“[T]he man is as bad at politics as Trump is at business.”

I thinly TELF is fine, but I also think TERF is fine, because ‘fuck it, why not, who cares?’ I just don’t see what the AP is doing here and automatically read it as a hate crime; i.e., they’re not wrong that term the is vague or ambiguous.

We generally question whether someone is a feminist (unflavored, regular “feminist,”) when their words, actions, and behavior don’t substantially align with the social and political goals of the feminist movement (whatever we believe those to be at any given moment,) with little or no regard for whether they…

If you feel the need to keep explicitly telling people that the character you’re playing is totally different from you, well, you might want to think about why that is.

JKRowling is a TERF

If J.K. Rowling were not a transphobe, I don’t think that I would consider her a a “radical feminist,” in the sense of the sub-movement within feminism that I was taught about in college, and in connection with which I first encountered the work of Andrew Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon. However, I have…

(1) Are they surgeons (the young woman mentioned in the article her desire to be a surgeon specifically);

He's the king of motion capture lol

This is probably a non-issue for the foreseeable future, given the man’s very complicated, very fraught legacy, but... who would you actually get to play latter years Michael Jackson? No matter who it is, I think you’d end up having to put them in a metric fuckton of makeup and prosthetics (and deepfaking it all at…

“[T]o a college student who shared her dreams of becoming a successful surgeon, as well as her concerns with the tension between this ambition and her desire to start a family. ‘You’re going to have to choose which one matters more,’ Kirk told her.”

Either this is a perfectly reasonable thing to latch onto, or you and I are nerodivergent in very similar ways.

I, for one, would love to see this showdown between the forces of the Federal government on one side, and the wingnuts who believe their stockpiles of small arms would permit them to effectively challenge the most technologically sophisticated military and professional law enforcement apparatus in human history.

I agree that she’s pretty easy on the eyes; I don’t know anything about how powerful she is, as that’s not something I can just determine by looking at her, and I don’t know that she’s really distinguished herself as a Congressperson given how much louder and more unhinged some of her colleagues have been. As it…

This never really occurred to me until I read your comment, but I think this is why I don’t find conservative humor or “satire” (Babylon Bee, etc.,) funny. It’s ultimately all way too outraged and self satisfied with its own moral superiority to be funny.

After the absurdly racist shit in other Transformers movies, I’m glad to hear this. Hopefully this movie does well and this dude can move on to directing non-schlock-franchise bullshit.

I immediately Googled Mr. Archambault, and, as I expected, the dude looks like the washed up frontman for a mid-00s nü-metal band. The man is a human chain wallet; he is the embodiment of the metaphysical essence of frosted tips.

“[M]urder as defined comes with the term ‘premeditation’.”

Your exact words were “SCOTUS just ruled on Bruen and the NFA will soon be a thing of the past.”

I’m with you on the fact that it’s didactic. Today I look at it, and I still really like it (‘special place in my heart’ and all that,) but it can come off a little pretentious and try-hard. I think I was probably the perfect age to find the movie clever, witty, and well-written.

DC v. Heller—wherein Scalia fabricates his absurd rationale for basically ignoring the first half of the 2nd Amendment as inoperative “prefatory language” (apparently the *only* part of the Constitution with superfluous verbiage lacking operative authority,)—was decided in 2008.