Two upvotes. Parents using their kids to signal to other adults how sophisticated they are is ridiculous.

Amen to this. "Cultivating" children's musical tastes takes all the fun and discovery out of it. It is amazing though that this will be the first generation of kids who will be unable to shock their parents with music. Even in the 90s, Gangsta Rap/Marilyn Manson freaked parents out. I guess to rebel kids will have to…

Thanks to the AV Club for a great and respectful year. Though I am one of a small few conservative commenters, I have found this forum largely to be respectful and intellectually honest. Thanks for the rigorous debate. 2016 was a great year for us pro-Trump, pro-Brexit, cultural conservatives. Hoping 2017 is even…

Or it was the Dems running a weak candidate with an arrogant, out-of-touch campaign.

Clinton had every advantage in this campaign. She spent far more money, had far more political support, an entire political machine, the full support of the popular media and the press. Trump fought his own party and the Democrats, barely summoning the support of his own party leaders. Clinton was all but certain…

The Church has dealt with this issue since the days of Ancient Rome. There were some groups (like the Donatists) who did not want to allow anyone who apostatized back into the Church.

With all due respect, this "popular vote" thing is yet another distraction. There is 0% chance that the electoral college is abolished (in the next 8 years). The rules are the rules. Bringing up the popular vote is like saying "It's not that bad, we actually won!" No. it is that bad. You actually lost. It was a total,…

This. All this electoral college scheming, vague accusations of "hacking" the election by the Russians, the FBI, etc. All of these are major distractions from the Democrats' major problem: this election was a monumental loss. What are they going to do to recover in 4 years? Democrats myopically assumed 8 years of…

Don't worry about me. You guys have 4 years to win back the election that was stolen by Russians, fake news, and racists. #Warren2020 #please

I disagree. If FB wants to exercise editorial control, it should say "Facebook has identified this story as containing incorrect facts based on the following reasons: [list]." At least that is transparent and shows its work. This "Third Party, independent fact checkers…" Who are they? Where's the accountability? It…

Lol. Yeah, Clinton's extremely well financed campaign had nothing to do with Corporate America.

No it's not. The forum is making a decision on truth, not the participants. This greatly tilts the marketplace of ideas, and it is a very slippery slope, especially where the definition of "facts" versus the interpretation thereof is involved. This is an anti-liberal, anti-free speech move by FB.

"The remedy for bad speech is more speech, not less." — Louis Brandeis, Liberal Bohemeth/21st Century Nutjob

Lol. QED.

This is censorship. I get that FB is a private entity, it has the right to deny a platform to whomever it chooses, etc. But liberals used to value cultural free speech as well as legal free speech. Now that corporate America is firmly in the camp of the Democrats, the concept of "free speech" is to be as circumscribed…

That's more like celebrity privilege.

Upvote+. This is awful, disrespectful, sacrilegious, and destructive. But "racist" doesn't really fit. I get the Twitterverse's outrage, but calling this stuff racist just desensitizes us from actual racism.

It's TRUE! We're so lame.

Strongest strings of animated movies:
(1) Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi
(2) Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles
(3) The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Lion King
(4) The Secret of NIMH, American Tail, Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven

Battlecar Compactica—Insightful string of posts. Dead on accurate.