James Watt approves this joke.

What if we built some kind of guide system for these autonomous trucks right into the road, so that the truck didn’t have to steer itself the whole time and can instead just follow a track, since there will be tons of trucks driving the exact same route? Then what if instead of just one tractor pulling one trailer, we…

I’d say “I have nowhere else to go” but if any of you know of a place old-AVC style, please let me know

Quite ironically, “major hyperbole” still feels like somewhat of an understatement, given the context.

Yup. I went over to the article worried I was going to have to hate another person I really like and then went, “oh, that’s it? Let’s check out the comments on this one. Oh. Ohhhhhh...”

click-baity. you have a week before it goes live, not a week to opt-out before you can never do it again.

“If you keep this up I’m outta here.” Lol, I’ve been saying that to myself since 2015.

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You know, AVC, you can’t regularly call Twitter a shitty hell website and then give in to its worst tendencies constantly.

She shouldn’t have to respond to this. It’s very likely she had zero awareness of the organization’s racist past when this happened (twenty goddamn years ago); she shouldn’t have to apologize for something she had no knowledge of.

Was really hoping AVC wouldn’t report on this nonsense. But of course they did.

Yeah, I’d reckon most pageants in the South and Midwest have racist as hell roots. But I’m not going to blame kids and socially-obligated young adults for participating in something that lost its racist overtones decades ago.

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

“At that age [19], teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.”

“I looked the group up on Altavista AND Dogpile, and all I found was their address and phone number.”

“Sorry! I should have asked Jeeves about it!” -Ellie Kemper

I’m surprised AV Club went with this take when even the comments section of The Root went “Eh, this is stretching it.”

So she entered a pageant and/or attended some weird debutante event. Is there any indication that she was aware it had a racist history? It may be hard for some on here to believe, but googling the damn thing wasn’t an option in 1999.

There’s really not much of anything here. The headline and the beginning of the story made it sound like Erin from The Office was burning crosses and shit. Nope, she attended some corny debutante ball thing that has a racist past. Most of the US has a racist past.