HereAndGone2
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So it's really happening at long, long last?
I imagine because they've tanked Star Wars as a property so comprehensively, there isn't even enough of the bones left to squeeze anything more out of, so Kennedy can be cut loose. Nobody is going to bat for her and she can't promise one more big, sure thing to grab viewing figures.
Star Trek is going the same way, with the latest disaster. This Guardian review is something else; "Grange Hill but with phasers" is not immediately enticing. I'm burned out on Trek. You can't keep insulting legacy fans for being legacy fans and not supporting New Thing when you aren't grabbing replacement new fans in sufficient numbers. Same with Doctor Who as well, seems like. The First Big Black Gay Woke Doctor was, somehow or other, bafflingly, not a huge ratings success. What unfathomable reason could possibly explain all this?
The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations and basically they want to continue to see pretty much the same thing.
Miniscule. Tiny. Too negligible to even bother counting. If they all disappeared, we wouldn't even notice, that's how unimportant they are. Wait, why are our ratings tanking and nobody is purchasing our merch?
TIL that not going out to do stupid shit that gets you killed is "cowering in your home". Drunk drivers everywhere raise a glass in salute!
I'm probably burned out because of one too many goddamn stupid online posts from keyboard warriors doing their best to encourage people like Good to go out and get themselves into real trouble. Allegedly, a list of ICE and border agents identities was made public, and one such "let's you and him fight" was posting very thinly veiled hints about "go out and find these nazis and make their lives hell". (This is why ICE agents are now all masked up, and probably why they are regarding members of the public with paranoia - that idiot blowing the whistle in your ear may only mean to deafen you, or they could be planning to show up at your home and do who knows what?)
And people like Good, who seem to believe that a fake title ('I'm a Legal Observer! Can't touch me!') is going to protect them from any consequences, so they can stroll right up to the line of "I can hit you but you can't do a thing to me", including "try and use your car as a getaway vehicle, get treated like a criminal fleeing the scene" , and that the usual result of that won't somehow, miraculously, happen to them - they read and listen to all this encouragement, and go and do stupid shit, and get hurt or killed.
Yeah. "Cowering in her home" would have kept this woman alive and her child not an orphan, but gee, let's all pretend that Trump is the exact same as Kim Jong Un and that we are bold brave French Maquis resistance fighters. Then we'll go home after the protest that defeated the jackbooted stormtroopers and post about it online and everything will be beer and skittles.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
There's plenty of online commentary elsewhere that ICE are not cops and have no legal right to arrest you. So maybe OP thinks they're not cops and so have no legal standing, so while you're obliged to obey police orders, ICE can't tell you to stop, go, get out, or go away. In which case, ICE agents trying to open her car door or stop her are no more authorities than any guy trying to break into your car, and you're justified in whatever you do to get away to protect yourself, including driving at him.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
Sometimes kids prefer living with the parent that's more checked out and permissive instead of the responsible one.
Seems like Mom in this case was the more checked out and permissive parent, it could well be Dad is the responsible one who makes sure they get to school, have their lunches packed, clean clothes, etc. while Mom is "but there's something more important in my socialist queer activist anti-fa group this week, you're old enough to look after yourself now".
Not saying this is so, but generally if the courts give primary custody to the father, it's indicative that there's something going on with the mother so she's incapable/not interested/flying high with the cuckoos in the clouds.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
She blocked half a road for likely five minutes in her local neighborhood because ICE was hanging out around schools to nab immigrant parents as their kids get out.
So we're really doing "will nobody think of the children?" now? Okay, "dead mom of six year old orphan" would not be a dead mom if she stayed home like a normal person and didn't decide to play La Résistance.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
If not it’s good propaganda
It definitely sounds somewhere between "it's not that we're incompetent, they were just too advanced" defensiveness and "this'll make a great story to sell to the media" opportunism, but yeah: why would the US government try to correct stories about "their troops were super-humanly accurate and their equipment was space-age advanced"? 😁 You really expect the DoD to come out with a correction "No, that's not the case at all! Our guys are just regular, some of 'em barely competent, and our kit is standard average like every other country's military!"
The rationale was that men get called "Mr." and that indicates nothing about their marital status, whereas women were discriminated against by means of "Are you Miss or Mrs?" So the idea was a general term equivalent to "Mr." for women.
I wasn't too keen on it, but over time I've come around because it is handy, in a work context, where you don't know if Mary Murphy is Mrs. Murphy or Miss Murphy when you're writing an official letter, so a neutral term avoids giving offence. (I tend to get official letters addressed to Mrs. My Surname, seemingly on the basis that a woman my age is surely married, but I've given up trying to get it corrected since I don't want to sound like a Dick Emery sketch).
Ironically, if you like, in previous centuries women were referred to as "Mrs." even if not married, since it was abbreviation of "Mistress" a term of respect/status for older women/women in charge of households/important or high-status women.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Didn't it start off with heterosexual couples, though? People who were co-habiting but not married, especially if they had kids together, getting irritated about being treated as 'lesser' since they weren't married and "boyfriend/girlfriend are terms you use when you're kids, not when you're grown adults living together" and so on? Something the way Ms was adopted - if you use "partner" then that says nothing about your marital status and so you aren't being treated as in a less serious, committed relationship for lack of 'the piece of paper'.
Then using it for gay couples was more natural since they couldn't legally marry at the time, and it was a way of treating them in line with straight couples.
People have moved to using it all the time now, which was one point of contention in the "this is queer erasure" complaint post I saw elsewhere: she's her wife, not just her partner!
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Obviously, this partner isn't her wife; she has a husband
One report stated she had a husband, then they divorced (father of her first two kids), a second husband who died (father of her third kid, the one she was allegedly dropping off to school before the protest) and this current partner/wife.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
If they're a troll, they could be pretending to be "sorry non-native speaker here, no idea my totally innocent questions would come across like that" for deniability and the lulz (will the dupes swallow this as an excuse? how much can I get away with before the penny drops?)
Besides, dear Iconochasm, let us not be narrow-minded! ESL speakers can be trolls on English-language fora, too!
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Education, better nutrition, recommendations from Top Medical Men about what to/what not to eat, drink, sleep, wear, how hot or cold your house should be, and the old-fashioned "just do it like we breed racehorses: get smart men to marry smart women and pump out smart kids".
We haven't yet been able to stick pins into our brains to re-write our code, but we'll try that as soon as something seems vaguely plausible (Neurolink, maybe?) Somebody out there is going to try and use AI to do "adult genetic engineering, rewrite your cells on the fly" to get Moar Bigger Brain.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
You misspelled "idiosyncrasy".
Also, trying to get a row started by both left and right by using "assassination" (to rile up the rightwingers) and "wife" (to rile up the leftwingers) in the same comment was a good attempt, but over-ambitious. Stick to one inflammatory statement at a time! Once the initial fire is successfully lit, you can then throw more fuel on the flames later.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Not just the childcare which was the most recent; the original fraud was the scamming of funds for meals for children during Covid, and there seems to have been a few other areas of 'creative accounting' as well. All of which started getting wider publicity after the daycare videos.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
That is one way of looking at it, yes. Bit of a drastic solution to "the city needs more energy", though?
HereAndGone2
8d ago
We're relying heavily on "the AI can make itself smarter" for this. We've been trying to make ourselves smarter for a long time, and the results are mixed. Perhaps "regression to the mean" will apply to AI also, and the product of "it rewrote its code to be smarter" is "well uh turns out that made it reset to an earlier state".
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Congratulations on trying to get a fight going. "Just asking questions about the assassination - why are they referring to the murder victim's wife when both parties were women?"
HereAndGone2
8d ago
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HereAndGone2
8d ago
I can respect protesters who show up even where they do realise they're in actual danger. I don't know what to think of protesters who think they can claim it's the Evil Evil Stormtrooper Show which they are protesting, and yet at the same time that they can behave with maximum irritating nonsense but nothing can or will happen to them, because - that's not fair? "I can yell abuse, slurs, make loud noises, throw things, and behave worse than a four year old having a sugar-fuelled meltdown, but they have to be nice to me and stand there and take it even though they are the low-IQ violent murder monsters who are going around murdering and assaulting people"????
I genuinely don't get it.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
I have to keep reminding myself that this is only the start of the second year of his second term because Good God it's all kicking off.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
The Good shooting came in the middle of the Minnesota news. What we had was:
(1) Fraud allegations from that Youtuber (2) Walz dropping out of re-election (3) More fraud all the time, apparently (4) The ICE protests and shooting
It just happened to all be in Minnesota, which is probably the most excitement they've had in a long while. Living in interesting times, indeed.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
HereAndGone2
8d ago
This Good person and her partner would have no problem walking hand in hand through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in New York
I wonder? If they didn't get chased out of it (and then accused of anti-Semitism afterwards should they try "we're Americans, we can walk in an American neighbourhood"), they might self-censor because 'no imposing our personal values on others' so long as the others aren't mainstream straight white Christians. More likely they would try it with the Mormons because straight white Christians there.
Renee Good’s wife is reported to have said, “We had whistles. They had guns.”
I don't know a delicate way to put this, so I'll just bull ahead. How effin' stupid do you have to be to turn up to a protest where you are facing "This is Fascist Dictator Disappearing Torture Regime", believing in the dogma that the cops/ICE/jackbooted thugs have carte blanche to shoot anyone they like particularly the black and brown, that you are putting yourself in real danger, and yet... not expect that anything bad will happen? "We have whistles and they have guns" - then either get guns yourself or have realistic expectations of injury or death.
I thought the guys in the Rittenhouse case were fools but even they (or at least one of them) turned up with a gun. That's criminal, but it's not entirely stupid and is at least consistent with what you believe: the pigs and their lackeys have guns and intend to shoot us, we're gonna shoot back.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Are we thinking Greenland is really going to happen? This was one of the "just Trump being Trump" notions I dismissed, but he seems to be making noises like he's semi-demi-serious, and the EU seems to be taking it seriously.
I don't know whether to laugh or be terrified about it; is this the US attempt to finally technically qualify for Eurovision? Though it seems that they are currently ineligible, alas!
Star Wars was never my fandom, so I haven't watched any of the movies since "The Phantom Menace" (and that was primarily for Liam Neeson), and none of the TV spinoffs.
But I've seen reasonably good things about "Andor". Can they possibly manage to pull the rabbit out of the hat with "don't fuff this up, and try writing something decent" or is all hope lost, like the Lesbian Space Witches Am-Dram Choir And Interpretive Dance Troupe?
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