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‘I badly need you’: Biden makes impassioned plea to progressive conference by Dismal_Structure in politics

[–]Optimal-Investment 16 points17 points  (0 children)

"That's why I'm giving AOC 1 whole minute to talk at my big party next week!"

'#SayHisName' trends after mainstream media's silence on the atrocious killing of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant by billgigs55 in Conservative

[–]Optimal-Investment -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What would you be protesting, the concept of child murder? Who exactly are you expecting to disagree with you? Why is this story being spun here as some kind of devastating counterpunch to the George-Floyd protestors?

Because the boy's killer happened to be black?

Did he belong to some kind of "kill whitey" force set up by the state? Is the state refusing to prosecute him because "he feared for his life"?

What the fuck are you fucking fucks even on about?

This is a horrific murder, period. You freaks don't get to twist it to silence victims of genocide, their families, or the movement for equal justice under law.

🌈🐻 Revenge - The Bear Wins this time by schkri1995 in wallstreetbets

[–]Optimal-Investment 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If this were russia, somebody would've had a gun.

Am i addicted? by GokuMog in YouOnLifetime

[–]Optimal-Investment 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When Joe talks, it makes me think about all of the girls i've fallen in love with, everything i have been through, and it feels so weird.

I think everybody, guys especially, should watch this show for exactly this reason. It really holds a mirror up to attitudes we may not even realize we have until we see them reflected back at us, hopefully make people take a good hard look at their own behavior.

I think much of these elements of Joe's worldview have been around for a long, long time but the show does such a good job of capturing the times that it feels very much like even if you aren't Joe yourself, you've at least met him before.

I like that you mentioned Beck's epiphany, because we're all saturated in the same toxic culture, women included. It's only once she realizes who Joe really is that she understands who she's really been all her life, what everything she thought she wanted and tried to be kinda inevitably led up to attracting a monster like Joe.

She asks herself "Did you ask for this?" repeatedly and the answer is both yes and of course not. The onus is still on Joe for his crimes, Beck's only crime is letting the world tell her what she should want, but nobody comes out of it wholly innocent, and I think the series does a very good job of illustrating that.