Yeah, they don’t really seem overly concerned with maintaining electoral majorites. Or the vote. Or the rule of law. Or the Constitution, etc…

We destroy capitalism or capitalism (finishes) destroying us. Appear to be the only two options available.

Boring, slow incremental progress is great. Not ideal, but great.

However, a two-party system where one party is ALWAYS a single lost election from the advent or fascism is a democracy too brittle to survive.

Won in 2012

Won in 2018

Won in 2020

Won in 2022

And this is where it got us.

So… They are just going to pretend he’s mentally sound, and for as long as they do, this shit just gets worse and worse until we all die from it.

Assuming the other half is where they plan to install the oil derricks…

Neuromancer without devolving into self-parody…

What was that bit about trying to read Hamlet and deciding it was just people sitting around in castles speaking in cliches?

I mean, if they can make a 3rd adaptation of Dune: The Consumable Content Experience then I’m sure someone can find a way to make a Neuromancer that would be me than just a generic block of media - greenlit while pointing to the mere existence of The Peripheral as financial onus.

Maybe next time then.

Looks like she’s walking out of an Apple store

Do the lenses. They, aside from the razor blade nails, were the defining characteristic.

Do them right.

Rather than set up a lazy shot-reverse-shot ala Attack of the Clones, every scene Molly is in gives us a background that can be flipped and displayed in the lenses in order to showcase what the character is feeling.

And then cast her with someone who can do a Carl Urban-as-Dredd performance without ever showing us her actual eyes.

Experimental? Edgy? Overly difficult? Artistically pretentious even?

Maybe.

But these stills are shot at day and without neon? So, much better than whatever paint-by-numbers checklist they are using to produce this abomination…

No… Hell no.

She had her tear ducts reversed so she spit out her tears.

Yeah this adaptation is fucked.

… Now?

The Devil’s Eyebrow

There are no checks. There are no balances. There is nothing stopping them…

This isn’t Trump’s vanity - this is the oligarchs, who do not care about nation states, carving up the globe as a resource grab.

The US will annex Greenland. The US will invade Canada. The US will kill protesters, starting with the students.

Concentration camps. Gulags. The disappearing of opponents and mass killings of the undesirables.

Europe will try to unify, but their democracies are already beset by oligarchs, from Putin to Musk, who are financing newly emboldened far-right fringe groups and political candidates.

Europe may rally and pull together.

Or, they may fracture from external pressure and splinter from internal dissention; that is the plan.

You all heard Captain Slow.

Hand over them keys.

Actually, that would be amazing. Unfortunately, living in a major North American city, I don’t have enough wealth to be without a car.

Jeeze.

And they keep saying AI is useless…

This is nuts.

We can’t choose our leaders based on how effective they are in hand to hand combat!

Stick with the current system: the one where we choose our leaders based on how much money they can raise.

I mean… we all have that friend who does mushrooms or drops acid and thinks they are the savior of the human race.

The only difference is that the next day they have to go work their shift at IHOP rather than waking up and being the richest person in the world.

Republican administrations tank the economy when it’s business as usual.

This is the dissolution and piecemeal sale of the US Government.

Of course there is going to be a fucking recession!

… Big Meat?

Can’t make an omelette without breaking the bank.