Okay, so...how are people supposed to live without working? Universal Income? Who’s paying for that? The rich? We’re not going to tax the rich in any meaningful way, and anyway, so long as Those People can receive UI, it’s dead in the water.

Yeah, there are a lot of people right now coming to some big realization about the nature of work when the rest of us are “you’re a marketing wonk, yeah your job isn’t essential but good on you for just figuring that out today”

The main problem with sorting “essential/nonessential” is; how do you convince anybody to work if you eliminate all “nonessential” jobs?

Chronic Lyme is a fake diagnosis pushed by quack doctors. There seems to be a lot of overlap between the Chronic Lyme and anti-vaxxer communities.

You don’t claim the tribe, the tribe claims you. Cultural connection is not the same as genetic heritage. If you don’t even know the name of the tribe (or if it is only a general word like Cherokee or Sioux) then you can’t really claim to be Indigenous in any meaningful way. There is no magic spiritual nobility that…

Just to be clear, the “creator” of The Inconvenient Indian is Thomas King, acclaimed indigenous writer and broadcaster, who wrote the book on which this documentary is based...

Romans would walk the streets naked in December? Wow, they were tough bastards.

There is no such thing as Christian Christmas. Christian Christmas is a fabrication to replace the ancient Roman holiday of Saturnalia, the viking holiday of Yule, and every other pagan holiday associated with the Winter Solstice. What did you do at such festivities? Feast, drink, dance, bone. On Saturnalia, you would…

Are you fucking kidding with this garbage Tom Cruise take? Look, the guy is a fucking corny weirdo, but considering how many rich ASSHOLES we’ve seen just pretending COVID is not a thing so that their precious little lives don’t get the least bit interrupted, it’s fucking REFRESHING to see a celeb take it seriously.…

Most religions claim moral superiority, which breeds into cultural superiority. I’ve lived in India and the Middle East - it’s not much different in Hinduism or Islam. Americans just tend to have never experienced majority-other religion cultures. Last week the religious directorate ministry in my country proclaimed…

Also, Hollywood pays taxes.

Movie producers also don’t influence local, state, and federal laws based on what their studio believes.

As someone British who has *actually* seen the episode, it didn’t sound like a mistake at all, it sounded like a joke. I assumed her tongue was firmly in cheek because using a microwave is extremely off brand for her! (It reminded me of people who feel self-conscious about shopping in Primark calling it Primarni in a…

Agree with your points 1 & 2 in their entirety and I don’t see how anything I said conflicts with your response in any way, but more than willing to accept that my original comment wasn’t as detailed and therefore more open to other interpretations.

“But personal responsibility can only collectively take us so far.”

Sorry I misread what you said, I thought you were wondering why I was bringing up his fraudulentness now.

My mother insists everything I buy for her (for Christmas) is bought at the thrift store.

“Barret joins a rather large group of them who find it appropriate to fudge convenient details to support their larger goal”

Er, yeah, England’s a Celtic nation as well.  Just thought I’d throw that wee nugget of fact into your cosy wee image of Tam O’Shanters and Outlander fan-fiction.

Not the point, but the wording of “Women Doctors Make Less Than Male Doctors” sounds odd. It’s OK to use “female” in spots where you would use “male”. Yet, the three comments so far all use woman doctor / male doctor, so this seems to be a thing.