Makai

I agree to an extent but going on offense also wasn’t going to reach Fox viewers. My biggest takeaway from the election was that every attempt was just going to reinforce Trump’s popularity with MAGA. Anyone willing to switch sides already did so. There were a couple of women who were MAGA in 2016 that came out hard against him on social media. They explained the MAGA mindset and it was really interesting. There is such a deep distrust of everyone in power and they view themselves as so much smarter than everyone else for seeing through the lies. The more leaders turned against Trump the more it enforced that Trump was an outsider. When Trump said received backlash over saying something, even if it was something they didn’t believe, they equated it to Uncle Bob getting in trouble for telling the pretty waitress to smile. When experts talked about the real impact of Trump’s policies they prided themselves on seeing through the liberal lies. Same thing when Democrats went on the attack. I 100% agree. I feel like the biggest problem was that there wasn’t enough done to reach complacent voters and to educate people on the real impact of Trump’s policies, particularly economically. I think that the media is a big part of the problem in that area. I remember that the Wall Street Journal running a story on Trump’s tariff plan where they backing up Trump’s lies and USA Today did a fact check story where they found it was false to say Trump was connected to Project 2025. They held the stories on how Trump’s plans would impact the economy until the immediate aftermath of the election.

Wouldn’t have made any difference at all. That audience is unreachable.

Sure, If we ignore that those words were followed by actions that can be evaluated and judged. And if you ignore that actual history has proven the economy is stronger when Democrats are in power. Analyzing DOGE actions one month into Trump’s second administration Unfortunately, the very experts that can predict the problems coming are ignored by MAGA voters because they have a deep distrust of nearly everyone that doesn’t think and look like them.

I absolutely know this is awful news and I genuinely feel awful for the people who be affected negatively. But, I so wish I could see the reaction of my family friend/former co-worker after spending years listening to her bitch and moan about Democrats while also worrying that social security won’t be enough as she approached retirement. FAFO

Yep. The Chinese and Filipino populations are close in size and Sac has the largest Japanese American population in the US outside of Honolulu. If they had just pushed the giveaway to a later date that was actually during the Lunar New Year and not on the first day of Black History Month they probably wouldn’t have had to cancel it.

If it’s the story I’m thinking of, there was more to it than that. The last Year of the Monkey started on 2/8/16 and the Kings were giving away Year of the Monkey t-shirts on 2/1/16, aka the first day of Black History Month. Also a day where players and coaches wear gear in acknowledgment. It’s the team’s marketing department that should have used the internet to see why that was a bad idea. ETA: just saw your post saying it was the Raptors but I can’t find any stories covering it so am not sure how much the situation with the Kings played a role.

You can still sign up for D+ as a standalone service but they work really hard to hide that fact and make you sign-in first. But they do list the price in the FAQ.

As far as I can tell, this hasn’t been posted here and some of the responses are hilarious. (Anyone know how to get a link address from the Bluesky app) This one really sums up where I am right now. And, yes, I did download Mapquest to see if they can replace Google maps for me. Well played, Mapquest. 🫡

As for why now specifically, he was talking about his new movie and it appears there are similarities between the role and Spacey. This also isn’t the first time he has talked about it. This is just the first time the story is getting widespread attention. Kevin Spacey’s aggressive, ‘grow up’ response seems to prove one of Guy Pearce’s claims

It’s pretty much impossible for my opinion of Spacey to go any lower but this new story took me down a rabbit hole of being pissed at celebrities that have defended him. What the actual fuck, Judi Dench and Sharon Stone. The others weren’t particularly shocking.

I haven’t experienced that but it doesn’t surprise me. P+ is prone to some weird issues. Certain episodes won’t let me fast forward and my closed captioning will randomly switch to Italian.

In Lithgow’s most recent movie, he plays the gay grandfather of a non-binary teen. I am inclined to give him more leeway than many other actors on issues like this. It wouldn’t surprise me if he knows very little about Rowling being transphobic.

Her opinions are hers to express and others a free to express their opinion that she is a transphobe. She says that she is fine with trans individuals being free to make their own choices but she also bullied an Olympic boxer she thought looked too masculine to be a cis woman and she lost her shit over the phrase “people who menstruate”. So, whatever lip service she pays to not being a transphobe rings really hollow to me.

And that’s the real reason Palmer has been silent.