@newmachines@mualphaxi@sporadica I do write. I have ~50 essays published on my Substack. The article does a fine job at making a reasonable point: Luke may be a totally good guy, but even totally good guys can get co-opted as pawns in destructive and unsuccessful missions. Not his fault. But an important lesson.
@CJHandmer Luke may be a brilliant, compassionate, sensitive man. And yet he may still have been used as a pawn in a plan of great recklessness and evil.
His character may be unassailed. I don’t think Luke is a bad dude. But outcomes are outcomes.
Seeing posters combine the pride flag with words like “democracy”
While well-intended, this may be counterproductive — the message sort of is that democracy is gay
Emmett Shear is a deeply confused and wishy washy thinker. He is all over the map and doesn’t pay enough attention — just surface level Wikipedia readings and being too lazy to crack open a book and get rigorous.