Exactly what I was thinking, too. I haven’t followed hockey since I was in 4th grade. Jagr was a favorite back then. I’m 35 now and the dude is still on the ice. Incredible.

The “elites” they were angry at were the ones who they saw as betraying the interests of White America.

But this is America, which means that your solutions would be loopholed into meaninglessness almost immediately. Pre-existing assets would fall into accountant-jiggered “holding corporation” abysses, as would any income (from speeches, say) generated during the 5-year ban period after one’s presidency had ended. Once…

This SNL crap is just another form of normalization. The “resistance” moves into cheap late-night TV comedy, where all of the commentary is divorced from real-world efficacy, and only serves to placate the already-converted.

Go watch Adam Curtis’s HyperNormalisation, then come back and re-test those arguments about how pop culture and comedy will save us from a reality that’s trending in a bad direction. I’m sorry, but this cheap SNL shit is a form of resignation. We accept that we can’t win in politics, so we retreat to the world of…

NASA in the 60's all going out into space like chumps... but you know, defund NASA because the private sector is the capitalist messiah.

The endings were fine. People just couldn’t handle that the series was over.

2 years sober next month, and I’ll be dealing with the repercussions of this for the rest of my life.

Most people that complain about ME3, do so because there’s literally no way for it to end that would have made those people happy.

Totally effed up that they brought a baby into this - she got pregnant like, what, a week after they got together? Ugh people.

Because she technically assaulted him and he was technically defending himself.

But I’m getting hung up on the notion that they *couldn’t* cast an Asian actor because “stereotypes.”

...due to her basically summoning up an Asian person to do intellectual labor for her.

I have zero empathy for any of these people that voted for the GOP this cycle. When they have no healthcare...just telling ‘em to go die quick. Lose their house and no safety net? Hurry up and starve...or I’m sure we can make debtors prison fashionable again.

If you let the girl off without some sort of punishment for hitting her sister then you’ve essential told the other - I don’t believe you or sorry, just your story isn’t enough to make me believe this happened.

If it’s too much to think this leads to the person is lying, then at minimum it means their accusation is thrown into the abyss until a case can be made.

Well, and what seems fishy is that these Youtubers seem to believe that Youtube doesn’t want them to get views, for some reason. That Youtube is just shooting itself in the foot or whatever. It’s internet communities like this that always seem to go from “Houston, we have a problem” to “OMG it’s a conspiracy because…

You’re extrapolating from the most sensational anecdotes. Forgive me if I don’t think that’s the best way to reason about this.

I was born in 1981 and have been using the internet since I was in middle school. You could always find plenty of toxicity, and if anything standards have gotten, on average, more stringent, and people have been granted ever-greater control over what they see, who they interact with, etc. People act like things have…

I don’t think that’s really true. I just think there’s more people now, and platforms are more centralized, so the toxicity is seen by more eyes and therefore agreed to exist by more people. I doubt that the ratio of toxicity has increased.