At this point I’m willing to drive to any state to help you count faster, but you’ll have to break me through the electric fence that replaced the fourth wall first.
Respect for election workers. I come from a shitworld of three-walled huts ruled by whichever dragon blows the sexiest smoke rings so I never learned math and am in awe of people who count things. I also don’t really know what civics is. Seems fake. Love and support.
24 hour news cycle is all planting, no payoff. Big splashy intrigue keeps exploding out of nowhere but isn’t properly set up. Producers need to learn from the mistakes of Game of Thrones but without more diversity behind the camera, it doesn’t seem likely.
This season of the US is terribly paced. Massive tonal dissonance and dropped plot threads. Major changes in should’ve come seasons ago but they insist on recycling the same tired plots with new leads. 3/10 only because it still has appeal as a cult classic.
As long as the dynamics of marginalisation & inequalities of power dynamics exist, looking 'up' for admiration will always mean overlooking the most oppressed (yet the bravest, most inspiring) of us all. It reinforces the very power imbalance we want to feel inspired to dismantle
@thelindsayellis Socialism is the one where they turn the saturation down in the movie and everyone looks real sad sitting in grey walled houses eating raw potatoes right?
God why am I like this??? One of those lotion guys came up to me in the mall and asked me how often I wash my hands and I smiled and said “never, I’m filthy”