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  • If there’s any universe in which it makes complete sense for someone to be born ultra powerful completely at random, it’s Star Wars and superhero movies.

    I love The Force Awakens but I know someone who complains that it’s really distracting that the three main protagonists have a black guy and a woman, and it’s “trying so hard to be woke” that it spoils the film for him. He really truly honestly believes that he’s not racist or sexist but the “blatant DEI” ruins it.

    NONE of the the main 9 star wars films are particularly subtle or deep, but they’re great fun, and if you can’t get over one of the lead characters being female or one of the main characters being ridiculously powerful for no other reason and you try to justify that in terms of consistency or good writing, you’re definitely using double standards.

    I think he should reconsider how racist and sexist he is, and I think bleating about Rey being effortlessly at Kylo Ren’s level in the force isn’t worth the effort you put into justifying it.








  • The word “theoretically” is doing a lot of lifting in that video. He said that the Queen is in important political figure, but that’s incorrect. The monarchy in the UK survives by being apolitical and they all know that the day they start meddling in politics is the day when the royal family loses its one remaining role in the UK - ceremony. Their long standing popularity comes from the pomp and circumstance, and if they get mixed up in politics, they’ll become deeply unpopular, just like everyone else who tells the British people what to do does in the end.

    All the real power went in the civil war and the glorious revolution. Parliament decides who is the monarch. If the king went rogue, he’d be gone before you can say “that’s not what we were looking for in the role of ceremonial figurehead.”

    “The Crown” actually includes, quite as a matter of law, the government and specifically the prime minister.

    So all the stuff about signing laws isn’t real power. It’s not about whether it becomes law, it’s about when it becomes law.

    The King is The Sovereign, but he is not sovereign, Parliament is sovereign.

    He embodies British power, but he doesn’t wield it.