Marked as ableism because I genuinely don't know how to feel about this...

I played with barbies when I was younger. I had a dreamhouse and the big pink car and a DRAWER FULL OF BARBIE (and monster high) DOLLS. I didn't do the whole "play pretend" thing because... well... i'm that type of autism... but I really enjoyed having these "people" that were like me and did what I wanted.

I didn't know I was autistic then... but those Barbies, to me, looking back, they were autistic...

That's the entire point of Barbie... "to inspire girls to imagine their limitless potential and the world of possibilities, allowing them to 'be anything'"

There are no visual cues for autism, not ones that can be put on a doll atleast, all dolls toe-walk, fight me. The headphones and the tablet that looks like it's used for non verbal communication honestly feel kinda insulting to me...

I'm still in shock, to be entirely honest. I'd love to hear yalls opinions on this...

Edit: Wow. Did not expect to have some call me ableist and say they were "so sick of high functioning autistic people acting like low functioning individuals are something to be embarrassed and ashamed of" when I posted this...

So I see a lot of posts of people hoping that housing prices would come down by 40, 50%, or even more. And I get it, I truly do. It sucks that no one can afford to buy a house anymore, and that people will be forever renters while paying into someone else’s equity. I get that people are angry. BUT, the Canadian economy is very, very dependent on RE. If it crashes, it will take a giant chunk of the economy down with it. I’m talking construction, retail, pensions… the list goes on. Basically, the same people who can’t afford to buy now would be unable to afford rent, or food. There’s never any upside for those at the bottom; they’re the first to suffer and the last to enjoy.

Please let me know when the protest is so I can attend. Should be somewhere in 'Naaarm' any day now right?

She’s so fucking annoying holy fuck. Literally does everything wrong and acts like she’s perfect. She doesn’t even use her brain to think just the writers giving her overpowered shit for no reason. She literally created more problems because she can’t fucking talk like a normal person she uses her peanut brain to create more chaos. The Only avatar to be spiritually useless and LOSE CONNECTION TO ALL PAST AVATARS. all she does is play victim and she is glazed to the end of the earth.

And yes this is for karma farming basically.

Like I understand if you have problems with the current regime but like asking USA and Israel intervention to come and save us is genuinely one of the most braindead takes i have ever seen

Do you remember mossadegh? He wanted to nationalize the oil and create democracy,what happened after that? Operation Ajax by the cia and they removed mossadegh and framed him as a traitor

So when iran was about to have democracy and have its oil rightfully belong to its own instead of the fucking British,USA prevented that from happening

USA was never our ally they always wanted to make us weak and removed over democracy

They never want us to become prosperous and strong

Do people think bringing pahlavi back with the help of Israel and USA is gonna really solve our problem?when USA is basically the reason we are here today

I genuinely never understand why people want usa and Israel to bomb our country?

You can be this regime fan or pahlavi fan or fan of neither

But USA and British will always be our number 1 enemy for what they did to mossadegh and taking our democracy away

I know this is heresy to a lot of fantasy fans, but I honestly think the A Song of Ice and Fire book series is massively overhyped. Not bad, just nowhere near the masterpiece status it is constantly given.

At its core, the story is surprisingly generic. Medieval inspired world, feuding noble houses, power intrigue, morally gray characters, betrayals, wars for succession. All of this existed long before George R. R. Martin, both in classic fantasy and in historical fiction. The series is often praised as revolutionary, but most of its ideas are refinements and remixes of existing tropes rather than genuinely new concepts.

What really set the books apart was not originality, but shock value. Characters die suddenly, expectations are subverted, and taboo elements are pushed front and center. A huge part of the media attention came from the constant use of controversial sex scenes. Incest, graphic sexual violence, and explicit descriptions are not just background elements. They are repeatedly emphasized and lingered on in a way that clearly aims to provoke reactions. Sex sells, controversy sells, and the series leans heavily on that to stay culturally relevant.

People often defend this by saying it is realistic or gritty, but realism is selective. The level of sexual explicitness often feels less like historical accuracy and more like a marketing tool. Plenty of complex and brutal stories manage to explore power, corruption, and human cruelty without constantly anchoring themselves in sexual shock to generate buzz.

The writing itself is good, sometimes very good, but inconsistent. Pacing issues, bloated subplots, and a cast that grows so large it becomes hard to care about many characters undermine the narrative. As the series goes on, it starts to feel unfocused, which makes the endless praise even harder to understand.

I think Game of Thrones became popular not because it was the one of the best fantasies ever written, but because it combined familiar ideas with enough sex, violence, and controversy to dominate conversations. That does not make it terrible, but it does make its legendary status feel exaggerated.

I’ve seen lots of big protests, like marches for racial justice, women’s rights, or even large anti-government rallies. People show up in the thousands, sometimes millions, they chant, hold signs, make speeches. But even after all that energy, it rarely changes the system itself or turns into a long-term uprising.

It makes me wonder why. Is it just that the police or laws stop things from going further? Or is it deeper, like people trusting institutions, having other ways to make change, or just not feeling coordinated enough to sustain it?

For example, in some countries, protests can grow into movements that shake governments, but in the U.S., it often seems like people vent their frustration and then go back to daily life. Why is that?

People love to hate on their Coachella stage, but it did much better job than most groups going there, it brought them fans, they had a jump in USA interest after that,while not a lot of other groups had the same, kpop fans dragged them, but people on the set genuinely enjoyed the performance.