It’s about a quirky and woke person standing up against a thinly veiled metaphor for oppressive society, overthrowing their wealth and power but doing so in a loving and peaceful way, then acquiring the same wealth and power, but like in a good way because they’re the good one.
I dunno why but it’s just really hitting the spot rn
But academics are all stupid and liberals anyways just like Wikipedia. The only trustworthy authority is grokipedia, and grokipedia says grokipedia is very trustworthy
Young Adult Dystopian literature, imo, is really under-respected. It captures realities of politics and power in a way that is understandable and relatable to even people with only partially developed minds, and simultaneously it depicts those realities in a way that is often more accurate to reality than the more subtle “adult” approaches. Reality ain’t always subtle or complicated. In fact, it’s often such a repetitive tune that anyone who really cares to listen to the music is driven nuts by it and wishes it would play a different melody for once. Novelty is a lot more necessary to make entertaining media, but reality has no obligation to be entertaining. Ultimately, I think YA fiction is often great “by accident”. In being a product for developing minds who are only hearing the endless hymn of humanity now for the first time in their life, it is able to be entertaining without requiring creativity on behalf of the producers - in the same way that gimmicky toys that sold well 50 (or even 500) years ago can still sell well today: there’s a child born every minute who hasn’t seen the gimmick yet and isn’t old enough to be tired of it. But in the case of YA fiction, the exploitation of this dynamic actually frees authors from the constraint of catering to so-called refined tastes that demand things like subtlety, nuance, creativity, unwillingness to rehash the same old ideas, and so so on. These tastes are really just demands for more stimulating entertainment. As a result, YA lit may not be very entertaining to the perceptive adult reader, but by shedding this need for “lowly” entertainment it can ironically begin to function more like “true art”, or at least one flavor of true art: holding up an undistorted mirror to the world regardless of whether you find the reflection entertaining to look at.
Did the “resistance” in question take the form of saying “nooo don’t”? If the governor of the state doesn’t want them there, they have their own national guard to facilitate that.
“This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.”
Yeah! Speak up so that…so that…hmm. Maybe so that people with more power and authority than themselves individually deploy their power and authority on behalf of the people? Like some sort of… representative… Intriguing concept
It feels like if you just build an elaborate enough Rube Goldberg machine for killing someone it suddenly isn’t considered murder anymore.
Oh derp, I saw “October 9th” and glossed over the rest. Yeah no surprise. Telling a joke like that in that environment might get you killed. Not that they see any problem with that I guess.
Extremely disgusting. I already found most of these people uncool and unfunny but I thought Bill Burr was at least alright (still didn’t think he was funny, but he at least seemed to have sane political views - guess not). The only way any of them can make this a respectable choice is if they’re doing it Trojan Horse style, and they’re planning to tell a bunch of jokes shitting on Saudi Arabia and calling them out for their infinity of evil acts. Not getting my hopes up for that, though.
The Guardian remains respectable and has not pulled punches in this article at least.
This is one of the most flagrant and reprehensible environmental crimes in quite awhile. What will come of it? And because it’s not in my state, there’s not much I can do to make it worse for them. I expect a small fine and business as usual.
I know this is really serious but the title makes it sound like they’re some kind of invading alien army approaching from the ocean, and every day they draw closer
I opened this article thinking it was gonna be something cool about space travel 🥲
So does anyone know what actually comes of this? Does this realistically change the trajectory at all or will Israel just carry on like nothing changed?
Yeah same although I’m now concerned about that ending up on my Palantir profile. Isn’t it great that that’s actually a fairly legitimate concern nowadays?
What an incredibly stupid lie. Like Epstein was the Santa Claus of raping children, he somehow managed to get into all those houses all by himself in just one night!
Hmmmm almost as if the right is a bunch of racists just looking for excuses to kill black people.
Assassinating someone means like a 99.99% chance of completely ruining your life and really fucking up the life of everyone you love. The truth is that almost nobody is noble and brave enough to do this just because they think it’s for a good cause. Less than one in a million people have that kind of conviction, period, for any reason. Now how many of them have that kind of conviction for healthy well-adjusted reasons? I would bet almost none of them. There are like 50 roads to travel to end up as a political assassin. Half of them involve doing it for your job, like with the government assassinating its enemies. The other half involve you bring completely insane or delusional. There’s literally like 1 road that is the road of just being so selflessly convicted in your beliefs that you are willing to ruin your entire existence for your cause (and this is regardless of whether your cause is actually good or not). I think this is why Luigi has stuck out as so powerful to people, because he may actually be a very very rare example of someone who derived their strong conviction without the aid of mental unwellness. (But even he got caught, so…) So yeah, I think most of the unpaid assassins are probably not mentally 100% solid lol. The fact is it is pretty much insane to decide to kill people, so it’s pretty much insane people that are killing people.
“It’s really hard to radicalize Republicans. You know, it’s – we’re not the radical type.”
They really just say whatever the fuck they want lol. Q Anon, Tea Party, Jan 6? The vast majority of political shootings in the last twenty years? As if we haven’t all seen the comments ON Fox News saying the most radical shit imaginable.
It’s really crazy how reality has just become totally irrelevant.
THAT getting him fired so immediately is all the proof anyone should ever need to never trust commentators from MSNBC again.
In a way this is a much bigger deal. Shit being a violent mess in the Middle East all blurs together. But this event could very well be a… turning point…for the USA 🤔
For a long time now many people have felt that the U.S is like a powderkeg just waiting for the littlest spark, and I think this event is something that might actually do it. The right is PISSED, this is tantamount to declaring civil war to many of them. Yes this is a personal story, but the context of it and the ramifications it could kick off are in many ways more significant than the Qatar bombing.
Oh God, even the puppet master is a crazy idiot?
People say this but the obvious problem with this plan is that the cameras are going to record you doing it, and all the cameras between that camera and your house are going to make it clear who you are. The surveillance system is already in place so it’s already protecting itself. I understand that it’s not that tight everywhere, but it’s pretty hard to tell.
Although the idea of spray painting security cameras seems super punk and badass, they would also just quickly be replaced. Remember these cameras are AI-powered so they undoubtedly can issue some kind of alert if they don’t see anything for too long.
The most effective way to combat this is the boring and much more tedious painful thing that the Trump supporter in the article did. It has to be a coalition with people from both sides that you make in peace, because this is one of the few things that both the far right and the far left get pissed off by, and you have to keep bothering your politicians about it until they do something about it.