TSG_Asmodeus

Ok boomer

I wasn't (as) worried until Trump won. Now we're going to have Trump sycophants running our federal government.

Here is a 'great' report on Canadian preferences for the States. It highlights fun facts like:

Q: An American Presidential Election will be held in November. Which candidate would you most like to see win?

Majorities of both men and women in Canada prefer Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. However, the preference for Harris is somewhat stronger among women (68%) than among men (51%). While only a minority of men prefer Trump, they are 12 percentage points more likely to do so than are women (27%, compared to 15%). Since 2020, Trump’s appeal has increased by seven percentage points among men (from 20% to 27%) and by five points among women (from 10% to 15%).

And then we get to this:

FIGURE 5 U.S. presidential election: preferred candidate, by federal vote intention (2024)

And if you were curious if it was just a Con thing, as usual no, it's men again:

I'm extremely worried for my queer and female friends and loved ones. My queer child is already getting more and more aggressive threats from both people they know and don't know. Two weeks ago it was threatening to attack them after school. Last week was a bottle thrown at them with a 'vote Trump, fag!' shout.

I won't stand by that, so I'm going to dress and act as out as I ever have, so they come for me instead. Come at me, Cons, I'm not afraid.

I wish you and your family the best. It's a scary time. Love from Canada.

Like people who never learn proper English to put the other person first when listing them and yourself.

Was that intentional or am I just reading too far into it?

I'm not sure it's literal, more of a "I feel this way, and I don't want to assume others do, yet I have to ask has anyone else...?"

You wanna mod instead, go do it.

I feel like a certain poster here is conveniently and transparently overlooking the word "DEVELOPING" in the title.

I notice the wikipedia article is still un-edited, too. Put your money where your mouth is if you're so confident.

No sci-fi wasn't an official thing, yet the title of this is 'were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre...'

I'd say a fictional story about slaves successfully rebelling and taking over a country, narrated by a scientist, who does science things, counts.

It is ridiculous how much hair-splitting is done when it's Black culture, and I'm quite embarrassed by the attempt to claim entire wikipedia sections are 'wrong' like this.

(Not saying you're saying that, I understand we're on the same page.)

So looking up the Blake story it’s not really sci-fi at all?

You should edit the wikipedia entry then, because it disagrees with you.

"Samuel R. Delany described it as "about as close to an SF-style alternate history novel as you can get.

Further, while it incorporates elements of the fugitive slave narrative, Blake's narrator is also a scientist, whose focus on data collection and research stand in repudiation of the racial science of the day.[10] In fact, this reflects one of Delany's major themes: that Africa and its contributions to science and math were foundational to the Western world.[12]"

I mean, yeah, basically.

Dude, this is incredible. If this was on a CRT or if you're looking from the side, it's dead-on. That shot of the delta city ad looked straight from the movie, angle-included!

As Libb here said, wordpress is excellent for just writing out a blog. Also, /u/[email protected], please tell us when you have your blog up :)