but am I just a buzz kill
Nah, I'm a longtime fan of absurd shit like Tim and Eric that is rooted heavily in a public television vibe of "doing things wrong and cheaply."
I was never sure if this was trying for a similar vibe or what, but I'm definitely one of the people who firmly never understood it.
Last I checked so is Weird Al Yankovic.
It's a pity they're so rare, but they really are.
Having known some people in elder care, the reality is that some old people are nasty, brutish, mean, racist, misogynist, creepy, violent, you fucking name it, there's some old person you're going to have to take care of who matches that horrible personality. You're paid the same whether you're helping someone you like or someone who is rude and assaults you every time you enter the room.
I agree with you, elder care should still exist, but I can see why some people get tired of taking care of terrible old people who were likely terrible people all their lives and who are just allowed abuse you. Why are they allowed to abuse you? Because most people who do elder care and underpaid, overworked, and don't have a lot of other options that pay nearly as well. Basically you're accepting middling but better than fast-food pay to have abuse dumped on you. I can see how someone feels like its a karmic freebie because there's no responsibility in any of it, generally management won't do anything about "problem elders." Get to be a fucking asshole your whole life and then get to be a fucking asshole to the person wiping your ass before you die.
I have a similar story from another friend who ended up at a mental health hospital in a violent youth ward. He was underpaid, overworked, and responsible for about 30 violent and dangerous kids with unstable mental health issues that made them difficult to approach. If he was busy helping one kid take their meds, and another kid on the ward was in the same moment trying to take their own life and succeeded, he would be the one responsible. He was not being paid enough or had enough support to justify taking full responsibility for things that are outside his control when he cannot magically manage 30 dangerous cases at once. He left the job after two months of assaults and scares. I don't blame him, and he doesn't blame himself, and we also understand that those 30 cases deserve better care than they're getting but it's not his responsibility as an individual to make up for the shortcomings of government funding for this.
Same with people who work elder care. It's not their individual responsibility to make up for the fact that these companies don't give a damn about the people they're caring for, and each elder is just an income stream in a database. The number of people I know in elder care who now have permanent back problems because they're being expected to lift 300lb old people off their beds and they're not being given proper equipment for it is too damn high. These people do not deserve to have their bodies broken and paid pennies on the dollar to be abused by the elders in their care, not given the right tools to do the job, with a prevailing attitude of "they're just old people, how bad can they hurt you really?" Pretty fucking bad, shockingly.
Elder care needs to exist. Does it need to exist as it exists now in the USA? Abso-fucking-lutely not.
Don't have a cow, man.
Probably more accurate to say "Democrats fooled themselves with their social media echo chamber" and really only if you are referring to the national Democratic Party and groups like Correct the Record. Doesn't really apply to the voters or state-level Dems.
The Clintons and using media to "massage" the message goes back to the '92 election and using satellite feeds back to the campaign headquarters in Arkansas to do things like communicate with their campaign team on the ground at events to say "Hey, can you pan the camera to the right just a little bit, then the protestors won't be in the frame." This is well documented by the 90's documentary film Spin.
So Clinton signed up to use Correct the Record to massage the message on the internet, fooling themselves into thinking that was enough. It's also why we've seen very little progress on making laws to force paid political operatives to have to state that they're paid advertisements online, because both parties participate in this practice and don't want to stop. Which is part of why its hard to stop other nation-state actors from doing it as well, because we won't even criminalize it in our own political parties. It makes no sense that a political ad on television must disclose its funding and who endorses it, but when it's a sockpuppet online it's a fucking free-for-all.
I mean, that's fair. I get it, I just don't really find it very funny.
Are you at all familiar with Charlie Brooker's (creator of Black Mirror) comedy work? Black Mirror is great, but I honestly think he's a better comedy writer.
He's behind all the recent great Philomena Cunk shows such as Cunk On Britian and Cunk On Earth. (Soon Cunk's Quest for Meaning)
Cunk herself started as a bit character, a "man on the street" interview on Brooker's old comedy news show his Weekly Wipe/Newswipe. I kind of miss her male compatriot, Barry Shitpeas, but I suspect his last name made it harder to build a show around him.
The dialogue of Daniel Kaluuya at the end of Fifteen Million Merits, where he's speaking from his fancy new apartment to his new video platform, is basically Daniel doing an impression of Charlie Brooker on Newswipe. It completely changes the final scene if you're familiar with Brooker's own comedy, it's a nice piece of self-critique.
Also, he put John Hannah (who I still also love in The Mummy) in my good books with his send-up of tough police procedural shows with A Touch of Cloth the name of which is a reference to not being able to hold in your shit, and its crowning and touching the cloth of your underwear. Lot's of stupid cloth-related puns for funs.
We're finally getting a wrap-up to Final Space at least in graphic novel form!
I get a lot of hate for saying it, but this is how I feel about the creepy CGI baby from the otherwise top tier film Children of Men. It ruins an otherwise powerful scene for me.