Congratulations on your positive change :)
Congratulations on your positive change :)
I’m going to go retch in the bathroom for awhile.
“I just reread The Left Hand Of Darkness last month, and it’s such a great book.”
It was my introduction to her writing, and wow what a fucking book. I read it in two days, I couldn’t put it down.
Yeah I was thinking to myself “how can we make being a teenager even worse for kids?”
I love that even in AI art, Trump has small hands.
Not because he’s incoherent–he has been for years–it’s because he’s not popular.
Well, I recently lost, like, 50% of my credibility as an intellectual as I stopped smoking.
Hey, congrats!
What I am saying is they are getting what they want, it’s just far smaller than most people will expect.
Religious people don’t need an actual religious man up there, they want abortion banned, and he’ll do it, so they vote him. The police want to be unaccountable, with larger and larger budgets, so they vote the guy who will do it. The Police at large won’t suffer with a criminal in charge, it won’t change their day to day at all other than they’ll find it easier to do illegal things that Trump wants.
Organized religion has always been hypocritical, the Jesus-following ones often from the forefront. Jesus would be stoned to death by the current mob of Christians in the US as a Communist/Socialist/etc. Police are often the driving force of Fascist takeovers of nations. The idea they’d allow a criminal in charge seems pretty in-line with the fact huge portions of police are already criminals, they just are either immune/won’t be targeted for prosecution or hide their crimes with their fellow cops.
The Right has virtually always existed with projection, from ‘law and order’ to ‘religious humility’ to ‘non-violent protests.’
It’s morbidly fascinating. Yes, they have “right-wing” in common, but there is a unique betrayal of core principles happening for each of them.
Hasn’t Conservatism always been this way? A big tent of people with single issues they care about, all of whom don’t care what the others want, so long as they get what they want, (almost) always just for themselves.
This is a political group that started with the primary belief that ‘inheritance based on birth was the foundation of a stable society.’
I feel like a certain poster here is conveniently and transparently overlooking the word “DEVELOPING” in the title.
I notice the wikipedia article is still un-edited, too. Put your money where your mouth is if you’re so confident.
No sci-fi wasn’t an official thing, yet the title of this is ‘were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre…’
I’d say a fictional story about slaves successfully rebelling and taking over a country, narrated by a scientist, who does science things, counts.
It is ridiculous how much hair-splitting is done when it’s Black culture, and I’m quite embarrassed by the attempt to claim entire wikipedia sections are ‘wrong’ like this.
(Not saying you’re saying that, I understand we’re on the same page.)
So looking up the Blake story it’s not really sci-fi at all?
You should edit the wikipedia entry then, because it disagrees with you.
"Samuel R. Delany described it as "about as close to an SF-style alternate history novel as you can get.
Further, while it incorporates elements of the fugitive slave narrative, Blake’s narrator is also a scientist, whose focus on data collection and research stand in repudiation of the racial science of the day.[10] In fact, this reflects one of Delany’s major themes: that Africa and its contributions to science and math were foundational to the Western world.[12]"
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” -Susan Sontag
Speaking about wanting change and then still voting for them when the time came makes that speech irrelevant.
I think you missed my country of origin there, bud.
Also you’re just bait and switching here, your original point was that ‘the democrats’ fought for him tooth and nail, and yet the entire time people from all over the tent of the Left were demanding he be replaced and then… he was.
You’re embarrassing yourself here, just take the L and focus back on using whataboutism anytime someone chooses to back a right-of-centre candidate over a fascist one.
Democrats defended him tooth and nail.
‘Democrats’ aren’t a monolith, there was a constant desire for change among many democratic supporters. I’m Canadian and even up here there was a desire to replace him with someone better.
Sadly in this day and age, it is not obvious sarcasm.
RIP Irony.
Why the fuck can’t the police place charges anyway? Here in Canada any assault charge is automatic, it doesn’t require the victim to do anything. Is that not true in the US?
A drunk action is a sober thought.