Why I called it a fetish, it really is just people getting weird about playing house until they get tired of it and have to figure out what actually being a homemaking unit with their partner looks like. It’s the sex equivalent of all those Mormon dudes who confessed they wouldn’t have had so many kids if they knew that one day they were gonna be stuck with them all under one roof during the COVID lockdowns.

Even women actively saying they’re looking for that relationship will probably admit once prodded that they’re only willing to abide that dynamic with a partner who genuinely pulls the other half of the ship and who genuinely respects and shows proper appreciation of the wife’s full time homemaking, y’know, someone who makes them feel like a partner instead of a sex doll with a cooking mode.

The people who adhere the most to trad-wife lifestyles are probably also the people who’d be the least interested in men who are being sold on the trad-wife fad as the ideal woman.

Pretty good reminder Lemmy needs an IAmVeryBadass community

I think it’s less views specifically and more about how well it does vs how much it cost to make it.

Wildly successful shows could still be cancelled because they went all in on the budget.

All of those examples are linguistic drift though.

Naming a white girl moana isn’t the same as some guy named Peter and his russian buddy Pyotr realizing that their names derive from the same origin in Greek (or Aramaic depending on how much you wanna argue Kefa should count as the origin since Petros was a direct translation of it as a name)

No, just that it’ll pretty offensive for the white folks that have made polynesian life hell since just after they found the Pacific to suddenly begin jacking their names and cultural aesthetics because of a fun movie.

This is the same shit as the dreadlocks debate, people are still getting discriminated against for this stuff, it ain’t kosher to wear it like a costume while the people it originates from can’t wear it without catching shit when it was theirs from the start.

Wait did the captain go down with the ship? I thought the crew was mostly able to escape.

Not the genre I think, but definitely the combined universe schtick. I’m thinking future crossovers will be less cinematic universe building and more having guest stars appear where it suits whoever is writing the movie.

So like Batman and Superman might show up for a cameo if it makes sense but that isn’t going to be contributing to some grander narrative that wraps up in a movie featuring the whole justice league against Darkseid or one of their other big bad multiversal threats.

Not at all surprising, just like Netenyahu, the rally around the flag effect only helps you for so long if the public already hated your guts for being a terrible leader.

At this point it’s probably more because grass and dirt is the safest surface for all the old fudds that make up most of the playerbase to fall down on.

King tut was a relatively minor ruler, if that was the quality found at his grave site most other pharos would have destroyed the egyptian economy mansa musa style by being discovered

This would imply that the captain and navigation crew intended to crash, which none of the evidence indicates.

My Belfast Taxi Driver told a story about being a catholic and having to sneak out of town into the woods to be able to hear mass when he was a kid.

I had serious doubts that he was old enough to have been around in the troubles if that was even a thing during the troubles.

Both. The autocratic bend that was already known of provided plenty of fuel for the pro-war camp, and it was a lot of what motivated Roosevelt to want to back the Allies as much as he was legally allowed.

Pearl Harbor was a tragedy, but as Churchill is attributed to have said, never let a good crisis go to waste.

Japan basically provided all the excuse the pro war camp needed to leeroy jenkins themselves at Hitler’s face.

We built the bomb with the intention of using them on Germany, that is the kind of axe you’ve got to grind with someone who you hate for a lot more reasons than just that they socked your best mate.

Do some reading on the Battle of Hayes Pond for some literary soul food.

This is reminding me of that animated bit on YouTube where Krillen wishes Frieza’s ship was full of spiders with giant dicks that gave you AIDS if they bit you

I mean depending on their ethnic background naming the kid Moana would have been an issue for reasons besides being teased for being named after a disney princess.

The TVs are only a part of it, what really winds them up is the radios. The Right has deeply consolidated a hold over talk radio since the hip youngins mostly get their listening entertainment via podcasts now.

Remember when Nixon made him so hopping mad he quit and took on the mantle of Nomad over it? Pepperidge farm remembers.

I’m pretty convinced all the craziness with hydra cap and old cap was just the writers trying to dodge the backlash of having Steve Rogers be the cap that made all the political statements that Sam Wilson did as cap during that stretch that happened to line up somewhat with the Trump Presidency.

I mean tbf there’s ways to read that as a little yikes when taken out of context.

Plus she’s not exactly saying the weight of all that context is a burden the way Marx is.

For anyone who doesn’t understand how it happened, after the civil war the Republican party slowly began to become a big business party after all the contracting that was done to supply the Union military brought party leadership into network with business leaders.

This relationship began to drag the party rightward on economics, while the reforming northern democrats began to drift left as the northern party’s ranks became filled with working class voters.

By the time of the 1930s the northern democrats had a solid hold on black voters because they’d moved far enough to the left on class issues, even if they had to caucus with dixiecrats to ever do anything, and when the civil rights movement made their push, LBJ chose them over the dixiecrats, marking the beginning of the transition from a bigtop party generally to a more region locked coalition party like we see today.

Worth mentioning is that very few people actually “switched” parties, the “switch” took the form of new voters changing who they were registering with in the wake of the civil rights breakthroughs drawing the center and left towards the democrats and the war on abortion pulling the right to the republicans.

And that’s how a party once lead by a quite possibly proto or para socialist who went to war to crush slavers becomes a party that threatens the fabric of democracy.

The lesson here is that autocracy anywhere is a threat to democracy anywhere. Big business leaders will always choose capitalism over democracy, we cannot allow them to have the power to make the decision. We must begin a transition to a more democratic economic model, to worker ownership.

Vote to save our democracy, and then organize to spread it to the dark corners where the autocrats go to hide in reserve for the next round.

We must purge them like parasitic slime they are.