Not the person you responded to, TLJ is easily my favorite of the three sequel movies. The Force Awakens and Rise of the Skywalker (I think?) both felt like focus group fanfiction slop; TLJ was the only one with anything meaningful to say at the end of the day.

IIRC, academy bait also tends to have the high critic score low(er) user score complex.

He’s fucking right. Normal people don’t get their blood pressure up about “black people and women?! IN MY GAMES??”

Boeing (and McDonnell Douglas before them) actually made good planes when engineers ran the show. Then, the finance bros took over.

Okay, I’m going to acknowledge that there are protests, yes, but probably what OP is thinking of something more like the BLM protests during COVID where shit started to get real. There’s a few things going on here:

First: People don’t have the time off like they did during COVID. They also aren’t locked up and less able to ignore the news.

Third: Resignation. I think this is the bigger of the three parts. I know for my part, I consider this a complete loss of the federal government. Even if we somehow avoid a dictatorship and get control of the government back, the damage that’s been done is so deep and complete that we’ll likely never fully recover from it, we’ll just have to move on with things as they are. My efforts are now focused on organizing balkanization. If Texas wants to be a fucking stupid theocracy with prosperity gospel televangelists and the antichrist at the top, who am I to get between them and a good time? Maybe without having to hear about what Daniel the terminally addicted Fox News viewer thinks about Critical Race Theory, we can get some shit done, fix healthcare, get some fucking trains and bike lanes put up.

Second: Lack of organization. The federal government has spent the last 100 years stomping any serious leftist movements both here and abroad. There is almost no living memory of what a real leftist movement looks like, or how to get one going, so we’re all having to roll them from scratch, and there’s still a lot of the old high-roading instincts that were implanted in us over the decades. It’s just going to take time.

And as we all know, simile must always be used with 100% accuracy or it’s all bullshit.

WOAH WAIT A MINUTE THERE BUDDY, IS THAT A NON-COMPLIANT SHADE OF BEIGE?!

Yeah, there’s a video where someone manages to kinda do that with a riot shield turned around the “wrong” way

Little known fact, these are neither bulletproof nor fireproof.

Make poop disappear? You’re thinking of a porta-potty or like the toilets they have in national parks that are basically just giant pits that get pumped out by shit trucks every so often.

You could use it as a camp or festival ground with very little upfront cost, especially if you plant some trees.

God damnit, Johnson, he keeps funging it! We’ve got to find this guy!

Tbh, starting a sustainable timber operation seems like a pretty good idea if you can afford to wait 15-20 years for the investment to start to pay off. Idk, I guess you could offer it as a camp/hunting ground in the meanwhile.

Put, like, three single family homes on it.

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Okay, so at what point are we allowed call a Nazi a Nazi, huh? Is it when they Seig Heil? Because according to conservative media, no. What about when they idolize Nazis? What about when they start doing Nazi shit, dismantling due process, indefinitely detaining and disappearing people who were just trying to follow the rules like this woman? Mind you, I’m not asking for your input, Nazis never argue in good faith, I’m just calling you out on your bullshit.

Yeah. Imo, extra painful because you can tell that she knows what she’s arguing for is wrong. Not only does she know she should be ashamed, on some level, deep down in there, she is ashamed, and she’s there arguing for it anyway.

I hate the fucking title of this video so fucking much it pains me to share it, but this is really the best cut, IMO. There’s also the full hour version on YouTube if you search “9th circuit Sarah Fabian”.

https://youtu.be/0QGLh7JOQHc

Enjoy!

Jesus Christ, they already tried that shit with the lights in Trump I and the 9th circuit told them to fucking stop it. I distinctly remember because one of the judges was in a Japanese internment camp as a kid, and he ate that dipshit Trump attorney alive.

And yet, here we are again.

This is sad. This does not spark joy. We’re months from someone using “but look, ChatGPT says…” To try to win an argument. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life explaining to people that LLMs are really fancy bullshit generator toys.