The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
1) puppy 🥺
2) if she's emerging, what's her walk-out music? I vote Just What I Needed by The Cars
Well, that's disappointing but unsurprising. And I bet there's not any major video essays on the subject due to (correct!) fear of being sued into oblivion.
Is there a particular reporter, investigation, or podcast you'd recommend for learning more?
No no, you LEAD with the facts. Always start by establishing the truth first, then present the lie in response to it.
😳 Sir, I'm gonna need you to elaborate
Do they at least realize that they wrote Steve as extremely depressed and low-key suicidal? Do they realize that is a thing that they did?
I thought that one time they said that Bucky needed to "make up" for the shit that he did while he was BRAINWASHED was either taken out of context or a single massive lapse of judgment, not a pattern?!
.... wait. Are you telling me they did all that characterization shit ACCIDENTALLY?!?!?!
Absolute character assassination 🤬 and SO disappointing after how well the Russos handled Steve (and Natasha! And Sam! And Bucky!) in Winter Soldier
... and then returned to his own timeline with Bucky, somehow aged by the process and ready to retire, but Steve retires in his own time where he can still be a part of Bucky and the rest of his friends' lives from the sideline
It just feels so completely out of character for Steve to retire like that? Let alone risk fucking up the timeline? Tbh, I would've found it way more resonant if Steve went to the Peggy in each time he returned a stone, told her the coordinates for where her Steve was currently frozen in ice...
Extremely valid demand, but even that wouldn't be enough for me.
(yes I'm still mad about Steve ditching Bucky even though I cried in the theater when I saw him and Peggy dancing; Steve staying with her made ZERO fucking sense after taking more than five minutes to think about it)
@shadowtodd.bsky.social welp, you were right about Ella Langley disappointing you :( goddammit
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
"It feels to me like a lot of their ideas are medieval.
They are pre-Enlightenment, trying to undo the Reformation, they reject Voltaire and Locke."
Maybe I'm wrong, but based on my own knowledge + years of following @lollardfish.bsky.social, I'm dubious as to whether any of this even squares up with actual medieval history versus modern misrepresentations of the medieval era
Tolkien would loathe this man to the absolute depth of his being
this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.
Favorite diner food? My family used to go to a lovely little greasy spoon/donut shop run by some Filipino ladies, and their scrambled eggs + home fries were just 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.
I can't, not without risking an FBI visit 😒
(After the first couple times, and a friendly albeit baffled waitress explaining the state of LGBT rights, Steve calms down. After that he turtles like he does for women. This and other incidents lead to strangers frequently ID'ing him as some sorta Amish. Steve googles Amish and is BEWILDERED.)
Children and animals randomly come up to Steve because their "this stranger is nice" radar goes berserk. Women hit on him and Steve turtles so hard that his server saves him. Men hit on him and at first Steve goes into full Soldier Alert Mode bc he's scared the flirter is about to get gaybashed
I'm just imagining Steve starting out super shy and awkward and sloooowly getting more comfy via interacting with servers and cooks and random fellow diner patrons
Cooks are in AWE of how much food he puts away
Servers are thrown by his combo of inexplicable hotness + Old Man Vibes
1) this thread is a delight
2) I have no idea why, but when I got to the bottom of the thread, the idea popped into my head of MCU Steve Rogers accidentally ending up on a diner tour of New Jersey soon after being unfrozen and him finding catharsis from the mix of familiarity and modernity
I am not kidding at all when I say that every Democrat with a microphone should mock JD Vance every chance they get between now and 2028. Call him weird and feckless. Laugh at his eyeliner & dumb beard. Talk about the nazis & freaks he follows on Twitter. *Brand* him.
