You're honestly not centre-left with that list of policies. I think you don't differ very much politically from Rick Wilson. As I say: that's all cool, until we get rid of Trump.
Yeah, he's the worst part of working for this company, everyone else is great, but he gets in the way of things so often.
I mean, we're a technical support company, and he's completely non technical, but insists in being involved in everything, and making decisions without consulting people who actually do the work...
We're in a place where we don't have a lot of direct competition, so the company's not in danger or anything, but we could be doing better if he'd just drive around in his Porsche all day and leave the business to his employees.
Pro-choice, pro-socialized medicine, pro-gun control, in favor of heavily taxing the rich and corporations, I don't think corporations are people, pro- food stamps and welfare and public housing, believe in taking care of people who can't take care of themselves, strongly support SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, anti-racism, xenophobia and racism, I'm gay, and pro-gay marriage, and I've voted for Democrats in every election for the past 40 years.
I can see how you'd be confused, since my positions clearly align with the GOP's. I'd bet my positions are far more in line with the Democratic party's than yours are.
Right...I voted for Joe Biden in the primaries, when people like you were trying to get Bernie Sanders (Trump's choice) elected, so we could lose AGAIN. I guess we really should be listening to YOU more, since Biden is only winning by 9 points.
If you think political advertising isn't designed to manipulate people, you're clearly not on my team, because I'm playing with a full deck.
I've been more than patient, listening to you insult me, but I'm through listening to your bullshit, so you won't be getting any more responses from me. Find someone else to take your anger out on.
For those watching, the big tell in Vagenda's rants came when she started yelling about "people like me", even though I'd carefully distanced myself from the Bernouts. For Vagenda, everyone to the left of K. Harris is a Berner, a communist, and a fool for Trump all at the same time. This was the kind of disjointed, conspiratorial thinking which suffused her original posts about how "defund the police" was suicide (even though Biden is up by 9 points?) and how we should let the Lincoln Project take over the party.
I got a new direct supervisor 2 months ago (I didn't want the job, too many meetings and I fucking HATE meetings), so I've got a buffer again. My former manager is on long term medical leave, unfortunately, she was amazing (new guy seems good so far though).
Good place to start, God knows, but I think it goes deeper than that. Art is a bellwether; it's not creating its cultural mindset from whole cloth. It's just pointing a spotlight at what's already there.
The sort of stories a civilization tells itself are a reflection of who they want to believe that they are. I won't bore you with examples, but my point was that vigilantes aren't being viewed as heroes because that's what we saw in movies; we created the movies to reflect our cultural belief that they already were. That's what disturbs me.
Our stories are intended to tell us how to be proper men and women. They define "good guys" and "bad guys". In that sense the stories reflect what our culture expects. But it's not as simple as stories around the campfire these days. To get butts in the seats of movies/TV you have to bring something more, each time. Outrageousness sells.
As I said, people not understanding the difference between fiction and fantasy is a significant problem. A cop in a movie reacting to a situation the way cops should react is b-o-r-i-n-g. So they ramp up the excitement. Personally I love a good shoot-em-up, but I know that those stories are fantasies. We know Harry Potter is a fantasy but entirely too many people can't figure out that Bad Boys is also fantasy.
You're honestly not centre-left with that list of policies. I think you don't differ very much politically from Rick Wilson. As I say: that's all cool, until we get rid of Trump.
To my very great shame, I still say "am excite!" from time to time.
Yeah, he's the worst part of working for this company, everyone else is great, but he gets in the way of things so often.
I mean, we're a technical support company, and he's completely non technical, but insists in being involved in everything, and making decisions without consulting people who actually do the work...
We're in a place where we don't have a lot of direct competition, so the company's not in danger or anything, but we could be doing better if he'd just drive around in his Porsche all day and leave the business to his employees.
Pro-choice, pro-socialized medicine, pro-gun control, in favor of heavily taxing the rich and corporations, I don't think corporations are people, pro- food stamps and welfare and public housing, believe in taking care of people who can't take care of themselves, strongly support SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, anti-racism, xenophobia and racism, I'm gay, and pro-gay marriage, and I've voted for Democrats in every election for the past 40 years.
I can see how you'd be confused, since my positions clearly align with the GOP's. I'd bet my positions are far more in line with the Democratic party's than yours are.
Right...I voted for Joe Biden in the primaries, when people like you were trying to get Bernie Sanders (Trump's choice) elected, so we could lose AGAIN. I guess we really should be listening to YOU more, since Biden is only winning by 9 points.
If you think political advertising isn't designed to manipulate people, you're clearly not on my team, because I'm playing with a full deck.
I've been more than patient, listening to you insult me, but I'm through listening to your bullshit, so you won't be getting any more responses from me. Find someone else to take your anger out on.
For those watching, the big tell in Vagenda's rants came when she started yelling about "people like me", even though I'd carefully distanced myself from the Bernouts. For Vagenda, everyone to the left of K. Harris is a Berner, a communist, and a fool for Trump all at the same time. This was the kind of disjointed, conspiratorial thinking which suffused her original posts about how "defund the police" was suicide (even though Biden is up by 9 points?) and how we should let the Lincoln Project take over the party.
I got a new direct supervisor 2 months ago (I didn't want the job, too many meetings and I fucking HATE meetings), so I've got a buffer again. My former manager is on long term medical leave, unfortunately, she was amazing (new guy seems good so far though).
I really, really didn't want to sign because of the shitheels who make up this organization, but I signed anyway, because civil rights.
I sometimes say “Great success...!” when something works out for me.
Maybe by teaching our children the difference between fiction and real life?
Good place to start, God knows, but I think it goes deeper than that. Art is a bellwether; it's not creating its cultural mindset from whole cloth. It's just pointing a spotlight at what's already there.
The sort of stories a civilization tells itself are a reflection of who they want to believe that they are. I won't bore you with examples, but my point was that vigilantes aren't being viewed as heroes because that's what we saw in movies; we created the movies to reflect our cultural belief that they already were. That's what disturbs me.
Our stories are intended to tell us how to be proper men and women. They define "good guys" and "bad guys". In that sense the stories reflect what our culture expects. But it's not as simple as stories around the campfire these days. To get butts in the seats of movies/TV you have to bring something more, each time. Outrageousness sells.
As I said, people not understanding the difference between fiction and fantasy is a significant problem. A cop in a movie reacting to a situation the way cops should react is b-o-r-i-n-g. So they ramp up the excitement. Personally I love a good shoot-em-up, but I know that those stories are fantasies. We know Harry Potter is a fantasy but entirely too many people can't figure out that Bad Boys is also fantasy.
My slogan is DEFUND POLICE BRUTALITY.
They can have money for directing traffic, accompanying funerals, looking for missing persons, solving rapes and murders.
But not for the rest of it.
That even came up in an episode of The Good Wife. A very Chicago-centered show.
It's the Mad Libs party naming game! "[adjectival phrase] [noun] for [adjective] [noun]."
Front Line Party for Revolutionary Action.