Oh, do I have so many choice colorful words I would love to yell at in Vietnamese.
Fred was woke as fuck
Folks see this or Uhura/Chekov on Star Trek and completely lack the contextual understanding behind just how woke (For the time) it is.
See parallels w/AIDS fears & Princess Di shaking hands? But contrasts of course
I was thinking of this moment
Man, I wish we lived in a world where being kind and treating everyone equally wasn’t somehow political.
Presbyterians don’t have canonized saints but if they did, The Reverend Fred Rogers would almost certainly be #1 on the list. He believed in the importance of teaching kids to love their neighbors and themselves. And he found an incredibly effective way to do it that basically no one else has been able to match.
Too bad Meghan McCain was apparently watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on mute the entire time.
the bit that I always am happy to know is that through his entire show, he never appeared to be outwardly religious.
he said be kind, because it’s good to do, not because god said.
he said love one another, because it’s wonderful to be loved back, not because it was in some book.
that he was able to preach without the stigma of religion gave the enormous reach across cultures that his program had.
Ms. Rachel is doing a good job. Plus, she’s getting lots of hate for it
He really embodied all that is good in us.
Does she think that Fred Rogers would have considered ICE to be “helpers”?
May 1st, 1969. Fred Rodgers testifies before the Senate in favor of PBS Funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
Its always amazing how selective this is. Should business people also shutup about politics? Should they be prevented from lobbying and donating to political campaigns?
Guess which party’s supreme court picks fucked that up?
Business people should not be celebrities, so people should only listen as it pertains to their company or their industry.
Wealthy donors are clearly one of the causes of our current mess and need to be fixed
Mr. Rodgers would be disappointed in you.
That kind of was the point — he taught values without turning childhood into a debate. That’s why he still resonates.
This dumbfuck is who DNC toured with during the brief Harris Presidential campaign last year. Yeah, the party that pretends to be accepting and kind to all people like Fred Rogers was, paraded someone that thinks being accepting and nice is entertaining around like we’d all be good friends
Don’t forget that dumbfuck also sold out her own sister to advance her political career. I have absolutely no doubt that she’s only on the outs with MAGA because she called the “wrong” play after Jan 6.
Are you confusing her with a Cheney daughter?
Yep. Dang it. You’re right.
I totally did. In my defense they are similar in appearance and notable conservative family members. And Megan endorsed Harris during her first presidential campaign (which was also brief)
I know the fucker killed everyone basically and then committed seppuku. Must be some politics to that.
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny reference in 2026? Thanks for the reminder, its cultural and technological distinctiveness has been added to my videos folder.
Hey, that was in an Ultimate Battle of Ultimate Destiny, we can hardly hold him accountable for his actions, too much was at stake!
The champion stood, the rest saw their better, Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater
She should really shut the fuck up about wokeness right now. He father hated Trump. She has openly called out Trump.
Enough with the distractions.
What’s funny is that she’s right. He wasn’t political. He was just a normal decent person. He didn’t talk about Republicans (which I believe he himself was) or Democrats. So in that sense, yeah, he wasn’t political.
Really? But he was such a normal decent person? I assumed he was liberal or progressive or socialist because he valued empathy and niceness. He did not look down on people for their race, class, religion or abilities. He valued education. He genuinely cared for people.
The lesson I take from this is republicans used to not be sociopaths
I was just talking about the fact that he didn’t mention politics in that sense.
In the 80s and 90s it was possible to have faith in the country. That the current administration was just a bad actor and we’d get it right next time. That we all kinda wanted the same thing, a functioning government and to lead our lives happily and privately.
Maybe it was true then. Maybe Fox News actually did poison the well, and people who once were rational are no longer so. Fear and hate blight rationality and the media cycle feeds on it. The more angry we are, the more we engage with social media. The more ads we’re served.
It’s wild that we’ll have to explain around campfires and cook stoves in the aftermath to whatever generation follows us that this was all in pursuit of ad revenue.
Politics in the US used to be divided along a lot more lines than just socially progressive vs socially conservative. You had a lot of people voting in ways that would surprise people these days, which was totally normal and reasonable, as the reaction to hearing people voted differently to you wasn’t outrage like it is now. It’s really hard to go back to that though, as now it’s been sorted down pretty much exclusively one very emotional axis being the whole identity of the parties, everyone infers a lot more about people based on who they vote for.
I wonder if McCain is dishonest, stupid, or both. I think both, but stupid is the dominant mechanism here. I think she’s too idiotic to grasp that all things have a political context and subtext, even when it’s not an explicit “vote for XYZ”. But maybe she gets that and is just being dishonest for clout.
Either way I hope she goes away and never impacts the world again.
People are genuinely brainwashed. Try to explain that left = for people and right = for profit and they will spout out whataboutisms or just reply with the laughing emoji.
Who the fuck is that.
