I swear, if I ever need worldbuilding inspiration, I’ll go talk to some cabbies.

The people of ancient Egypt do, in fact, still live in Egypt. They’re the same people, they just don’t really speak Coptic anymore.

Honestly, with a good enough tailor it probably wouldn’t be that hard.

Or have seen fullmetal jacket

I am.

“Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy” is point 9 from Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” essay. It goes together with point 11, where the idea of a permanent war is manifested as a cult of death. It’s short, and an excellent read.

The move is the first new Wonder Woman, staring Gal Gadot, where the plot is WWI, and follows her trying to kill Ares, God of War, who is responsible for the war. In the plot twist, Ares is revealed to be a diplomat working on an armistice, because (I am not making this up) “when you make peace, you can go to war again, so, really, negotiating peace is warmongering”, and apparently nobody stopped to think through the implication that we now see unfolding in Gaza.

It’s a constant thread I see ever more strongly in “the discourse”: there is no disagreement, there is no compromise, there is no negotiation with terrorists - you are either to destroy the enemy, or die trying. Well, have other people die for you, anyway.

Of course not - Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. Have you not seen that move with the IDF Woman? The only way to end war is to kill everyone you don’t like! Peace just means you have to go to war again later to finish the job!

They have more than one song.

It’s just that you can’t tell them apart.

It was an “apology” comic of sorts, after the previous one, about how men have it easy, …drew widespread criticism that she took very, very badly.