I’d argue that every single star wars movie has been cheap or just decent enough compared to some of their shows and animated series. Honestly, the best works were probably season 1 of Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Andor and Rogue One.

Sure, we have rose colored sunglasses when we look back to the OG trilogy, but their better works weren’t part of the mainline trilogies.

I may have misremembered… and stand corrected.

Oh, hell yeah.

Anything political or anywhere connected to something that could be culturally attached for some people. Especially when people start comparing one evil to another and try to say one’s worse because we’re used to doing the other and accept it as normal, so we should completely ignore how it’s barbaric as fuck and just address the one topic that’s more politically or culturally unacceptable or convenient to support.

Hey, how about we acknowledge that they’re both bad, and they can both be equally bad and work on correcting the one culturally accepted one while it’s politically convenient to address the one that we can agree is evil*, too.

Eh… they were still members of a a counter government and military to the US, so ‘traitors’. And the common people that fought for them were fighting for the right of the southern states to support and continue slavery of a people they deemed ‘lesser’.

Have your cemeteries and museum memorials, but have them as private organizations and move your statues from Government land. This government and the states within it are the US, not the Confederacy, and their defeated enemy shouldn’t be honored on their grounds.

Especially since the Daughters of the Confederacy did a massive push to have statues and memorials built in southern states during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement to scare and disenfranchise newly freed slaves who had fought for their voting rights, as well.

Let’s not forget here, that your example of ATL and Stone Mountain… is private land and not government land, courthouse grounds. The ATL and GA governments have nothing to do with it, and if they did or attempted to we’d have another issue regarding the rights of the land owners and board that runs the park there.

I’m all about exercising equal religious representation of courthouse or government land, and tearing down statues commemorating traitors or slave owners, again on government land, but government overreach is a thing I also don’t want to support too much.

Edit: it has been brought to my attention that I misremembered, it’s privately operated and managed, but state owned.

Hey, bud. We all figured out how professional they were when they (police in general not this jurisdiction necessarily or specifically) refused to storm a school and take out an active shooter, instead causing more children to die because they were afraid and too busy talking on their phones, that were covered in Punisher logos.

Jump down whatever hole you want to, I’m not making any additional claim nor feeding the trolls here. My very singular statement was clear.

GD, gotta love that PID on shooting your own thinking he’s the bad guy. And everyone wonders how an actual active shooter situation would be if they jumped up as the ‘good guy with the gun’ and intervened. Yeah, you’ll get your ass shot by the police too, especially if they shoot their own uniformed team members.

The SCOTUS argued that a State doesn’t have the power to enforce the 14th against a federal office like the Presidency, but could against State offices. This case just reinforces that. The Supreme Court further argued Congress would have to enforce the 14th for the Presidential election. Which you’ll never see, since they can barely agree their way out of a wet paper bag.

Not to mention there’s nothing in the thread before the guy began making his argument that FGM is worse than male circumcision, about what is ‘better or worse’. The guy jumps out of no where to make the argument very specifically and ridiculously to downplay one over the other. They’re terrible. They’re barbaric. And they should stop, and arguing ‘one is worse than the other’ absolutely downplays the barbarism of the practice in general.

No it isn’t. Stop it. They’re both fucking evil.

Hey, how about we stop making one baby mutilation better or worse than the other. It’s fucking wrong, wrong to do it, wrong to justify it, wrong to downplay one over the other or at all, and wrong to compare them. Full stop. Just don’t. They’re both terrible.