I would say it’s more variable than average. The pointless shoe-horning of celebrities is annoying, but there are still plenty of great references and bits.

Halloween episodes are often good sometimes great. The Amazing Race parody fits a hilarious Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf parody within it, that’s the most recent one we laughed a lot at. Some episodes are worth it for the couch gag alone - the bill plympton homer face one is so beautiful, whole seasons of crap would be worth it for that I think.

Lol oops. I have no specific thoughts on pacificism, truth be told.

It’s important to question your beliefs when presented with evidence. My views on pacificism have loosened a lot, for example.

But the two view you mention are ones where the left is objectively correct. Homosexual behavior is a biological fact in almost all animals and non-binary gender systems exist across the breadth of human cultures.

Any belief system which serves as a permission structure for brutalizing others can safely be rejected as false.

We’ve just been watching latter Simpsons (seasons 10+) for the first time.

It’s fine. It’s obviously not golden age Simpsons, but it evens out.

If you just expect a decent animated show, rather than another 25 seasons of non-stop generation-defining excellence, you won’t be disappointed.

use ax as plumb line

Lol sure, if you’re the kind of noob who doesn’t carry a plumb bob with them.

anyone but Trump probably can get elected

That’s not how a fascist coup backed by the majority of our corrupt elites works.

He’s a slimy career politician who has ambition where his ideals should be.

It’s insane to think “only some fascism” is a viable electoral platform. The “all the fascism” minority won’t support you and the “no fascism” majority will stay home again.

Newsom is just another short sighted coward happy to watch the poors suffer as long as his seat is comfortable.

It’s such an American reaction to want to end all existence across an entire solar system because an American president is corrupt.

Short sighted cowards who won’t get out of bed without an opinion pool and yet still think rich people who don’t support fascism is gonna be enough to win a rigged election.

They definitely have not. Not publicizing a fool proof nuclear counter-measure defeats the purpose of achieving it in the first place.

You’d MUCH rather your opponent know a nuke strike is pointless, rather than they try and later be surprised that only one lucky one got through.

Sometimes I miss australia.

Oh lol, oops! Organism, as I’m sure is pretty clear, but I’ll leave it since it’s funnier that way.

This plan is part of our fascist regime’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. Send non whites to death camps and bring in more white supremacists.

This is factually incorrect though. All human language is natural language. We’re an orgasm that has human style language as one of it’s traits.

It doesn’t really make sense to say that birds don’t naturally sing because they teach their children, or that ape gestures and calls are just made up. Incidentally we share a lot of those gestures, showing that human communication systems emerge from the natural processes of evolution.

sin is religious bullshit anyway

Yep, that’s why I used the word.

Suggesting that “people are idiots” actually explains behavior is just like believing in sin - it’s just giving up on understanding reality. It makes as much sense as a right wing christian trying explain away their opponents as sinners.

Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.

Sin is never a sufficient explanation for human behavior. Meaning anytime we think “it’s because they are bad”, we’re missing something big.

All behavior is an attempt to meet needs. Any correct explanation of behavior identifies the need and how the behavior is believed to meet it.

They may not be smart, on average as a group. But that’s not why they keep doing this.

Identities with more rigorous behavior requirements often persist longer. It seems counter-intuitive but the greater the buy-in required, the more appealing the identity seems to be.

In some weird and deeply human way, displaying your devotion to these doomed and unreasonable defenses probably increases the individual’s status among their sovereign peers. That’s the payoff that we don’t see when we only look at the financial and legal costs.

“Proto” usually implies that it’s a stage that may develop into the thing, not yet the thing. Whereas “early” implies it’s recently become the thing. Or at least that’s how I usually hear them used, and what I meant.