Thats a salient point. It’s the same everywhere. Nutty conservatives control the media.
That said, some of these stories kind of carry themselves. Like does the Trump / Epstein stuff really need to be on Fox news? His base is aware of the story they just don’t care.
Yes, but that doesn’t explain why populists get a free pass on their bullshit. For example, Trump’s obvious connection with a paedophile ring.
I don’t think that’s true.
I think they know the future is bleak, and they just want to have the best bio dome or whatever the case may be.
As in, they know they’re making things worse, but if they don’t do it someone else will. So in a bleak and shit future, do you want to live like a king, or choke to death like the rest of us.
Sure but if we are building out renewable capability as quick as we can, but it’s being outstripped by demand, then maybe demand is part of the problem.
They know that things are going to be shit. They just wasn’t the nicest yacht to live on when it does.
I guess we would be 30 years from stable scalable fusion reactions?
Backyard chicken wranglers hatch lots of males they don’t want.
Post in fb chicken groups saying you’ll have them.
Go to chicken auctions and buy 6 for $1.
Or trying to do text in excel?!
That’s kind of the opposite of what I’ve said.
I said there’s an interface with the public. A public persona and a private life.
Of course they’re entitled to privacy, because as I said anything else is harassment.
I also did not say that actors are motivated by fame.
What I am saying, is that if you want to be a well paid actor or actress you need fans. Fans need something more than seeing you on the big screen.
You’re talking about not wanting to be harassed, and that’s fair enough.
I’m talking about not wanting to be adored or desirable.
I don’t really understand.
How would one appropriately “care about a celebrity on a human level” ?
If I think about the ways I think and behave towards people I care about, those things probably aren’t appropriate or possible to express towards a celebrity.
Yes there are cases in which fans behavior has been more like harassment, like Britney Spears.
Yes there are examples where fandom itself is toxic like the way the UK treats it’s royal family generally.
However, for a celebrity like this how would one care about her in that way and would she actually want that.
If a tv or movie star wants to be adored and desired (for film roles), then they can’t simultaneously want to be left alone.
It’s a weird benefit of populist, anti-establishment candidates.
They’re just not held to the same standards and their supporters are very dismissive of any wrong doing.
It’s the same with Farage in the UK. We have a populist Pauline Hanson here in Australia who’s the same.
I don’t really have any plausible explanation.
Looking at the article, he pretty much thought ICE would only detain people crossing the border from mexico.
Is it an american thing? Pretty sure in Australia it’s “heavy”.
Super would be weird, as you say.
I don’t think this really captures what it would have felt like to be abandoned by Rome.
For all it’s ills Rome brought civilisation and technological advantages to the places it conquered.
When Rome withdrew I think the most keenly felt loss in many areas would have been to be cut off from that ordered civilisation.
One moment you’re a citizen of Rome, and the next your grain is looted and your daughters have been taken by barbarians.
It might be something more like, an announcement that it’s no longer profitable to maintain internet access for your entire country, so the network is simply being shut off, never to return.
As an aside, I’m in Western Australia. In terms of national identity I think many of us are fairly ambivalent to being “Australian” as opposed to being “Westralian”. 50 years ago there was a referendum about succession which actually won support - we chose to succeed from Australia. The Australian government saw sense after that and acquiesced to our demands, so it never went ahead. My point is though, if you live in a place and that place is cut off from the broader nation, do you lose your national identity or does your existing national identity just become more closely defined.
I’ve found myself using this a whole lot. It really is great for finding foss and / or non-US alternatives.
… as will the American people.
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I can assure you I care.