Oh, do I have so many choice colorful words I would love to yell at in Vietnamese.
May 1st, 1969. Fred Rodgers testifies before the Senate in favor of PBS Funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
Mr. Rodgers would be disappointed in you.
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?
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.
That kind of was the point — he taught values without turning childhood into a debate. That’s why he still resonates.
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.
Fred was woke as fuck
the most radical thing about this in it’s context is that in the moment there is no discussion about this being a radical act. in the moment, on the show, Fred Rogers simply says “isn’t it nice to soak your feet after a long day” and then him and the mailman (i forget his name) just soak their feet and speak as equals about how their day is going and how nice it feels to be neighborly to each other.
the most radical acts of defiance don’t look like defiance at all. they look like a friend being a friend. ultimately, that’s all solidarity is. a willingness to make friends with people who are different from you
Folks see this or Uhura/Chekov on Star Trek and completely lack the contextual understanding behind just how woke (For the time) it is.
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.
He’s nice and not racist. Pfff woke.
In a normal democracy it isn’t, but fascists aren’t democratic people. By definition.
they’re also barely people
dehumanization is the easy and wrong way out. it’s human to have the capacity for infinite cruelty. change the material circumstances and you too might be cruel.
Right on. It’s so deeply human that no other animal has been observed to be as cruel as we are to each other and our environment.
You’ll lose that opinion real fast if you learn about chimps, dolphins, or even lions.
I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar
Lol I feel like our greatest strength could be defined in a better way, particularly considering what “politics” has gotten us in pretty much every single civilization… Collapse
Politics also made all those civilisations.
When a society all agrees not to eat all the potatoes now, but to plant some underground and wait for them to grow more potatoes, that’s politics.
When an artist and a programmer agree to divide responsibilities and make a video game together, that’s politics.
When a discord moderator decides to force everyone to agree to a no politics rule, that’s politics.
When a Cheeto gets people murdered in the streets, that’s politics
We can do this all day bro, I get what you are saying but I’m going to respectfully disagree. Yes politics are cool when you define them as “human cooperation” but that’s a really broad and wide definition that fails to capture a shitload of nuance. So yeah. If you just say “cooperation is cool” I guess you’re right. Not exactly deep though and one could argue that tools, ingenuity, love, the desire to explore and adventure, the thirst for knowledge, all off those other things drove the good parts of society… Not politics. So I am going to respectfully disagree.
I’m not saying politics is all good, but politics gives humans the power to make all those nice things you said mean something. Tools only get passed on to the next generation because of schools and apprenticeships; political organisation of knowledge. Ingenuity only has a lasting effect because of education politics, and the political organisation of philosophy and science. Climbing Mount Everest and landing on the moon would be difficult or impossible without politics to make supply chains and organise expedition parties. Knowledge would die in a generation if not for our politics, like it does with octopodes, an animal just as smart as humans, but apolitical.
And I think love is an inherently political emotion. Apolitical animals like octopodes or lizards don’t have an evolutionary reason to develop love, except perhaps sexual love for reproduction. Look at seahorses and how political and loving they are in comparison. Or penguins. So very political, so very loving. They care for their partners and children for a long time. Love is what binds them together and lets them do all those politics. Compare with eagles, whose most advanced political organisation is “get off my lawn”. Their lack of love makes them less political.
I get your point but Bioshock and Avatar seem pretty out of place in that list
The pyramids were a technological triumph that has made a farce of conspiracy theorists
Bioshock is an artistic triumph that has made a farce of fascism
The Moon missions were an anthropic triumph that made a farce out of the relentless hostility of space
Avatar was an artistic triumph that made a farce out of cinema.
That’s just a list of four random things I like
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.
Who the fuck is that.
No, love. He did something far more important than entertain them. He raised them to be decent people. Apparently you didn’t pay attention, but even Mr. Rogers can only do so much, and you were evidently always beyond help.
Does she think that Fred Rogers would have considered ICE to be “helpers”?
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.
The champion stood, the rest saw their better, Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny reference in 2026? Thanks for the reminder, its technological distinctiveness has been added to my videos folder.
They did a 15 year anniversary collab that’s on youtube. https://youtu.be/hGtbr-ZvdT0
I understand if you don’t trust a random person’s links, so search for “The Ultimate Showdown 15th Anniversary Redux Collab” to find it specifically.
Hey, that was in an Ultimate Battle of Ultimate Destiny, we can hardly hold him accountable for his actions, too much was at stake!
