It’s in Spanish, so make sure you’re okay with subtitles (if you’d need them).

Yes, I noticed that progressives are far more likely to be assassinated than tyrants in modern times. Funny that.

If the reason given was clearly their denial of life-saving claims, it would be very likely to save at least 2 lives, yes.

I don’t know, but I know that fascists being in power should be completely unacceptable.

It’s a good one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan's_Labyrinth

Good lord, that movie’s 19 years old now!

Two chance events prevented Gibson from succeeding: First, Mussolini happened to turn his head to look at a group of nearby students who were singing a song in his honor. This caused the bullet to graze the bridge of his nose rather than hit him square in the face. Second, though Gibson fired another bullet, it lodged in her pistol. By that point, she had already been dragged to the ground by a mob.

History’s really rhyming here.

Yep, they’ve been the lesser evil for a long time now. The effort should be in working towards making them less evil, not giving up and letting the greater evil which has no chance of ever becoming less evil take over. A bit late now, of course.

Middle one should be 2,12m. 😤

Or the other 4 should be 1,06m if the middle one is correct.

This seems right. Their mind wanders, too, but they don’t mention the tangents that come up, or if they do, they specifically state why they’re now thinking about the new topic.

As soon as I saw “carnival” and “wasps,” I understood the connection immediately.

Kinda sad how they went from having virtually anything you could think of to watch (and having a halfway decent recommendation algorithm to boot!) to where they are today.

They’re not entirely to blame - once other companies saw that this streaming thing actually made money, they pulled all their stuff and put it on their own services, leading to the cable 2.0 we have today.

Everything else that sucks about them now, though, yeah, they’re to blame.

The OP. They’re just the messenger.

They will. We just won’t see them when we watch their shows.

You actually want most people to pay for this crap so stuff still gets made for us to pirate. Thanks, rubes!

Democrats not representing so many of us leads to people becoming disillusioned and not voting. Having to choose a lesser evil instead of an actual good sucks. So Democrats are to blame for not representing their constituents, and voters are to blame for not voting for the least bad result out of practicality. The thing is, letting perfect be the enemy of less bad leads to more suffering. Just ask trans people how much they appreciate progressives who didn’t vote for Harris.

I have been voting Blue No Matter Who for 20 years, and that has brought us to Trump.

No, it didn’t. People NOT voting Blue No Matter Who did. That’s why he won.

My understanding is that the counter argument is that Democrats should be the kinds of people that people want to vote for, not just the lesser evil. That would be ideal, but it’s not the reality we live in. Similarly, the reality is that people of all political leanings will usually not vote for the most practical outcome that benefits them, but with emotion. For conservatives, that means their team regardless of anything else - “Red No Matter Who.” For people who are farther left than center-right, that means becoming disillusioned with how poorly Democrats represent them and not voting, even if they are still better than their opponents. Hence, the fascists win.

I feel the same way - I absolutely loathe current Nintendo’s business practices, but I can’t deny they make fantastic games. So if someone can afford their premium prices, more power to them. I’ll be interested to see how Nintendo does this gen since they’re pricing out the casual market that’s made them successful in the past.

Falls into the 3rd panel since you have the original console.

No love for the 5200, my first console. No idea what happened to mine, though.