Funny story: That man would go on...to be president.

The fact that you think “the demand for racism is exceeding the supply of racism” is a plausible statement is *exactly* why this is depressing.

Point of order: UCLA is a much better undergrad school than USC, except maybe in film.

Is the “rocking the baby” thing like a way to do the “big balls” taunt without getting T-ed up for it? The announcers seemed confused about who he was “rocking to sleep” - the defender? the crowd?

True Detective?

Hey. Which part of “I’m a 45 year old white man” didn’t you understand. :P

Hah, just mentioned her above while managing to misspell her name twice. Did I mention I was an out of touch white guy? She is seriously awesome though (at least that new album - I haven’t dug back yet). Picture Perfect is my new favorite song.

Counterpoint: “Lil Sims” (black female british rapper) is pretty rad.

I usually get get the grill real hot then take a wad of oiled paper towels and brush it over the hot grill with tongs. seems effective enough.

My Mother in law has bought us a set of measuring cups/spoons that form into an R2D2 twice now (b/c she forgot she bought the first one). They are absolute shit measuring spoons and the R2D2 shape fell apart immediately. We kept the first one around for a couple months. The second one went right into the garbage the…

Yes, that was literally the first bullet point (“too lofty”).

I mean, they weren’t purely comic effect. I could easily see a more nuanced portrayal of the characters that allows for a wider range of personalities. I mean Randall could basically be a pretty cool Avon-from-Blake’s-7 kind of character to start with.

While I agree with this on it’s face, let’s try not to lose perspective on the fact that were we were like literally 10 years ago was that Harvey Weinstein was a serial sexual assaulter, basically everyone in the industry knew it, and everyone was afraid to do anything about it and the few who tried got their careers…

I’m not sure how I’m ‘comparing’ anything. Sexual assault accusations are often by their nature very “he said/she said” affairs unless someone thought to pull out a phone and start recording. Obviously false accusations happen. However insofar as we can measure these things, the data would leave us to believe that…

So...it sounds like you are saying that false accusations of sexual assault are a bigger problem/more prevalent than actual sexual assault victims not being believed. I don’t think that’s even close to true. That’s not to say that faking an assault isn’t despicable.

Every time a sexual assault allegation is shown to have been demonstrably fake people *do* get mad for this exact reason just as they have with Smollet. I’m not sure what you are asking for here. 

Wait, I think we are agreeing? At least I think we agree that what Jones did is wrong and should be actionable. It looks like she was asking for millions of dollars and was rewarded a more modest amount of $67,000, which to me implies that the court understood that there are differing degrees of this (e.g. if he had…

I think it’s more like “these kinds of shitty ‘because the character was drawn in such and such a way that is cannon and any change is an assault on my fandom’ people”. So yeah, broad brush. Obviously we are in the comment section of an article about a comic book movie, so by some definition most of us are probably…

Just because it is broad doesn’t mean that all instances of it are equivalent. Don’t get me wrong, it’s shitty up and down the board and rightfully actionable.

Just because it is broad doesn’t mean that all instances of it are equivalent. Don’t get me wrong, it’s shitty up and down the board and rightfully actionable.