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I think Married With Children has managed to come through unscathed because of Ed O’Neil and who he is as a person. He’s so much the opposite of Al Bundy and has always been very open about that. The show as a result falls into that same category as South Park or All in the Family; We understand that the jokes are meant to be satire via absurdity; It’s so over the top and the actor is so different in real life that we just get it.

Compare that to something like Home Improvement, where we know that the humour isn’t meant to be absurdist, and we know that Tim Allen really is a douche.

I never saw those moments as Kif being homophobic. I read it as a subordinate being repulsed by the idea of seeing his commanding officer naked.

Nothing is unknowable. It’s just unknowable for now.

Short answer. Yes.

Long answer: I’m 48. And while some of what we are feeling is certainly a sense of “back in my day” nostalgia, its certainly not the only cause.

We are from a strange generation who were old enough to remember a world before all of this, and young enough to adapt to all of it with relative ease. ( “this” being a transition to an online existence)

Even one generation before us just simply struggles with it. And just one generation after us, while still “born” before this all became a thing, were to young to truly experience it.

So we have a very unique and valuable perspective to offer; one that says "yes, things seemed better back then, and that is likely most certainly true for many things. But some things were likely just as fucked up back then and we simply didn’t have the internet screaming it at us 24-7. And perhaps right and left were not quite as polarized as they are today because of it.

Just my Gen-x take on it.

borderline illiterateness

I’m sorry. But I have to. I’m sure you’re a very smart person, and you speak well, and that this is likely just a tiny little oversight in an otherwise fine and literate mind.

But the irony of not knowing that it’s actually “illiteracy” and not “illiterateness” is just a little too funny not to at least poke a bit of fun at.

Ummmm…I’m going to have to go with “Because he’s an idiot.”

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They play the opening theme for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

It’s probably easier to list the things that aren’t more popular than Ron DeSantis:

• Aids
• Nope…that’s about it.

How to Waste Your Potential by Taking the Easy Path at Every Key Moment

“Right Wing” doesn’t automatically mean “MAGA”, to be fair.

I hate that idiotic narrative they keep pushing.

You’ve got 90% of the guns? Correction…you have 90% of the civilian guns. The military, who work for the legal government have far more than you do, as well as drones, bombs and tanks. So fuck off with your “We have 90% of the guns” bullshit.

TIL that Trump obviously doesn’t know what “Deport” actually means…

I used Crucial brand in both my desktop and my laptop upgrades a few years ago (I don’t remember the exact model…mx500 maybe?) And I haven’t had a single issue.

Absolutely rock-solid.

The VAST majority of them won’t get off their fat-ass any more than they did on J6.

Yes, the J6 crowd wasn’t small by any means, but they weren’t an “army” in any sense of the word, they were a mob of stupid and violent people.

Civil war requires planning, and most Maga followers aren’t capable of anything more complex than ranting on social media.

I love that quote. We need more Sagan’s and fewer Rogans.

Pop Rocks, mouth, coca cola.

So many good answers already that I agree with. So I’ll add James Ellroy and Clive Barker

For Ellroy, the entire LA Quartet remains a pivotal sea change in “hard boiled” crime fiction; taking a lot of the conventions created by the likes of Hammett and Chandler and updating them for a modern audience.

Barker is a more personal choice. But his writing is just so evocative and descriptive that I couldn’t NOT mention him. Imajica literally changed my literary life, with Weaveworld being (in my opinion) a less dense, more reader friendly version of Imajica.

The Island of the Day Before was my first introduction and remains one of my favorites.

It’s not federal vs state

It’s protected vs sacrificial lamb.

The powerful avoid the mobs by occasionally giving up one of their own to the horde.

A GOP “firebrand” is just another term for classless white trash.