Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)
John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where “welcomed rape” is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid’s Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.
@zemthings Unfortunately, there's a whole world of animation that isn't American or Japanese and doesn't get the attention it deserves outside of a niche audience of animation fans. Modern Animation has immense unexplored potential but it's difficult to expose general audiences to it.
Not sure who is making the argument that ‘four more years of this will fix things’; the argument being made by AOC, Ilhan, Bernie, and others on the left is that we have a (tiny) chance of ending this under one candidate and zero chance under the other. That’s the argument. 🤷🏽♂️
@VanessaFardoe@elonmusk I don't want to see posts that say me, my friends, and loved ones are subhuman. Frankly, that type of behavior shouldn't be tolerated in any polite society.
Even if it is a minority of people it's incredibly depressing to grow up being told that climate change and environmental degradation will cause more frequent forest fires, pandemics, and hurricanes. Then people act surprised and claim it's a conspiracy when it happens.
@breanimator As a rule, most movies and TV shows are bad to mediocre. Reboots and sequels have been panned as being awful for decades. There has been an increase in the amount of women and POC in media and they're being blamed in bad faith for an issue that's existed basically forever.