the alt-right movement is like an abusive relationship, made up of a bunch of very insecure people constantly seeking approval from an abuser who doles it out with an equal amount of degradation, keeping them confused and isolated enough that they have no choice but to keep coming back because - after having driven everyone else away with their hateful rhetoric - the abusive alt-right is now their only source of “community” at all.
re-establishing the Fair Reporting Act would do a lot to help by stemming the tide of the likes of Fox News, Newsmax and OANN, not to mention a long list of AM and satellite radio stations that blast fascist propaganda 24/7
oh, we’ve got a felon in the family. … hence my opinion.
so, you admit that you’re speaking from a heavy personal bias, not from a place of reason. and, just because you clearly have strong feelings a negative judgement towards this family member, you believe all felons should be treated this way.
and that’s precisely why you shouldn’t be making these decisions for others. in a court of law, a judge would recuse themselves for having such a bias, jurors would be dismissed, and it would be grounds for appeal for a defendant because the law recognizes that such a judgement is fundamentally unfair. so should you.
“Bermaga”-era Trek, as I like to call it, had a lot of warmth, too, but it was certainly more serious. they really tried to formalize Trek much more, especially with the lore and the tech. It did come off as stiff a lot of the time, but it had its own goofy moments, too. It was certainly different in tone, though, especially DS9, which was pretty dark in its portrayal of Trek at the edges of and sometime outside of the Federation. The whole idea, though, was to portray a much more mature Federation and Starfleet, and I think they did a good job of that.
It’s also what PIC S1 and S2 missed— the human connections, the warmth, that were present in the Bermaga-era Trek shows. That, and the good writing, directing, and acting. The characters weren’t believable and Trek was presented as some action series set in a dystopian future that certainly seemed alien to Trek viewers. No wonder everyone hated it. It’s also why S3 was such a hit: it was a return to everything that made 90s-era Trek great: excelled, character-driven storylines with clever tech problems that everyone had to work together to fix using science and cleverness.
I love how SNW has hit its stride this season, has broken out of the DSC formula, and is hitting all the right notes (no pun intended).
not a bad list. Bride of Chaotica! was about as hammy as hammy gets, and it was hilarious, mostly because of how serious Kate Mulgrew’s Janeway was. I love that episode!
TOS was pretty goofy— ya know, when it wasn’t pure sci-fi horror. it was also gruesome and scary as shit sometimes! SNW does a good job of capturing the goofy tone specific to TOS, although Trek has always had a pretty goofy streak. You can easily find it in every series!
willingly and knowingly breaking the law is a crime, regardless of if you agree with the law.
even our founding fathers said that unjust laws shouldn’t be followed… and here you are, commenting all over this post about how much you disagree with this legal ruling… it seems you’re only happy when it’s laws you happen to like.
but thc concentrate and opiate derivatives should be illegal.
why? because you personally don’t like them?
even hard alcohol should be regulated.
it has been for over a century. you know what has, consistently, decreased the consumption of alcohol (and opiates, btw), specially in minors? Legalizing cannabis… in all forms. It’s even caused a drop in use of cannabis in minors due to regulation and education in places where it’s been legalized.
when you make something illegal, it doesn’t stop people from using it. it just pushes it onto the black market where impure versions are distributed without care or concern for who buys it. and that’s dangerous.
not according to the law. it’s uncommon for those convicted of murder to get life sentences. a life sentence is only available in almost all states for First degree and Second degree murder cases when aggravating circumstances were involved and when a plea-bargain wasn’t reached (rare), and most muted cases, themselves aren’t first-degree murder anyway.
most people convicted of murder serve between 20-40 years.
I hadn’t really considered that, however I could see a convincing argument being made for that… such as:
people are incarcerated not only as a punitive measure (which I disagree with; prison should be rehabilitative and to serve to protect society form dangerous criminals, not simply to punish). doing incarceration, certain rights are severely curtailed to this end, but what purpose does it serve to suspend the right to vote other to disenfranchise what are primarily people of color? when this result is highlighted (ad the majority of this who advocate for this right to be withheld also happen to hate PoC) the dots are easy to connect.
Of course, you can’t say Sinema anymore because she left the party.