Larry of the Lawn

This is a travesty devoid of delicious processed fats and protein. Greek? Nay, more like some ascetic exercise for penitent equines. The potatoes are supposed to be a vehicle for the mayonnaise, egg, etc.

Sorry for your ant troubles and hope they are remedied soon, but... Who's doesn't like potato salad?

Lol sure call it "key", call it whatever you want, just get them to care about something they have no interest in caring about. Easy!

I personally don't even know who Collins is and don't care, I've just seen the "Soros-funded globalists" phrase chucked around by right wing freaks on Twitter for years.

You were crying from listening to political speech?

Yeah c'mon the standard antisemitic dog whistle that invokes Soros is "Soros funded globalists"

About fucking time.

Thanks for clarifying. I personally wouldn't categorize the 2020 platform (as I remember, which could very well be wrong!) as race-only. Acknowledging racism in the justice system isn't the same as a race-first approach, and I think it's clear that whatever the platform was, Dem leadership has done little to move forward and in many respects has moved backwards (bail reform walkbacks, Biden over-ruling DC city council, more money for police and more police without fundamentally addressing problems. ) And I do remember Sanders getting criticized for not having enough of a racial focus, but considered it to be just typical lefty-bashing from the center.

Not to speak for Week, but yeah, probably. An inference I'm making (not saying it's what your saying but it's how I'm reading it) is that you think the DNC or Dems are trying to appease an activist left wing of voters by race-forward messaging. You mentioned the DNC 2020 messaging on police violence as an example of this. I'm just not seeing that messaging. The DNC and Dems position on police violence has essentially been to say police violence is bad, but completely shut out anything coming from the left on the issue. See how things went with Defund the Police. It was never in word or in spirit part of the DNC platform, and out of all the Dem MOC's you could maybe count a handful who could be described as supporters of defunding the police. Dem policy has been more cops and more police funding. This does not mitigate police violence, and doesn't cater to a race-first analysis of police violence. Dem leadership's criminal justice policy is much closer to Blue Lives Matter than Black Lives Matter. I'll admit I don't watch TV news so maybe I'm just missing a bunch of stuff the general population is exposed to, and I work with a bunch of rural blue collar types so I'm not privy to Ivory Tower type discussions. But yes, the disconnect to me is being told that the problem with the Dem voting coalition is that it would be fine, but for the left / socialist part of it. Usually we're (mostly accurately) accused of being too heavy on class-first consciousness. I mean if you go back to the 2020 primary posts in the politics thread you'll see me and Week pretty much at each other's throats about stuff.

My issue is your saying the race first approach to police violence is where Dems went wrong, I'm saying thats not reality. In reality their approach, in 2020 and today, is Blue Lives Matter. Edit for clarity: they aren't doing anything to curb police violence, are actively doing things that increase it, and certainly aren't addressing the racial disparity .

First off I agree the vaccination scheme proposed by voxwas stupid. I also think it's ridiculous to point to one dumb idea about vaccines and then imagine that this is what's happening with police violence. The reason I characterized the police violence conversation that way, as "don't mention race", is because you're arguing against a strawman from the get go. Where is there this race only argument in regard to police violence? Anyone talking about racial disparities in policing already acknowledges a major issue with over policing, at least in my experience. Additionally, this argument is bizarre because the reality is that the Democratic party has doubled down on policies that 1) increases the than decrease police violence (hiring more officers across the board, allowing COVID funding to be allocated to policing)and 2) because they e done this in other areas of criminal justice (see NYS bail reform carve outs). If there was some push for a race only approach to criminal justice / police reform I could see your point. Re: bolded: no that's not what I'm saying, and maybe I'm just a shitty writer but I think that's a very strange conclusion to glean from what i wrote. I guess for me this just boils down to the bit about BLM and "save the rainforests". I've never met one rainforest preservationist who was saying "fuck all other kinds of forest". And yet here we have that portrayal again. If the Dems were actually pushing some kind of "police need to kill more white people to even this out" or even "police violence only affects black communities" I could see your point. But no one is pushing for those policies.

Not all journalism needs to be about being electorally persuasive. Sure, if you're the Democratic Party, best bet is probably to target police violence across the board. I think that's the best approach for most issues- universal programs. But I also don't see anything wrong with some journalist pointing to the mountains of data that show that black Americans particularly are subject to disproportionate levels of scrutiny, violence, and harassment by police. The best way to reduce that on the short term is likely just getting rid of a bunch of our police or completely changing their role. But whatever police force is left is going to keep disproportionately affecting (harming) them. That's where stuff like implicit bias training likely comes into play. I want to address the causes of crime, not the symptoms. You do that by decreasing poverty and giving EASY access to a social safety net. We have a prison problem and police problem in this country, and one group does suffer much more for it. And I'm not about to get wishy washy or worry about hurting white feelings by saying so. Sure, on a policy level we can debate what's practical, but let's not start off the conversation with "don't mention the race thing ". It's a problem and it didn't end when Derek Chauvin walked into a jail cell.

We have decades of data showing that police disproportionally commit violence against non-whites. There is major racism baked into all of the criminal justice system, whether you want to look at length of sentencing, arrests, convictions, how traffic stops escalate, use of force, etc. I agree identity politics suck but this goes back a long time and has been a consistent and measurable theme in pretty much all aspects of the justice system. It's not unfortunate to go the racial angle here because it's real and it's pervasive.

Remember when we were all horrified and angry and sad about the treatment of people crossing the US-Mexico border?

I've been watching this season with some friends and one of them thinks that the entire plot with Mattson sending blood to Ebba is fabricated by gojo to turn Shiv into an asset.

Whoa, some of you have actually met voters who don't have a college degree?!?!

The writing has been consistently excellent, the acting outstanding, and character development through little details really builds up. There isn't a wasted shot. If you blink you will miss something. If plot was everything, every show would just be rehashed PG Wodehouse.

If you're on a budget the economy is not good. Your costs for many necessities are likely 30% more than they were a few years ago. Energy and food costs are up. Rents are up. The economy being "good" or "fine" or "strong" is probably irrelevant if you're not earning 30% more than you were 6 years ago. Bad messaging is telling people they're doing fine. I'd guess your average voter is able to save less of their paycheck than they did in 2016. For many, it's probably not possible. They're likely cutting back on things.

Don't you go thinking Alaska hasn't noticed!

I was half expecting Tom to jump off the balcony at the end of that scene. I feel like they've really been playing up imminent physical danger to the characters this season. We'd seen a little bit of that previously but nothing like this time around. The dude playing Matteson is killing it. Love the pseudo Jim Carrey-ness of fucked up Matteson. Love watching the siblings just completely engulfed by their own worst qualities. None of them can help themselves in the slightest.

It's not your fault, you all are indoctrinated to up the charges subconsciously!

What a rare talent. So many great tunes. "If you could read my mind" is one of those songs that gets me almost every time I hear it. I've had to pull the car over to hear that one. RIP

I keep seeing this thread and hoping there's new posthumous Iain Bank's material coming out. Boooooo!

Karl really got his moment to shine with his words to Tom, which I think he'd been thinking about since at least the Boar on the Floor incident. Predictions: I think we get a real Lear and all the kids die, probably in a helicopter or PJ incident (not the pj's!)

I'll tell you what, amigos, the US is done for if it doesn't get rid of its woke prisons and its liberal drone strikes.