“lack of patience” is an extremely charitable take. They are lazy. They seek power for its privileges, not its responsibilities.

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I also absolutely love how Stewart described Roddenberry standing up for him when a reported asked:

That came up at the very first press conference. A reporter asked Gene Roddenberry, ‘This doesn’t make any sense. You have a bald actor playing this part. Surely by the 24th century, they will have found a cure for male pattern baldness.’ And Gene Roddenberry said, ‘No, by the 24th century, no one will care.

That line goes hard.

This is such a looooong shot, a more realistic plan would be to play the Powerball to win and use your winnings to fund open source programs into matching feature set.

Which is also wildly unlikely, but just a little more likely to happen.

Weird Nazi cult pseudoscience based on the science of natural selection - they actually think they are superior and have superior genes therefore it’s in the best of the species that their “superior” genes propagate as widely as possible.

Racism

BUT

Not just regular “I don’t like minorities” racism, it’s nefarious, entrenched, institutional racism. Representation normalizes concepts of equality. Media without representation has long benefitted cultural white hegemony wherein white men are always the heroes and saviors, and minorities are the villains.

When minorities can also be the hero, it reduces the dominance of white men in culture. When anybody can be the hero, white men are no longer the default hero class.

There’s plenty of mature, self-actualized white men who celebrate representation and equality. The immature, emotionally stunted white men are very angsty over slowly losing their culture dominance.

Yeah… I don’t see this going anywhere. Tulsi Gabbard saw no consequences for perjury over the leaked Signal thread either, and at the end of the day Facebook spreads the misinformation and propoganda that most benefits the GOP. Hawley fully backs the felony mob boss in the White House, he’s just chasing clout. Zuckerberg will make another generous donation to the MAGA mafia, kneel to kiss the ring, and everything will continue on same as usual.

Arm up if you haven’t already, you can get practice at a firing range (they are all over the US), practice firearm discipline and safety. Know how to clean and maintain.

And it doesn’t hurt to get some trump/maga gear because blending in is a powerful strategic option.

Can’t provide evidence that vaccines are safe and effective if RFK deletes all the evidence.

Checkmate, vaxxers!

Wouldn’t MAGA supposedly be thrilled for California to leave?

I’m trying to imagine trumper militia marching into California saying, “we need to keep this liberal shithole and it’s 54 blue electoral votes”.

Yeah, it would be devastating for the US economy, but if MAGA has told us anything it’s that they prefer to tank the economy than embrace any kind of diversity.

If you’re an American born white person, yes.

If you’re an immigrant, even a legal one, all bets are off. If you’re American born but you look like you maybe could be an immigrant, you’re in danger too.

Hot take: deontological ethics is a sad way to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions.

I don’t think the ends justify the means, and in equal measure I don’t think the means justify the ends.

Then take a step back and think which is a better way to fight the vast and sprawling abuses of fascism.

I’m all for hearing a better way of fighting fascism. Letting a death cult take control of all branches of government was definitely a method. I’m not going to stop listening but like… what the fuck are we doing?

When we think of what a bright future is, its a system of laws that irons out basic unfairness and brutality. We all want this. We disagree on how to get there.

Oh yeah, I want this, and I disagree very heavily with the death cult absolute power method. But I don’t have a choice now, it’s up to you now to prove that fighting alongside the death cult was the better choice.

I despise republicans, and always have, but I despise traitors on my own side even more.

Completely understandable on an emotional level, but if you’re not careful this can easily turn into an accidental alliance with Republicans, and it often does.

“We were all on board for a more business-friendly presidency

“More business-friendly presidency” is WILD.

Nearly every presidency of the last century has been pro-business, anti-worker. Federal protections for workers are nearly non-existent. Federal minimum wage is a joke. Wealth inequality is hitting all-time records.

Oligarch ghouls are so high in their ivory tower they have now clue how ordinary families on the ground are struggling.

anyone with a computer and internet connection can audit that agency to see exactly what they are spending their money on

What if critical suppliers aren’t accepting their crypto coin, or can they force everyone to accept it?

Yeah and sometimes it meant rifling through a stack of game cases to find the special one holding the memory card.

remains opposed to the MMR vaccine, citing perceived risks

Pray tell what risk is going to be worse than death?

Even let’s pretend the ridiculous allegations that vaccines cause autism is true, this just means they believe “better dead than disabled”, which definitely calls to mind the “involuntary euthanasia” /mass murder of disabled people in Nazi Germany.