Exo

That's 90% a bald Willem Dafoe.

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SGR

He looks like Willem Dafoe and Mike Patton had a kid and he grew up rough.

Trollheart

That was a fantastic show. Loved it.

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Chula Vista

Jeez, now that you mentioned it.

Same here. Hated in ended so quickly but glad it went out before they ran out of good story ideas.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I assumed Chula was just making a Willem Dafoe joke I didn't get.

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Chula Vista

You would LOVE Mr. Inbetween.

Check it out. Watch till the end!

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

Oh please, please, please let it be true!

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

Anybody see this? Katie Porter passing the time during Kevin McCarthy's vote-a-thon last week.

This woman is so awesome!

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

TheBig3

Well good news, Chula, because she's running for Senate

innerspaceboy

Friends,

Lately I've had a desire to explore contemporary progressive political theorism, criticism, and commentary. I've journaled extensively on my political ideologies, and on the Political Compass Test I register at the intersection of Anarcho-Socialism, Anarcho-Collectivism, and Anarcho-Communism, but I recognize the utopian idealism of this trifecta and that an under-educated, uninformed, and apathetic populous will never realize such a vision. I've got the classic texts by Noam Chomsky and the mammoth No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism, but I wanted to read something more current.

Being a Sanders supporter and an advocate for Democratic Socialism, several video shorts by Robert Reich found their way into my feed over the years. For those not immediately familiar with him, Reich is a powerful and positive figure in American politics who has worked tirelessly to educate the American people about what has gone wrong from the Reagan administration forward, and, more importantly, specifically what we can do to repair and restore accountability in governance and in corporate behavior. Reich served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century.

He's written 18 best-selling books, and co-created the award-winning documentaries "Inequality For All," (streaming free on YouTube), and "Saving Capitalism," (now streaming on Netflix). Reich routinely posts concise video shorts to his website and social media outlining how we can take our country back. The next time you feel like exploring the causes and consequences of political action in the 20th century with a hopeful message for the future, I invite you to check out his video shorts on robertreich.org, or either of his documentary films, which provide a simple but clear primer on the fundamentals of where we are as a nation.

I've just reserved a copy of Reich's latest book - The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It published in 2020 in the midst of the Trump presidency. I'm hoping it goes into greater depth than his documentary films so I can develop a better understanding of our political climate.

If any of you have read The System or any of Reich's other books, I'd welcome your thoughts for or against his writing, as well as any other recommended literature on the subject.

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