{"id":51106,"date":"2022-12-15T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=51106"},"modified":"2022-12-15T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:07:18","slug":"the-coming-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2022\/12\/15\/the-coming-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"the coming plague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Begin to understand an appeal of spectator sports, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/\/entry\/abortion-tv-shows-misconceptions-roe_n_639a214de4b0c281464a0e2b\">that this <\/a>is the political fumbling on the alternative &#8212; with this activist group working and succeeding at some level to turn and churn mass entertainment and art to preach atcha &#8212; their simplified message which blunts out an opposing opinion. (Buzzwords abound here.  &#8220;White Supremacy&#8221;.  This group aches to see the epic struggle of a poor black woman&#8217;s cross country hitchhiking journey to get to a state where she can plop in and get the deed done.  Which, to be sure, actually has more potential as a story telling arc than what she seems to be demanding &#8212; the &#8220;friends you meet along the way&#8221; and all that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>like, what if we had time-traveling abortion providers: sci-fi but with abortion?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey!  At long last, an advocate for the grand thought experiment &#8212; somebody greenlight and do that &#8220;Let&#8217;s abort Hitler&#8221; story!  It can be an entire series.  Abort a historical monstrosity each week.  Save the &#8220;Abort Charles Manson&#8221; one for sweeps month, though.  For the sake of representation &#8212; can&#8217;t just be white men &#8212; we do need the Ida Iman and then the Marjorie Taylor Greene episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin to understand an appeal of spectator sports, which is that this is the political fumbling on the alternative &#8212; with this activist group working and succeeding at some level to turn and churn mass entertainment and art to preach atcha &#8212; their simplified message which blunts out an opposing opinion. (Buzzwords abound here. &#8220;White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51108,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions\/51108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}