Saying a work is “for the fans” and should thus be free of critical examination is already essentially saying it’s shit. It’s saying the person doesn’t believe the work can stand up under a critical eye. It’s also saying that the person believes fans will gobble up any slop they’re fed regardless of quality because…

This “it’s for the fans” garbage is what creates the kind of toxic backlash the nerd community has become known for.

Typical conservative troll. Outlandish talking point gets (rightly and brilliantly) destroyed and the response is: “Durr... Obama said something like this before I think.”

Goddammit.

I dropped a harddrive on my foot once, so I can relate.

It’s quaint how you think perhaps Trump actually thinks things through.

I went to college with him. I can confirm that he is that genuinely sweet and adorable in real life all the time.

I love him so much I can’t take if sometimes. He’s face is so sweet and he loves his mom so much. I saw an interview with him and his family on 60 minutes and almost died from squee.

This is how my husband looks at a good steak.

Find yourself someone who looks at you like Lin Manuel Miranda looks at everybody.

Kellyanne Conway is like most of the conservative women who mock feminism because they don’t understand it. She doesn’t have what it takes to be a leader, to advance the cause of women, or to do anything that is actually helpful. She criticizes feminism without any sense of irony because she believes that she is so…

The vast majority of Pewdiepie’s fans are children. And children are stupid. They’re not emotionally mature enough to fully grasp nuance or context. They see Jacksepticeye criticizing his actions while also voicing support, and all they understand is “Jacksepticeye talked shit about Pewdiepie.” They can’t see how…

“We collectively, as YouTubers, have built this thing. It is ours, not theirs.”

It’s a mature reading of the situation that relies on nuance to make its point.

I have zero proof for what I’m about to say. Some of the “triggered” comments, I think, are youngin’s thinking about other people. Like, they themselves aren’t the ones triggered, but they are trying so hard to be good allies that they are just spouting off at everyone for any slight thing.

I’m reminded of this scene from that Mitchell and Webb look:

I think everyone needs to read about the German occupation of Denmark and Vichy France during WW2 and have a long, hard think about who exactly they want to be. (Spoiler alert, you want to be the Danes, whose government smuggled their Jewish population out of the country rather than turn them over to the Nazis, and…

This is what America did to the Jews in WWII. We are literally repeating history and no one is stopping this.