truly one of the funniest things about lotr to me is how much hostility
the hobbits, a race of cheerful, fun-loving farm people, bear towards
gandalf for absolutely NO reason except that he kills their chill vibe
the hobbits of the shire whenever they hear gandalf is in town:
Anyways thor called heimdall his best friend which only enhances my belief that heimdall was also thor’s first crush and had to deal with pubescent/teenage thor constantly pestering him about slutty stars and which foreign planets are the sexiest and following him around and asking randomly @ the sky “heimdall are u watching??? Look at this!!” And then he picks loki up and throws him like a javelin at the olympics, and poses.
And at first heimdall feels kind of awkwardly bemused about the whole thing, and he suffers through thor’s silly enamoration in silence until finally thor is old enough that heimdall can gently let him down, and thor takes it well of course, laughs it off and shakes his head at himself and clasps heimdall’s shoulder saying he still considers him his friend. And then he goes on to have some flings and actual relationships and adventures around the galaxy, and heimdall sort of forgets about the fact that thor used to have a crush on him back when he was like 350yo or whatever. And they actually become really good friends? And thor still visits heimdall out by the bifrost and pesters him about other worlds, and heimdall still keeps an eye on him when he’s away, which happens more and more as he grows up. But then thor starts spending most of his time on earth with jane, and heimdall gets too busy to check in on him regularly.
And then one day thor comes back from earth, fresh from a battle with the avengers, looking more grown up and rugged than ever, standing tall and sure of himself with a full beard and broad shoulders, l’oreal hair and chanel cape blowing in the wind as he walks over to him with a wide grins and says “heimdall! I have some questions about declentions in the tree language!” And heimdall thinks Oh Damn.
OK can we just take a moment to acknowledge that that’s beyond satire. I can’t make a joke about him being an absurdly fiendish supervillain because he is one.
It’s not even ambiguous or subtextual, it’s overt: refugees must suffer. Refugees must be treated without a hint of compassion or empathy. Australia must be evil towards them. That’s official policy. That’s all Peter “get fucked” Dutton does. He might as well just change his official job title to “Minister of Torture and Dismay.”
The government wants the nation to erase its empathy towards humans in pain. Nothing could be more cruel. That’s some genuine fucking Nazi shit.
Fuck Peter Dutton. Fuck the government for being so cruel to refugees.
“So what can we learn from this study? On the data side, we see that everything is proceeding as planned. Nobody’s paying $50 for a burger at McDonald’s, or $16 for a can of tuna at Safeway. Employers wish their profits were higher, and workers are glad they got a raise, but they wish they made more money. Three years after Seattle started down the road to $15, everything is as it should be. Those apocalyptic claims of destruction and business closures haven’t been proven true. One thing the study didn’t explain was why the sky didn’t fall as promised. Why weren’t workers laid off in droves, or replaced with robots? Why didn’t prices skyrocket? Why does Seattle have more restaurants now than at any point in its history? It’s because those workers who saw a raise now have more money to spend in the city around them. Those restaurant workers are eating in more restaurants. They’re buying more groceries. They’re buying more clothes and cars. That increased consumer demand is creating jobs, and more than paying for the increased minimum wage. The $15 minimum wage established a positive feedback loop that created growth in Seattle by including more people in the economy. In other words, it worked exactly as intended.”
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