Do you think that if it went the other way, they'd all see the error of their ways? Just as Trump didn't put an end to political correctness, Hillary wasn't going to put an end to hate speech.

Well, I'm of two minds regarding the Unspeakable Trademark. On the one hand, The trademark office's approval process is so laughably capricious, and I want Tam to win and keep his band name, even if it does let Dan Snyder keep the Washington Football Team name.

I don't disagree with Trump here, but doesn't this fall well beneath the dignity of the office? Can you imagine Obama tweeting about the threats and effigies made by Ted Nugent and Pastor Terry Jones…

The best part about staying up late drinking last night was seeing this hashtag and trying to figure out what happened just from the tweets.

Never called for blanket bans on any kind of imagery, least of all that of violence; I'm a connoisseur. And outrage will always be overblown: it's 2017, Jake.

Ohhhhh…

Choose Your own Adventure?

I think there has been, it just rolls off him because he has that whole shitkicker straightshooter image bullshit that he maintains by not apologizing or backtracking.

I think I saw her on an episode of Seinfeld.

Generally agree, but I would also agree when they shoot back "If Tim Allen did a little skit with a bloody effigy of Barack Obama, would the DOJ and Secret Service be wasting their time asking him a few questions?" (Let's assume for the sake of argument that Allen's bit would make as much sense).

I've actually been here for years, even though I've apparently fallen from the orthodoxy of "the real story here is how right-wing snowflakes are blowing shit out of proportion". It's why I still have this Harry Potter avatar. No idea how to change it.

Well, you appear to be in the minority of people who are laughing about Frostedtips McTwitterbrah's supposed self-importance. Commenters on the original newswire left a few thousand remarks about how women must feel perpetually threatened and vulnerable all the time because he presumes "proximate access to women's…

The analogy I was drawing is that bad actors on both the right and the left are exploiting cultural divisions to get attention. Alamo Drafthouse, for no necessary reason sell tickets to a showing of Wonder Woman to the general public with the unenforceable proviso that only women attend. One fella buys a ticket and a…

Just up the thread, Nefnefnef let me have it for not knowing enough about Fearless Girl, and down here I know too much about Charging Bull. I'm yet to find the sweet spot for acceptable knowledge about bronze statues.

I don't mind at all when good artists make bank. I don't even mind bad artists doing well, with the possible exception of Thomas Kinkade (rest his inebriated soul). What gets my dander up is all my fellow leftists treating this advertising campaign for a mutual fund like it's some brilliant anti-establishment…

Well, if the sculptor of Charging Bull, a septuagenarian Sicilian immigrant, is obliged to watch the meaning his statue altered by the commission of a huge mutual fund manager, then surely State Street Global can handle a misshapen lapdog poking a little fun at their installation, without it being construed as yet…

Good for her. I don't like one of her statues, but that's just me, I expect she'll get over it. What's not debatable is that it was commissioned by an investment company to exploit the fame of someone else's public art to drum up attention for one of their mutual funds.

Right, shame on him for not realizing that the point of guerrilla art is to advance your politics, not his.

The Defiant Girl statue is shitty corporate art, installed by a hedge fund to drum up publicity by exploiting feminism. The Charging Bull was sculpted and installed by a Sicilian immigrant out of his own pocket.

Remember when talentless hacks would leak their sex tapes to drum up buzz for themselves? Those were the days.