This is one of those things where people tend to be conveniently partisan. This periodically happens with Democrats in Texas, and usually its when Texas Republicans are doing something unconscionable and stupid. But if they have a majority, then they should be able to vote through whatever stupidity the voters of…

I once openly applauded Black Twitter for helping POC catch racists and ensure their just social rewards/punishments.

[Not interested in conversing with anyone who doesn’t think JKR—a far right conservative who unapologetically retweets self-identified fascists and transphobes these days—should be totally de-platformed and re-educated at the very least]

Calling JKR a far right conservative is just ridiculously untrue. Hyperbole does nothing to help your cause.

I believe that you should be deplatformed and re-educated. Your close minded bigotry is disgusting, and self-righteous opinions are hilariously hypocritical.

bummer. that’s too bad. deal with it.

I think the best way to strive for social reform on a global scale is to definitely get catty over a fucking hastag.

Carolyn, you really need to relax. You are reading WAY too deep into some of this shit. I get it, it’s cool to be on the Rowling hate train and Kotaku loves stirring up unnecessary controversies, but it’s okay to enjoy video games, even controversial ones, without the baggage of social commentary and toxic social…

#1 - Calling JK a “virulent transphobe” is a bit of an exaggeration, no? I suppose it’s subjective.

“Dummies Guide To: How Much Can We Milk the Harry Potter Controversy For Clicks”.

What are you talking about? Are you insane? So the next time someone says some more foolishness to me or just trifling, they deserve to be slapped? My Pops slapped me in the face when I was 16, 40 years ago and I still feel it. My crime? Skipping school. The result was a decades-long estrangement. I don’t know if you…

ok, we can’t ban guns cause ‘fredums’

Fixed it, here:

And as of three months ago, 32 Americans had signed up to play in Russia’s basketball league. https://www.thedailybeast.com/32-americans-are-still-planning-to-play-basketball-in-russia-after-brittney-griners-harrowing-experience

Huh. Are you by chance on the board of your HOA as well?

I hate scofflaws just as much as anyone, but this was petty bullshit.

Vigilantism is still illegal, no matter how justified the vigilante feels. It isn’t this cyclist’s job to be the police, so he should keep his goddamned nose out of it.

“In almost all of these highly anticipated races, including Rep. Val Deming’s race against Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Democrats were trying to rest wrest power away from Republicans.”

Time for a judge’s ruling. What’s an acceptable age gap?

Here are some success stories.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are 11 years apart and have been married for 10 years.

Jez and the commenters have always been obsessed with age gaps for as long as I’ve been reading this site (I miss the old Gawker days, sigh). Anyway, as near as I can tell, age gaps are definitely a female obsession, but as of late it seems to have spilled over into American life in general. We’ve infantilized our…