Reminds me of a Matt Colville video recently about the Candide character Professor Pangloss. I think it's supposed to be about game design (since he's a D&D YouTuber who is currently designing a TTRPG game) but it ends up feeling extremely relevant to this political moment as well. I mean, the first thing I thought of when I watched the video was the lack of imagination of libs to consider a better system is possible, but then I'm stuck in this space so I'm thinking of politics all the time like a weirdo.

You missed the Linda McMahon pick for Secretary of Education. Wtf. I would've never predicted that lol.

This is why I like the idea of the counterpropaganda community. I know this is slop, but still, just saying, I like responses like this. Good stuff.

Ya if there were, Trump probably wouldn't have won lol. Since all the Russia propaganda is generally aimed at the libs, but it still wasn't enough to get them to go out and vote.

I was in this phase before I learned more about the history of counter revolutions, like what happened during the mid to late 19th century (like to the Paris Commune) as well as during the Cold War to places like Cuba and the US's various coups. The fact that they've gotten this far is good news imo.

Lol this was from 10 years ago and it's still so relevant

Getting into first fights with Filipino fishermen about sea territory lines I guess.

Ya no one even acknowledged that point.

Godamn it really is. Other depressing comments are, "What do you want exactly? Higher minimum wage? What are we supposed to do?" and "What's the alternative?"

Gives me the same vibes as Paul Atreides threatening the spice in Dune to force the Space Guild to negotiate.

Oh hey, you're right! That's 100% what it is. Didn't realize it until you said it, but that pattern matches all the streaming shows I've seen.

I finally watched Andor fairly recently and it is probably the most perfectly paced show I've seen since the streaming era has started, or at least it's up there. I still love Arcane a lot and would rank it higher than you for its interesting characters and relationships alone, and the way it gives them all agency while still placing them in the context of their situations, societies, and systems (a compliment I also give to Andor btw), it also helps that I came into Arcane with negative expectations instead of any positive ones. However, I also understand the fast pacing criticism you have. It seems like every show I've seen in the streaming era has either too many or too few episodes.

I'm trying to think of other streaming shows as well-paced as Andor and I'm coming up extremely short. Maybe Daredevil S1? Maybe Severance? But ya, seems like everything nowadays either has too many episodes, like a movie stretched over 6-10 episodes and it drags at some points, or there's too few and the show isn't able to spend enough time in it's most promising moments. I have way more examples in my head of the former though which may be why they leaned towards the faster side of pacing for this particular show.

Apparently there's some 2,000 pound bombs they didn't give to Israel? It's pointless they gave them so many other bombs it makes up for it.

EDIT: Wait, it looks like the Biden administration sent them thousands of 2, 000 pound bombs and only paused one shipment of them? Wow, so brave. It's even worse than I thought lol.

And it'll probably work unless the left can get really organized by then to offer the working-class part of this country an alternative.

It's not the Democrats fault it's the left for not voting for Harris! It's Muslims! It's Latinos! It's Gen Z! But especially, the left!

We were already appealing to them with a $25,000 credit for your first home and by not being Trump. What else do they need?

Damn that's a good saying. Going to remember that one.

Even more likely with RFK running health and food services, isn't it?

I still need to watch that one. It's too bad, it seemed like a really good one for theaters but I completely missed it.

I hope they do like a satirical version of it. This is great. Nice to see some funny and good news for once.

And look how mad Alex Jones is! It gives me the warm and fuzzies.

This makes him so mad, which gives me warm and fuzzy feelings =)