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  • Some English-language ones I haven’t seen in this thread yet:

    We Hate Movies- a comedy movie review show mostly about entertainingly bad movies in the vein of How did This Get Made.

    No Such Thing As a Fish- some of the researchers from QI share facts they found while prepping the TV show

    Unclear and Present Danger- looks at thrillers of the 90’s through an historical and leftist lens

    Mortal Podkast- Lore dumps about every fighter in the Mortal Kombat series up through MK11. Now over but I still recommend it if you like Mortal Kombat

    Mom Can’t Cook: A DCOM Podcast- humorous, tangent-heavy recaps of Disney Channel original movies.

    Three Black Halflings- insightful discussions about D&D and race from a black perspective. Also some very good actual play series and one-shots mixed in.






  • As long as you aren’t blaming others for that anger.

    Also go easier on yourself, I’m willing to bet you don’t deserve the amount of anger you direct at yourself. I realize that probably doesn’t mean a whole lot coming from someone who doesn’t know you or your situation, but it’s something to consider



  • Overall I think the entitlement hurts more, especially over time, but it’s a lot easier to blame external factors than it is to look inward and see where you can improve yourself.

    There may be more initial hurt from being honest with yourself, but once you get past that initial hurt and begin working on yourself, you find things you love about yourself and don’t need the external validation as much as you thought you did. Honesty it the first step on the journey of self-improvement and ultimately self-love. Once you love yourself it’s easier for other people to see what’s lovable about you.

    Entitlement just makes you angry at other people and drives them away, leaving you alone with your anger.











  • I can see how you’d arrive at that conclusion (mostly by ignoring everything else I said), but my point was really that Harris needed a better argument than just that. She never gave people a reason to vote for her rather than just against Trump. That caused 14 million people who previously voted Democrat to stay home.

    To a lot of apathetic people we were presented with 2 very similar choices neither of whom gives a shit about the working class. So a lot of people figured “why bother?” and I don’t blame them for that. I blame Democrats for abandoning the working class and catering to corporate donors and conservatives. That’s not even mentioning doing nothing to stem the flow of genocide supplies to Israel (which caused a lot of Muslim voters to stay home).

    So sure, you can blame voters, but it makes more sense to blame the campaign that wasn’t even trying to win.


  • I agree with the harm reduction strategy, but I also understand people being apathetic with the choices they’re presented.

    Of course this means people should be more active and now is the time to start really pushing for ranked choice voting so we can maybe do something about the dominance of the two-party system.

    Screw trying to convince Democrats they need to start looking left. Force them to with the threat of new, actually progressive, parties.


  • Orange man bad was more then enough to pick a rock with a smiley face on it as alternative

    It’s a logical argument and it’s a correct argument. Unfortunately it’s demonstrably not an effective argument, especially when it’s all you’re doing. The same thing happened in 2016 with Clinton thinking she was owed votes because Trump would be (and was, and will be again) a disaster for the US. Yet they still went with the same strategy anyway.

    I say this as someone who did make the “correct” choice of voting blue despite my moral objections to a lot of what she was saying. We will now all see the consequences of only barely trying to win an election against fascists.