Words do have meaning. And the meaning of the word “milk” has included plant milk for at least 800 years.
I don’t like when people with 0 understanding of the context or history of something act indignant about something they are so clearly and demonstrably wrong about.
Wow, are you so incredibly far off.
Proscriptive definitions aren’t how language works, and never have been.
This:
The reality is that Trump’s psychos find loopholes, and they have one now.
Directly contradicts this:
We can either deal with the illegal nature of what happened to get innocent people kidnapped to El Salvador in the first place (Boasberg is working on that), or we can deal with the actual political influence of the Democrats, which isn’t much but a whisper and bet at this point.
The fascists aren’t going to bow down and accept defeat just because a judge orders them to or Democrats vote really hard in Congress. They don’t play by the rules. If/when Boasberg finds them in contempt and orders they send someone to El Salvador to bring people back, they’ll ignore him and probably find a way to get him out of office. Democrats have already shown all their political “power” is completely impotent. It’s not that it “isn’t much but a whisper and bet,” it’s non-existent. There is NOTHING we can do to help these people just by sticking to the rules of how politics are normally done.
I am talking about making Bukele feel less safe. You do that by directly challenging the base of his power. The base of his power is fear of getting sent to CECOT. Challenge that. Prove that people can go there and get people out of it. All they’ve been doing so far is political theater.
I want somebody to do something more than a photo op. Yes, Bukele is an authoritarian just like Trump. But Trump relies on a large amount of his base thinking that he’s in the right. I don’t believe he nor Bukele want the optics of concentration camp guards assaulting a bunch of members of the US Congress. And I don’t believe that a bunch of concentration camp guards would be willing to assault them on livestream to the entire world.
Show up with bodyguards. They don’t need to be armed, but be physically intimidating and insist that they’re going to enter and find the Americans who are being wrongfully detained.
All the Democrats, or really anyone in opposition to Trump, have been doing is playing it safe. If nobody is willing to take risks then the fascists will never feel threatened. If they had the balls to try what I suggested, one of two things will happen. They guards could get violent and assault, arrest, or even kill some members of the US Congress. That would spark outrage in the US. The opposition to Trump would grow and there would be even more motivation to stop him from sending people to foreign gulags.
More likely, IMO, the guards would back down and the members of Congress would prove that Bukele and Trump aren’t as all powerful as they want to seem. They’d also get live video inside CECOT to show the world exactly how horrendous it is.
The word ‘milk’ in the English language has been used to describe plant-based milks for at least 800 years. Soy milk and Almond milk as beverages have been around for at least 1000 years.
You’re ahistorical proscriptive definition is just bullshit gatekeeping. You are wrong and should feel bad about yourself over it.
Uh… how exactly are any of them pushing back on anything right now?
I think 14 (ish) of them were actually charged with a crime, although none of them had a trial, let alone were found guilty and sentenced. And even if they were found guilty of something, I’m pretty sure locking someone up indefinitely in a foreign torture prison/slave labor camp qualifies for the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
There is no legal or moral justification for sending even the most hardened convicted criminal there.
They need to stop this 1 at a time thing. Get like 40 members of Congress, Senators and Representatives. Show up at CECOT with cameras live streaming and demand to be admitted. When they refuse, force your way in.
I don’t believe anyone in El Salvador, including Bukele and the goons staffing the prison, want to have a live stream of them assaulting/arresting a bunch of US members of Congress. And if they do, maybe that’ll help wake some Republican voters up to the fascism.
I whole heartedly disagree.
The entire season was laid out the same way they do comic book runs. There was a series of shorter story arcs which each bled one into the next and all fed into a single overarching arc that lasted through the whole season.
The 1st episode was a bridge between the Netflix series and Reborn while setting up the overall season arc.
Episodes 2-3 were the trial of White Tiger while establishing both Muse and the context for the ATVF.
Episode 4 was a bridge between the White Tiger arc and the Muse arc while furthering the ATVF story.
Episode 5 was a bottle episode, but did a LOT of world-building and is probably the single most comic booky episode of television Marvel has ever produced.
Episodes 6-7 was the Muse arc which also fully established the ATVF.
Episodes 8-9 was the culmination of the season-long arc and bringing Bullseye back into the story.
Even the season ending on a new paradigm (Fisk’s martial law and beginning the full-on war between Daredevil and Fisk) is such a comic book move.
I know they came in and had to rework the original plan for the series, but I think they did an excellent job. The only thing I’d have changed is to have more Karen and Frank.
That’s a sign to me that this is a fairly full continuation of the prior Daredevil series
We didn’t need to wait for the finale to get that. It was clear from the opening of episode 1.
Excellent, Excellent season. I really have no serious complaints about anything beyond that I wanted more Frank.
I can’t wait for the Punisher Special Presentation next year. I’m hoping it’s a direct continuation from the credit scene here. A whole show of Frank hunting down and killing fascist cops would be chef’s kiss.
I, too, would very much like to know. Not so much to get a new Reddit account, but if Reddit is able to track me across devices, IP addresses, browsers, etc, then who knows who else is tracking us across all that.
I did. I was pretty active on NoStupidQuestions there. I called another user a fascist sanewasher because he was claiming Musk’s Nazi Salute at the inauguration was perfectly normal and something every politician does all the time. Within 15 minutes of me posting my comment I got a 7 day ban from the sub. Less than a day later I got perma-banned from Reddit completely. I hadn’t even commented or posted anything between getting the 7 day ban and the perm-ban.
I also had an alt account which I hadn’t used in a few years. I logged into that and found it was also permbanned, referencing my other account.
A couple of weeks later I got a new laptop (unrelated). I downloaded a new browser I’d never used on any device before (Brave), turned on my VPN and created a new Reddit account using a burner email address. Within a day, before I even posted or commented anything, the new account got permabanned and they referenced my other account. I don’t know how they knew it was me. It was a device that had never logged into my old accounts, in a browser that advertises itself as secure and that I had never used before, on a VPN so they weren’t matching my IP address. I’m clearly permanently banned, though.
When were those days, exactly? I’ve studies a hell of a lot of history, and I can really only point to two moments:
The American Civil War, but we were both the good guys and the bad guys there, so doesn’t really count.
WW2. We fought against fascism. We were squarely on the side of the good guys.
I’ve never been alive when America was the good guys, and neither has the vast majority of anyone else.
It all needs to get a lot less complex and confusing. I know the complexity is a byproduct of the defederated nature of the whole thing, but it’s also the primary thing limiting growth. The fediverse is never going to grow to anything other than a tiny niche if it isn’t immediately understandable to people who have 0 background in tech.
I’d argue the hate come after the “practical” reasoning. They target a group for various reasons (as a scapegoat, to create the illusion of progress, to steal resources, etc) then create an intellectual framework to justify their targeting of the group. The hatred comes out of that justification.
Don’t get all condescending about something you’re clueless on if you don’t like being called out on it.