Probably nothing, sadly. The show was just far enough along that they didn’t cancel it post-strike when they scaled back on their output, but I don’t think they’ll do anything like this again anytime soon.
Yeah, it’d be crazy to do anything with the few shows they put out that were actually well-received.
Seriously though, I am sure he will pop up in one form or another sooner or later. And there’s always, you know, What If…?.
I am alright with prosecuting the real criminals, like Trump, those people in ICE who shot people, etc…but you have to watch out not to make 50 % of the population your enemy.
Prosecuting the criminals is what I am talking about. Because the Progressives in the US have never done that, and look where it’s gotten them. They let Trump and his people get away with everything last time, and here he is again. They let Bush and Cheney get away with their war crime lies, and thus we got Trump.
And you really can take this back to the Secession. The Southern States can celebrate their hero cult and go on about Southern Pride because back then, Lincoln didn’t hang their leaders and generals.
Sometimes, there has to be a reckoning. But there probably won’t be. And that is what actually will lead into the abyss. I mean, look how awesome it was for the peace in Germany that they put Hitler in jail for only nine months after the Bierkeller-Putsch. Really made sure that everybody remained calm and nothing bad ever happened afterwards.
I have no faith in the Democrats to do this without a complete change of leadership at the top. The senior Dems love ICE and love deporting brown people, they just don’t want it being so out in the public eye.
Yeah, absolutely. They so badly need a complete change of leadership – and the party base knows it, too. ‘s still unlikely to happen, unfortunately.
That thing with the DNA test was a bad mistake though.
It was.
I think she comes across quite well when she’s debating. She should’ve stayed off social media, I’ll go with that.
Either way, she was definitely the candidate with the best policies. I think she could’ve been a transformative, positive President. And I do think she’d have gotten elected and re-elected.
There’s a bit of a gap in the progressives right now, isn’t there? Warren and Sanders are too old, AOC is too young… there’s Cory Booker, but it feels like his time has also come and gone.
Eh I doubt it. I never liked Warren. And she has very bad judgment, as shown with the whole DNA affair.
I believe that in order to win the dems need someone who can talk well, and who comes across as a sympathetic person you connect with. Obama v 2.0. And besides that, they just need to be normal. Focus on some basic popular left wing stuff, more equality, better wages for workers, better access to housing and healthcare etc. and no crazy shit.
That pretty much is a description of Elizabeth Warren and her policies.
Obama’s refusal to prosecute anyone over Iraq and insistence on bipartisanship is a huge part of why the US is in this position, so he can shut the fuck up unless he apologises for that first.
I really fucking hope they understand this time that just turning around and forgetting any of this happened isn’t a choice. There needs to be a true fucking reckoning, and if the Democrats fuck that up, they’ll never recover.
Just like the US has never recovered from there being no reckoning for the Secession.
In a statement released on Sunday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, described the killing of Alex Pretti as “a heartbreaking tragedy” and “a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault”.
Fucking finally. Man.
As for Clinton “joining this on X”, fuck you, we aren’t forgetting Epstein over this.
Hell, the Dems didn’t even line up a candidate successor to Biden. Once Biden showed his age in that debate, they scrambled and rushed Kamala Harris to the forefront. But there was so much going against the Dems. They were embarrassed and rushed things, and a lot of voters got turned off as she was a black woman too.
Harris was probably the worst possible candidate. The left wing of the Dems didn’t like her because she’s pretty far to the right for the Democrats, and too many middle-of-the-road swing voters didn’t care for her because of her being a black woman.
I am pretty sure that if the Dems had let Warren run, she’d still be President now.
The insanity of the right-wing justification machine is really hard to believe. It’s basically, he shouted at these guys and had a really aggressive attitude. So obviously we had to execute him, I mean, that’s what you do with people who are shouting at you in the street, isn’t it?
have been saying since 2016 that the democrats don’t seem to stand for anything,
Only since 2016?
It’s time for my favourite West Wing quote, isn’t it?
CROUCH
You ran great guns in the campaign. It was an insurgency, boy, a sight to
see. And then you drove to the middle of the road the moment after you took the oath. Just the middle of the road. Nothing but a long line painted yellow.
BARTLET
Excuse me, sir…CROUCH
I wanted to retire five years ago. But I waited for a Democrat. I wanted a
Democrat. Hmm! And instead I got you.[…]
BARTLET
In three years, I would hope to be running for reel…CROUCH
You’re gonna get beat in three years.BARTLET
That’s a little pessimistic, Joseph.CROUCH
American voters like guts. And Republicans have got ‘em. In the three years,
one of them is gonna beat you.
I’d rather know why the current Democrats are doing fucking fuck all.
The Democratic Party has a deeply motivated base and a clear advantage on the generic congressional ballot ahead of this fall’s midterms despite dismal impressions of its current leaders in Congress, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
[…]
Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, broad majorities say Democrats in Congress have done too little to oppose Trump and have been ineffective at resisting Republican policies they oppose. They see their party’s caucus as falling particularly short compared with rank-and-file expectations for resisting Republican policies: Seventy-one percent say Democrats in Congress have been ineffective on that score, up 20 points from the 51% who expected a less than effective effort last January when the current Congress convened.
Extremely motivated Democratic-aligned voters are more likely than those who are less motivated to say Democrats in Congress aren’t doing enough to oppose Trump and aren’t effectively opposing Republican policies. They’re also more likely to say they don’t feel represented at all by the government in Washington. That discontent with the party’s efforts could affect how primary challenges to sitting members of Congress play out in the coming months.
I can remember during covid, everyone in the streets gave them an ovation at 7pm (when they changed shifts) for the work they did. How times have changed.
They haven’t really though. That show of support, that clapping for the nurses, was always bullshit.
Well, no, that’s maybe too harsh. Many of the people clapping were seriously grateful, and it’s not their fault that the US health system is fucked. And that we live in a world in which vital services for the sick, the old, the helpless, are worth nothing while producing shit makes you rich.
, I don’t care if it’s a Worf-Gowron solution, get rid of him.
Wait, are you saying Chuck Schumer should challenge him to a duel?
The tariffs hurt Americans more than the country that’s being hit.
Absolutely. Not that Donnie would give a shit. But it’s also hurting us, of course.
Looks like the EU is going to actually ball up a little bit for once.
The funny thing is that now the EU-US trade agreement won’t happen, which was a shit deal for us and a great success for Trump because it had 15% tariffs on EU goods to the US and no tariffs whatsoever the other way.
He’d managed to bully us into accepting this, and now he’s made sure it won’t happen and instead the US is going to get hit with tariffs as well, in all probability. Good work as always, Donnie.
Can the EU please respond in kind this time? Just, fuck him.
She’s retiring, she’s 72, she isn’t going to work until she’s dead.
Can somebody please tell US politicians that this is an option?
Oh I’m sure Europe will strike back mercilessly with all its might, mocking Trump at the Eurovision song contest with some mean lyrics.
No way, that’s not what the ESC is for! Mean lyrics are NOT allowed there!
I think that’s very much what will happen if he manages to bully Denmark into giving it to him after all.
But in the case of a full military invasion? I don’t think there’s any other possible reaction than the dissolution of NATO.
Yeah, wow, that’s quite a step given the spectacular failure of The Madalorian and Ahsokha.
I do think that Filoni actually may have decent instincts as a storyteller, if he ever fucking gets his head out of the whole mythology around the Clone Wars and Palpatine and all of that. I could see him doing good work in exploring, you know, sequels to the sequels. Or when it comes to going back to the High Republic. Just pleasepleaseplease stop going back to the same fucking well.
Europe will realize that the United States is no longer a partner but a predator. They will build their own defense architecture, their own financial systems, and their own alliances that specifically exclude us. The West will continue, but the United States will no longer be part of it.
That’s the current thinking anyway, without Greenland. We’ve been told by Vance in no uncertain terms that we – meaning pluralist Western democracy – are The Enemy, and we are certainly aware that we need to adapt to that.
I don’t think the consequences and repercussions are as bad yet as they would be in the scanario described, but we’re getting there anyway. Three more years is a lot of time to smash shit.
I read some Grendel stories, but never got really into it, although I liked the individual minis well enough.
I did read the entirety of Wagner’s “Mage” series though, and thought they were great.
Interesting. Couldn’t access that article for some reason, so I read a different one.
NYSNA has accused Montefiore, Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian of putting profits over safe patient care. The union said the wealthiest hospital systems in the city are refusing to compromise on issues like pay raises, safe staffing levels, full health care coverage, pensions, and workplace protections against violence.
“Health care workers are being stretched to their limits, and as workplace violence in hospitals is on the rise, nurses are asking simply for the basics,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said at the news conference with Mamdani.
Cecilia Barreto, a registered nurse picketing outside Mount Sinai West, said striking was a last resort.
“I have been here two years and I’ve made such great bonds with the nurses here, and I know that there are nurses who have battled cancer and depend on their health care. So we need to make sure that the health care we receive stays intact because their lives depend on it,” Barreto said.
“Instead of guaranteeing health care for nurses, these wealthy hospitals are pushing to cut health benefits for nurses who put their own health on the line to care for New Yorkers,” Nancy Hagans, president of NYSNA, said on Saturday.
Sounds about right.
I wish we’d get a proper nurses’ strike over here; working conditions in hospitals (and old people’s homes) have kept getting worse and worse and we now have a situation in which hospitals are chronically understaffed because nobody wants to do the job anymore.
This situation would need a proper large-scale strike. But nurses typically won’t do it, because they know that the patients would suffer, and they’d rather keep doing their job under terrible conditions.
Oh, and on a sidenote, we’re relying more and more on immigrants to do these jobs, but due to the obvious racism and general xenophobia these days, there aren’t as many who want to come to Germany anymore. Weirdly enough.
Yeah. I tried out bluesky a little last year, but I’m staying far away from this sort of social media currently. It’s a helpless anger generator, as far as I am concerned. (And that’s even with a lot of people on bluesky trying to remain positive and hopeful.)
That does look like quite a bit of fun. And it’s nice to see Raimi keeping busy.
Jesus, he’s still quite young given the impact he’s had on our generation, isn’t he? Sixty-six.
Wasn’t even twenty when he made his first short horror film starring Bruce Campbell. Man was that dude lucky he knew Raimi.
Well, when it comes to being well-centered and without trauma, you also can’t say that about a lot of the male characters.
I think the point is rather about the way violence is done to these women, and why – the female characters just being a device to motivate the male protagonist, or to evoke a response from the viewers. Has this changed since Simone made her observation a quarter of a century ago? I suspect so, but I don’t read enough superhero books to really be able to tell.
The thing that ticks me off about libertarianism – and often about liberalism, in the European sense of the word at least – is that they seem to define freedom as egocentrism. The freedom to tell everybody else to fuck off. I feel that this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept, and think you can actually be free more easily if you feel as part of a community, if you care about the common good and try to help those who are worse off than you.
There is a Russian blogger called Dmitri Orlov, who turned into a Putinist, but he said some things on the collapse of soceity and its effects, things he observed in Russia in the 90s, that I think are correct. Men in particular go crazy when this happens. Women cope pretty well, they just do whatever is necessary, they work, they try to cope as best as possible, but men kinda go crazy, especially young men (not all of them of course, but it happens frequently). They become violent and obsessive. I think this is true.
It’s certainly a part of why the AfD is so successfull in East Germany. People there had the floor pulled from under their feet; after the reunification many lost their jobs, companies and commonalities were sold cheaply to West German investors, and they were told to erase the last fifty years of their history as worthless.
Turns out that all had some long-term effects.
The murder of Renee Good and the reaction of Noem and Trump make me so incredibly angry. I can’t even imagine how this feels to (sane) people in the US.
Both are true. Often stupid, high-handed and arrogant but with a great many guns, bombs and bullets, plus a trigger-happy tendency.
Yeah, the current US gov is an impressive lesson on how you shouldn’t be less afraid of stupid, incompetent people.
Yeah, the romantic movement did that in a lot of regions in the 1800s. Same in Germany (the middle ages were basically invented in the romantic period here), and this was also a time of a massive nationalist movement (there was no Germany at the time, mind you, just several dukedoms that spoke the same language). That national sentiment was also tied to a democratic movement, interestingly, so quite different from the re-invention of Germanic paganism by the nazis.
That’s a pretty cool topic! And it does make a lot of sense that most traditions would’ve been invented later than their supposed origin.
(And I say that as someone living in a city whose famous “gothic” cathedral was actually mostly built in the late 19th century.)
He. Yeah, the Empire Strikes Back thing is something that really bugged me when I first noticed it. (Which was, like… well, definitely not when I first watched it, but sometime later, as an adult.)
And the GoT thing was one that definitely annoyed me in the last season(s). It was one thing that really showed the difference between the show based on Martin’s books and what they did on their own.
Either way, I like the theory that that’s what stopped Martin’s writing. It really must be a terrible slog, at the point where you have that amount of characters.
Germany is well on its way to becoming a fascist country.
Again?
Maybe it’ll work out better this time?
US military strike against Venezuela; Maduro captured
This is completely insane. Not that we didn’t know it was coming, but… it’s just such utterly crazy shit.
There are a few fraud cases sort of happening simultaneously. The “feed our future” case alone involved around 250 million being stolen from government subsidies to feed families without access to food during covid.
Yeah, but when I said state-run I was actually referring to the Pentagon. Who can’t account for about 60% of their budget, which translates to over 2 trillion dollars. It’s really fucking bad.
‘s funny how that doesn’t really seem to make those Americans mad who want to completely eradicate foodbanks now.
It is troubling how big AfD is. They’re probably worse than the other big right wing groups in Europe, like Fidesz, France’s RN, Meloni, Wilders, Farage etc
I mean, so much for Germany’s de-nazification.
Kinda kidding, kinda not. De-nazification and our culture of remembrance probably worked as well as they could, but it’s always been the case that about 10% of the population had a seriously radical right-wing world-view. The big difference now is that all of those people are voting for the same party, and that that party somehow is nevertheless managing to be appealing to old-fashioned conservatives and to the pissed-off protest voters.
How bad is Merz? I always thought the CDU was comparable to our CDA, but it seems they are more right wing. CDA is a pretty mild party.
I think they’re comparable to the CDA generally speaking, but the current government is from the more extremist wing of the party. Merkel was from the left wing (which is why she got rid of Merz, who was a rival and already peddling racist narratives), and pushed him out of politics completely) and Merz and his people are kind of taking revenge on everything Merkel has established in her 16 years. (Plus, there’s a part of the party that’s actually the CSU, which is basically everybody in Bavaria, and that part has always been more radical.)
This is on more of a personal note, but I suppose it fits better here than in the Treehouse:
I think something has got to change in how I deal with politics in this year. I’ve got to get off social media – especially watching social media video clips. There’s some useful information there, but it’s mostly making me angry, which is of course the whole point of the algorithm. So I’ve got to stop.
At the same time, I am sure the anger will keep burning, because Germany is well on its way to becoming a fascist country. Well, that’s overstating it, but extreme right-wing to an extent that would’ve been unthinkable twenty years ago. Not only is the AfD the strongest party now, we have a chancellor who is permanently using racist rhetoric as a strategy and a government coalition that’s bent on hollowing out our social systems, setting the stage for a proper fascist takeover in a decade or so.
So it’s time to get more serious about resistance. I am doing a lot in my job – luckily, I work in a field in which that is part of the vocation – but we’re at a point where when it comes to being active in private, joining a protest here and there just doesn’t cut it anymore. My available time is heavily restricted by having two very small children, but I do have to do do something more coordinated and active this year, or I will just explode with rage at some point. We will see.
The Doomsday teasers are doing nothing for me, but I suppose they don’t need to. I’ll watch it anyway.
The new Wonder Man trailer, on the other hand, is very funny. I’m looking forward to this.
I read the first two or three of Stross’ Laundry novels, and while I liked them a lot, I really like Stross best when he’s writing proper sci-fi (Accelerando still being my favourite work of his). The Merchant Prince series looked more like a fantasy thing, so I never got into them. Seems like I don’t really need to either, though.
I’m currently reading “Cage of Souls” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s my first novel by him, and at this point I can’t really say much about the content yet (the narrator is on his way to a weirdly constructed jungle prison (as a convict) in the first heart-of-darkness-like chapter, and then arrives at the worst dystopican prison you can imagine), but it’s definitely excellently written.
This fraud case in Minnesota is crazy. Even Tim Walz has admitted this might run in the billions.
And at the same time, the amount still seems entirely made up, from the article.
“You’re seeing a weaponization. We’ll continue to fix (the fraud). They’re going to continue to come up with numbers that don’t have it there, and it’s sensationalized. I don’t expect anything different from this administration,” Walz said.
The governor said the goal of the “sensationalism” was to eliminate these governmental safety net programs for those who need it.
State Medicaid Director John Connolly told reporters that the Department of Human Services has evidence that substantiates fraud totaling tens of millions in these programs to date, not $9 billion. He said the U.S. attorney should turn over that evidence of fraud so DHS can stop it.
That said, that a pretty horrible fraud case. Even more horrible if it’s blamed on the communities this program was supposed to help and not on the actual perpetrators. But see, this is why state regulations and auditis are actually important.
Hey, speaking of audits, do you know which state-run institution in the US failed its audit the 8th year in a row and how much money they can’t account for?
That was hilarious, but also made me want to see Zootopia 2.
Yeah, I liked King’s Human Target, but it didn’t really stay with me. It’s a bit of a clinical work.
I got myself the Image in the 2010s Humble Bundle, which had a lot of stuff that I haven’t read yet, or not in its entirety. Currently reading Kill 6 Billion Demons, which is an awesome journey through sci-fi/Hindu mythology where we follow a clueless heroine through a thoroughly fucked-up universe. Great art, and both writing and art kind of remind me of Brandon Graham. Which reminds me, the Prophet trades are also in this bundle and I’m very much looking forward to them.
Finally got around to watching a bit more Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It’s a fun idea, doing an animated show that picks up a lot of stuff from both the books and the movie, but also does its own thing.
And The Big Sick is well worth watching, one might add.
So yeah, he was a standup comedian first. And of course his Marvel thing is now part of his routine.
(I don’t quite recall, but I think it was also he himself who already made fun back then of his getting shredded, saying that it wasn’t really required for the role and nobody actually expected him to do this, but he kinda felt it’d be the way to go for a Marvel movie… :))
Jesus, the love these guys have for other pedophiles is kinda impressive.
…I kinda have to find the time to play this with my (grown-up) kid.
We played the original KOTOR a few years ago, and it was a really good time. But we mostly played through this during a covid isolation, and I don’t expect that to happen again.
Rob Reiner and his wife have died, in an apparent homicide. Very sad news.
Obviously, Reiner made many movies that were extremely important to our generation. But looking through his work, I’ve got a weird little favourite: I thought that The Story of Us told an unusual story (for movies) because it’s about failing in a marriage. And it had a great script, and weirdly it paired Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis, and it was a lot more fun than that topic has any right to be.
74. That’s no age. But apparently he’s struggled with pancreatic cancer since his thirties.
I was never a particular fan of his music, but I always kind of enjoyed it when it was on the radio or something.
Maybe we should start calling Christmas The Big Lie. I don’t think that name’s being used for anything else, is it?
Our right-wing extremists AfD have founded a new youth organisation. Two things about this were weird:
One of the people giving a speech (as a candidate for something or other) caused quite a stir because nobody could quite figure out if this was meant seriously, if it was a satire thing or some kind of arts performance.
It was all kind of funny, but distracted from the actual extremism of the AfD youth.
Also, there were a lot of protests against the founding in the city of Gießen, and there are now a lot of videos of police beating the living shit out of peaceful protestors.
I think the loss of the Diamond catalog has affected my purchasing. It really made looking at upcoming books easy and let my LCS know what I want. I know Sean posts links to the upcoming books. Still, having one source with everything in it made ordering easier.
I do miss those days of browsing the Diamond catalogue and deciding which books to get. That was always a good day.
I’ve been watching an animated show called Pantheon on Netflix. It’s a pretty cool sci-fi thing about people who have died and been uploaded experimentally and then basically enslaved, and now they’ve broken free. It’s a well-made show and deals with its topics in interesting ways.
edit: oh and something interesting happened this year, in the run up to the Sinterklaas celebration here in the Netherlands we have a “sinterklaasjournaal” on tv for kids. They do funny stories about Sinterklaas for kids, his daily life etc. And this year in one of their items they – according to their critics – “gave away Sinterklaas’s secrets”, hinting that it might be mom and dad who bring the presents. It was mainly conservative people who were seething about this. Sinterklaas is like a fixed ritual and every deviation is heresy to them. Have to keep the kids afraid…
I keep thinking that the main point of the whole Christmas presents thing is the day kids will inevitably find out the truth and suddenly understand that everybody they completely and implicitly trusted, the people they love and rely on most in the world, have just utterly and unblinkingly lied to them for their whole lives.
Once you have realised that, there’s no going back.
That did absolutely nothing for me. Pass.
I like the trailer a lot. I also liked the book it’s based on, so I’m very much sold on this.
I can’t remember if anything about it was brought up in Whedon’s cancellation
Quite the opposite if memory serves – both Fillion and Tudyk defended him when the whole thing first broke. I think making Firefly was probably a very different experience.
And in terms of critical re-evaluation in light of Whedon’s fall from grace, it is quite weird that he created a future where Chinese has blended into English (which doesn’t always hold up either imo) and yet there’s barely any Asian people anywhere in this show. I could remember one off the top of my head and a quick scroll thru imdb suggested one more in a minor role and a third uncredited. Which isn’t great.
Yeah, that was already weird back then. On the plus side, he had two black people in the main cast from the get-go, which was a step up from Buffy for sure.
Robin Ince has been coerced into quitting his radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from the BBC to be less vocal in his private life about things like expressing support for trans people or mildly cirticising Stephen Fry
Oh man, that’s heartbreaking. I love The Infinite Monkey Cage.
I do hope this leads to complaints.
Seriously? The last episode was nothing but set-up for another season. Then it makes no sense at all instead.
Yeah, it’s weird. But apparently, it was actuall set-up for Man of Tomorrow…
I don’t know, I think in that case they’d better just have left it at the happy ending before that last two minutes.
Oh, I finally watched Peachmaker S2, and while I thought S1 was better, I still liked it a lot.
There were a lot of fun moments and the story of Chris looking for validation, and then family, worked pretty well for me – even if the tie-in into larger DCU stuff towards the end didn’t always work.
I hope there’s another season.
(Presumably, that’d be… on Netflix, then?)
Yeah, same here. I’ve always advocated for re-introducing a service year, just with the emphasis on civil service and the additional option of serving in the military.
That was one of the best years of my life, and I never learned so much in one year (well, 15 months). And I mean that in terms of pragmatic skills, of social experience and most importantly about myself.
It seemed like the Laconia scenes gave a hint of what might have come next.
To say the least.
I do wish they’d gotten a few more season of The Expanse. But at least they got to wrap things up in their own way.
That’d certainly explain a few things, yeah.
Similar structural problem to the one they had with The Last of Us season 2.
Interesting. Germany tries to build up its military but people are so brainwashed to think “military = bad” that they refuse.
Weeeeeeeeell, this is an opionion piece and what Sanyal fails to mention is that actually 2/3rds in Germans are in favour of reinstating military service. Yes, the young people who actually have to do this service are mostly against it, but German politicians have really created an absolute communications disaster around it. Articles like Sanyal’s aren’t helping because it suggests that youths drawn into military service will be sent to Ukraine to die, which is just complete nonsense.
If German wants a military that would be able to defend itself in case of an actual war, there’s probably no way around a general military service. BUT as before (we had this until 2011), it’d be possible to serve in civil service instead, as quite a lot of us did. AND as before, in military actions outside of Germany, only professional soliders will be sent, never those who are doing their mandatory service year.
The real reason this is being discussed so hotly is that the politicians have failed to make those points clear to young people, and that the CDU fucked up in not just supporting the Defence minister’s original proposal in which they’d first try and get as many voluntary conscriptions as possible – at a time when the military isn’t equipped to deal with a sudden influx of military service year members anyway, which is where the whole lottery nonsense comes from.
What horrible deal did you make that introducing them to The Smiths and muse was your duty?
Nobody said eternal life was cheap to come by!
When you have the entire history of music available at your fingertips the quality rises to the top, and you end up with a genuinely eclectic mix of all-time greats.
Well, quality, and, like, stuff that goes well with a tiktok clip.
I saw Bugonia the day before yesterday. What a fucking awesome movie. Expectedly so, but man was that a bunch of fun.
I want to see the Korean movie it’s based on now, too. Bugonia was unmistakably a Lanthimos movie, but the plot seems to be pretty much 1:1 from the original.
Just got the new Worldtr33 volume and am looking forward to diving into it.
I also am getting myself a kindle color thingie for Christmas, as I am transitioning more towards digital. And I am sorry, local comic store, I will still try and buy stuff from you regularly, but I just can’t be bothered with having stuff physically around anymore.
Ach, I find this worked out fine. My grown-up kid is into The Smiths and Muse and whatnot, as was my duty to make sure, but he is also loves a massive K-pop fan. It all evens out in the end.
I mean, call it America First, call it neo fascism, whatever. Greene is positioning the Trump White House as Neoconservative so she’s trying to get out in front to be the person they flock to when the current framework collapses – either when Trump dies or when his coalition collapses under his inability to fulfill promises.
Yep, she clearly is. But it’s a good thing that this already happening right now – splitting the movement already at this point lowers Trump’s chances of making himself a forever President.
I never watched the original Stargate series, but I’ll be there for a high-quality SF series based on it, sure. Just don’t make it too continuity-heavy, I am not going back to a show that I felt was too tacky in the nineties.
Everybody’s weird is my favourite dEUS song.
Absolutely. Which is why it’s such a surprise that they haven’t instantly done that when the current round of accusation. I am just describing how they’ve reacted up to this point, I am not assuming to be able to actually predict how those crazy people will behave in the future.
Maybe not. But Qanon and all that crap that was a big part of Trump being elected was all about organised child sex trafficking, after all, and currently it doesn’t seem like that crowd is going to completely switch realities again when it comes to Trump and Epstein.
Everything below the age of consent is simply wrong for an adult and arguing it’s not “pedophilia” but “hebephilia” or whatever is stupid. It is still the same fact, no matter what term you use for it.
Yeah, the question is why Kelly would even throw the distinction of “He only raped post-puberty children” into the mix. And the answer is probably that Trump’s team are floating this and trying to make it stick as not-as-bad-as-proper-pedophilia because they know there’s no way they can get Trump out of this completely at this point. So they’re hoping Trump’s crowd will be okay with him raping thirteen-year-olds when it all comes out into the open.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Fun Daily Show bit about Marjorie being weirdly reasonable recently:
Kenneth Branagh playing Prospero in The Tempest at the RSC in Stratford
Ohhhhhh that’s amazing.
But will it tie in to Pennyworth: The Origins of Batman’s Butler?
The fuck? Was that real? And if so, why did they use an ordinary merch plastic mask?!
Uh, as for the TV series… well, apart from the whole issue of the author not being on board, it has a lot of potential if it’s a more or less straight adaptation into a mini-series. The (kinda good but also really bad) movie couldn’t flesh out any of the minor characters, which was a huge part of the graphic novel, obviously, so that could be pretty cool. And it’s a good time for a story about resistance against an authoritarian regime.
