"How Covid Reveals The Ghoulish Reality Behind Anti Homeless Propaganda - SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. In today's episode, we discuss the current homeless catastrophe and how Covid, mass evictions, and anti-homeless propaganda will make it so much worse. Also, Star Trek."

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This video isn't really about Star Trek at all. It's just that near the end of the video, they play a clip from a two-part episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1995 that eerily predicts the present 2020. The episode in question actually takes place in 2024. After (heavens forbid) four more years of Trump, I could definitely see that as being even closer to reality in the real 2024. (Assuming, of course, that we even make it that far with *ugh*shiver*puke* Trump as President for four more years.)

Granted, things are still a little bit better in that episode of DS9 there than they are in actual reality, given that there is no mention made of there having been a global pandemic or of the fact that Donald Trump was the POTUS.

(EDIT 2) In any case, it was naive and too highly optimistic of DS9 to predict that all it will take to fix inequality is a single instance of rioting. Actual reality, in which peaceful protests are mislabeled as "riots" by RWNJ "news" "sources" spewing disinformation and, thus, are summarily dismissed by far too many hateful, uncaring people, is far worse than DS9 could have ever predicted. (EDIT 2)

(EDIT) Also, great of Ted "people are getting more money through unemployment checks than they are from their jobs" Cruz to make an argument for increasing the minimum wage to a point that's livable. Oh, wait, he wasn't doing that? He was actually trying to make it sound like those people are just lazy? Because he's a foul, disgusting ghoul? Ah, well, never mind then. (/EDIT)

"Your Unabashed Support of Trump Will Embarrass Your Bloodline for Generations"

This post was written by John Scalzi's daughter Athena, and she is absolutely right. I just hope that it's way less than "twenty, fifty, even a hundred years in the future" that we all look back at these kooks and "regard them with the same embarrassment and disdain we feel for segregationists when we look back at the 1960s, or the way we feel about flat Earthers." I hope most will feel that way within just the next two or three years at the most. I get what she's saying though. Posterity, and all that. Unless things go incredibly pear-shaped between now and then, though, I think it's probably safe to take it as a given that future generations are going to look back on the 2016-2020 era with high amounts of "WTAF?"

(EDIT) Also, this will be the first time I've ever replied to a post on whatever.scalzi.com (which refers back to this post of my own, though I didn't directly link to that in my comment there). On the one hand, I hope it won't be the last. On the other hand, I hope I won't regret doing even that much. (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) And here is my second ever comment on whatever dot scalzi dot com, which is in reply to a guy who'd already gotten the Mallet between when I started my reply to him and when I posted it. (Also, as an aside, even though that guy was spewing some dumbfuckery about Biden and Kamala Harris and how they were gonna "turk ur gurns" or whatever, and even though I was sorely tempted to use the same sort of fiery asshole language there as I do here, I decided not to. I can be as big of a fiery, ranty asshole here in my own blog as I want to be, but I'm not going to go to someone else's house and be a fiery, ranty asshole there.) (/EDIT 2)