For one thing, the CEOs of the top Hollywood studios make so much in compensation that if they all agreed to take pay cuts that still left them in the top 0.01% of income earners it would be more than enough to cover the costs of everything the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are asking for. For another, no one is forcing Disney to…

“Heartless CEO who definitely hates the union that keeps his money machine running can’t even pretend to be sympathetic in public.” Hard times indeed when you have to put some effort in to rake in your billions. Not much effort, just some.

I would take credit for that, but it’s like predicting the sun will rise or that Trump will call prosecution of his crimes a witch hunt. I’m sure deSantis will blame his inevitable primary loss on wokeness.

Didn’t we discuss exactly this on (another site) just a little while ago, and confidently predict that Florida would be blaming it on wokeness ASAP?

Still absolutely blows my entire mind that these people are so mentally deranged and have so little to occupy their lives that they continue to be obsessed with the fact that Bud Light gave a trans woman a small amount of money to promote a product for like 10 seconds 3 months ago.

Once again, insurance companies do not give a fuck about politics. All they care about is math and money. If the math doesn’t add up to money, they will go do business somewhere else. If the practice ESG or believe in diversity, it is because those things make them money, not because they are being run by “woke…

And it’s usually a bigot because no one who is actually rational thinks free speech should be ABSOLUTE.  No one wants people randomly yelling fire in a theatre or other insane safety issues.

Musk is the type of oligarch to do what’s expected and that is to rub shoulders with the Reich Wing. Fascism naturally promotes and protects corporate power.

Free speech absolutist in the mouth of a conservative means exactly what it always has meant: "I will decide who is allowed to speak, and what they are allowed to say. And it ain't going to be kindness or tolerance." 

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I guess “Free Speech Absolutist” means just what it says. Musk turned Twitter into an absolute cesspool. No wonder it has lost half its value since he blew 44 billion bucks on a temper tantrum, because somebody made fun of his haircut.

As someone who kinda grew up with Macross through the 1980s and appreciated the renaissance of Macross Plus in the 90s (who didn’t really enjoy Pacific Rim)this concept art is hitting all the right notes.

Well, Miller does sound like a definite weasel. It’s a question of separating the art from the actor.

Nah, he wasn’t out. I like dunking on him as much as anybody, but he never went limp. I was expecting his guard to start slipping or another sign. Nothing from this angle indicates he had even a brief period of unconsciousness.

You know what’s dope about the non-Michael Bay Transformers movies, besides having things as rootable characters, giving females something to do besides bending over, and lack of shitty lowbrow dick-and-weed ‘jokes’?

Trump is a fascist moron. Desantis is a complete weirdo with the personality of wet paper towel, but he is an intelligent fascist. Definitely way worse.

I wish that a along with pointing out people like Tucker Carlson and the terrible things they say and do, that The Root would publish pieces that present effective ways to COUNTER such people.

Basic white dude who exemplifies mediocrity at best and the white man’s version of stepin fetchit at worst has something to say about a hard working, qualified minority? This isn’t news it’s just another day.

If you’re old enough/judged responsible enough to drive a vehicle on public roads, you’re old enough/responsible enough to face adult charges for vehicular crimes.

Unless they’re leaving for hell, and never to come back, I don’t give a damn.