I was an actual adult when those shows aired: superwholock was a small subsection of the fandom with the deluded, self-centred belief that everything was about them and took every decision they didn't like as a slight against them which their online echo chamber reinforced.
I'm old enough to have partaken in superwholock, and I remember how much they (the show runners, the actors, the writers, the producer companies) HATED fandom, they didn't GET us, they didn't WANT to get us, but at least we didn't have journalists infiltrating our spaces+
Remember Jesse Watters suggesting bombing a building in New York next time the right accuses the left of forgetting 9/11 for voting for Mamdani. Disgraceful.
Mahmoud Khalil has been "doing politics the right way" by exercising and defending free speech rights, and having public policy debates on campus with a hostile public. His reward hasn't been hagiography, it's months of unlawful detention and retaliatory threats of deportation.
I don't know how to reach people on the other side of the aisle. Like, how are you supposed to find common ground with people who think empathy is bad? I mean the literal mechanics of it: how are you supposed to come together with people who think moving towards you is weakness?
So MAGA wanted the Epstein Files released, Charlie Kirk stopped calling for that, at the behest of Trump, turning on MAGA. Then this week, the birthday message from Trump to Epstein comes out and days later someone shoots Kirk?