Remember MAGA protests / "stop the count"? There is no requirement for protesters to engage with reality.
The real world is actually doing things. Instead of yelling at people to pick up trash, you pick it up. Instead of yelling at people to fix Gaza, you begin the process.
Literally the best case of protesting is that someone else gets up to do things.
Normally you imagine positive change behind protesting, and you probably assumed that when you read "protesters", but not every occurrence of "making a scene" is constructive.
She isn't the president. She's yet to map out the road ahead.
People are used to being helpless and pathetic so they don't even consider anything other than "protesting." But what about building policy and bringing it to her? Why not start a dialogue? Why not map out bits of that road ahead? Why not consider experts who could help the next Democratic admin? Why not study policy yourself? Why not go form connections with humanitarian groups? Or join them?? Why not go talk to people and bring that wealth of data to her?
Why not HELP and CONTRIBUTE? If you just want to YELL then go yell at the people in charge.
You are not interpreting this correctly, and neither is TheHill / Independent / whatever.
Think about it step by step.
Some time ago, America was hardcore opposed to the USSR and the Communist bloc. Americans like her grew up hearing comparisons with Communist dictators and how they did X, Y, and Z. The bogeyman many people grew up with was a communist dictator who hated free speech, co-opted the state and therefore personally controlled industry, cracked down on artistic expression...
That's what we're dealing with now. Not from the perspective of a McCarthy Boogeyman; Kamala isn't saying he's a communist. But from the adult perspective where we're supposed to care about free speech, a private industry, liberal art... Trump is the thing people grew up hearing about.
Tldr; Kamala didn't say this. This never happened. Watch the interview and think about what she means. Journalism strikes again~
Edit: Here's a simpler example: "We went years hearing from the right about demonic liberals abusing kids. Well Trump is that—that's what we're dealing with now."
That isn't saying Trump is a demonic liberal. It means "the thing everyone hated is here in a different form"
a) conservative vocabulary is just repeating what others say
b) people call them fascist, therefore they will call others fascist back
c) they will call the next Democratic admin fascists (assuming there's still elections) which would let you target conservatives for being antifa terrorists
I know it's all BS and unlikely to work that way but hey
I think it's magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It's magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I'm willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It's magic to me to think of "free" "emotion hours".
Everything else is so... crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.
But art? Games? Puzzles? It's magic how there's basically infinite energy inside.
China is when Chinese people do things Americans have been doing.
NSA, Equation Group, black rooms, PRISM, Palantir... that's bad stuff but it's sorta in the background. Even the national surveillance startup tracking license plates and soon people... not that interesting.
But Chinese that stuff? It's the only way you can show many Americans just how fucked these policies / institutions are.
God made sure only Charlie Kirk was killed. It's as if God smote Charlie in the middle of a crowd, in the middle of saying hate, and spared the onlookers.
Yeah, I don't think that's a good thing for fans of Charlie.
"Why won't you fight back!?" said the people not fighting back. "Sacrifice your career to stick it to the Nazis!"
And then the people went back to their day jobs.
See, if people were going out and picking up trash, then I could see getting pissed when some rich fuck doesn't help out. But pointing to some lone wolf picking up litter and acting like that's you is weird.
Idiocracy is a relatively heartwarming and cute depiction of the future. If they tried to make it realistic it would feel like a surreal spoof of Downfall.
Wait, how can you take the middle road but not know how many roads are to the left, right, etc.? You found the middle road so you know how many sides there are, their relative weights, how they wind and undulate.
But then that would imply the middle road is defined by the left and right roads. Just as easily dictated as any other road.
People want a good weapon they can use to hurt others. But the store only has a human shaped tool. How can we swing that at others?
Please, I just need a "he was a groyper." The guy behind me wants a "he was trans."
The more ergonomic the concept the better. Don't tell me it's complex or untidy. What's the point of being trained by the media? I have all these patterns... just fit the guy into one already.
Fable's morality system was actually realistic if you assume it's depicting what it's like to be rich and privileged.
The -1 score made me think of how it wouldn't matter if you could just donate money to get it back.