Children in cages? Silence. People of color murdered by the police? Not a peep. Atrocities committed by our government? No big deal. A fictional character portrayed by something other than a white woman? Burn it all to the ground and salt the fucking earth. This is why I don’t trust the 53% club next November. Give…

Counterpoints: when you’re talking about a movie or any other kind of video, using the same format helps you quickly prove your point. It’s much easier, for example, to show a cut or a camera movement than it is to describe it in words.

This.

“You don’t need to say ‘in my opinion.’ Everyone knows it’s your opinion because you’re the one saying it. You only need to say whose opinion it is if it isn’t yours.” —Every English Teacher

Eh? I don’t think anyone is trying to pretend these video essays are fact. Most of them come right out and say they’re opinion.

The danger in this is that the analysis contained in those videos is taken as fact by the viewer because of the convincingly academic delivery.

If Every Frame A Painting is bad, I’d like to see what would qualify as good.

Seriously. I’m a regular business flyer and I’m always shocked when they’re like, “$200 travel voucher to give up your seat?” HAHAHAHA HARD PASS NO.

I would certainly try and leverage this. Be like, “Give me $2k and a spa package and I’ll get off the plane.” But really, this guy was apparently trying to go see patients, which is much more important than anything I’ve ever been on a plane for.

This is what is so baffling to me, too (other than the obvious objective lack of humanity). What could have possibly been worth this kind of ubiquitous negative publicity?? I literally cannot imagine, from the perspective of an airline employee, why forceably removing a passenger was even an option they considered. Th…

This is a bad take.

“[A]n immature and stupid response that literally could not have ended any other way.” What an impressively succinct encapsulation of exactly the type of reflexive bootlickery Burneko denounced in his piece. And the nice thing is, you can make literally the same exact argument in favor of literally any act of defiance…

what pisses me off about this is the whole employee transfer thing. that united would rather 1) offer $3200 for people to disembark to save, what, $2000 flying the employees on another airline? and very obviously 2) beat the fucking shit out of a guy and settle the inevitable multi-million dollar lawsuit that results…

They’d offered everyone the option of $400, later increased to $800, a new ticket, and a hotel room for the night. That nobody thought this was enough should have been taken as a hint, rather than as some sort of act of war.

Falling in line every time JUST MOVES THE FUCKING LINE.

Counter counterpoint: he has made all his legal remedies more valuable and effective by raising the stakes.

The American people, especially the honest folk of middle America, are not kind decent folk. Well, they may be, until they encounter hierarchy.

Then they become craven asskissing bootlickers. We are a nation of joiners and toadies, and I will put a huge amount of money on a very strong correlation with joining a…

This whole “OBEY ANY AND EVERY ORDER YOU ARE GIVEN OR YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FORFEIT” deal aboard airliners is getting really old.

I took a look at the site and at the moment there appears to be only one lady.

Ok, just checking, but is this only a romance expansion for male NPCs?