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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
Meander:
Roko is beautiful when she's angry.
Tova:
I feel like these past weeks of QC have been a conga line of successive characters taking turns at getting yelled at, and then yelling at someone else.
Does the buck stop at Spooky? Find out next week.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 02 Jul 2019, 18:18 ---Actually this is exactly why Spooky needs a "mortal" friend. Someone who can keep them grounded and who offers a perspective they can't possibly conceive. They need someone who can take them to one side and explain things to them and why there are no quick fixes.
Unfortunately it just seems like Spookybot is sticking their foot into their overly sized mouth.
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This ^^^^^^^
Now to be a little harsh on Roko...
It's not about you. It's about those who could do with a hand. If you're helping May just to feel good about yourself, well, there are worse things, but it's about May, not you.
You want an attagirl? Ok, how about this; by being the person that you are, you have been an essential part of a causative chain that resulted in well targetted funds of $2,000,000,000 going to make the world suck less. Exact mechanism doesn't matter. Results do.
By all means vent about the irrational injustice and power imbalance. Just realise that at the end of the day, it's not about Roko. It's partly about an entity with more power than sense that desperately needs friends and an ethics review committee. It's about May. It's about a children's hospital, and goodness knows what else.
Then it's about Roko. Because as a person, she is no less deserving of kindness than May or anyone else is.
DashaBlade:
--- Quote from: Reaver on 03 Jul 2019, 02:27 ---Tune in next week for "A character offers to buy someone lunch and gets yelled at for rubbing their wealth in someone's face"
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That one kind of happened, minus the yelling, when Brun made Clinton feel bad by revealing her family was too poor to afford raisins when she was a kid. Though her intent wasn't to make him feel bad, it's pretty much an ongoing theme that people who have privilege never seem to know they have it until it's actually pointed out.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: DashaBlade on 03 Jul 2019, 03:26 ---it's pretty much an ongoing theme that people who have privilege never seem to know they have it until it's actually pointed out.
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It's almost like the exact same thing very often happens in real life, too...
Granted, the comic is a bit "blunt force trauma" with this message, much of the time.
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