Found the Republican senator! 😏

I mean, I’m pretty sure guns are banned.
For now…

(I don’t think that law passed allowing teachers to carry, but just a matter of time before they try again)

Cell of Theseus

I think this is a “fight fire with fire” type thing.
Conservatives won’t respect us for being above the shit that they do.

Oh, you think JT had a bad economic record? Well then let me show you this. Oh this happened during the 08 crisis? You indicated that we weren’t making allowances for crises.

Because they get their invulnerability from rapid regeneration.

Their flesh still burns, their bones still break, but they heal quickly, just to be burned and broken again.

But then so will also talk like that, making it indistinguishable once again

I was skeptical until you said the entire letter was in Spanish on the other side.

It seems pretty unlikely that they’re sending out mass letters in Spanish rather than French, unless they’re targeting people they know are Spanish speaking.

“use” might be a stretch.

I have a mastodon account I check occasionally
I have a pixelfed account I use rarely
And a loops account I think I logged into once

The problem of manufacturing weapons would be significantly less controversial of LM (for ex) had even a few scruples.

Defending yourself is fine.
Making tools to defend yourself is fine
Making tools for people to defend themselves is fine

Making and selling those tools for use in attacking is not fine.
Profiteering from harm is not fine.\

Don’t say that he’s hypocritical
Say rather that he’s apolitical

That number is shrinking alarmingly fast

The entire premise seems too preachy for me. They really kinda beat you over the head with it. And are usually kinda victim blamey, from the bit I’ve learned beyond the one episode I watched.

I think history is full of rulers who were hated by their people, but were deposed by their peers for selfish reasons, rather than by uprising.

But there is lots of wiggle room in that argument, I admit. My point was more of a technical one than a practical one.

I think that a rigid class/caste system can probably work purely on jealousy rather than on propaganda, but this isn’t based on real world example.

Likely true by example, but not by definition.

Overthrowing power may be hopeless, but propaganda may still be used simply to prevent the masses from causing slight discomfort to the people in power.

Propaganda is a tool, not a last resort, of the powerful.

I did like that style of dialogue, at the time, so idk if that was the problem for me.

It’s been a long long time since I saw it, so I don’t remember details only general impressions:
I remember thinking that every characters weren’t really differentiated. They were all just kinda amorphous, until an opportunity for their single defining trait had a change to come out for a bit.

Looks like it was S3E1 Nosedive

I only watched an episode or two. I don’t remember what order.

I really wanted to like Firefly, but the characters felt too silly and two dimensional.

I only watched one episode and it was just too pretentious

I recently watched a video by Jason Pargin, about how pretty much all TV shows are Lost-ing it, due to how modern TV production is done. If you don’t think they’re Lost-ing it, it’s simply because the writers are doing a good job making it up as they go.