People keep saying the last few seasons have been a lot better than they’ve been (though not as good as the golden years). I’m long past caring, of course.

Every generation since Gen X has been Simpsons. They’ve been on for 35 years.

I’m sure when they were a hanafuda maker they were a little less litigious…

Well, if you assume any action wherein someone loses and someone wins is violence… sure. Economic sanctions? Violence. Political action? Violence. Organized non-violent protest? Better believe that’s violence.

There are some people who only respond to violence because they act with violence… but by no means is that the only thing any bad actor ever does.

They will burn shit. They won’t start with burning shit. But that is invariably a potential outcome if protest is ignored.

And yet they have to keep doing it. Over and over and over. Almost like it doesn’t actually fix things, just look at France. They’ve been through six republics and they still haven’t had lasting positive momentum. They’ve had violent protests almost non-stop about just about every issue there’s been in the last decade or more… and yet things haven’t really been fixed. The people in power still do what they think is best, often to the benefit of themselves and the detriment of the rest of the populace.

Even if violence can promote change… it doesn’t promote solutions.

Violence was the response from the people who decided they didn’t want to abolish slavery. It was already well on its way by the time the south seceded.

The change didn’t come from violence, it came from the actions of people in the wake of violence.

Some publishers call it a “battle pass” or “seasons” instead.

That’s why you use complex words :)

Whoa, hey, no need to bring politics into it.

(/s)

Whoa, hey, is this a gillette commercial?

Well, I guess when all you want is a good sound bite, you can call it whatever you want.

Bad thing happen! Panic! Panic! Don’t think, just react!

A constitutional crisis is a specific kind of thing, which has more to do with machinations of power rather than the fallout of those machinations.

As yet there hasn’t been a strong constitutionally backed opposition to these actions, though I imagine they’re in the works, it’s probably not a “constitutional” crisis, just a more generic one.

Some of the founders (there were actually quite a lot of them, many with opposing views) did actually see that, and thought things should be changed every once in a while.

Unfortunately that would make it harder for power mongers to monger power. So there’s rarely been limits placed on power to any lasting degree.

Manifest destiny.

Where’s that image of the Republican convention calling themselves domestic terrorists…

*first amendment

Though some do conflate guns with free speech as well…

If you say so :)

He spent five years with the droid between New Hope and Empire Strike’s Back.

Clearly it was the Force.

Yeah, but then you have to install EGS.

Constitutional right to free speech? Yes. The overall philosophical concept of free speech? Less so.