Nothing, as far as I can tell.
I have only the vaguest of vague impressions, but my vague impression is that he's been quite a good actor in other things, but then with Doctor Who they kept giving him terrible scripts.
She did do acting before she did comedy, probably nothing anyone's ever seen.
It looks like I'm not alone in having the impression that the most recent seasons were badly received: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/ratings/
I don't think it was that gender "was an issue" or anything. Like I say I thought it was just kind of generally understood that the recent seasons just weren't very good, but it looks from the comments like that's not the Lemmy consensus, so be it.
Maybe you don't like the actress
No idea about her or anything upcoming. I thought it was universally accepted that the recent seasons of the Doctor were horrible, but it looks like I'm alone in that. Oh well. Anyway, my main point about this was that Fern Brady would do great.
My phrasing was bad. Both the gender-swapped and the current "dancing in the crosswalk" Doctor Who attempts were dogshit. Fern Brady would actually fit the emotional timbre of the classic Doctors while also happening to be modern and female, was my point.
This is one of the last levels of safeguard: At the end of the day, public opinion matters for whether or not you can put people in prison (or even put them through the life-changingly traumatic and expensive experience of a major criminal trial.)
They are trying to change that, of course. George W. introducing whole new systems that were outside the normal constitutional safeguards was deeply horrifying to a lot of people, because it laid the groundwork which Trump is now so many years later building his camps on.
I 100% believe that JFK was killed because he was serious about trying to bring some humanity to the US government.
None of the neoliberals wanted to "use overt fascism" as a threat of anything. They just want to sit back and get paid, and don't really care, most of their campaign materials (according to the super-experts in this comments section at least) are trying to imitate the fascists. None of their campaign materials or public statements even seemed to recognize that fascism was something at all dangerous in any way.
The thing of "oh isn't it convenient that I have to vote for the non fascist if I don't want fascism, well fuck you I think you're trying to trick me" is a super popular and very effective propaganda thing designed to trick people into letting the fascists come to power, though. The overall pitch is to make it sound like "it is urgent not to let fascists come to power" is some kind of clever ruse, and can be discounted.
Many issues at play:
- In the same way that a lot of people with powerful friends in the city depend on new highway projects, new community centers, new programs being set up, so that their friends can get paid, people in the US government with powerful friends depend on new wars so that everyone can sell weapons and continue to have good quarters.
- The US military benefits enormously from getting a ton of practice. We're trying to run an empire, and very often big militaries get lazy because their countries do so well that they don't really have to be scrappy, and people get complacent. War is so shocking and challenging that the only way to really stay good at it is to be doing it. And so, that's exactly what the US does.
- The US has its fingers in so many pies so to speak that all kinds of shit that happens globally we determine to be our business. Civil war in Syria? Holy shit, better make sure the right people win. Let's go fuck up some irregular forces that don't have helicopters or satellite support.
The time to do that was 2020-2024, honestly. They had power. Now they're having to fight the whole fucking thing uphill, and of course Trump is going to make himself president for life.
They should try to recover us to a democracy, IDK what the fuck the alternative would be. But the time to put Trump in custody was January 2021. Now we've got the exact same fight on our hands that that would have caused, but they get to be inside the castle shooting out.
So I disagreed with this:
Because the opinion pieces were all winging about how Harris lost because ... she hadn’t been mean enough to trans people.
Now that we've solidly established that I was 100% in the right to disagree with this, you've done a few rhetorical backflips around to where you're accusing me of a bunch of things I never said. You've also actually managed to backflip your way around to where because I posted a negative story about Gavin Newsom, I must not care about negative things about Gavin Newsom and I must think he's our next president.
I changed my mind: You might be the galaxy brain propaganda. It's honestly pretty impressive. Well done! If you want to engage with anything I actually said, you're welcome to.
Okay, so it wasn't "all" opinion pieces, it was no opinion pieces. Glad we got that squared away. There is an NBC News article, and a couple of clueless reps apparently. Hooray. To me this piece sounds like a pretty good instance of the galaxy-brain type of propaganda that can successfully turn everyone against the Democrats, whether you are pro-trans or anti-trans, which is generally a pretty good accomplishment when you can swing it.
There's a pretty good book called "Playing With Fire" about the politics of the late 60s and the events of the time. I had to stop reading it, it's too sad. Bobby Kennedy talking to the crowd after MLK was shot, not knowing that he was going to be dead the same way a short time later, just fucked me up, I put it down.