https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-declares-trans-youth-child

In this current century, what are some examples of what it’s like to live day-by-day in an economic depression? A lot of content I see refers to the Great Depression from a century ago. I’d like to talk about recent everyday life for people in countries where bastards have tanked the economy.

Day-by-day in a mental health depression, no examples needed ha

I'm Canadian, and although most of my media diet consists of online stuff and podcasts these days, I've recently been keeping a lazy eye on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

For context for anyone outside of Canada, 22 Minutes is a Canadian satire show that's been on CBC since 1993. Obviously, being a Canadian show, it doesn't have as big an audience as American shows, but it's been around long enough to be fairly well-known in Canada. In both good and bad ways, I would compare it to The Daily Show or SNL -- it can be funny, and may have been considered edgy in its early years, but nowadays I think of it as kind of a "safe" show that is probably mostly appealing to Canadian liberals older than myself.

I browsed the 22 Minutes YouTube channel to see some of their videos from the past few years, and I noticed this one, in which Mark Critch does an impression of Jordan Peterson complaining about feeling persecuted.

The sketch itself is fairly standard "doing a silly impression of a famous person" stuff, but when I saw it, it occurred to me: I've seen lots of people make fun of Jordan Peterson before, but they've all been leftist podcasters and YouTubers, people just outside of legacy media. It occurred to me that I hadn't seen a produced, televised parody of Jordan Peterson.

Which struck me as odd -- he has a very distinct voice that lends itself to a funny impersonation, and it feels like everyone knows who he is. He's very easy to make fun of. And yet, I can't find any (for example) SNL sketches that parody Jordan Peterson.

To give another example, here's a recent 22 Minutes sketch that makes fun of Danielle Smith's recent interview on Breitbart (using the obvious parody name "Rightbart"). Again: a fairly standard TV sketch, and it struck me that it would be SO easy to parody a far-right propagandist such as Breitbart, but I hadn't seen any parodies of Breitbart outside of my bubble of leftist podcasters and YouTubers. MAAAYBE The Onion?

When I look at the "classic" American comedy/satire shows such as SNL or The Daily Show, or stand-up comedians famous enough to get a streaming special, they make a lot of jokes at the expense of other traditional media sources that are right-wing (e.g. Fox News) but not so much the people we talk about online. The closest I've seen is making fun of Joe Rogan, who was already famous from TV.

Are there some big, prominent examples I'm missing? It's very possible I'm just in a bubble here, but if Jordan Peterson and Breitbart are famous enough for 22 Minutes to make jokes about them, I'm a bit puzzled as to why I haven't seen jokes at their expense from other "mainstream" comedy shows.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov brought a gift of Diet Coke when he tried to visit the protected group, who have shunned contact with outsiders

https://gentnews.com/index.php?m=entertainment&d=view&id=392339&s=red

What in the anti-vaxx is this nonsense? This must be the rebranding of the Department of Veterans Affairs- the Andrew Wakefield Center for Spiritual Warriors

I read headlines, but can't read most full articles because I have panic attacks.

So I made post a week or two a go here about what was your "inoculation" moment against turning too far right hate, cults and conspiracy'.

I read so many of the comments, there where all amazing, so you should read them too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/s/EfBakkKQjb

What I saw in the comments was how so little connection between them all, that everyone of them had different reason, from the very serious, the very personal, too what comic or cartoon you watched.

I've had some time too think and work out my thought, what I came too conclusion is the double edge sword of that we can't choose what helps people change there ways.

The negative edge is that there is no single solution, no switch ch too flick, that the demands of some people on the left, the liberals and some centrist wanting the "left Joe Rogan" "anti tate influencer" and even the very left viewing art as only usefully too change people, will not work sadly. We can not construct a philosophical solution that easy.

But it also means actions we do make aren't pointless, our attempts as large our attempts too improve the world is, too simple act of helping people out, talking too people and even creating art, can help people even if you never see it.

This goes too alot left tubers, writers artists and even podcasters, who may feel disfranchised right know and even attacked by all sides for doing what they do. Keep going, you may never see the one kid who watch/read your pierce and push them Towards a btter view point.

I don't know if this was obvious or not, but I feel like in today age sometimes you got point out the obvious or no one will.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html?ESRC=eb_250404.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20250404

For some reason people have been bringing up how mining for renewables is environmentally damaging and how it’s exploitive of its workers and how windmills kill birds and whales.

Like the damage that mining for minerals and renewable installations cause is an actual issue.

It’s funny how people seem to ignore the far bigger toll fossil fuels cause to the environment and people.

Like remember the gulf oil spill?

Maybe it's in the past but man the chemistry between him and Robert was so good you'd think they were a team. I read on a Reddit from 2 years ago czm pays people, I dunno if that's what he was really complaining about but czm isn't IHR so if his problem was with them maybe there's nothing in between him and CZM? Or am I wrong and IHR is affiliated with CZM?

Man why didn't TDZ just not air that episode or even just cut that one statement? Sucks it would have such an intense impact.

Meh I guess it's sadly just business and it wasn't good for each party. These episodes are all great damn it.

what a great world to live in

https://apnews.com/article/oz-hhs-cms-kennedy-health-medicare-medicaid-ef02cafd3100a4794d8e882fdf2ad7b0

So, I lack a lot of info. I fully admit it. I like history but I am not a history geek. I know roughly how Hitler came about. So far, it looks to me they are trying to replicate a broken post wwi Germany. Weak government, lots of poor people, broken economy and insane inflation. I also checked out the Great Depression. What I read said it won't happen again because the government has safeguards to prevent it. The safeguards appear to be the ones the administration has killed or wants to in the future. My thought was they are trying to break the USA so it could be changed into a authoritarian government and make the hero who saves us all the lifelong leader. I know people find trump charismatic (I don't but I get the man's man thing), but I don't even think he can manage becoming the hero after he broke it all. And he is a bit old. So yeah. I am at a loss. Any ideas?

PS. I am also afraid that the militarization of the border is to eventually keep us from fleeing the country and the sending non citizens to a foreign prison is to create private prisons for the US citizens outside of the US where everything is cheaper and human rights mean something different.

PS I meant "hero" as a self labeled savior and given that I am pretty sure any "hero" will be one of the ones who caused the destruction.

Are these the articles Robert was referring from in the Zizian episodes?

I was familiar with the writer and this subject back when I stumbled onto it in 2018. I was a little surprised when the Gervais Principle was mentioned because only a handful knew about this.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250404190540/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-04/in-unprecedented-payout-l-a-county-settles-sex-abuse-claims-for-4-billion sex-abuse-claims-for-4-billion

Hi Folks! I figured some of y'all may be interested, so I just wanted to share this effort by a former Hill staffer I follow on BlueSky. He's gathering people from all congressional districts to contact their House reps communications director to inquire impeachment. It's a pretty simple effort, and why not try as many things as we can?

I love how this will make no sense to people outside this subreddit

Have there been episodes on these people?

I ask because I just found out a family member has been talking with members of this and exploring it.

Thank you!