BMCarbaugh

BMCarbaugh t1_j7jscc9 wrote

Now the escalation begins. Soon the cops will be wearing plate mail and demon masks. Then the criminals will begin exploring polearms. By this time next year, we'll have clans fighting in the streets, the skies echoing with the thundering rapport of battle-worn nodachi shattering against lacquered tedate.

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BMCarbaugh t1_j5xswrl wrote

Sure, but they've canceled plenty of shows before they had a chance to become successful. Or made shows that had the potential to be successful and then quietly released them at 4am on a Tuesday with no marketing. Or both.

People forget that a lot of the Golden Age Prestige TV Classics weren't that big when they first started (or, in the case of The Wire, were NEVER all that big, ratings wise).

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BMCarbaugh t1_iyazw5d wrote

Completely barbaric. Not to mention utterly stupid.

We should be welcoming these people. We should be advertising more of them to come. We should be taking in so many of them that it makes Putin foam at the mouth with rage. Every anti-war asylum case from Russia robs money from his war machine and adds a new taxpayer to the US.

Instead we shoot ourselves in the foot because we built a big racism machine for keeping out Mexicans and don't know how to turn it off.

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