I really do not like Warmbo

That's what I'm saying. It's the real hero of this story.

In capitalist country where things are based on supply and demand and responding to market forces, we must vote as though we obligated because it's a moral necessity.

But if we vote for them, then they can get power to do the thing! It'll work if we vote!! 😤

What if you could say yes to join Team Rocket on Nugget Bridge?

A case study of why media literacy, and literature in general, isn't a waste of time in academia.

maybe if you didn't support genocidal politicians you'd feel better

In a vacuum maybe it's just a bad trait, but I think in the context of Whedon's treatment of women, I can't chalk it up to just character writing.

Whedon chose to create the setting, the class of sex workers, making one on the main characters a member of that class, and the lead protagonist say the things he says.

I think that those choices make the show age especially poorly.

I think it's also part knowing a better world is possible while struggling to see the middle portion to get there. It'll be nice to be reincarnated into a world where you're better off financially and you can get a job you want to do and that job would grant you a better standard of living.

And then you throw away a lot of the bullshit we accumulate in a society so blatantly driven by capitalism.

Some people are frustrated and want to start over on a more even playing field. And some of those people also believe that even playing field would let them have a waifu.

Don't get me wrong, I think a lot of the isekai stuff out there is shallow slop, but I also think the popularity of escapist fantasy is resonant to material conditions.

Biden is the president to elect if you want to address climate change! Don't ask how! Just wait until he's inaugurated in 2021.

You don't want trump to get elected. He'd do fracking, cause chemical spills by preventing rail-workers from striking, and allow the supreme court to overturn environmental protections instead of packing the courts!

Jokes aside, don't forget that the president has had the power to address a lot of the bad things that have been happening. This has been true back with Obama if he wanted to decriminalize marijuana, advocate for same sex marriage (one of his campaign promises in 2008), or not increase oil harvesting when we knew climate change was already a thing. Biden could protect abortion rights throughout the US, forgive student debt, make healthcare a right, and address climate change. All if he actually wanted to.

His words and inaction from the beginning of his political career to now prove he doesn't want to.

I don't think any of us should. Just because a lot of awful shit is happening, we can't let it just wash over us or stop paying attention to the individual people getting murdered.

Tamir Rice was a child and for his murder to be seen as anything else is deeply unsettling. People are still willing to debate that. It hurts to think about it, but we can't forget that the institutions that killed Tamir Rice are still an active threat.

The same institutions that safely apprehends armed white supremacists all the time. In a country like that, how can we get over the murder of an unarmed twelve year old?