I don't think he ever claimed that the writers of DS9 thought Garak was bisexual, just that that was how he played him, and his novel proves that that's not just an idea he recently came up with.
I don't think they're lying, but them blaming him does help Manchin, and Manchin is the only chance Democrats have in West Virginia. For example, Manchin is to blame for concessions in the infrastructure bill, but Trump won West Virginia with 69% of the vote. The alternative to Manchin wouldn't be a liberal who would pass an infrastructure bill with a greater commitment to green energy, it would be a far right senator who wouldn't pass an infrastructure bill at all. Manchin is an net positive at the moment for Biden's agenda, and progressives being so angry at him means he can campaign on not bowing to the far left agenda or whatever. Ideally there would be enough Democratic senators that Manchin wouldn't matter, but anyone saying he should be primaried is honestly just delusional about who can get elected in West Virginia.
I'm pretty sure blaming Manchin must be electoral strategy. He's much more conservative than the average Democrat, but he's still by far the most liberal senator that's ever going to get elected in West Virginia, and the blame lets him campaign in a deep red state about how he owned the libs.
Trump honestly barely got anything done during his presidency, most of his executive orders were struck down. What he did get done (Supreme Court justices and tax cuts) was just what literally any Republican with a majority in Congress would have done. Biden has gotten more actual legislation passed than Trump did, and his attempt to legislate by executive order (student loan forgiveness) was as ineffective as Trump's attempts.
Yeah, I know, and I think it definitely shows in the first scene between Bashir and Garak, but I was just pointing out that even if you thought he was lying about it being his original intention for the character, it's something he put down in writing 23 years ago, so it's definitely not something "new" he came up with to seem progressive.
maybe, but there's no way there isn't a huge overlap between them
like i'm supposed to believe that the majority of people who liked AOC in 2020 supported Bernie in the primary, and now the majority of people who like AOC are saying Biden is too old, but these are totally separate groups of people with barely any overlap
vagina bones is a meme from a guy on 4chan complaining that nintendo censored a character's "vagina bones" in the western release of a game. this meme isn't serious
they're right about mastodon being light on the shitposts. it feels like it has all the self-importance of annoying twitter users, but none of the fun parts of twitter
their helmets are made of a special ore that blocks the radiation. it's a goofy explanation, but there is a reason why they act differently than the enterprise hull
yeah, I know about Threads, I just haven't seen any of this zuck fanboying that she's talking about