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Dog Moon · Jan 16, 2021

Aeson said:
I saw a tik tok video where a young man claimed communism after "a sitting president was banned from Twitter". This statement confuses the hell out of me. I don't think that word means what he thinks it means.

That's part of why Bernie Sanders didn't win. They kept calling him a communist and socialist and those terms bring fear into people. Thing is, yeah, PURE communism may be bad, but it doesn't mean communism doesn't have any bad ideas. I think Bernie is like a Democratic Socialist or something like that, which again, isn't as bad as people make it out to be. He wants to keep democracy, but he also wants to expand on social benefits (or something like that)... basically, do what a lot of European (non-communist) countries are doing with free access to health care, colleges, etc.

Using that word even though people (I admit, I couldn't quite explain to someone what pure communism is) don't know what it means is just another way of fearmongering, especially since people DON'T know what it means. (At least that part doesn't work on me since I'm not as ignorant as so many people here in America).

Aeson · Jan 16, 2021

Like a campaign attack ad against one of our new senators. My sister kept repeating it as the reason she wouldn't vote for him. I asked did you research the claim? She said she did, but I'm dubious of that claim. I said the truth is not as you think it is. The attack is only slightly true. He's a pastor that wanted clemency for a man on death row for killing a police officer. He didn't want another man to die. It's not like he wanted the man set free. If you look at it from that point of view, he was a man of mercy wanting mercy for another man. More pastors should be like him.

For decades people have been taught to fear communism, and it's little brother socialism. Few of them were ever taught what those are.

As I've gotten older, I've grown more skeptical. I learn about the things I don't understand. I'm trying to view things from different angles. The view from the left of center is a little easier to understand. If I stray too far left the view gets blurry. Too far right and view gets scary. My sister is farther right of center than I'm comfortable with. I fear the day I start hearing Q come from her.

Aeson · Jan 16, 2021

My mom found 2 of the sets of die cast D&D minis on clearance at Walmart. Didn't have the dragon set. Apparently they're $2 and $5. I wonder if we should get as many as we can and resale them online. I'm thinking people don't want them is why they're on clearance.

Mad_Jack · Jan 16, 2021

Dog Moon said:
I have also seen it. I enjoyed it, even though I think my biggest issue was pacing in the though. Like part of the middle (or beginning, I forget) of the second season was slow and then they finished it WAY too quickly. I felt the show definitely needed an extra 1-2 episodes for that season or trim down the earlier parts to expand the later parts. But overall, I do enjoy it and look forward to the next season.

And Doom Patrol as well. DC main movies haven't been that good (including WW84), but their non-CW shows have been pretty good to awesome.

Yeah, the pacing on Titans was a bit off in places...

Doom Patrol is freakin' surreal, lol. It hurts my brain to think about where they'll have to go with it in the second season to top the first season...

Overall, I've been prety happy with most of the DC tv shows.

Dannyalcatraz · Jan 16, 2021

Dog Moon said:
That's part of why Bernie Sanders didn't win. They kept calling him a communist and socialist and those terms bring fear into people. Thing is, yeah, PURE communism may be bad, but it doesn't mean communism doesn't have any bad ideas. I think Bernie is like a Democratic Socialist or something like that, which again, isn't as bad as people make it out to be. He wants to keep democracy, but he also wants to expand on social benefits (or something like that)... basically, do what a lot of European (non-communist) countries are doing with free access to health care, colleges, etc.

Using that word even though people (I admit, I couldn't quite explain to someone what pure communism is) don't know what it means is just another way of fearmongering, especially since people DON'T know what it means. (At least that part doesn't work on me since I'm not as ignorant as so many people here in America).

Yep. Bern is a Democratic Socialist, and most Americans don’t understand what that is.* So most American politicians who have DS views just call themselves Democrats.

* TBH, most Americans have a poor understanding of socialism in general, so the term has been a very effective scare word in our politics.

Dog Moon · Jan 16, 2021

Mad_Jack said:
Yeah, the pacing on Titans was a bit off in places...

Doom Patrol is freakin' surreal, lol. It hurts my brain to think about where they'll have to go with it in the second season to top the first season...

Overall, I've been prety happy with most of the DC tv shows.

While season 2 was interesting, it also had weird pacing issues. Season 1 I just remember it being pretty awesome and crazy the entire time. Season 2 was mixed with "ugh, this is boring and stupid, wtf is going on?" mixed with the "This is awesome and crazy and this is why I love this show". I think the ending 'ended' a little early though, in the middle of a showdown, basically, but that was an issue with Covid shutting things down, meaning Season 3 should be starting off with a bang.

That apparently was an issue with Warrior Nun from Netflix as well. Like it basically ended in the middle of a fight and it's like wtf is going on here, how this can possibly be over, this is the stupidest place to end a show that I have ever seen... then learned it got cut short cause of Covid and they "did what they could with what they had".

But overall, yeah, their non-CW shows have been good for DC, imo. Even the worst parts don't make me want to quit hard like too many DC movies or the shows on the CW (Flash, Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, something else maybe?)... After Arrow was done, I watched part of the following season of the Flash, felt like it was sorta the same thing repeating itself and just quit the show. And pretty much decided to leave all of those behind. They're made for a difference audience than what I've become interested in.

Aeson · Jan 16, 2021

I stick with The Flash and Supergirl. Supergirl with it's brighter outlook is a little pick me up some times. I'm not sure if it's because Melissa Benoist is a new mom or low rating is the why the show is ending. I think it's maybe both?

Dannyalcatraz · Jan 17, 2021

The Flash is the only one of the current supers shows I’ve watched regularly.

Dog Moon · Jan 17, 2021

Aeson said:
I stick with The Flash and Supergirl. Supergirl with it's brighter outlook is a little pick me up some times. I'm not sure if it's because Melissa Benoist is a new mom or low rating is the why the show is ending. I think it's maybe both?

I think it was both, from what I remember hearing. I actually tried watching Supergirl. There's something about Melissa Benoist that I really like. I kept watching because of her, but there was something about like literally the rest of the cast that I found annoying. Obviously other people are going to disagree with me, but I just couldn't really like any of them. I stopped watching I think middle of season 2 sometime.

Dog Moon · Jan 17, 2021

Dannyalcatraz said:
The Flash is the only one of the current supers shows I’ve watched regularly.

For a while that was my favorite of the CW shows. It was strong during a time when Arrow was weak. Then Arrow picked up and eventually I felt like Flash was losing what made it interesting and seemed to become too repetitive and blah. Once Arrow ended, I watched flash for almost half a season before deciding I was done.

Legends of Tomorrow kept me interest for a little more than a season. I was losing too much interest to bother starting Black Lightning. Batwoman I watched for two episodes. I just couldn't get to like the main actress and it had nothing to do with the little bit of controversy surrounding her. I just didn't care for her or her acting.

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