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Oh yes. ruin my fun with details....

leave it to the Ancients to stick with rotary dialing when even the phone company has upgraded to touch-tone...

Agreed, but threat assessment is also important. A small threat-as long as it *is* a small threat, is a small threat and deserve appropriate attention. That's the nazis. A post-Democratic EU is an active, potentially large threat. You'll drive yourself nuts i you can't keep perspective.

Yeah, but nazism, like communism is a opportunistic infection. It capitalizes on weak hosts and weak spots in strong hosts. Neither are strong or compelling ideologies on their own merits. Having been though the whole nazi thing once, I tend to think Western civilization has built up antibodies to it. You still might see a flareup now and then. They sell a cream for that. I'd be far more concerned about a Post-Democratic EU than a resurgence of nazism.

The primary use for Nazim in the US is still as an ad hominum attack on Political Groups, People Or Opinions I Don't Like. If XKCD is implying differently, I respectfully disagree. I'll agree with the XKCD comic this far: As with Freud and cigars, sometimes a Hitler reference is just a Hitler reference. While history doesn't literally repeat itself, the themes do. Be concerned about the ones who use nazi tactics, like breaking up political rallies with baseball bats, not the ones who mouth the tired old words. Remember how nazism spread and be wary of those wearing velvet gloves who want iron-fisted control. Moreover, the best way to preserve an ideology is to drive it underground. Advancing or defending something like nazism is much harder in the light of day.

I can't speak for Europe where many governments have censorship power, but in the US, where government has very limited censorship power, Nazis live on primarily in the form of Godwin's Law fulfillments. Not exclusively but primarily. The people who actually act like nazis over here aren't calling themselves "nazis".

I'll simply sign out with Popper's not being the last or only word on the subject...

Actually nazis do and should have Freedom of Speech but the reasons have nothing to do with sympathy or pity for them.

Stopping a cheerleadra punch surprised me. I didn't think Magus was that good in his default state.

It looks more like a top of a box pried off...

Which crate, which comic?

"...it's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!"

At least they're talking. I thought sure it would be fight time...

I like to think the wand was more powerful than expected and transformed a non-cannon story into a canon universe. Sort of like Hawking Radiation where a virtual particle becomes a real one with help from a black hole....

It's a sure bet that the universe will be revisited one day. If Tess is still experimenting with boyifying herself, I'd take it as a strong indicator that she was on the same track as EGS Prime's Tedd...

Why would anyone of one gender want to turn into the opposite gender? Especially if they had contorl and knew it would be temporary? And Tess rejects doing it a second time.

The Diamond had a wooden core....

Got it in one, Mr. Garibaldi... General Shade-Tail and Nioi aren't exactly alike. Shade-Tail is rough and outright violent...you could say hyper-masculine and Nioi is a magical furry. At the very least is suggests radical personality swings on the part of Lord Tedd. A swing from maculine to feminine and back fits this pretty well. Also Lord Tedd has bouts of absolute rage. People always have a reason for being like that and being genderfluid could be a part of where Lord Tedd's comes from. I fully admit it's speculation, but it's speculation that fits our limited facts very well. That Tedd could have been physically female, but yeah Dan didn't give us any clear indicators, like visible boobs. Terra could have been born female, be genderfluid and simply decide she didn't need to change to do what she wanted and be what she wanted.

The single simplest thing Ashley can get ahold of is core remains of the Dewitchery Diamond. The crystal part is gone but the core it formed around may not be. .

And a perfect time for Ashley to grab one.

Lord Tedd's universe is an open question. We don't know if there's an "Ellen" and "Elliot" or the closest match is a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. The fact that Lord Tedd's closest friends are General Shade-Tail and Nioi suggest genderfluid to me. He could be genderfluid. He was acting pretty much like EGS-Tedd. He just had an active sex life. What nails either down as cis-gender? I don't see it. Tess seems to have enough screen time to establish her as a girly-girl. She would be the alternate-Tedd that's least likely to be genderfluid.

On Patreon Dan announced next comic would be Monday due to wrestling with site security. Apparently the site was open to being edited by anybody. Most of what happened was minor random stuff and someone actually stepping in to fix a couple of links. Yay us.

I didn't mean it like a bad thing....

Unaffected by her own over-self-control Susan could well join in more...

Now that I've actually read the commentary, Dan does say "...As such, there's hints of Elliot's default female form...." I forget what FV2 and 3 are but one of those might fit the result. (IIRC, FV4 is essentially FV5 without some bells and whistles)