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cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote (edited )

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the only reason anybody ever thought that smash mouth wasnt cool and hip is because they were in the nineties where we were all struggling to figure out what is cool and hip in the new millennium.

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cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote (edited )

Keep It (a crooked media podcast) was kinda dunking on this show and I felt frustrated by that. They kept saying, "it's an old schtick, we're not learning new things about these people". I think that's necessarily true, I'm completely unsurprised that these old creeps will support toddlers with guns.

But also,

Sacha Cohen is demonstrating in a really plain way how the corporate flunky class of politicians can be manipulated. In the trailer he shows one Republican congressperson from Florida - Matt Gaetz - shut him down (before showing five that went along) and in the main show apparently he has a spot with Sanders where he spends five minutes spinning his wheels, unable to get Sanders to say anything strange.

I think there's a really good point here to be made: it's not hard to get a lackey to say whatever. "Someone from the guns lobby has given me a script? Which camera should I look into?" I can't respect Congressperson Matt Gaetz for his politics (and I'm not saying he isn't a lackey) but at the very least he is paying attention. If a weird man in terrible makeup and a ridiculously fake accent can get our nation's leaders to compare infants to owls just by claiming to be an Israeli gun advocate, surely the (Russian nationalist influenced) NRA has similar control.

These senators and congresspeople approach their job with roughly the same mindset that I approach mine, which is not a complement.

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cute_spider_ni_srsly OP wrote (edited )

Yes. But also, my favorite part of the episode was when Morty and Summer are in the backseat to their mom and grandfather, and they're realizing together, as brother and sister, how sick their guardians are. I think they realize how much they need to grow on their own and how little guidance Rick and Beth can actually provide. I relate to that moment a lot, since I tend to look towards traditional mentors for guidance, but in my experience the people whose lives have gone just swimmingly do not have answers for important or interesting questions. It's the people whose lives have been difficult and weird who have useful and interesting advice.

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