This is one of the events from the show that is OK to spoil.
This is one of the events from the show that is OK to spoil.
It is worth noting that most of the protections for transgender working employees have been elite driven. You have not seen like spontaneous ground up support from construction workers calling for job protections for their transgender coworkers.
I used to be very covid cautious and participated in the covid caution subreddit and there were a large contingent of regulars who would get very mad if you didn't see the issue of covid caution and spread through the lens of capitalist exploitation of the working class.
I think that Will's (admirable) willingness to absolutely get into it with everyone all the time probably makes his experience non-representative but as you say maybe people would get into it more if they didn't have to worry about being flooded with harassment.
You shouldn't try to convince them but I do think that the decision to have or not have children is driven in part by conditions that are responsive to policy levers.
Part of the messiness of this debate is that the actual severe NPIs enjoyed broad support when they happened. The real resistance was generated during the Delta/Omicron period when people were vaccinated but there was still a lot of sickness and death and there were fights over closures, masking 1/2
This has all kind of blurred together in people's heads to be retroactive opposition to school closings and other 2020 interventions, but it's just not true that those were unpopular when they happened. 2/2
Part of the messiness of this debate is that the actual severe NPIs enjoyed broad support when they happened. The real resistance was generated during the Delta/Omicron period when people were vaccinated but there was still a lot of sickness and death and there were fights over closures, masking 1/2
they don't want to end the relationship. It's great for them! Often for their kids and nieces and nephews ending it is the only way that they can not have to deal with this crap. 2/2
I think that the dynamics of cutting out parents and cutting out children are very different. Typically with older conservative relatives you are having it on their terms. Their understanding of the relationship is "you must eat shit from me without complaint" So it's not hugely surprising that 1/2
and go on. I often engage taking the "liberal" position on a lot of left/liberal disputes and don't find it to be especially acrimonious.2/2
I don't know-I don't have a big account but I don't generally feel like I'm dealing with crazy mobs. Every once and a while I get hit with a bunch of harrassment when I wade into a left-liberal dispute on a particularly heated issue (Israel/Gaza, left-wing antisemitism) but I mostly can block 1/2
The ideal magazine for something like this would be something libertarian branded that uses broad libertarian and small c conservative arguments to pull centrist towards the Democrats.
His argument is that people on Bluesky are too dismissive of the political import of economic issues and bring it up only to mock it. But that has more to do with how "kitchen table" is used. Plenty of people are talking about cost of living, Medicaid etc but they don't use that phrase.
This is an absolutely revolting statement by an absolutely revolting person but I don't see how you can say that a statement about a hypothetical situation involving hypothetical people is imminent enough to be constitutionally unprotected.
I don't think that you have to "hand it" to Vance who is an absolutely revolting scumbag but yeah I do think that he would not be as bad as Trump.
Bluesky, famously the place where everyone thought Biden was great and that the economy was fantastic.
You can for example easily test in surveys that people blame Democrats for the massive surges in crime that have happened in the last ten years and the vast increases in illegal immigration even though none of those things have happened. So it's not clear what the action plan should be.
Particularly in 2025 if you are a vulnerable minority, having the resources and professional flexibility too move to and live some place with a better legal regime can obviously make a huge difference.
Correct. This is the best cover.
It seems like work from home and/or delivery app penetration are a big part of the post 2019 shift.
He is not a small person and probably has an unusually stressful and tiring workload for a 79 year old even given how poorly he does his job.
I think that Canada's population distribution with people heavily concentrated in large metro areas plays a role too. I also think that the degree to which Canada is economically and culturally integrated with the US (even now) makes a Canadian nativist politics harder.
There was also in many cases no central decision making authority. You had different parts of the government with different priorities making different decisions.
He's talking about schools being closed. Hawaii reopened its schools after vaccination. I agree with you that much of the "covid backlash" started during the post vaccination Delta/Omicron era but the grievances he's talking about were 2020 events.
about Jewish ownership of prominent businesses.2/2
There has been a full bore effort during the recent Madmani campaign to kind of put Corbyn in the same bucket even though he said Jews couldn't integrate into British society and invited and praised speakers who said we drank the blood of children and his shadow cabinet members complained 1/2
TOWN BULLY (NOTICING REACHER): Who’s this, your boyfriend? REACHER (BLOTTING OUT SUN): No,
I'm a middle aged man and this skit has lived in my head for thirty years.
How many people in your real life that since 2018 have become really angry about America's global dominance or some crap. None. Now how many people do you know who have gone crazy from the Internet? I know plenty in addition to well known public figures like Musk or Rowling.
It seems like whatever happened was pretty abrupt,no?
minority groups. 3/3
I don't think that the actual political leadership of the Democratic party has gone as cruelly bonkers as what's happening with Labour. They have mostly held the line on transgender rights and their capitulations on immigration have mostly been cowardice. You don't see Dems running around 2/3
electeds but in the UK the electeds are all in. 2/2
There is clearly some portion of liberal party elites in both countries who are enraged that they briefly had to listen to various minority groups and change their norms even a little and are fired up to be able to get back at them. In the US it is mostly among opinion/news types rather than 1/2
scumbag to do this but it tends to be people who live with a strong sense of impunity.2/2
I do not think that "everyone" does this. I know people who own rental properties who I know do not do this. It also requires that you be consistent in your lies across different entities including on your state and federal tax filings. I don't think that you need to be a Ken Paxton level 1/2
I think that it is a little bit worse this year. It also started off with some goodwill by being the first "regular" star trek show in fifteen years and it's burned through all.of that. They are also clearly addicted to having colorful novelty episodes which don't work without regular episodes.
Right. There are major structural reasons why it is hard to get rid of senior leadership even if they aren't doing a good job.
I don't disagree but I think that people overestimate how much of Trump's popularity is organic vs having the entire right wing propaganda machine promoting him. A lot of that would be transferred to JDV if he were party leader.
I'm not saying that you're wrong but this is fundamentally different than most issues where they let Trump do illegal stuff because he's advancing right wing goals. Conservatives really don't like these Tariffs.
I think that the question is whether states should spend significant money to fill the gaps and whether liberals should support them doing so.
I feel like he's a pretty big dude in the cartoons and comics.
Possible that they nominate a complete whack job.
I'm in my late forties so I really prefer text writ large.
in an era where people are constantly flooded with propaganda and no one wants to grapple with the idea that it has shaped people's political beliefs. Instead it's because of egg prices or if you are an online leftists, failure to adopt universal Healthcare. 2/
This whole thing is so bizarre because our own national mythology is built around the (accurate) belief that notions of liberty and self determination became widespread. We talk about the Federalist Papers and how they influenced the masses to rise up at significant material risk. We now live in 1/
The stuff with the 1st officer and Spock was fine I guess if kind of wacky and out of left field.
Unlike a lot of the episodes that I disliked which were bad ideas conceptually this one could have been fine but it was just executed terribly.
it thought that it was much funnier than it was. It doesn't hit the comic notes well and Pike's performance particularly grating. There have been Star Trek properties that have I think played Vulcans for comic effect but it requires a lot more subtlety than what they did here.
I would say that for Star Trek the episode that comes to mind was when Data goes back in time and meets Mark Twain but that was more of a situation where the episodes objective quality was like a 5 and if delighted me at like a nine and a half. The SNW episode was OK I guess but I think that 1/2
I don't think that there is a 1st amendment defense to this scenario but it seems like there must be some 1st amendment interest in it as the product of the creator's thinking. Do you think that the government could constitutionally ban chatbots that give liberal leaning answers?
Right like it would seem that they could not outlaw chatbots that gave liberal answers.
Yes! Part of the monstrousness of it is that it the movie universe no one really finds this whole situation objectionable. Like when the parents are confronted with the other children they're like "oh yes my other child. I remember you."
Twins separated at birth but probably not as cruel a scenario as in the parent trap
There are so many layers of it. It's not just the deception of the kids. Both parents are completely chill about never seeing one of their kids again. The whole extended family is just completely fine with it. I feel like there is probably something in the scifi or horror genre dealing with 1/2
I can't believe they remade that movie and did not fix its completely deranged premise! My daughter saw that movie when she was five or six and broke down crying and begged us not to get divorced because she thought that was how divorces work. The whole thing is so fucked up!
I hope that you don't mind the unsolicited advice but for the PF do calf raises on stairs, first starting with two legs then one once you are strong enough. Do them before each run. Made a huge difference for me and got rid of all PF symptoms.
I mean the other obvious point is that Trump won so they have far fewer actual aggrievements. They think that everything that is happening is awesome and aren't impacted by what their liberal nieces believe.
FWIW CVS is using BMI>25 (overweight) as the standard, not obese.
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
This is exactly why I was never entertained thoughts of going into stealth. Beyond my being a Z-list public figure, I refused to give up my past or my future. I am trans & there should be no stigma associated with that. I like being me; I encourage anyone to do likewise & embrace who & what they are
Someone said early on that the posture from top to bottom needs to be "fuck you, make me."
I think that mood disorders and "inactivit" are probably going to work for a lot of people.
Do you have any sense of what kind of evidence is going to be necessary to get vaccinated and/or covered by insurance? Is it just going to be a vague self attestation?
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
Do you think that this has to do with the contents of SF writing or just that it's being boosted by right wing torment nexus psychos?
"Physical inactivity" is pretty nebulous and pretty much unverifiable.
I guess the next question is whether they will keep the extemely broad and vague indicators of high risk, whether people will have to provide proof to get vaccinated, etc.
This was my understanding too back then but I am pretty sure it was wrong.
Also Alice Walton remains happily single.
If someone is obsessed with “germs” but has a dog, I refuse to take them seriously www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-germs-...
Eh. They had these kinds of special election overperformances in 2018 and that was a good midterm but nothing earth shattering.
I surely do.
If you move the national median on any issue there are going to be outliers that go too far. It's a necessary consequence of any social advancement. I can assure you that that the right does not stress about this or feel any accountability
I got around to reading this closely and it's an easy education in how David Shor rigs things. The tested messaging on deploying the National Guard is actually shit - so they lead you to conclude that the *focus* is shit, instead of the fact that the test message is (deliberately) shit
He's threatened repeatedly to invade and conquer the territory of a member of NATO and literally nothing.
I am not asking for some kind of novel political tactic. If you look at the polling on some of these issues he is talking wildly unpopular positions. Any functioning political party would by constantly ejaculating over being handed these kinds of issues.Just attack the very unpopular things he does!
I am not asking for some kind of novel political tactic. If you look at the polling on some of these issues he is talking wildly unpopular positions. Any functioning political party would by constantly ejaculating over being handed these kinds of issues.Just attack the very unpopular things he does!
of everything is just feckless and cowardly fear of confrontation with no actual political justification.2/2
Any Democrat could go after his utter derangement on foreign policy, his betrayal of Ukraine, his threats towards Canada and Greenland. Just show up I these countries and crap all over him. There is absolutely no domestic support for this stuff and their failure to attack him shows how much of 1/2
Kieran if you want to be able to drag your desktop to your friend's house and play doom with him you gotta invest the cash.
Republicans clearly want to create a dynamic like covid where the federal government abandons all of its responsibilities while at the same time attacking blue states for failing to manage the crisis they created.
The other thing is that he doesn't even stick to the pretext! He and his cronies immediately go online and brag about the real reason and the media ignores it.
The whole thing is completely deranged and would never in any context be extended to other political figures. When Trump writes a government check to himself for a trillion dollars we don't have to pretend that he thinks his personal bank is safer.
Bill Deblasio won the general election in NYC by fifty points and no one believes that BDB is a transcendant national candidate
Basically from what I have read, everything there is a giant scam where various hucksters drain as much money from them on bullsh*t projects and then flee with their winnings. So it wouldn't surprise me if someone got a useless ad campaign funded.
Hell yeah.
I liked KH a lot but with public figures this is all just cheap Kremlinology. No one has reliable insights about what was her judgment and what came from other people.
I do think that the hot market and employee power played a role in supporting Truml but the things that are hurting the market today like Tariffs and huge arbitrary government cuts are not necessarily things that these people like. This is to say that the economy really is weaker.
And the movies did Denethor dirty in thematically important ways so his fall doesn't carry any weight in the movies.
I'm not sure if you are teasing or not but isn't this a movie where at least some of the effect is lost by staring at a small screen in front of you
I see this sentiment constantly and "people will smear you in a way that is unthethered from your beliefs and public stances" is true. Whether they succeed does have a lot to do with what you say and do.
a moderate in any typical sense that people would use the word. 2/2
It is probably true that the most visible advocates are usually technocrat types but I think that both groups have moved so much in the last five years on this issue that we are probably going to see stuff all around that doesn't reflect the narratives of 5 years ago. Wiener himself isn't really 1/2
Call me when the Democrat is close to 50. We see this pattern all the time in red states where the Democrat leads the early polling with 44 percent and then loses 54-46.
I try not to do these "don't u know there R no real laws anymore u moron" responses but Trump has taken enough blatantly illegal actions for which the Supreme Court has effectively shut down any remedy that I can't say for sure that we won't see people imprisoned for flag burning.
