NeelixBiederman

So I've been watching that "modern love" show that's based on NYT essays. It's a little "high on their own supply" liberalism but it's mostly interesting. For anyone bored and in the mood for some vignettes, give it a try

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Isn't that basically "the man in the high castle"?

It really gets downplayed in American history classes the amount of postwar rebuilding the ussr had to do. One of my favorite scenes in The Americans is when it flashes back to the main characters' childhood years (born during WW2) and a group of boys are banging on the back door of a cafeteria, so the cook let's them scrape the dried food bits off the cookware before washing it. I would love to learn more about what interpersonal/societal impacts having your population not just survive, but triumph over a war of extermination has on the people

These bronx-style parents need to make sure they have the record player on at night

I can only think of two recently, the gunshot "suicide" after testimony guy and the MRSA infection guy

If nothing else, there's gout

Seeing shit like this and then having conversations about "what kind of work should we have done on the house" seems so trivial. Knowing that we're all going to keep trudging along to our stupid jobs and our poison treats while we boil like frogs in a pot

Okay let's start a betting pool: what year will America have genuine crop failures, food shortages, and famine? Hopefully during an election year. I'll say: 2030

This reminds me of the excerpt from Romney talking about how "Palestine" is talked about so much more on tiktok compared to other social media platforms, and that is what they found so concerning.

"Palestine" is mentioned more on tiktok because it isn't a shadowbanned term

Seems hard to imagine. The few years of social media saturation has pushed people further apart, subdividing is into fractured enclaves of true believers. A popular leader or organization who can pull together these threads of movements into a cohesive rope is needed. Bernie was the best I've seen for that in this country. He had Civil Rights cred, decades of sticking to message, a popular platform (universal health care) and the most campaign contributions by orders of magnitude more than other candidates, pulling votes from disparate communities. And look where that got him. Licking Joe Bidet's boots and thankful for the opportunity.

As things get worse, people will need to rely on each other to get by. Maybe that will be when we build community...

I miss the mail order first lady

She doesn't even have kids of her own to be a mom to (her stepdaughter was 15 when she married Doug). How tf she gonna mom a country?