Also based on the PFP this is some weirdo Euro supremacist absolutely mangling one of the most common phrases in French.
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Also based on the PFP this is some weirdo Euro supremacist absolutely mangling one of the most common phrases in French.
I’d be ok with his consciousness being shattered into nine pieces so he can experience them all simultaneously.
Meanwhile born in the country you live in but brown skin? Believe it or not, immigrant.
I’d guess they think they can survive the backlash in the current political environment when they couldn’t earlier.
This plus Me Too, which I think was important in how gendered the American electorate’s rightward shift has been.
Sean Connery turning that role down is one of the greatest bullet dodges in the history of cinema.
In the Pacific Northwest it was gloriously cool for basically all of June and July but August has been gnarly.
The comic book industry learned this decades ago.
God our discourse is so degraded. 2020: “should we defund the police and replace them with different organizations?” 2025: “why have martial law when we can just increase police funding instead?”
Never tried to imply otherwise.
Well yeah, as we all know the Nazis developed penicillin and nuclear weapons and used them to win the war. Oh wait…
Searching “Elonia” has pretty much a 100% blue chud hit rate though.
The recent Contrapoints blowup was also chock full of “progressives” using they/them pronouns for her and getting big mad in a “no ‘they’ is always gender neutral and therefore never bad to use, stop policing me” way when called on it.
I think this also explains why Bill Kristol has been outflanking so many prominent liberals to their left. He at least has a belief system he’s willing to burn bridges over.
Also if it gets fucked up at all it’s literally scarring.
I just lost a months-long fight to get my insurance to cover facial electrolysis. It basically came down to “sue them in federal court for discrimination” or eat thousands of dollars in bills.
It doesn’t excuse bad writing, it makes it less excusable!
Unfortunately you’re probably right.
Yeah “holy crap this was 10% of an entire season” hits harder than an occasional wet fart in a weekly show that ran continuously for six months of the year.
I wonder if that’s because most of the chuds have moved on because they either got sick of the “wokeness” or just because Trek fandom is too small to run effective ragebait grifter operations on.
Also libs finding “Maoist Standard English” memes instantly removes any humor they had left in them.
Also you’re right, a compromised bus inspired a deranged NIMBY backlash (which turned out to be almost entirely secretly funded by like two local rich people) that almost killed it, I think they would have successfully killed a train.
Loool I read your first comment and thought of EMX.
It occurs to me that “all animation is for kids” and “this animation has sex in it” combine to make a lot of American adults deeply uncomfortable with even trying adult animation.
And the shows supposedly for teens are basically for seven-year-olds.
“Welfare queen” alone pretty much seals it. That phrase was racially charged from day one.
Marvel steps on this particular rake pretty often too. “The government wants to track and register a persecuted minority who can also nuke a city if they have a particularly bad day. Several of them have already done that.”
Yeah that bridge is thoroughly crossed.
The need to censor “cis” over there will never cease to astound me.
Ever since I started transition Chrisjen Avasarala’s words ring true: "My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven't been cynical enough.”
This is some really galaxy-brained antisemitism: “Who is undermining the purity and strength of our race? Once again it’s traitorous cosmopolitan Jews!”
An alarming percentage of liberals are at least uncomfortable with children transitioning or trans women in sports. Sometime in the last decade the right realized this and ruthlessly exploited it. The failure to push back has hardened normie liberal discomfort into outright bigotry.
*with that
At this point I’m hoping the game is good and keeps momentum for that up (also that my aging computer can run it).
I agree, I just mean pessimistic in that it’s a capitalistic hellscape instead of a communist utopia. Still holding a candle that the Laconia arc gets adapted someday.
It’s a few years old now but The Expanse I think did a great job of exploring a lot of the themes Trek has always been great at despite its vastly more pessimistic setting.
This one deeply bothers me. “Why can’t you just enjoy things” is straight-up anti-intellectual and usually leads to excuse-making for really gross stuff (and to be clear I like a lot of very problematic art, but I think it’s necessary to engage either that).
Can also be easily turned into a verb, just as “to tweet” was.
Flaps? It actually kinda works, most are quickly lost, but you never know which one will start a hurricane down the line.
I feel like there will always be a use case for cars in very low-density or remote areas where trains and buses will never be economical, but for the vast majority of the population needing 1000kg of glass, metal, and plastic to go to work or get groceries every day is an egregious waste.
To live in the suburbs is to be the cat in the window staring longingly at the strays running free outside, knowing you materially have it better but also knowing that this is not the life you were meant to live.
To be honest that describes most fascists, including the Nazis.
This is gonna be like the bourgeois equivalent of not taking a flu vaccine because you don’t like that it makes your arm sore, and you never get the flu anyway.
If anything I always figured that was an “untrustworthy begger” anti-Romani stereotype if anything, though obviously there’s shared DNA there.
Lots of countries also ban or severely restrict immigration for people with an autism diagnosis, so for people wondering if they may need to flee the US, that’s an additional consideration.
On-brand for the party that valorizes Confederate generals who fought and killed to preserve slavery.
Basically the writers realized they needed a reason for Discovery to be anything other than a charming museum piece that far in the future and came up with something … unlikely to keep our heroes relevant.
I was wondering about that from early on. Even if warp is scuffed, there were already alternatives by the late 2300s.
The one really bigoted (in a bunch of ways) Trek fan I’ve known IRL cited Voyager as his favorite, specifically because it was usually “monster or anomaly of the week” and mostly worked hard to avoid politics.
Nazis are generally extremely unwell but transgender Nazi is exploring entirely new frontiers of mental illness and self-hatred.
I think they kinda don’t sit through it. The conservative fanbase significantly prefers TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise to DS9 in my admittedly anecdotal experience.
Yeah without Covid Trump would have absolutely dogwalked Biden in 2020, more or less the same as he did to Harris in 2024.
I think it’s more that partisanship has hardened, and people are willing to forgive “their guy” for almost anything because the other party getting power is seen as genuinely apocalyptic. Something like the Epstein scandal would have gotten Bush chased out of Washington by an angry mob. Today…
The hatred for Bush was legendary, which makes it all the more galling how rehabilitated his public image has become. The hate was all deserved.
2008?
Something something dictatorship of capital.
I think it was projection of their own secret desires all along, at least among the Republican influencer types if not the rank and file.
Even ideal liberal democracies are authoritarian in the sense that 49% of the population can be force-fed the decisions of the other 51% even if they strongly disagree. This isn’t to say minority rule is better, but there’s no escaping some level of state violence so long as there’s a state.
Unfortunately probably yes.
Lots of people like this are fine with very dark and disturbing content, so long as it’s not “political,” because a character talking about gay rights is more upsetting than a war or an abusive relationship.
People aren’t sick of social commentary. They’re sick of *bad* social commentary.
Oh yeah I'll say for sure that the show would have been lesser but survived without Picardo or Ryan but couldn't have existed at all without Mulgrew.
DS9 was good because Berman was distracted by the comparatively narratively safe Voyager.
That's a wild thing to say when Robert Picardo and Jeri Ryan were also killing it. I'd say that whole trio acted their asses off and made the show good despite often deeply mediocre writing choices.
This plus sunscreen.
Oh dang that hurts actually.
Yeah, because Democrats not being able to retake Congress doesn’t worry him.
There’s worse sites but most of them are 4chan’s demon spawn.
I think they view Trump voters as dumber and more reactive versions of themselves. They are made uncomfortable by stuff like discussions of privilege or pronouns, so they assume that’s also MAGA’s primary gripe with the left. Strip away the uncomfy words and who wouldn’t be a centrist Democrat?
And then people wonder why their feed is mostly ragebait and low-quality porn.
Oh for sure, but obviously some are human and I fear for those people.
Overflow error.
That account has almost 90k followers and mostly seems to post Facebook-tier AI slop engagement bait “memes.” How do actual humans see that shit and hit “follow?”
Minus the hard bits like monkey bars.
Yeah that’s no different from right-wing arguments about how Russia must be given all of Ukraine in order to avoid risking nuclear war.
Hard to think of a clearer case of “to the privileged equality feels like oppression” than that. Sheesh.
Gone With the Wind and its consequences…
The antebellum South would be considered ham-fisted, gauche, and just generally unbelievable if it was the subject of some YA dystopia today.
In some ways it feels like leftists critiquing capitalist economists with arguments that betray a total lack of understanding of basic economics. There's plenty to criticize, but people don't even know what the actual weak points are.
The flesh limits how hard I can cuddle and I hate it.
lol correct
Jevon’s Paradox strikes again.
Problem is the way LLMs work you could still get this behavior by just wording it differently.
Kent State in the era of Kent State was honestly similar. A Gallup poll right after showed a solid majority of 58% blamed the students for getting shot and only 11% said the National Guard was responsible. General public opinion has always been incredibly terrible on stuff like this.
It’s gonna age really well I suspect from a historical perspective compared to what Paramount is churning out now and over the next few years.
A liberal coworker came up to me yesterday and started talking to me about how great Gavin Newsom has been, unsolicited, so it’s definitely escaped containment into meatspace.
Honestly it’s probably mostly people because I’ve repeatedly heard about how we need to stop purity testing and compromise from liberals IRL.
So when the Sino-Soviet split happened there was never any question which side Vietnam would take.
I took a class in Southeast Asian history and the prof emphasized that Vietnam and China have always been frosty at best. That’s why China stayed out of the Vietnam War despite coming to North Korea’s aid. It goes back to centuries of Chinese imperialism and Vietnamese resentment of that.
It’s dominance. They want to keep the gap between themselves and their workers as large as possible even if the midpoint of that gap is lower as a result.
But I was always told Hollywood was controlled by bleeding-heart libs and not corporate sociopaths who will happily feed us all to the wolves to boost this quarter’s earnings numbers.
They’re tolerating one right now. Also if you go through policies one-by-one, California isn’t exceptional on LBGT issues compared to any other state with Democrats in control.
LGB maybe, he’s been openly frosty towards the TQ+.
I was actually irritated reading the first few words there.
Yeah get back to me when people are advocating for the abolition of private property, otherwise we’re far short of communist purity-testing.
"trans people are human beings" is not a "super crazy communist idea." "human beings should not go to prison because they can't afford their rent" is not a "super crazy communist idea."
Also any bangers in his Twitter feed are the result of some likely-underpaid Gen Z staffer. He doesn’t strike me as having much of a sense of humor himself.
I’ve seen menthol lube, some people apparently are into that.
Kissinger energy
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