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  • I watched a video a while ago (unfortunately can’t find it now) about how modern politics has shifted over the last few decades, along with the Overton window.

    The woman in the video was a political scientist / sociologist.

    It was really eye opening the way she described their tendencies. Typically, “conservatives” strive to maintain the status quo, and are characterized as being more resistant to progressive policies that are intended to change the current system. That actually describes today’s Liberals more accurately than today’s conservatives…while today’s conservatives have just gone so far to the right, that they can only be described as right-wing extremists.






  • The dislike of Discovery is a totally valid opinion, but this is a poor & disrespectful take.

    Except this is what I disliked about Discovery. You’d have ten minutes of activity that actually moved the plot forward, followed by twenty minutes of crew “checking in” with each other in order to discuss everyone’s feelings about what just happened while also rehashing events from past episodes. It was like watching a Spanish telenovela, where every second piece of dialogue was intended to remind you of what happened in the last episode…just in case you forgot.

    Every episode was 3/4 dialogue, discussing what we all watched happen in the first 1/4. It felt like every season should have taken 3 episodes…not 14. In the last couple of seasons, I literally skipped entire episodes, and it did nothing to impact the plot.