All the normies and progressives will eat this up. Yet none of them ever stop to think critically. Do you really think the donor class of ultra wealthy is actually going to pay for this? Doesn’t anyone remember when Obama said wealthy was 150k a year. They will tax you out of your suburban homes. You won’t have anywhere to park your mandatory electric car in the inner city concrete slums. Don’t worry though the grift to build a charging network is never going to be completed anyway.
Until those same poor people start to encroach on their neighborhoods. Then the ACAB crowd will gladly wield the power of the state to ensure the safety of their progressive enclaves from anyone with dark skin that isn’t underpaid menial labor.
The left love to get themselves worked into a frenzy over something like this. Yet every mass shoot was know to police. But no let’s waste effort on this because some danger hair land whale or soy goblin had their feelings hurt.
As others have said seasons 2-4 are the best. One has a few interesting episodes especially the last few of the season. While season 5 get more interesting at the end. Londo and G’Kar’s arc is probably one of the best in sci fi with an amazing job done by the actors. While it does tackle some social issues I always felt it did so on a higher level than Current YearTM insert politics. Concepts like order vs chaos, revenge, forgiveness, fate. How choices we make now can have a negative impact on the future as we ignore all the warning signs.
Come on now. All of those brutalist concrete monstrosities void of color and life are super inclusive and inviting. The picture above screams oppression and exclusion. I mean there isn’t even a stage for some fat guy in drag to read explicit material to kindergartners.
Apparently there is also this new thing called the “internet” sounds made up but you supposedly can read stuff. On this internet you can get books magically dropped off at your house by a guy named Jeff or something. They even have “e-books” sounds more like an “e-scam”. Amirite.
It’s the importance of your side picking the battlefield. Who cares why you hate Israel. The fight should be why their side does. There is no need to include yourself into the equation. Make them defend the pro Palestinian violence. Make them defend why they passed up the other guy because he was Jewish.
After the attempted assassination look at all the lolbertarian and freedom of speech types that wanted to be the first and loudest to condemn cancel culture. When the chickens are coming home to roost you don’t need to step in and help stop it. That’s all I’m saying.
This is why the left always wins. You don’t have to like or support Israel to use it as a weapon against the left. Making them defend their position doesn’t mean you also now have to support Israel. The right should be putting the left on the back foot to make them defend all of the college protests and statements made from their side. If you look at the left it is made up of mutually exclusive groups (gays for Gaza) that are untied only by their hate of the right.
Make them fight each other.
The problem for the right is that the left took decades of small steps to get where they are today. They started getting on school boards and being your county water commissioner. They took over pop culture while the right was like “I don’t watch new movies I don’t care.” Now they are just editing those old movies. Popular music was insidious with its messaging that was lost on people because they “just liked their sound”. Now they have managed to take over things like D&D, comics, Star Wars and kick out the people they used to make fun of for liking it. All the while those on the right will be like “who cares go touch grass” until the future when you can’t even do that because public parks are white supremacy.
I will second this. The right seems to have this idea that any day some article, book, YouTube documentary is going to be a massive Uno reversal card while the left will continue to lie with a straight face. The right has convinced themselves some smoking gun is going to instantly dismantle the left and the public is just going to snap out of the trance it’s in.
I’d argue that’s exactly why the Democrats want her. She will be even more of a rubber stamp than Biden. Her entire position is through the good graces of the Democrat political machine. Contrast that with Hillary who would sell out the Democrats if it meant advancement of her position and power.
Just take it from all those good rich white progressives. They love socialism to begin with so they should be happy to have their wealth confiscated for the greater good. Can you imagine how many transsexual queer disabled polar bears on the spectrum this could save!
Nice to see the DoD getting on the biggest issues of 2024. Yeah I’m sure this is the most pressing issue medals given out when Benjamin Harrison was president.
When I was in the Marines our barracks had a black mold problem. I’m sure that’s been resolved by now. Or it just got hand waved away because this is more important.
I find the inability to “turn off” when it comes to politics to be a highly negative personality trait. Those people who can’t are always the most miserable, unstable people as well. To them everyday is a war but in real life combat troops at the front are rotated out. Men didn’t spend a solid six months or a year in the frontline trenches in WW1. Per the BBC:
As a result, the British army rotated men in and out continuously. Between battles, a unit spent perhaps 10 days a month in the trench system and, of those, rarely more than three days right up on the front line. It was not unusual to be out of the line for a month.
At some point the constant stress will break you. Too many people in this country think about politics 24/7. Every issue is the greatest dilemma we have ever faced… until tomorrow’s problem. Sometimes you just need to shut your brain off for a bit and watch a Michael Bay movie.
The Republicans will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like they always do. Much like the supposed red wave of the midterms. The left wants to drag the right into topics they can win on like abortion. All the ads I’ve seen up here near Seattle are about how the right wants to “restrict reproductive freedom” and not about our massive homeless, drug, or crime problems. But don’t worry the right will fall into every trap about race and abortion while not hammering the other side about crime and inflation.
The left is so melodramatic. Everything is a threat to democracy. Not their superdelegates and keeping other candidates off the primary ballot though. Cancel culture is horrible. Just not when they dig for something you tweeted when you were 12 to get you fired. If life is so bad many of them should maybe look to reduce their carbon footprint to zero.
There are still a large number of people on the right that still listen and watch people like O’Reilly, Hannity, etc. The kind of people that apply for permits to protest or cancel when the gov’t warns of vague “threats”. Anyone that thinks their sternly worded but respectful email to a Democratic congress critter quoting the Constitution will actually be read and taken seriously. That’s the Leave it to Beaver Right. The people that think a protest is just like a Sunday church outing at the park, all smiles and bouncy castles for the kids.
So many on the conservative side are losers. They must get off on it at this point. At some point the Leave it to Beaver Right needs to be jettisoned. Playing nice doesn’t work. Playing by the rules doesn’t work. The left is unprincipled and willing to do whatever to win. The left was more than happy to cancel someone over the slightest perceived offense a month ago. Now as they are getting a taste of the world they created here comes the Useless Right ready to commit friendly fire.
I just finished listening to Leonard Nimoy’s I Am Spock ready by the man himself. It was interesting listening to him talk about how he approached being a Vulcan and how much he fought to change scripts to keep Spock from becoming… this. But then something else struck me. Nimoy was also into theater and reading a variety of things. A lot of writers for television, movies, or video games today are not creative people. Sure there are plenty of people today that could paint you a perfect replica of The Starry Night. How many of those same people would have the ability to make their own? It’s why everything is derivative self insert fan fiction. When they got their degrees in “journalism through the queer lens” they never had to read anything outside their safe spaces with intellectual training wheels.