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Viking_Hippie

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  • Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry

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  • In fact, the studios are probably making as much of the money as Spotify itself, if not more. While the artists get like 0.003 of a penny per stream. That's fucking ridiculous!

    For all the celebrity status and glamour, their labor and creative output is still being exploited almost as badly as that of "regular" workers.

  • Losing Pulaski was almost as bad as losing Dr. Janet Fraiser

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  • Yeah I have, but I don't remember any development with regards to her bigotry, her stubbornness, or both being portrayed as her being "the rational one", which is what I hated about the character lol

  • Trump’s eldest son emerges as key voice influencing cabinet picks – report

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  • crazy ass-blues solo

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  • Trump accused of risking financial corruption as transition donors kept secret

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  • If there's no consequences of not doing it, it's effectively optional. Just like pretty much all other laws and regulations designed to keep politicians acting in good faith and/or held accountable by the public from stepping over the lines..

  • Losing Pulaski was almost as bad as losing Dr. Janet Fraiser

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  • True.. Tbf though, most of the races seem to be more or less allegorical representatives of different aspects of human nature, so having too many pacifist Klingons or brave and selfless Ferengi or whatever would just muddle the narrative IMO..

  • Losing Pulaski was almost as bad as losing Dr. Janet Fraiser

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  • Data was unique. There was no precedent there for how to relate to an android like Data. To the point that Starfleet literally had to have a legal case over whether or not he is sentient. She was a doctor. Her idea of sentience was biological. She did not have the framework to initially understand that an android can be sentient.

    I see your point, but counterpoint: based on the fact that he was a Starfleet officer, which only people are allowed to be, and just interacting with him, it's pretty clear on an instinctive level that he has personality quirks, preferences, self awareness etc.

    What's more, I could understand her initial doubts due to what you described, but even after getting to know him, she'd keep gainsaying his personhood for no apparent reason other than seemingly trying to convince HIM that he was nothing but a robot.

    It's that stubbornness and lack of rationale that makes it feel like bigotry rather than just confusion and inquisitiveness to me.

    As for bigotry being rife in Star Trek, this sounds like a cop-out but it's true: I haven't seen much yet since I started with TNG and am only a few episodes into season 3 so far lol

  • Losing Pulaski was almost as bad as losing Dr. Janet Fraiser

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  • Good point. Seeing her for the first time a few months ago did her no favors lol. Tbf though, she was casually yet stubbornly bigoted even by late 80s standards in a show that was inherently xenophilic if anything.

    Also, might just be me, but it very much felt like the bigotry was supposed to be a POSITIVE trait to show of her scientific skepticism or whatever compared to all those Pollyannas just going around treating other people as equals by default 🤦

  • Losing Pulaski was almost as bad as losing Dr. Janet Fraiser

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  • Am I the only one here who's pretty much indifferent towards Crusher but couldn't stand that bigot Pulaski?? 😬

  • The schleem is then repurposed for later batches

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  • "St Ray Ray's Blatholic Church“ 😄

  • A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned

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  • This you?

  • 'Huge fight': Warring factions inside Trump transition get into 'big blowup' at Mar-a-Lago

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  • I'm not defending anyone, I'm explaining how it works. It's not my fault that you're being an unfortunate combination of dense and inexplicably hostile 🤷

    No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to discus the orange man. It's a choice.

    Their job is literally to make topical jokes and interview people. In order for people to laugh at topical jokes, they need to know about the thing being joked about.

    Talk show hosts COULD make their monologues about better topics than Trump, but if Trump is all anyone is talking about, people aren't going to get any of the references and the whole thing will fall flat.

    This can't be argued

    You're right. It's nonsense. I've explained how it workers and why it works like that now, so if you still cling to your pet hypothesis about all comedy writers being lazy hacks who love writing about Trump, I'm not going to waste any more time and effort. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.

    Have the day you deserve.

  • 'Huge fight': Warring factions inside Trump transition get into 'big blowup' at Mar-a-Lago

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  • No need to bootlick talk show hosts

    If that's what you think was going on, I hesitate to read the rest of your comment.. 🤦

    There is always plenty going on in the world

    Yeah, but talk show hosts have to stay relevant. They have to make jokes about what people are talking about.

    What people are talking about is mainly determined about what legacy media covers and what goes viral on social media.

    If both are dominated by whatever bullshit the Mango Mussolini is doing, the talk shows gotta talk about what the Mango Mussolini is doing.

    To say that's all they could talk about is gross hyperbole

    No, it's exaggeration for simplicity to make a point without getting bogged down in irrelevant details

    They choose to discuss him every night.

    THAT'S hyperbole, though. Hypocrisy too, by the looks of it.

    They are lazy. The writers are lazy

    More hypocrisy with your lazy and narrow minded jumping to conclusions 🙄

    I was right. I shouldn't have read on.

  • 'Huge fight': Warring factions inside Trump transition get into 'big blowup' at Mar-a-Lago

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  • Because it was all they COULD talk about for 4 years. He monopolized the media landscape, pushing out much better material left and right.

    Besides, being funny about something that's already both a joke and a tragedy is NOT anywhere near as easy as you might think.

    Especially not when millions of people will send you death threats if you go to far and millions of people will stop watching if you go too easy.

    And that's not even mentioning the real possibility that he might make mocking him illegal.

  • A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned

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  • you use liberal like ia slur when you don't know what it stands for

    Nope, I use it accurately because I DO know. It's not my fault that an accurate description of the ideology is inherently unflattering.

    Your posts read like the same astroturfed Russian comments meant to sow division

    One of the many reasons why I don't get along with the worst liberals: the eternal "the Left is Russia" bullshit you use to avoid taking any constructive criticism to heart.

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  • Ok, I had my suspicions, but now I know what has you confused: you're confusing the ideology liberalism with the libertarianism - authoritarianism axis of the political compass.

    I know it's confusing, especially since fascists who like drugs have appropriated the label "libertarian" in the US, but come on.

    You had the option to not say anything before you knew enough to back up your enormous confidence with actual knowledge of how to correctly define words and ideologies.

    Instead you just blundered full speed ahead with your eyes closed while tossing grenades all around you like when Trump confuses political asylum with arcane mental institutions and concludes that crazy people are invading the country.

  • A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned

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  • Liberalism thought leads to concepts like social democracy

    I covered the 1700s origins already. That's not what modern day liberalism is.

    I get it is popular to shit on liberalism

    Not really, no. There's always at least one salty liberal with delusions of comprehension like yourself throwing a hissy fit.

    Most of the people who understand what liberalism in the 2020s actually is tend to avoid this kind of conversation because of how exhausting your insistence on nonsense is in the long run.

    by the edge lords

    Yeah, one of us is being overly histrionic and salty and it's not me 🤷

    but it really doesn't makes sense

    What REALLY doesn't make sense is your upcoming ice cold take.

    My personal opinion is the whole anti liberal thing is just Russian propaganda.

    Yeah, because nobody can possibly criticize the likes of Biden, Pelosi, Hillary, Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries from the left! It has to be propaganda from checks notes a fascist theocracy that despises the Left much more than liberals 🤦

    Other parties using words like liberal and perverting it doesn't prove anything

    Which is why that wasn't what I based anything on. Please stow the strawmen for just the rest of the paragraph.

    Need I remind you the Nazi called themselves Natural Socialist German Worker Party. So I guess we can't use socialist or worker rights anymore by this same logic.

    Damn, another in the very next sentence. You're REALLY not good at disguising your bad faith nonsense as a coherent and logical argument.

    You speak of falling for propaganda

    And you're proving my point better than I ever could.

    the whole concept our country has been drifting right is an illusion

    Are you drunk? High? It's ok if you are. I just want to know if this is actually you sober and you've lost all contact with reality.

    Our country was always right and designed to suppress liberalism from the start. It was always liberalism in name only and anti-liberal in practice.

    Wow, you're actually partially right for a second! Well done! Let's hope that your next sentence doesn't ruin it completely..

    Once you realize we have been gamed from the start

    Some more than others to this day..

    the country was designed by the rich for the rich

    100% correct. Let's see if whatever conclusion you reach based on that fact makes sense..

    the sooner you can drop the fantasy about our country drifting to the right.

    Nope. Biffed it. Fun fact: the politics of the US was further Right in the 50s and early 60s than in the rest of the 60s and most of the 70s. Then Reagan came along and lay the foundation for what has now culminated in actual fascists taking over.

    It's not a straight line, but since then and ESPECIALLY since Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich made open hostility to dissent the modus operandi of the GOP in the 90s, the Overton window HAS shifted very far right.

    In fact we have always been right and at moments in history paid lip service to the left

    Yeah no, that's the leadership of both parties, NOT the country in general. For a supposed representative democracy, few governments in the West are less representative of the will of the majority of the people. A disparity that has only grown in recent years. Because of all the right wing misinformation from mostly the fascist party but also the Dems.

    Shitting on Supporting liberalism doesn't solve anything as it is not a big part of the real problem.

    Fixed that for you.

  • Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees

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  • ...have you ever actually seen Elon Musk speak? 😄

  • Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees

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  • Fun* fact: Lex Luthor is short for "Lexicon Lutherson"

    *but untrue

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  • I have a few ideas why liberals keep painting everyone who points out the fact that liberalism is a center right to right wing ideology as tankies 🙄

    For the record, I'm an anti-authoritarian pacifist, meaning that only someone with an extremely superficial understanding of political ideology would ever confuse me for a tankie.