Yeah, I’ve had the same thought. It used to be that even if most people were assholes —probably true, if unprovable—  most went out of their way to pretend otherwise most of the time, so in any ten given daily interactions, it was unlikely you’d have more than one bad one. But now nobody bothers to pretend otherwise,…

It’s unfortunate that one of my favorite quotes has only recently come to be widely popular...

I had part of my colon removed last month and am having chemo for cancer. I wear a mask everywhere. Fuck Forrie.

And they say liberals are snowflakes. JFC.

There were lots of stories in 2020 about masked people being berated and/or assaulted for wearing a mask in public

2020: Wearing a mask is a choice! You can wear a mask if you like; but you can’t make me wear one.

2024: I cannot be forced to sit next to someone wearing a mask! You wearing a mask is an attack on me!

The ABC’s of conservatism:

He seems to be implying that if the person was wearing a mask, they must have a communicable disease and so he felt unsafe sitting next to them. He himself seems bound and determined to make himself as susceptible to communicable diseases as he possibly can and assumes it is everybody else’s responsibility to keep him…

He was just in a movie with Liam Neeson and Ciaran Hinds called In the Land of Saints and Sinners (I really enjoyed it, and was the first time I had seen him in anything post-GOT).

That being said, Jack played a young hitman without any qualms about killing, and he really can’t run away from his face.

Giving smart phones to boomers was a mistake.

“I refuse to sit next to someone who is considerate enough to wear a mask in public.  I mean, what kind of twisted freak tries to limit the spread of contagions to others?  Who does that?”

What a snowflake.

The entire rest of the cast also went out of their way in just about every interview to stress how nice and unlike Joffrey he was, clearly knowing this would happen otherwise.

I used to think the CBS execs were being really silly not letting Mary Tyler Moore play a divorced woman in her sitcom because they figured people would think she’d divorced Dick Van Dyke. Now I think they were just ahead of the curve.

Robert Goulet!

While Jeffrey Jones was very good in Beetlejuice, the absence of Glenn Shadix will be more missed, who is unable to reprise his role of Otho on account of being dead.

Jake Gyllenhaal strikes me as a weird little theatre imp (in a positive way) who also happens to be willing to be superhero buff. I’d disagree with people who say he doesn’t have charisma, but it’s a more malovelent, mischievous charisma - his intensity in films like Zodiac or Nightcrawler is amazing, and then on the…

I don’t think it’s supposed to be so strong that you hate the creators. A Pavlovian aversion to a face after an outstanding performance, sure. But surely you understood that it was fiction and aren’t surprised that Rappaport is still alive and didn’t go to prison for killing people on a college campus. These people…

Because that’s the name of the game, even if they won’t outright admit it.

In a perfect world for right-wingers, there’s an elite that the law protects, but does not bind. And for everyone else, the law binds them but does not protect them. The hypocrisy is the point. 

Why do right wingers never get that one is free to say what they want, the government cannot impression you, BUT you cannot be free of consequences for saying those things in the free market of capitalism and public opinion.