Don’t know that anyone will ever say anything dumber than Ben Shapiro’s infamous “So what if the water level rises 5 to 10 feet? You think the people living on the coast won’t just sell their houses and move?”

Oh she’s a rightwinger 100% and none of this should be surprising. Poster girl for Jesus is Love and #boymom bossbabe. 

And yet, by 1920 the US started raising the age of consent to 18 years old, so they knew this was all pretty fucked up. Glorifying illegal practices is major feature of a lot of popular music. They did it because they could do it, not because they genuinely thought there was nothing wrong with sleeping with 12-16 year…

It’s not surprising that so many musicians/artists/directors who thought they were the coolest and the edgiest were trying this bullshit. The film version of Lolita came out in ‘62, and the Beatles and every other rock band were singing about teenagers.

agree, just commented similarly

“In advocating the case of the...dispossessed, it is a right, and not a charity, that I am pleading for. To create a national fund. out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of 21 years, the sum of fifteen pounds of sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural…

It’s not just rich people. It’s also working-class and middle-class people who are angry that THEY aren’t getting help (at least in ways that they are able to recognize as help).

All this is simple Economics 101, and if rich people would sit still long enough to pay attention, it helps them too. When you give people who don’t have enough money to live on more money, they spend it on things to live on. If they have children, they spend it on things for the children. What — well, I don’t know…

that a sizable percentage of the population along with Fox News and their ilk will be infuriated by this is really...infuriating? Depressing? Completely predictable? Especially when so many people in this group call themselves Christians. The amount of cognitive dissonance needed to reconcile these two things is…

This is why the American film industry ended up in Southern California, after starting out on the East Coast — a wide variety of landscapes and climates, all just a few hours’ drive away.

Counter-counterpoint: New Zealand PRETTY

What makes New Zealand a great place to film is how varied the landscape is in close proximity to each other (drive for another half hour, and you see rivers, then forests, then mountains, then coastlines), and also it’s empty of people. But what makes it a challenge is how far away the country is from anywhere else.

I don’t give a rat’s ass where* they film, so long as it’s good.

Counterpoint: the Lord of the Rings stories were always set in a fictionalised Europe, with themes around Nordic myths, and the Shire being explicitly modelled by Tolkien after Berkshire and Oxfordshire in South-East England. The New Zealand connection only came about because Peter Jackson is a Kiwi and insisted on…

So this was posted:

My daughter did competitive trampoline up to level 6. What you see at Olympics is 12+. It would hurt my back and knees every time I saw her land so abruptly, but she swore that it was fine. This has been an interesting week for us because she’s grown up in gymnastics, cheers, power tumbling, and trampoline. It’s her…

This is all a lot of “forget what I said; this is what I meant” to all this. Cuomo expects everyone to understand the intent of his actions (assuming they weren’t somehow shitty) without regard for how they would reasonably make the recipients feel about them. I’m sure he and every other narcissist would react the…

He already heavily implied that one victim was overreacting because she’d been sexually assaulted in the past.

I think it’s also worth pointing out, as a footnote to this, that Biles’ withdrawal made room for other athletes to shine (who would not have otherwise had the opportunity to medal.) I read a story about how Mykayla Skinner was getting ready to board a plane back to the states when she got word that she was needed,…

Cuomo’s peculiar way of defending himself