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901.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Pete the Cat is fine, but it just doesn't hold a candle to Bluey, sorry!
902.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Yes! We also love Hilda. It's not great in the relatable way Bluey is, but it's just good art, in a way that is also appealing to kids.
903.
by sanderjd 2y ago
hahaha love Old Ladies.
904.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Ha good point. If there was any justice in the world, Bluey would be worth about as much as Amazon.
905.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Oh I disagree, my kids like Blue a lot more than Blippi. But they like better-but-still-dross like "Spidey and His Amazing Friends" about the same as they like Bluey, whereas their parents like Bluey about an order of magnitude mo
906.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Bluey doesn't do it as innuendo either. I like Bluey and Ghibli the most of all children's media I'm familiar with, for exactly this reason.
907.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Especially since having a second child start growing up, I've realized it's actualy four stories, often all compelling at once. There's Bluey's story, and there is the dad's and mom's story, but there is also
908.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Yeah, this. I love love love Bluey, but I also often think, "get a job, Bandit!" :)
909.
by sanderjd 2y ago
No way man. My kids love Bluey. You're right that they don't understand why (or that) we love Bluey way more than the other shows they also love (which mostly suck) but what's so brilliant about it is that it's top
910.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Why don't you believe it? From my perspective, it seems imminently plausible. Who cares about the licensing? But I'm interested in what leads you to the opposite conclusion.
911.
by sanderjd 2y ago
I brought up something different.
912.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Oh this is an easy one! Ruining lives by firing lots of people while destroying the economy, and endangering health by doing things like eliminating Ebola prevention funding and totally screwing up the NIH health research structure.
913.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Funny how the richest person in the world feels less of a chilling effect than career staff at federal agencies! What makes you think I'd prefer that he not speak plainly? I'd certainly prefer that he: 1. Not break a bunch of laws
914.
by sanderjd 2y ago
In many ways that you can easily find information on in other more appropriate venues.
915.
by sanderjd 2y ago
It's not semantics! This is the refuge of everyone who says something is what it's not (or isn't what it is). "Well sure, yeah, I guess if you use words to mean the things that those words mean, then you have a point!&qu
916.
by sanderjd 2y ago
No, you're just the person misrepresenting what it says.
917.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Because you're responding about different things in different threads, so I'm responding to those responses. You're just wrong about the common meaning of the term, and you seem to think that just asserting the same thing ove
918.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Yes.
919.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Look, if someone writes up "here's what our party's candidate is gonna do when we win the presidency", and then that party's candidate wins the presidency, hires the person who wrote that up to be the budgetary gate
920.
by sanderjd 2y ago
It doesn't though. You are the only one who has brought up these other countries.
921.
by sanderjd 2y ago
You're right that most people in this thread are likely native english speakers, but that just means that we can understand that the weird narrow read of the words "authoritarian regime" is silly and, based on other comments
922.
by sanderjd 2y ago
I'm sorry man, but subsidized insurance is a subsidy! What are we even doing here? To your second point. Sure, it's easy to say that as an ideological rando on the internet. In the real world, policymakers are going to try to figu
923.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Funny how all the replies to me are pure defensiveness about the word "authoritarian", rather than the point of my post (the chilling effects on speech).
924.
by sanderjd 2y ago
I'm definitely not! That was a weird leap by your parent commenter that has nothing to do with what I said.
925.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Nothing you pasted here suggests that those attributes are required for the definition of "authoritarian regime", it is just a characterization of "the most notable authoritarian regimes" as it itself says in the text.
926.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Nobody in this thread has said "this is a single-party regime akin to Iraq or North Korea".
927.
by sanderjd 2y ago
Dude, you really need to take the partisan blinders off. They are actively, and extremely obviously, executing on the Project 2025 plan, which they wrote up for exactly this reason. This is primarily being driven by Russell Vought, whose pl
928.
by sanderjd 2y ago
To your first sentence, again, I really think you just have these definitional questions wrong. You seem to be using a vibes-based reading of "authoritarian regime" rather than a "what the words mean" based reading. To y
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by sanderjd 2y ago
This is simply incorrect.
930.
by sanderjd 2y ago
"Authoritarian" is a philosophy of how to govern. It is orthogonal to whether the government was fairly elected. (It's true that many authoritarian regimes seek to eliminate or corrupt elections, but being fairly elected is c

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