I think that is what theyâre trying to do⌠so yeah, very stupid. Sort of like the people at the beginning of the civil war who went to have a picnic at the beginning of the Battle of Bull Run⌠They have a skewed view of what a war would be like, it would be glorious, theyâd get to kill all the people they hate, cause âthose peopleâ are âweak liberalsâ who would fold under the slightest hint of violence⌠they have no idea what a civil war would actually be like⌠they (ironically) buy into the hollywood version of war and how itâll make them even more âmanlyâ, because violence, in their view, has a constructive effect on masculinity. Maybe theyâre not stupid, but just have a fetish for enacting violence as a means of affirming their âmanhoodââŚ?
Not weed! Dirty fucking stock brokers.
They need to visit London, considering itâs not even legal here (and thereâs no big protests).
How much of the âweedâ smell is coming from LAPD? This has to be stressful for them.
As for the pearl-clutching about graffiti, do I need to pull out my chunk of the Berlin Wall? Itâs practically held together by layers of spray paint.
Wonât someone think of the AI that drives like a toddler!?!
If you donât take pictures of the burny stuff, cops will shoot at you.
I used to watch a lot of ABC News. Terry Moran is like the most white bread âjust the facts, maâamâ reporter imaginable. Heâs not a talking head, op-ed guy. Heâs not an infotainment ânewsâ personality. Heâs just a reporter. A competent one. That someone like that is not allowed to ever express a personal opinion on his own personal social media is asinine. Itâs also asinine that he was just fired for what has got to be, for him, a âfirst offenseâ of whatever rules ABC has for their employees. I promise that the hosts on the View have said worse about Miller, on air, that what Moran said there, and the View and its hosts are also under the umbrella of ABC News. Although I havenât watched it since the election, so who knows, maybe theyâve sold out, too.
Itâs really amazing to me how few of these corporations have figured out that capitulation never works, in the long run.
And for what was a pretty mild statement of fact. I wouldnât be surprised if he could prove it in court that Miller is, in fact, a âhater.â Itâs pretty much Millerâs only skill.
Well, the Star Wars thing even included media complicit in the fascist propaganda, so . . . yeah, itâs exactly whatâs happening.
In some ways, itâs hard to watch season 2 of Andor and believe that it wasnât written since January, but itâs a big production with a lot of special effects, so it was obviously written at least 2 years ago. It includes not only that media propaganda, but raids on illegal immigrants, lies about victims of state violence making them look like bad guys, damn near everything that is going on right now. What it really shows is that nothing thatâs happening right now in our world is new. This is shit straight out of the fascist/authoritarian playbook, and itâs shit thatâs been done forever. The frustrating part is how many people who should know better canât, or wonât, see it.
YepâŚ
Some people are seeing how they can benefit from it. Also, sadly, nothing new.