I remember when I watched Walking with Cavemen on Discovery and that most of their content was education oriented. I also remember the endless Mythbusters reruns and the gradual shift of Mythbusters from wacky experiments to more and more explosives. I also remember how they released doctored documentaries cashing in their legitimacy as “educational” to sell conspiracy theories about the government covering up the existence of mermaids being a link in human evolution as part of the debunked aquatic ape theory or giving Youtube content farms their bread and butter through reigniting the public interest in believing that the Megalodon is still alive. Discovery and their subsidiaries have almost always portrayed a boys club mentality in the content they produce like monster hunting shows where some dudes bumble in the woods looking for Bigfoot.

In the US animation is considered for children and as a result gets barely any respect despite the fact that it’s grueling and requires so much from creators. Either you’re a weird adult that watches “childish cartoons” or you’re considered mature and you watch the same looking live action shit for the rest of your life.

Apparently the planning committee already preempted this by announcing that the host country nor the IPC were planning to invite any foreign dignitaries, and from my understanding that’s the norm, the dignitaries get invited by their team. It’s just more fuel to make people think China is this monstrosity of a country doing a 9/11 every day so when they decide to go to war people won’t immediately flip their shit.

Yesterday at work a few people were commenting on how surprisingly clothed the men were in the beach volleyball matches, the women are basically naked while the dudes get to wear a loose top and shorts. Should be wearing a single bikini bottom for the guys.

How do people like this even believe they’re “far left.” If you’re a raging transphobe and zionist apologist you should realize that you’re not actually “far left,” fuck you’re not even center left. Politics in the US are either Norwegian social democrats wanting free healthcare and genocide of the third world or American Christian Nationalists with various other flavors of naziism spread around for fun.

To use a meme I’ve seen centrists use time and time again.

My rights are being eroded every day and either they brazenly cheer it on or they silently let it happen. There’s plenty said about how bullshit “lesser evilism” really is. War and immiseration continue, the paint job just changes a bit.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Didn’t think this would be relevant so soon.

Clearly less traffic didn’t help with a bit of extra snow weight.

Assuming that every single Working Class Party vote would’ve gone to the Dems and that every single Libertarian vote would’ve gone to the Republicans, there’s a gap of 707 favoring the Democrat. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Just be a better candidate. Electoralism is fucked either way but this was the Dem’s race to lose based on the numbers.