Yes, I refuse to let people say he is untouchable. He has earthly power and that can be taken away, by time or by the actions of people.

A parliamentary system may be more resilient against fascist takeovers but this discussion is about the inherent foolishness of the centrist fallacy.

It’s a fallacy under any circumstances: do not compromise with people who are operating in bad faith.

Do you think they get to touch him?

What does his unfuckability have to do with it?

And, no, Trump is not untouchable. He is not Voldemort and he has no magic powers.

Still waiting.

You made a statement.

Please back it up.

I mean, that’s the literal meaning of low luck, right?

Sucks to be you, I guess?

People who want to live their lives and be left alone lost the election? Oh this is going to be good.

The floor is yours.

Present your objective fact.

Your opinion is garbage. Support for LGBTQ+ rights didn’t alienate anyone who wasn’t already a garbage person.

I volunteered this election with our state house district committee of the Democratic party. The grassroots is effectively neutered and you can believe that they are carefully managed to be sure nothing rises up that the national party cannot control.

The Democrats are managed opposition.

That is the dictionary definition of ‘not a compromise’.

Current events are proof that your preconditions needed for compromise to work do not exist in the real world.

Rickon is a fool, not a villain, I propose. He is verbally skilled (sort of) but really just a puppydog who wants his writing validated. That’s very easy for anyone who has tried the creative life to understand.

For that reason, I find him sympathetic yet pitiable. He may very well be used as the tool he is by Lumon. But the whole time he will believe it’s the best thing. A schmuck, not a mastermind.

This reminds me of something I noticed in the casting for Severance.

All of the new generation of non-severed Lumon employees are ‘of color’. This was probably an intentional choice and a nod to the way corporations learned over the 20th century to expand into and better exploit people globally.

Wondering if anyone has noticed that particular storytelling choice?

Ye-eee-eeee-sssss!

May I also have syphilis?

Lately my emotions have tended toward anger at the apathetic middle, not the cartoon villains of the Penguin Administration.

I know it’s a minority view but I blame all this on the nice normal people that thought they had better things to do than pay attention to politics.

If you do not see the need for aggressive responses to lawlessness, you let this happen and I find you boring.

I hate grade inflation so I consider a C a respectable grade. D-

It is a complex narrative to be fair. I see it as an allegory of how corporate life tries to destroy the relationships that help us resist their goal of total control. So yeah it’s bleak but the ‘heroes’ of the story are the ones with the most genuine relationships.

I shudder to think what Mr Milchiks home life is like.

AOC and Bernie are on tour. Walz might be ok, but he’s still on probation until he shows true spine, not just very good rhetoric.

I would very much like to know of other Federal office holders we can count on. I am serious, not baitin’. Looking to find some hope and figure out who to boost or help.