I thought this was how I felt about South Park as well, but after switching off for several years I went back and watched the recent seasons and honestly, they still got it.
Interesting, I'd kinda lost interesting in the last few seasons were Rick was just a straight asshole with no real growth (or even teasing of growth). Just watching characters treat each other poorly isn't a particularly fun pass time.
That said, I'll try a few new episodes and see if it clicks.
Trump renames things to "America' as a 'fuck you' to other countries and because to him (and his followers) America means "USA". He's happy to make hateful yet empty gestures that to his base seem to show support for the country while he's robbing it blind and demolishing it. Renaming South Park to South America mocks Trump's renaming of things, but also names South Park after another continent. A continent full of people Trump has repeatedly insulted, bombed. A continent he has invaded.
I don't think his base is as happy as you seem to believe. I lurked thedonald during the early days of your Special Military Operation, and it is now as anally moderated as r/politics, r/europe, and Russian social media -- inconvenient submissions get removed, detractors get banned. the orange man will eventually shit himself in public and the commissars will ban anyone mentioning it.
a significant percentage of his supporters voted for a respite from the clown world antics of the previous administration and nothing else. the percentage who want neocon MIGA bullshit is insignificant, as demonstrated by him trampling over ¡Jeb! and the rest of those fucks in 2016. now that he had definitely lose the significant chunk, I think republicans will lose the midterms they won't be in power again until after 8 years of AOC's Clown World Pro Max against the background of accelerating decline of your empire.
One of the few good things to have come out of this repeated silliness, is that for 2 years I've witnessed people reading more about what is being altered by these executive orders and sourced by Google Maps et al. and learning why the U.S.A. GNIS is such a woefully bad data source.
And it's not because of the antics of Donald J. Trump. It's been a shit-show for 50 years: a tale of long-term multiple-phase projects losing funding and changing direction mid-phase, of technical debt never dealt with, of the consequences of data entry methodologies, and of cultural erasure because of magtapes encoded in EBCDIC.
(Yes, EBCDIC. There wasn't a systematic deliberate plan to eliminate diacritics from the U.S.A. in the 1970s, as one might guess from observation. There was EBCDIC. In fact, there was initially a plan to put the accents back on, with extra data fields to record the correct names from state-level sources, after moving away from EBCDIC. During the Reagan Era. You can see today how that turned out.)
One bizarre thing, almost as bizarre as the re-spelling of an entire country by EBCDIC, is that the name change from South Park to South America is tame in comparison to the sort of shenanighans that went on in the GNIS. Ghost towns that never existed got named after rural post offices in wide open unpopulated country, railway stations, steam train water stops, local stations serving farms, company executives, loads of springs in California, and in extreme cases things like a fish pond, survey marker trees, and a cage for a monkey. Or a lone building at a crossroads got the name of something else because a map font was difficult to distinguish, or a name printed by something else just happened to run over it.
And then some people handy with computer automation enshrined this rubbish, by mass-importing it into Wikipedia. Wikipedia is still cleaning this up by hand almost two decades later. Oh the wonders that we have collectively done with computers! (-:
The creators of South Park have a long way to go before they are anywhere near as mad as actual history is.
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 8.2 ms ] threadAs the same to Rick and Morty, every episode seems like some epic battle rather than an adventure.
That said, I'll try a few new episodes and see if it clicks.
--- Eh. As once a hardcore South Park fan, South Park is just background noise now. I don't enjoy it nor feels worth watching outside of the USA.
As the same to Rick and Morty, every episode seems like some epic battle rather than an adventure.
a significant percentage of his supporters voted for a respite from the clown world antics of the previous administration and nothing else. the percentage who want neocon MIGA bullshit is insignificant, as demonstrated by him trampling over ¡Jeb! and the rest of those fucks in 2016. now that he had definitely lose the significant chunk, I think republicans will lose the midterms they won't be in power again until after 8 years of AOC's Clown World Pro Max against the background of accelerating decline of your empire.
Remember, South Park is a comedy.
Lets start with :-
https://youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU
And it's not because of the antics of Donald J. Trump. It's been a shit-show for 50 years: a tale of long-term multiple-phase projects losing funding and changing direction mid-phase, of technical debt never dealt with, of the consequences of data entry methodologies, and of cultural erasure because of magtapes encoded in EBCDIC.
(Yes, EBCDIC. There wasn't a systematic deliberate plan to eliminate diacritics from the U.S.A. in the 1970s, as one might guess from observation. There was EBCDIC. In fact, there was initially a plan to put the accents back on, with extra data fields to record the correct names from state-level sources, after moving away from EBCDIC. During the Reagan Era. You can see today how that turned out.)
One bizarre thing, almost as bizarre as the re-spelling of an entire country by EBCDIC, is that the name change from South Park to South America is tame in comparison to the sort of shenanighans that went on in the GNIS. Ghost towns that never existed got named after rural post offices in wide open unpopulated country, railway stations, steam train water stops, local stations serving farms, company executives, loads of springs in California, and in extreme cases things like a fish pond, survey marker trees, and a cage for a monkey. Or a lone building at a crossroads got the name of something else because a map font was difficult to distinguish, or a name printed by something else just happened to run over it.
And then some people handy with computer automation enshrined this rubbish, by mass-importing it into Wikipedia. Wikipedia is still cleaning this up by hand almost two decades later. Oh the wonders that we have collectively done with computers! (-:
The creators of South Park have a long way to go before they are anywhere near as mad as actual history is.
* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliability_of_GNIS_...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_S...