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Buffy was ‘cookie dough’ and entirely about growing up and figuring out who she was in the world. I don’t think it was ever an option that she hook up with one of her boyfriends and that was the relationship that never ended. In Angel, in the episode where Spike and Angel go to Italy and almost see Buffy, Andrew tells them they had better move on, as Buffy has, or they will never be able to catch up to her in the future. So, yes, not the writer’s problem.

Nevermind

Narcissism is a compensation for crushingly low self esteem. If it is any comfort he never thinks he is good enough and everyone must be below him and tell him he is right constantly or he will lose it. This is why he gets worse and worse as people feed into it more and more. Is this a comfort?

Renaming Veterans day?

Yes it is the next day of protests.

Many people with expertise say there is no evidence e they are gang marks and Trump, well, Trump https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/abrego-garcias-tattoos-explainer Tattoos on Abrego Garcia’s fingers are not proof he’s a member of MS-13, experts say From the article: But in his interview with ABC on Tuesday to mark the 100th day of his second term, Trump appeared to indicate that he either didn’t know the picture he held was digitally altered, or didn’t care. “On his knuckles, he had MS-13,” the president told ABC’s Terry Moran. The journalist tried correcting the president. Trump waved the attempt off. “Don’t do that,” Trump interrupted. “It says ‘M, S, 1, 3.’” Trump scoffed when Moran said the letters were photoshopped onto the image. So say we all

Home from a march. Anyone else march today? Happy may day.

So many to choose from.

Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)

Yes. At this point we need to see some of that money in use.

Certainly no culture has a lock on the patriarchy.

Waltz was the one who added the journalist to the chat. Also Hegseth may not know how to follow up.

Yes. i do think it is the ‘50s and early ‘60s American dream model. i don’t think MAGA is formulating a plan to prosper in out actual situation as we stand now. The tariff clusterf*ck is a sign of that. And yes, I think this is a big issue for the democrats, because they don’t have a real solution they can communicate.

Yes, that was the bit I saw.

Yeah. I saw an interview with trump and a news reporter, tv, don’t have a link. I saw a clip. But trump was maintaing the m13 was right there and the reporter kept on saying ‘no sir that’s photoshopped’. Trump said he picked the reporter, well (belittling) he hadn’t heard of him, but he needed to do better. Reporter said lets talk about the Ukraine. Trump ignored. Really trump is going headfirst into his own world fast. Can’t cope with less than obeisance. Which is why bezos move is smart. It is public. It doesn’t matter in the larger sense. And yet what they are doing is to reverse people awakening to things that have been happening around them. So it fits.

Hegseth is higely insecure and totally unqualified before he got elected to this complex job. He got elected to this job because apparently Trump likes him.

I didn’t mean to indicate that it was a coalition of any sort, and the specific quote was from a specific Latino speaker. I have read so e things about the book and heard people discuss it. I was also not dipping my toe i to whether certain groups of immigrants are naturally more conservative. what I was trying to say is the desire for jobs that provide a living wage and buy houses and so on, and possibly a simpler time when houses were safer from fires and tornadoes (etc) and people spoke of solid values, were things that spoke to a wide swath of people, not just white middle america.

Hegseth is a piece of work, isn’t he?

This also sounds a lot loke the gilded age and its good buddy, the wild west. So it is probably inevitable to some extent.

And in the US this opens up a can of worms, because it does not just mean one traditional denomination that traditionally tuns schools andbit probably mens r and intelligent design in so e public schools.

It is also the plan. These things world will not look like this in a generation. Free religious charter schools. Right to lynch people who a different, no doubt.

While Trump, his special self, is foccussed in the Gilded age of robber barons and the only people that matter are the hugely rich. that is a dichotomy. They are hearing at cross purposes.

Frankly, if we do we are going to need to do better, I think.

Yes. Media spin is something they are good at.