@grey_gooses @king_natalopek Tbh I think the allegory breaks down because Elphaba is the *only* green character, and Wicked already has a fairly cogent discrimination subplot with Animals. But Elphaba can be played by anyone
@SxarletRed These people think it’s the job of the electorate to vote for their candidate, and not the job of a candidate to convince the electorate to vote them in
@quilssachent@Fluffynato90167@SxarletRed “Kamala would have to do literally anything more than calling for a ceasefire, which Biden has already done while arming Israel, signaling just how empty and performative the gesture is.”
“She CALLED for a CEASEFIRE! What more do you people want?!”
@kenklippenstein Bernie Sanders is the most correct man in the world, following an election. As we approach the next one, it will turn out he’s a left-wing kook again
@quilssachent@SxarletRed And then when they lose again - which we tell them they will, using our amazing powers of basic pattern recognition - it’s our fault for being the blue-collar Democrats they *built a strategy around losing*
@quilssachent@SxarletRed Dems love to say “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia”, and then not pick up moderate Republicans in Philadelphia
@quilssachent@SxarletRed Yes, people said they were unwilling to vote for Kamala due to the policies she endorsed. Kamala, and many down-the-line Dems, then leaned into those policies, and lost. How this is the voters’ fault is an exercise for the enlightened Democrat
@quilssachent@SxarletRed It’s funny to see a tweet about how Dem leadership act like their failures don’t have consequences, and decide the problem is people correctly assessing the consequences of Dem leadership
@emmylanepotter Goodfellas/Casino/Irishman is so clearly a trilogy about, in part, the ways 20th century American hypermasculinity hurts the women who have to deal with it, and with each successive film the woman loves the protagonist less.