Damon Ferrara

A ton of female writers believe that men are always thinking about their private parts, which apparently have a great deal of animation and emotion, like a loyal talking cartoon dog, also they drastically overestimate our sense of smell

I think you need to make having a child affordable, but you also need to make both pregnancy *and especially men* safer for women. Misogynists, but also “normal” men clinging to older gender roles, are, I suspect, the biggest block to women wanting to start a family

I know a ton of people IRL who told me the Duffer Brothers confirmed 5 or 6 characters would die in the Stranger Things finale, which was sourced to nowhere reputable and transparently insane considering the show’s tone, and it’s an innocuous thing but I think it’s a bad sign for internet literacy

What’s this referring to? Google is just showing me clocks when I search for it, but I vague feel like I’ve heard it before and now it’s stuck in my head

If he’s acquitted, I feel like there’s a genuine chance Maduro is found dead before he can leave the US. Absolutely the most insane, explosive choice this administration could make, but Trump usually escalates to avoid admitting even minor mistakes…

"The US military kidnaps Maduro. -> Maduro is in the US illegally -> ICE kidnaps Maduro and deports him to Venezuela -> Maduro is in Venezuela

The circle of life (stolen from Reddit someplace)

Time to arbitrarily declare that last chapter an epilogue

I've said my point of view obviously, but for what it's worth, I respect your concerns here and think they're reasonable

I think this is a valid concern, but also they're past the point of using pretenses, and are already doing this to the best of their incompetent abilities

I think the revealed preference of voters is that they do want vote-buying, unfortunately. A lot of people cited Trump's COVID checks for their vote. We should strengthen laws against it next time we can, but right now, they're already doing it, and much more blatantly than this

We need to have a next admin first, and what he did is in a completely different category of corruption than the possible appearance of impropriety here, so I don't think it's invalidating that (also, there are so many things to charge them for already))

We're halfway to fascism precisely because Democrats cling to norms that only work one way, and this is just a "concerns about propriety" thing, not actual vote-buying. It's definitely less of a grey area than, say, California gerrymandering to counter Texas

It shouldn't be "the model," it's just one thing a wildly-over-financed campaign can do, and considering the success of Trump's far more unethical vote-buying (Musk's lottery, Trump signing the COVID checks), I'd say any legal fight over this would likely rebound in her favor

Trump and Musk already repeatedly burned that norm far more brazenly than this, and legal action against it would also draw attention to what she's doing, which people clearly like (see Trump's name on the COVID checks)

Basic Existence There is no reason you shouldn't be able to afford housing, groceries, and healthcare with some money left over. In fact, that should be the bare minimum.

The argument is that it's a promising strategy for campaigns that can afford it to pursue, here's her platform, which is admittedly vague but explicitly promising to increase the government's social safety net

www.katforillinois.com/issues/basic...

This is not an either/or proposition though especially since Abughazaleh is not currently in office

Rejecting a strategy for the appearance of breaking a norm that Trump's already trampled is something that normally exasperates you, and for good reason

You're right this wouldn't work for cash-starved campaigns, but if the bases are covered, like with Harris and Abughazaleh, it's at least worth a try

I deeply respect and usually agree with you, but
imo mutual aid might be potentially more effective *strategically* than most of Harris' campaigning, a way to bypass biased media, and the honest version of Trump signing the COVID checks, which seems to have worked well for him.

Thank you!

I think Avatar is basically the blockbuster version of NCIS, a juggernaut with an offline core audience disinclined to the usual traits of fandom, also comparable (not morally but as a type) to the "median voter" that baffles every election season

I'd thought for a moment it was like "you're there, just in the coffin," but the next line is about how one won't have any, so I think it's a bizarrely massive mistatement for the second sibling going to two funerals

I don't think anyone's worried about Downey's acting, though, our issue's more what it seems to suggest about the story they're telling

The thing is, the inciting incident is so well-done that it feels like a spoiler just to straight-forwardly explain the premise that emerges from it (though I can reply with an explanation if you want)

I kinda wonder if there's a "saying Green to send a message but not committed to them electorally" situation here. I know that sort of logic proved faulty with Brexit and the far right around the world, but these are different demographics, so...

I think it's called "Getting ahead of the backlash"

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I really loved the movie but "every afterlife is a singular Epcot World Showcase pavilion forever" completely undermines the third act, because basically no one could stay content for long under those circumstances (and everyone ignoring afterlife ICE kinda undermines every character)

As arguably a member of Gen Z, with a brother who definitely is, my mother made more than my father. Also, "political polarization" should read "Republicans becoming fascists," you're welcome old pundit claiming to be the youth sage

This is what minor one-off side characters are for