People that are nostalgic for Static Shock, I implore you:
PLEASE talk about episodes other than Jimmy or Sons of the Fathers.
I get it, those two episodes stand out for a reason (and both are incredibly topical considering our current political climate), but those aren’t the only episodes of Static Shock to talk about community violence or discrimination, and Static Shock is too good of a show for these to be the only two episodes y’all talk about.
The original Tweet reads: “do the studios realize that the current state of streaming residuals absolutely destroys the moral case against piracy”.
The ReTweet adds on: “like the moral case against piracy is ‘people deserve to get paid for their work’ except it turns out the people getting paid aren’t the people who did the work’”.
If people don’t admit that alcohol is a drug so help me God I will pour an entire bottle of wine on their hair.
Wine? Drugs. Beer? Drugs. That awful cocktail you made in your dorm room out of leftover coffee and orange juice and tequila? D-d-d-drugs.
This may sound obvious to you but society at large puts alcohol in this removed category away from other drugs. If you tell most wine moms that they have a drug problem they’d be appalled that you’d ever say such a thing. It’s just time for humanity to admit that we like doing drugs. Most people’s drug of choice just happens to be alcohol.
Also caffeine is a drug but like, it’s so baked into our culture because so many people rely on it to get through the workday, which should really say something about our relationship with work but that’s not a conversation the powers that be are eager to have
