This show is very stressful, I gotta say. As a fluent Italian-speaker, and a native English speaker, the interrogation scenes where the cops misinterpret what's being said or mistranslate questions or statements was disturbing to say the least.
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This show is very stressful, I gotta say. As a fluent Italian-speaker, and a native English speaker, the interrogation scenes where the cops misinterpret what's being said or mistranslate questions or statements was disturbing to say the least.
Actually, this new series was made in consultation with Knox and with her blessing, unlike some other adaptations. It includes some fictional elements (merging of people into single characters for the sake of flow for TV) but it seems very faithful to what really happened to her.
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
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Beautiful!
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
True. But that's why conservative leadership is so obsessed with pushing culture war crap. These people are RICH-rich, and if they can prevent bonds of solidarity from forming between poor people, that's a win. And that's what's been happening since at least the 70s.
So, if you were serving on a Federation starship, what colour uniform / department would you be serving in?
But progressives? It's an immediate concern 'cause people are losing their lives. LGBTQ kids are facing conversion therapy threats. Sex workers are facing finance discrimination. Poor people are going bankrupt from medical bills. Money is going to genocides. Election after election: nothing changes.
Conservatives especially can afford to make a 50-year plan for christo-fascism because their immediate material circumstances aren't dependent on the outcome of any one election: they're largely fine, no matter who wins. Liberal centrists are mostly ok because "the arc of history leans left".
I've thought about this a lot: why progressives want bold action immediately, while liberals and conservatives seem more willing to play the long game. I've come to the conclusion it's because libs/cons are mainstream and likely have more stable finances and unthreatened civil rights.
I think you're confusing progressives with liberals. People on the progressive side want tangible policies first. Liberals are happy with fluff, symbolic victories, and savior candidates, all so they can "have brunch" and not have to think about politics for another few years.
See, that's something I didn't understand back in the 00s: so many of the bigoted atheists were just Zionists pushing Zionist anti-Muslim talking points.
Just take a look at their position here: "Zohran Mamdani is bad because he's Muslim." They're not opposing a policy position of his, they're just opposing him for his religion. And this, on a post where Mamdani doesn't even talk about his religion. They're just a bigot. Leave them alone.
Sister, let it go, they're not worth your time. I've been dealing with these moralistic atheists since the late 00s, back when I thought the atheist community could be a force for good. But too many are bigots who claim their own intolerance is justified, while religious intolerance isn't.
"YoU cAn't Be BaSeD iF yOu SuPpOrT iSlAm..." Man can you try not being a complete dingus for once in your miserable life? No wonder your parents didn't love you.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
It's so gaudy I can't stand it. Why do rich people have such terrible taste?
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Hozier, obviously! I was surprised nobody said it.
Well @dropout.tv , I hope youāre proud of yourselves, making a grown man weep emotionally while watching the Game Changer secret finale! Dicks.
To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
āGazaās famine can be endedā, writes Medea Benjamin, āif we force it to end.ā Read the full article: medeabenjamin.substack.com/cp/171699990
Oh I agree! This is like a President Coin vs President Snow situation: replacing one with the other isnāt a good thing. But Trump and his team are thin-skinned and Gavinās team is good at holding their attention. That has some value. We just have to remember President Coinās ultimate fate.
Someone needs to hide him.
I like Gavin as an attack dog. His influence over Californiaās economy is threatening to the regimeās plans, so he ends up tying up Trumpās PR machine, demanding that they respond to him and his trolling. And they take the bait. So Gavinās useful on that front. But as a leader? No.
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as āGoogleā once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
Every week, we at Zeteo compile a day by day list of Trumpās authoritarian excesses, abuses, law-breaking, fascism. He wants to flood the zone and numb us; we wonāt let him. Read/share/subscribe:
Hide him! Somebody in the community needs to hide him!
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Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
People talk about the housing crisis, but nobody talks about the fully-furnished haunted manor scarcity crisis...
That was a goooooooood read!
As many of you know, Iām a member of Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine. We have a new call to action for the Canadian government. To go with this call to action, Iāve got new details to share with you about Canadaās complicity in arming this genocide. Please listen:
Israel killed this womanās daughter in Gaza and she still has family in Palestine. Sheās been with demonstrators following Mark Carney around Montreal today. But she was arrested. Apparently, she was too loud while trying to get Mark Carney to care about her family. Hereās what she told me:
I wish more politicians understood how the economy is rigged against regular people the way Bill Burr does.
Delay. Obstruct. Provoke. Remember how the Republicans acted toward Obama and do exactly that here.
The protest was called RadPride, and I was there to photograph it. (See below) For short, the protest, taking place the night before FiertĆ© MontrĆ©alās parade, pitches itself as a radical version thereof, denouncing the corporatization of Pride and pinkwashing, notably Israeli pinkwashing, within.
All great causes! Thank you!
That was going to be my quesiton: what were the protesters protesting? The article made zero mention of the reason, only that they showed up and then the police started tear gassing. Canadian media always does this: ignore protests unless there are arrests, and never explain the grievances.
In what way did it suck? Did it have the same problems back then as a crown corporation that it has now as a private corporation? Did privatizing solve some problems and create others? Would re-nationalizing it resolve some problems and create others?
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Ć comment like that either means itās really good or really badā¦..
Let's hope his absence in recent months has dulled his momentum.
That "do you accept that as true?" question was a loyalty test.
Great article that highlights exactly why Game Changer and DropoutTV are the best things to watch today.
The Zero Carbon Act in 2019 represented then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promise to tackle her generation's "nuclear-free moment" head on. Six years on, analysis (by me) suggests the law has been hollowed out to little more than a husk. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
This is fucking heartbreaking! I know I'm an outsider (Canadian) looking in, but NZ was such an inspiration for how aggressive its climate action was under Ardern. I wanted us to follow NZ's lead. Her retirement signaled a massive curtailing of everything hopeful on this front.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administrationās failures.
Exactly. Voting doesn't solve everything, but if it were truly worthless they wouldn't be spending so much time, money, and energy to suppress our right to vote. It's an important tool in our toolbox. But it's not the only tool we have.
At (another) Hamptonās fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: heās expecting Trumpās help to defeat us in November. āI feel good about that,ā Cuomo said. New Yorkers wonāt.
"Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin then accused the town of āreckless relianceā on the departmentās E-Verify program." I'm not sympathizing with a cop here, but I'm wondering what "reckless reliance" on DHS's own program means...??
Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...
For years, crisis pregnancy centers have been at the forefront of the anti-abortion movementās agenda to target women navigating unplanned pregnancies. Now, the state's reproductive rights advocates are flipping the script and have opened Arkansas's first pro-choice "crisis pregnancy center.ā
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
Iād push it a step further and say āthe GOP is pro child abuseā ought to be the talking point we should all be pushing right now.
Whatās next? āYes, the victim was shot. But had he not been asthmatic, he might have survived. Clearly then the shooter must be absolved of the murder charge, for the real killer ā the silent killer ā is respiratory illness!ā
Okay, in regards to the recent porn/ban talk/legislation I need to reiterate something very important: ANYONE making the argument that you can tell enough about a person's character from the fiction/art they make to take retributive action against them is UNTRUSTWORTHY THIS IS A BAD-FAITH ARGUMENT
In an almost unthinkable display of conflict-of-interest, a former Air Canada legal counsel, Maryse Tremblay, will rule on whether to end job action by striking Air Canada flight attendants at the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
I am so tired of back to work legislation. The whole point of strike action and labour unions is to defend the working class. Forcing via a governmental order destroys that. We must end such madness.
Some labour disputes are complicated. This one isnāt. Air Canada should pay and treat its flight attendants fairly.
this more than simply the aesthetics of fascism, sorry if that makes you uncomfortable
Youāre not alone. Iām avoiding all US produce at the grocery store. And all US wine, which hurts me became I love Napa valley wines.
I really hope there were some enterprising workers who made backups of files for future generations.
Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm looking at this from a glass half-empty perspective. People are waking up and that's a good thing.
52% is a majority, but not, like, a BIG majority. I'm disappointed in my fellow Canadians.
Proof that any united body can topple even the most āsuperiorā authority; history shows it time and again. From revolutions to civil rights movements, when people move as one with purpose and conviction šš¾
Not without preconditions: 1. Corporate-backed Dems must be challenged in primaries by grassroots, populist candidates 2. Centrists who even go so far as to HINT at "bipartisanship" must be ousted and replaced by progressives willing to fight.
This article reads like it was written by those "abundance" guys, who propose "radical" new ideas like Reagan-style deregulation. The article takes for granted that wind turbines would be upsetting to "scenic" Oregon. It's trying to get me to hate regulations and love the gun-shop owner. WTH?
Did Wednesday have an intimacy coordinator on set? I know that a lot of older directors of Tim Burton's age are reticent to hire intimacy coordinators, so I don't know if one was on set. But the tango scene in Ep 3 was dull!
But together? Together they have zero chemistry. They barely look at each other, they barely touch each other, they hardly seem to yearn for each other. It should be criminal to have Gomez and Morticia be on screen together and not have it be SCORCHING HOT. Their passion never dies!
Both are excellently cast in the series. Individually in their roles, they bring a lot of comedy, drama and nuance to their respective characters. I love Guzman playing up Gomez as goofy and supportive. And Zeta-Jones is charming as ever as Morticia.
I finished watching the first four episodes of Wednesday Season 2. It's campy, it's fun, I'm enjoying it! I like that the rest of the Addams family has a bigger role to play, even as this is Wednesday's show. But I have one critique, and it involves these two: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman.
The NYT is using the Fox News playbook of "some people say", not to quote real people, but to attribute the editorial line of the paper to others, to influence public opinion.
It's so funny how there always seem to be JUUUUUUUSTT ENOUGHH Dems in any given legislature or court who seem to agree with the GOP enough to get whatever the GOP want passed. If I didn't know any better, I'd say the party are fascist collaborators....
Because for the DNC, disqualifying any Democrat candidate counts as "purity testing", and purity testing is wrong. ... ... unless said candidate is being disqualified for being progressive. Then it's A-OK! š
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
TikTok's algorithm is suppressing news on the LA protests (and plenty of other protests, too), so users have adopted "Music Festival" as a way to circumvent the censors.
Ooohhh! I thought theyād have a full reveal episode or something.
Wait wait wait, if this is the season finale, when will we know who won Foolās Gold? We were promised 4 weeks ago that weād have an Ć awe by now!!
Every. Single. Time. I can't imagine how tiring it is for SWs to have to constantly rebuild, to see websites initially welcome them and their clients only to discard them for the sake of "community".
Progressives have other, more important things to worry about. The think pieces on this ad campaign explained the eugenics and white supremacist dog whistles, and now a bunch of lib-to-left customers wonāt shop at AA. Itās that simple. Now, about the FBI being used to track down state senatorsā¦
Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security
Radar! Like Big Birdās plush bear!
I also wish ill on J K Rowling. I hope her new show flops.
Yes, exactly, thank you! Finally a sensible approach to this issue.
YOU'RE JUST CAUSING CHAOS AND WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION OVER HERE ABOUT VITALLY IMPORTANT THINGS!!!!
Counterpoint: if you ordered a "hot dog, hold the bun", that restaurant wouldn't charge you any less and would still ring it up in its system as a hot dog.
And here I thought they were going to make a manly-man's menu and call them "Hommelettes", so that men don't feel emasculated when they order them.
In light of Trumpās worsening cruelty, vindictiveness, and ever more belligerent attacks on democracy, many of you ask: āWhat can I do now?ā Here are a bakerās dozen of recommendations. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f3d
"The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework" This is such a perfect quote, I'm gonna memorize it!
Weaponized ignorance
Good thing my wife isn't a Star Wars fan, because how the hell am I supposed to compete with THAT?! Have you seen Manny's forearms?!?! And that slutty black apron?! I'm an actual pastry chef and I can't match his rizz!
Those are EXCELLENT names for your cats!
If it sounds too good to be true, it's made up as clickbait. Who exactly would have been a fly on the wall in that PRIVILEGED conversation between a lawyer and their client? There's too much made-up nonsense online, and I'm very scared at our rapidly decaying sensitivity of our Bullshit-o-Meters.
"Dershowitz himself [...] mostly seems to be doing all this because he doesn't know any other way to be." He's been a cantankerous asshole all his life, why stop now?
just remember destroying the economy isnāt an accident, itās a recruiting mechanism while making ICE the only well funded job program in the USA. The fascist super rich donāt need an economy in climate change hell, they have property and need an armed force to protect it.
I dunno... there are a lot of nazis in Oregon....
Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. Itās disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.
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