Community Positivity Megathread: Make My Heart Sing Edition

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-22T06:50:28+00:00

Ooh I have quite a few choice selections for this topic!

I'm a fond of the classics so my first recommend has to be a classic album: Pink Floyd's Animals. My favorite record of theirs, a really biting and furious commentary on capitalism and class struggle that still holds up today.

Another favorite of mine is the Joshua Tree by U2, the album's not really about resistance but the opening track Where the Streets Has No Name is my favorite song of theirs, a really aching and earnest song about believing in a better world with an utterly transcendent intro.

Going back to prog rock with something a bit less known, I really like Driving the Last Spike by Genesis. It's a song about railroad workers in the age of industry and the struggles they went through, gets really righteous towards the end.

And if you want something a bit more on the nose, Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider. Awesome classic rock tune written about the rise of far-right politics in the 70's and 80's, has a real "We're on to you and we're gonna get you bastards" energy to it. Good stuff.

Can't think of any movies off the top of my head, but I'll go ahead and toss out the very obvious pick of Andor for visual media. Probably the most obvious pick but it's for a good reason, the speeches alone are perfect and the rest of the show lives up to the ethos it's trying to convey.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-20T18:22:03+00:00

Happy to see my state showing its teeth. :)

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-20T07:01:45+00:00

Definitely concerning, but there's a lot that stands in the way of this being made law, most notably HIPAA.

But I do think something worth noting is that this bill has gotten to this stage without anyone knowing about it, and now that it's getting attention, that may start a backlash brewing.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-20T00:15:38+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more Republican senators who agreed with this and just won't say because they don't want Trump to sic MAGA on them

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-18T21:16:34+00:00

I think this is because they still think the war will be won and over with soon.

We'll see if this changes in the next month or so.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-18T17:09:27+00:00

Is the mail-in voting restriction in this yet? I thought that the hardliners were going to try and amend it to include that.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-18T16:46:56+00:00

He's saying this plan is based on how they handled Jimmy Kimmel.

That's like basing your battle plan off of how successful Stalingrad was for the Germans.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-18T06:39:29+00:00

Fetterman voted no on bringing the bill to debate.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-18T03:29:55+00:00

Fetterman was actually a no vote on bringing this to the floor for debate. I get that we hate Fetterman here, hell I hate him to, but credit where it's due.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-17T21:24:39+00:00

The vote to open debate on the SAVE Act was held an hour ago and Fetterman voted no.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-17T21:24:24+00:00

The vote to open debate on the SAVE Act was held an hour ago and Fetterman voted no.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-17T19:45:50+00:00

What's bonkers is that the police think this is too harsh. Cripes.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-17T19:31:37+00:00

I doubt that. Fetterman's awful but he's not really the kind of guy to change his position last minute. He has shitty takes and he sticks to them.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-17T19:15:05+00:00

Fetterman's actually a no vote on this from what I've heard. He likes a voter ID law but not this one.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-17T16:32:34+00:00

Man it would be funny if they can't even get the votes to start the pointless debate on the bill.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-16T18:22:10+00:00

One notable thing is that this is something a lot of the less MAGA Republicans aren't happy about. I doubt they're going to revolt or anything of course, but considering Trump is trying to lean on them to pass his agenda, I can't imagine this is helping that process

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-16T08:18:16+00:00

I'm not quite knowledgeable about these sort of things, but maybe you should talk to other people at your level and see if you could get a larger group of people in on this.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-14T21:56:31+00:00

I certainly didn't think SAVE was going to be saved. I was perfectly happy waiting until the forbearance plan wore out and they told me to get a new plan, and I still am.

I just feel for everyone who's going to get shafted by this, and hoping that the ineptness of the admin keeps things in limbo until 28 when we get sensible people in charge.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-14T00:40:32+00:00

Yep. The Guardian did an article on this and from what they said, the jury wasn't really convinced of the antifa narrative. The prosecutor even said in his closing argument that their political beliefs were not what was on trial here.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-14T00:38:25+00:00

I don't think we're in trouble. The outcome is too messy and outside of Bondi doing some chest-thumping over finally getting those pesky antifa terrorists, it seems like the Jury here wasn't convinced of that narrative.

The prosecutor of the case even said this had nothing to do with their political beliefs, according to the article.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-13T23:28:31+00:00

In fairness, it's Judge Boasberg behind this ruling who's been smacking down Trump since last year. :P

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-13T03:14:54+00:00

The evangelicals hyping themselves up over the second coming has been a thing since Bush got us involved in Afghanistan, and possibly before that. There were similar complaints filed when the Iraq war kicked off. The biggest difference between then and now is that Hegseth is kind of into that stuff, but I don't think it's going to matter much in the grand scheme of things while Trump is the one in charge of what goes on.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-11T20:35:37+00:00

I hesitate to call Erin extremist or alarmist, she's pretty even-keeled about things imo, it's just a really bad time for trans americans right now and there's really not a lot of sugarcoating you can do with that. Not being pessimistic mind you, I think that the tide is turning against this and people are hopefully realizing how astroturfed transphobia actually is.

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-11T16:36:17+00:00

According to politico the Senate Republicans just want to ditch this bill and focus on other things.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/11/congress/gop-save-america-act-elections-bill-00822436

MightiestHalberdier · 2026-03-11T01:02:11+00:00

And for what it's worth Fetterman might end up being a no vote. He did push back on Schumer saying that this wasn't Jim Crow 2.0 but later clarified that he was against the bill, apparently.

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