Dez Hobin

I loved Noah Wylie on Falling Skies. Nice to hear he's doing Sci-Fi again. 🥹

I'm not going to hold out much hope for cops picking the right side of history, but it would be a novel & refreshing disruption of the prevailing status quo.

Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether to revisit marriage equality The justices will privately decide whether to hear a challenge to same-sex marriage brought by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis.

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One woman experienced a dangerous infection after a miscarriage due to ICE’s medical neglect.

Nonprofits Urge ICE to End Detention of Pregnant People Following Reports of Abuse and Medical Neglect | American Civil Liberties Union Letter to ICE leadership details shackling, solitary confinement, and a miscarriage without care in Louisiana and Georgia facilities

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Yeah, the romance arc was so sweet. I wouldve loved to see where it went.

This is the second Willow sequel I loved that most people didn't. Maybe someday they'll circle back to the Shadow War books. 🥺

Oooph, yeah, that was my #1 gripe. If they had tried to match the original musical themes it would have been epic. (Sigh)

Hard agree. I really loved this show & still resent it's absence. My wife was in sepsis recovery when it debuted & never even got to see it.

I will never stop demanding more Boorman.

Wrongful Death Suit Against OpenAI Now Claims Company Removed ChatGPT's Suicide Guardrails First wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI over teen's suicide amended to allege that company deliberately weakened protections against self-harm.

A family’s lawsuit against OpenAI over their teen son’s death has taken an even darker turn, with their amended complaint alleging that the company intentionally softened protections against user self-harm in the months before his suicide, prioritizing engagement instead of safety.

Corporate media is a scourge on humanity, & Jeffries is not a vertebrate, & I don't know how he fakes being upright. It must be a special effect, or they make him look like he has a spine in Unreal Engine 5.

Ugh....really? & He's starting shit with Colombia now.....🤦‍♂️

You know what would help clear out homeless encampments? A universal basic income.

Exactly this.

hell yeah dude I hope they all get mesothelioma, lumber lung, ancient mold, angry ghosts, whatever the hell

As for vetting, obviously there's need for an objective, independent oversight body to throroughly sift these people before they're allowed to start taking citizens money.

Nobody is born knowing how to do those things, & you can't successfully build experience until you've done something. Change isn't possible without a certain level of uncertainty & risk. The alternative is settling for the shitlib status quo scaffolding already taking up space, uselessly.

If Americans had living wages, affordable housing, M4A, UBI, free university, & both parties hadn't wasted trillions on imperialism & uplifting oligarchs, Trump would never have been possible. Capitalist neoliberalism creates the conditions for fascism.

It is easy. Because it's accurate. Citrus Caligula's ascendancy would not have been possible if Dems hadn't spent decades straddling the aisle & sidling to the right, & giving the right half of everything they wanted.

Exactly. They're barely left of Reagan Republicans at this point. How anyone can think center-right policy can be an effective antidote for far-right fascism is incomprehensible.

A happy/healthy society that had living wages, universal healthcare, university, UBI, affordable housing, & adequate social safety nets could have staved off fascism more effectively, but societal misery is fertile ground for exploitation & radicalization.

Probably true, but also irrelevant to the point at hand. Trump is still a symptom. Fascism is the inevitable endpoint of unhinged, unchecked capitalist neoliberalism. It took decades of Dems selling out, straddling the aisle, & shoving the Overton window rightward in order to create this paradigm.

"Progressive" & "Nazi tattoo" are mutually exclusive concepts, dude.

If you think that's a pirate tattoo, you have the intellectual girth of a beer belch. Do you see a cutlass, or an eyepatch, or a parrot. That's literally an SS Totenkopf. The SS wore them, extremely famously.

I'm not sure that's entirely the right takeaway, since practically everyone who isn't an outsider is an entrenched sellout. Optimism & enthusiasm need to be more guarded, & these people need to be vetted more effectively, though.

& it didn't occur to you that having a bigass fucking TOTENKOPF on your chest might be an impediment?

I liked a lot of what Platner had to say & the stuff I don't like appeals to shitlibs, but this is going to finish him. This is the last thing the Left needs.

Exactly. It's literally one of their most infamous bits of iconography.

There is absolutely no way that in nearly two decades, nobody pointed out you have a Nazi Deathshead on your chest. Your average Call of Duty or Wolfenstein "vet" could clock that for what it is, let alone anyone with a military history background.

I've liked a lot of what you had to say, but the totenkopf ink is a big red flag. If you aren't literally at a tattoo parlour TODAY, getting that covered up, I don't see how you can intend to continue as a serious candidate.

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

It's a valid concern. Similarly, the nationwide protests against racist police violence in 2020 were answered with bigger police budgets & a presidential candidate who made her name funneling people into a draconian, racist system & private prisons. The track record is inconsistent at best.