We talk about fascism creep as a thing but we are reaching the point where total fascism would happen so fucking swiftly in this country that most people wouldn’t even fucking realize it.
The Kyle Gass stuff actually is frightening and is a real world example of “cancel culture” which has everything do with conservatives ruining your life and career because you said or did something completely harmless and nothing to do with being discriminatory and facing consequences
I think the phenomenon I've really seen is how many regular people had the reaction of wishing a former president had had his brains blown out on live TV. Not freaks or radicals, someone's mom.
I don't know if it counts as optimism but I don't really think there's anything that Donald Trump could do or have happen to him that would make people who don't already like him want to vote for him. There is no more known quantity on earth, he can't change, and he is for sure not getting better.
TWISTER is such a great movie.
The good storm chasers have sensors that are balls, which are round and wholesome, and the bad storm chasers have sensors that are cubes, the most evil shape.