@The Aspie Corner Haven't seen any Marvel Movies since "Winter Soldier" and other than a few cartoons I have pretty much given up. I find I'm enjoying independent, local and accessible artists more than the big stuff.

Reason I liked Cobra Kai so much was that it portrayed a flawed person who was wrong, but was capable of getting better and learning from his mistakes. He's never going to feel that he was in the wrong in "The Karate Kid" but he finally was able to move on from it and do better. (Sorry, first show that I've seen in a long time that really spoke to me and I admit it's probably because I was a blonde kid from California in the 80s at the time... we were dumb as shit sometimes.)

Except this time, instead of the Satanic Panic, we've got the Cuck or Racist Panic. If you saw a movie and liked it (Ghostbusters, Star Wars, Black Panther), you're a cuck. If you didn't go see it or didn't like it for any reason, you're a racist/sexist. Hell, even Cobra Kai adoped the Injustice Collector/Red Pill/Alpha bullshit to some degree as demonstrated when Johnny told the kid why he picked on Daniel.

I've deleted every social media account I had, save this one and my email because of this crap. People are whining about the stupidest shit while the world is burning, decent jobs have gone the way of the dodo, and the idiots insist on blaming the victims.

We really don't have anywhere to go.

@UntimelyRippd Of course now we are supposed to simultaneously love and hate middle eastern people depending on whether or not we're shipping them guns.

batshit loony islamic extremists because at the moment they're the enemies of some people who might stand in the way of our middle east hegemony.

@snoopydawg Of course, I'm totally a Russian agent if I say that.

Sigh... I was going to say all that's missing are the Jingoistic Movies that promote war to the kiddies... but then I remembered that kids don't watch movies and the PTB are promoting war with Russia in the places they are spending time...

Which is why I monitor my kids video game preferences heavily.

It's like deja vue all over again ....

San Francisco’s Progressive Mayoral Candidate Jane Kim

She was interviewed about the increase of homelessness. This fact was stunning:

I talk about this a lot, but there was a time in our country when HUD [Housing and Urban Development]’s budget was larger than that of the Department of Defense. In the mid-twentieth century between 1940 and 1980, the federal government built close to 6,000 units of subsidized housing in San Francisco, and close to 200,000 in New York City – 176,000 in New York City. In the 1970s, at our peak, we had more public housing than people on the waitlist. And homelessness was not a crisis on our streets. It was really limited – we used to house people very rapidly.

{in Utah the wait list for public housing and housing vouchers are over two years long and the conditions of the apartments I viewed should have seen them condemned not being rented out}

When Reagan decided to start cutting HUD’s funding – along with passing the most sweeping tax cuts on the richest individuals and corporations – and actually look it up online, HUD’s budget going down between 1980 and 2002 [is correlated to] homelessness emerging as a crisis on our streets and in our cities starting in 1980s. So [subsidized] housing is absolutely the solution to homelessness. Because Reagan was all about smaller government, government should do less and the market should do more, but the market simply will never [take] care of housing the poor and working class. It doesn’t pencil out. Why would you go into a business that’s not profitable? So I just think housing is one of those goods that should also be a public asset – both public and private sectors should be building housing.

Reagan's trickle down economics has been proven to be bullshit, yet congress still tried to sell this to us when they passed their tax bill.

I just read these two articles about Russia Gate and why it's being pushed so hard and why it's not going to go away. I highly recommend reading both articles.

Past a point of no return: “Russiagate” and the reorientation of U.S. imperialism

What we are witnessing is two convergent phenomena coming together, running in parallel but now intersecting. One is a profound, political civil war going on within the summits of the capitalist political establishment, the ruling class centers of power in the intelligence agencies. The second is a qualitative re-orientation of U.S. foreign policy and the gearing up for “major power” conflict with Russia and China as the targets. The goal of this foreign/military re-orientation is to apply severe pressure of all types on Russia and China with four identifiable goals: 1) to encircle Russia, weaken it economically and hem it in on all sides, 2) to compete with China for dominance in Asia, which is now the most dynamic part of the world economy, 3) to weaken or end the alliance that China and Russia have forged in recent years, and 4) to carry out regime change in China and Russia.

Russiagate, the new McCarthyism

Accusing Russia of influencing the U.S. elections came at the moment that Wikileaks was about to reveal her 50,000 emails that exposed the Democrats’ manipulation to keep Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination.

Post-election, the Democrats were vociferous in their accusations against Russia in Congressional hearings, yet they surrendered completely to the Republicans and Trump on DACA and many other issues. By conflating Trump with Russia, they hope it can propel them back into the Democratic majority in Congress and the White House.

Russiagate has become a new weapon of the ruling class, with daily and more unfounded accusations, to divert people from seeing the real danger: the military buildup against Russia and China, the continuing U.S. war against Syria, and threats to Iran and the DPRK.

There is no proof of Russian government hacking into the U.S. voter databases to influence the elections, none at all.

People who have bought into the Russia Gate propaganda are going to give their permission for this country to go to war with Russia even though it's total bull crap that Herheinous made up when she was going to be exposed as someone who had to cheat to win the primary. We know that if Trump was the one who was spreading Russia Gate propaganda after he lost to Herheinous her supporters would be laughing their little blue butts over it because it's just too stupid to believe. And as they love to tell us, Hillary received 3 million more votes than Trump did. But she only lost because Russia spent $100,000 on Facebook ads that a few said something bad about her. Well the ones that were placed before the election. Most of them were placed after Trump had already won. This is how silly Russia Gate is. But people believe it.

@Strife Delivery That actually sounds like an awesome working class song to write...

"You can't kill a ghost, so remember them right."

So, yeah, we've even got the modern equivalent of Reagan in the White House.

Well, the thing is, Reagan never left office.

Let's look at the list of Presidents since Reagan:

H.W. Bush: Weak Reagan
Clinton: Jazz Reagan
W Bush: Dumb Reagan
Obama: Black Reagan
Trump: Orange Reagan

Reagan is basically a ghost that haunts the White House. He floats around and possesses the next President.