Not going to pretend like Prop 22 and the cash bail stuff didn't gut me but I see some pretty obvious reasons for why an amicable divorce is desirable:
- A regional west coast government is much more likely to spend money than the federal government currently does
- A new nation is not bound by the 2nd amendment
- California democrats are propped up by the spectacle of the national two party system - without the specter of the republican party being a credible threat, it will be easier for people to see them as the corrupt frauds that they really are
- the new nation can finally provide a path to citizenship for the millions of people living in the shadows within its borders, who are only partially integrated at the moment
- the new nation can pursue a national healthcare policy without constantly worrying about the effect it will have on battleground states
- we won't have to deal with the insanity that is the senate anymore
this new era of gridlock is proof that the old system is an obstacle. the time is now. break away. seize your future
I want to paint a picture for you and some other's in this thread of this series.
In KH3 , there's this scene where the game is desperately trying to be normative. Kari and Sora on the tree from KH one there's a romantic sunset and Kairi offers sora to share the weird star fruit with her to cement their hetero normative romance to at the last second of this story cement sora is totally not in love with this silver haired jock he totally he isn't in love with. It is sad , has no life and kairi feels foreign. She feels like she doesn't belong she's surrounded by all these characters without actual development and who had with through things. And she had just kind of been either off camera or a form of damsel through most of it. Robbed of her agency. So this scene that in a better written plot might actually be interesting because there would have been some romantic build up. Ends up feeling empty , hollow.
To cement this further, off to the left riku the silver haired jock sora totally isn't in love with and totally didn't make a combo keyblade earlier in the game that's literally rainbow colored, is having a conversion with himself. Not a joke, there is a version of himself inside of himself talking to himself a plot line that was just introduced in this game. He is sitting on the beach talking outloud to a person no one else can see. He looks like a crazy person. This crazy person scene is more engaging that anything kairi is doing at this point, because she has lacked so much agency and build up over the series. I would rather watch riku talk to his self on a beach , then any attempts of whatever hetero normative last minute bullshit they are trying to shove into the game. ( Trying to be normal at the last minute is how I would in general describe my gripes with KH3, but that's a different thread)
She gets a little more in what is essentially final mix in this game, she gets a co boss battle and gets to create the rainbow blade too. But we had a whole year to sit on KH3 vanilla and considering the hidden cutscene is the same old sora riku stuff its very obvious where the focus is.
Kairi is a character I always wanted to be cool because it at least on the surface and in a couple manga she had a sort of firey personality. I wanted her to go out and do stuff too. But now I kind of hate her because she's just a living prop to put next to sora to say " Hey guys, sora is totally not gay ". Upon recollection that's kind of all she ended up being after KH1. A damsel for goal purposes and when not that a potential romantic intrest to try and make you forget sora is really interested in that silver haired jock.
This doesn't even speak to how they women characters in general are treated in kh3.
I like this series but I hope they do better is all i'm going to say
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