OpenStars

We can only control ourselves. Someone might say that we all (collectively) "have to" do whatever, but that ignores how real people - especially young people - simply won't. Not everyone is going to vote for Biden. There's a very real chance that his doubling down like this costs the election, and hands it to Trump. Or even causes some international incident just before that.

At some point, we all just need to hold our noses and vote. Exactly like Hillary Clinton. But we aren't there yet!?!? And if we all recall, the similar situation with her did not pan out so well...

Anyway, Jon listens to people, and gives younger people a voice on the large screen (that we all watch on a small one regardless:-). And that is spectacular. 😍

Things change all the time. His team is different - even if they were identically the same people, he has changed, they have changed, and the relationship between them has changed. Even if you take the duration of time that he's been away from the show and compare himself at the end vs. himself that same amount of time before it, you would surely find differences.

For one thing, going in once a week rather than every day has got to be different. For another, he's now the star of the show rather than its "leader". As he said, he's an old man venting his frustrations to the world about this fucked-up shitstorm of an election, and then he'll leave - and we all know it (man, I allowed myself to forget already until now:-|). He practices less, and each time he makes a tape he then goes home and relaxes for a week and then has to "get back into it" upon his return - every single time.

Maybe the hairline thing is revealing something more fundamental/foundational: he doesn't want to get his hair messed up, for later in the week, in this "job" that he comes to once a week, rather than showing up every single day, being at the leadership helm. I'm saying: he's not (all the way) "back", not fully, not like it was before. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, b/c it was killing him and his relationship with his family, to have to put in THAT much effort to do it all - both be the star and the leader at the same time.

And yet, he keeps it 💯 - that's what we are there for! The rest fades away, as he says what should, nay must, be said, except won't be by those in power.

Damn I'm going to miss him when he steps back down again:-(. 😭 Nobody else even comes close. Though I'm really liking Josh Johnson.

I think there's more to it than that - sometimes when you get too comfortable you can likewise become resistant to teaching. Probably reality needs to find a balance between those concepts.

Your username makes me think: I wonder when we'll get the choice between a cyborg (where the machines are keeping the person alive) vs. a literally dead person (head in a jar? abstract representation of an administration without a lead person in it?).

Geriatric vs. felon may seem tame in the years to come!?

Probably still a teachable moment... somehow!? :-P

Insert witty pun about virus capsids here.

As the other reply mentioned, "Never!" :-D

Technically he's not a ghost but... close enough, apparently!:-P

... exercise? :-P

This is why I worry that Republicans will win: bc they have mastered the "truth" that facts don't matter so much as campaign commercials.

And apparently journalists also, e.g. that line "They can't buy groceries anymore. They can’t.” - I mean... there are cheaper options that don't involve going into debt to purchase goods on a literally weekly basis.

Even here in the Fediverse, we send them clicks and spread the message for them. E.g. when the woman says:

"I know he's a big fat mouth," she says of Mr Trump. "But he at least knows how to run the economy."

Whereas in response the reporter tried to be "fair & balanced" by saying that:

Mr Biden has claimed, incorrectly, that inflation was already at 9% when he entered office. It was 1.4%.

There is no reason to give either of these statements the time or day, but instead they spread them as "newsworthy".

I guess it's my own fault for remaining subscribed to this community, if this is the content that regularly appears here.

I think the idea was that they were so rare that most people had never met one in their entire lives or even heard of one being active. Then too they didn't take credit for stuff they did, and while people like Padme knew, yet they were also the ones most likely to be killed during the transition to the new order).

But the big one is that the Emperor did a strong active disinformation campaign - e.g. COVID is fake so don't worry about it, just get back to work in the sun and that'll protect you - altogether leading people to believe, or at least say, that the Jedi were "fake news". As in not really, but in an authoritian world, it had better be, or else, capiche? That's the part that I worry we all need to learn, as in soon, to deal with our new reality: that Truth no longer matters, so much as adherence to authority/compliance.