So I’d still like your take on what we are supposed to do in case the election scenario I laid out (outright theft through racial/demographic/legal means in some cases and Republicans refusing to acknowledge losses in others). I mean do we lay down and take it? What is our peaceful redress in those situations and how…

While I’ve loved a lot of his stuff, growing up with it, I tend to agree with a lot of his criticisms of superheroes and more broadly the infantilizing nature of so much of pop culture. And I still like a lot of it, so it’s not like I feel superior there.

If you’re even thinking about it, I’d say give it another shot. I love the whole show, but the second and third seasons are some of my favorite tv ever.

Well it’s hard when the last one ended less than a decade ago. Dumbass.

I hear what you’re saying about the cops, the military and whose got the training/power in that scenario, but I believe we have the numbers and I believe buckling under to that ratio you mention is just giving up the country. With what seems to be coming right now and in the coming few years, I don’t see purely…

This has been going on for 50 years. The kind of “civilizational rot” we’re experiencing has been going on my entire life having grown up in the Rust Belt, and it’s basically expanded to cover not only the entire U.S., but pretty much the entire West. Neoliberalism is a failed economic ideology, but the elite have…

The only response I have to that is that the vested interests (money, which equals power) have done a very good job making the majority of us think our interests are aligned with the wealthy and/or that we can join the wealthy, as well as diverting our anger away from them and onto immigrants.

So we shouldn’t resist against those entrenched in positions of power (governmental or military) who literally proudly take children away from families and put them in cages because of fear and who face no real opposition?

I’m suggesting initially getting out into the streets, blockading politicians offices until they act on things but I’m not limiting it because I have no idea what the response will be and what in turn THAT will necessitate. I’m advocating mass resistance, but i’m not naive enough to think that eventually for whatever…

It looks worse than a mere recession.

Good luck with that whole “not using any evidence evar” technique.

I have no idea what you think I mean. Please elaborate if you actually like to make a point.

You still embarrassed by setting me up for the pick-up-sticks line? You should be.

You’re not even clever. It’s like you failed to pass muster even to get on Tucker Carlson’s show or something and thought you’d try your sophomoric ‘wit’ here. Sorry, I have to apologize to the high-school sophomores I knew... they’d all rather slit their wrists than take credit for your embarrassing shit. The fact…

This is happening, and it’s happening because there literally are no consequences. The government of the people, by the people and for the people has no clothes. Democratic party leaders aren’t fighting and we aren’t holding them accountable, so why should they? The out-and-out forces of darkness see that there is…

This. Let’s absolutely not forget this. Let’s absolutely not let other Dems try to make us forget that. I’m not saying she wanted this outcome, but she damned sure helped enable it, and she should own that.

I will not. I don’t actually know. :)

The point is that most people don’t believe that the economy is great just because reports keep saying so, and quite a few people do support him for his racism. And this clearly has helped him strategically which I think it was obvious it would.

Twitler again for the second time! You are amazing!

It wasn’t Rafi who did the polling or the measuring.