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We really need a working class revolution asap don't we
This is how utterly cucked liberals are. Their whole thing is just filling in a power vacuum so the right won’t have it and just twiddling their thumbs all term. “We didn’t do any woke stuff, what more do you people want?”
Democrats might as well just be South Park republicans. (I mean, they are. That’s the main difference.)
Imagine being a people pleaser for a crowd that will never shut up about how no matter how much you suck them off, they will always hate you? I bet if I ran and told chuds to eat shit and I’m going to expand civil rights because fuck anyone who thinks they deserve special treatment from the government. At least one or two would begrudgingly admire I have a spine.
That's not true. They cut social security. They assassinated a foreign dignitary. They did a 2 state deal in Palestine. They did some deal with China I can't remember.
That previous comment wasn't satire?
The background music swells and Our Hero Mr. Liberal WASP President gives a rousing speech about Unity and Democracy.
The world is saved!
The only good thing to come out of West Wing was the podcast with Josh Olson and Dave Anthony.
It likely took ten years off their lives though lol
I watched a screenwriter talk and one of the writers said something like "a good TV show requires a central conflict that can ultimately never be resolved", which creates the conditions for consistent tension and drama that sustains a show for an indefinite amount of episodes/seasons. The premise of The West Wing is perfect for that. Plenty of drama, but nothing changes, because no one is really trying to change anything. It's all shuffling deck chairs, which perfectly mirrors reality.
and this is why i refuse to watch tv shows. because this is what they consider a good show. horrible.
It’s not inherently bad. Episodic television is a series of self-contained narratives, and those narratives have value in themselves, even if they don’t alter the core premise of the show. Sometimes the show goes on too long and the writers run out of ideas or the original creatives move on, but that doesn’t invalidate the creative work up to that point. There are plenty of episodic TV shows that are amazing and wouldn’t benefit from fundamental changes to the premise.
Frankly, I think shows have gone too far in the other direction. Every streaming series is now a very long movie, and the medium isn’t better for it. Individual episodes often lack standalone value or punch, with plot and character development flowing too freely between them. Some creators are good at making use of the series format, using different visual or storytelling techniques to create episodes that feel distinct, but a lot of it just feels like they’re shooting an eight-hour film and then having an editor cut it into appropriately-sized pieces.
I guess what I’m saying is that, although it’s fine to not like TV as a medium, the idea of having a central, irresolvable conflict and exploring within the boundaries of that conflict doesn’t necessarily make for bad art. It’s a creative limitation, and limitations often lead to good art. There’s plenty of bad TV (like The West Wing) but there’s also plenty of great TV (unless you just dislike TV altogether, which, again, is fine).
Finally, with all the votes and power we can achieve our dream of maintaining the status quo
Because Democrats are conservatives and Republicans are reactionaries.
Because they're all Nazis, one side hides it better.
Oops! All Nazis!