If they want their racist statue give the university 2.5 million to be spent on an EOP. What the hell is this backwards ass bullshit.

“the western monkey—white with blue eyes—the Asian monkey—with almond eyes—and the black monkey in the middle, which is where everything comes from”

just abolish intellectual property already.  It’s unnecessary.

“Every government influenced by these ideas becomes a brutal authoritarian regime”

Vladimir Makovsky is a Russian painter.. But yes they were likely referring to Mayakovsy, the Russian poet.

The funny thing is the communist manifesto actually promotes Capitalism quite a bit as well.  But actually understanding marx and engels is too hard for some.

If you’re willing to apply the same broad brushed, intellectually dishonest, vague use of “influence,” then no, not with Jesus, the Apostles, Plato, Aristotle, Mohammed, Darwin, Spencer, and countless others.in the historical canon.

further, fortnite IS minecraft. It’s PubG &etc for the minecraft generation of gamers.  

I have to wonder if anything would have happened if the title was “Old dude with creepy mustache plays popular children’s videogame, Fortnite!”

There’s a league streamer who has always been very upfront about this effect. His channel gets huge views because he produces guides on mobafire that are very popular and his stream is embedded in his guides. He literally puts in the title a disclaimer and has an explanation of why his views are so high.

“This isn’t Ronan’s fault”

you can easily play civ vi using nothing but left click.  idk why youd be skeptical of a controller

> Selena Gomez and Bella Hadid are NOT Fighting

She didnt name her because the point is to stop involving her in public twitter discussions.

immunity to criticism is not on the table. There is reason not to exaggerate the societal import of throwaway comments by random English majors.

nowadays i explicitly seek out women authors because the canon of my pleasure reading (sci fi/fantasy) was so male and the default suggestions for the genre basically meant i read mainly men for no good reason beyond convention.

i like that jacket

“The issue here is that what she did went well beyond “not liking the book”; she joined a college committee for the express purpose of making sure that her classmates wouldn’t have to be exposed to it, either”

she didnt publish an editorial.  a journalist quoted her.  get a sense of reality please.

> the story that Nelson chooses to tell is about how she literally joined the committee specifically to make sure they didn’t choose Dessen’s book,