rampant slut. Privately… yeah he’s using a whole lot of toys.

Thus the title lol