This style of writing predates streaming, though i'm sure it's more prevelant now.
Plenty of pre-internet shows have characters ham-fistedly repeating or summarizing the situation after ad breaks, or telling rather than showing their feelings, or telling you what's at stake.
Stupid characters who have to have the plot point explained to them in case the audience still hasn't gotten it are everywhere too, it's super common in sitcoms.
Alerting venezuela to the risk might have foiled the operation.
Galvanizing public opinion beforehand might have led them to rethink. Continuing against public opinion costs more political capital than selling it after it's already done. Authoritarian regimes can ignore public opinion more than representative ones, but they still can't ignore it entirely.
Maybe reporting the story wouldn't change the outcome, but it's a possibility.
It sounds like you and your parents are in danger. If your brother has military training and has killed animals, he is a threat. It sounds like you know that is true.
For domestic violence at least, the most dangerous point of the cycle is after the escalation, after the explosive anger, once it seems like the situation has returned to normal - that's when deadly violence is most likely. So stay aware and trust your gut.
Where i am, there are mental health groups that can provide things like a dedicated employment specialist to help find work.
Get in touch with someone who can give you real, expert advice.
"Rules Based International Order" is just what the american empire calls itself in public. It's sum total of the structures set up by and for US hegemony. Like how the Athenian Empire called itself the Delian League.
In a sense, there's no purer expression of the rules based international order than illegally annexing territories for their oil.
Israel is an important and well-intergrated piece of the US empire so they get a say in how the empire is run. Working class new yorkers don't matter in the same way.
To translate into the lies of empire: israel's importance to foreign policy goals and deep cultural ties make it an interested commentator on domestic politics.
People always seem to think killing hitler would help, but part of the reason no one assassinated him is because the allies wanted hitler alive to continue making terrible decisions.
Imagine how much worse the first trump regime would've been if trump wasn't making any of the decisions - we don't have to imagine because we're living it now.
Back in the 60s, Phil Ochs described a liberal as "10 degrees to the left of center in good times and 10 degrees to the right if it affects them personally".
I agree that most people understand it to mean anyone left of center, but the meaning of a weak or disingenuous leftist who often sides with the enemies of the left goes back a while.
Ah yeah fair enough, tbh i was worried i got the SW characters wrong, i saw phantom menance and decided i didnt really need to see the other two prequels.
I love all the desperate apologetics over this passage. The lackeys of the rich always try to talk about how this means the rich need to unburden themselves before getting into heaven, like a laden camel passing through a narrow city gate.
But "camel through the eye of a needle" was a fairly common idiom at the time used to mean impossible - the equivilant of "when pigs fly".
The intent of this passage is crystal clear: "the rich will never ever get into heaven".
You can't argue a person out of an irrational view.
Explaining brain chemistry and how dopamine works won't do it.
A belief like that is a way of signalling membership in an identity that the individual thinks benefits them. It's unlikely to change until that identity stops looking beneficial.
Isn't internal propaganda like that just a way to sell a decision you've already made, rather than the cause of the decision?
I'm very skeptical of the idea that states go to war for ideological reasons. I'd always heard they were afraid of being contained and believed that their unfavourable position could only possibly get worse so they decided to roll the dice now.
He was in jail already, he knew he was about to die and he wrote to a fellow imprisoned pedophile to say trump's one of us, but we're the ones in jail, life's not fair.
This style of writing predates streaming, though i'm sure it's more prevelant now.
Plenty of pre-internet shows have characters ham-fistedly repeating or summarizing the situation after ad breaks, or telling rather than showing their feelings, or telling you what's at stake.
Stupid characters who have to have the plot point explained to them in case the audience still hasn't gotten it are everywhere too, it's super common in sitcoms.