Totally agree. Reminds me of the idea that people would vote for Bush the Lesser because they “could have a beer with him” - I don’t want a president I’m comfortable having a beer with.  I want a president so intelligent, with such a grasp of the issues, that I’m terrified I’ll say something stupid in their presence…

Well played!

It really is that simple. Calling an African-American woman “a child of an ape” is a well-known racist trope. The POTUS calling a woman a dog is a well-known misogynist trope, as well as being an outrageous abuse of power. An unknown individual calling someone a bedbug because his place of work had been reported to…

You are reading way, way, waaaaay too much into this. This is not dehumanizing language. “Dehumanizing” is an issue when you describe a group - like an “infestation” from Mexico, or a LGBTQ+ folk being “abominations”. That is repulsive, and should be criticized because it is an attempt to turn anyone within those…

I’ve spent many, many, many hours playing this and have had fun, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to go to bat for them when they continue to push every boundary when it comes to their monetization. I don’t understand the people that DO. Do you seriously want the industry to keep pushing these boundaries like this? If…

The fact that so many gamers bitch and moan about prices on completely optional cosmetics while also enjoying a game FOR FREE absolutely blows my mind.

Calling someone a bedbug isn’t loaded, for god’s sake! Honestly. Sure, if you can search, you can find an oppressed minority being called bedbugs by their oppressors - Google is great for that. But to suggest that was the motivation behind the comparison, when there was a topical news story on bedbugs at the NYT, is…

Rick Deckard.

Looks good.  Told you she was enhanced, a la Pandora’s Star :-)

Agreed. “Critics find her” is the more intellectual form of Trump’s “Many people are saying”, and deserves just as much contempt. 

I don’t know about other posts, but the sarcasm in that one was pretty obvious.

I read it as him making the point that her blackness was evident from the photograph, so he didn’t need to mention it. However, the way he wrote the tweet makes it clear that he’s talking about removing an African-American rep., and their race isn’t relevant if the challenger is also African American. That is, he…

Needs more stars.

A lot of analog electrical components drift over time. They slowly go out of spec, not giving the results they were expected to. That’s the “drift” in the title. It’s almost certainly nothing to do with orientation. To prevent this, the manufacturer can buy higher quality components, or design more complicated…

Good eye!

Perversely, this will make online privacy so much easier for him. He’s going to be really hard to find in an online search.

I think the politicians should refer to “one of his parents and most of his wives” as being immigrants...then you get to remind the hypocritical evangelicals of another awkward truth at the same time.

Yeah.  “Distinction without a difference”, and all that.

If I remember the original Miami Herald series from last year correctly, he wasn’t interested in girls once they were too far into puberty. Big boobs in particular, were a turn-off, so you were retired from “massage” duty - although you could still be useful as a recruiter.