But that’s the point, isn’t it. People on the left have very strong and real criticism for “journalism” that is in reality just propaganda, like Carlson. They don’t vilify of raise calls to violence against normal journalists reporting on reality. Both sides of the political divide are not equal.

Yeah anyone paying attention to the situation in Texas knows we’re already pretty close to Civil War.

Except modern California and Texas wouldn’t respond the same way.

“Offerman’s president are deepfakes by a rogue actor that caused the country to split apart” - ehh this movie already has enough work to do to not come across as preachy and cliche - taking a plot point from a 60 y/o episode of Twilight Zone wouldn’t help. The movie The Hunt - which was NOT good - was at least better…

Too soon.

You know mermaids are fantasy creatures, right?

Do you think commas and apostrophes are woke too? And proper syntax? And not saying stupid things?

It’s also fun asking pro-life people to explain Numbers 5 which is the section about Jewish priests “testing” unfaithful wives by giving them a concoction that induces a miscarriage. Can’t waste that valuable Bronze Age gestation time to raising the wrong dude’s kid!

The GOP has gone from a party where Reagan had once expressed a desire to have a guest worker program so people on both sides of the US/México border could work in either country to now where pointing out the border is not like the Jerusalem scene from World War Z is considered heresy.  It’s been hijacked by people…

You sound like a slightly younger version than myself. For perhaps 6 months of my life I considered myself a libertarian. That six months happened to coincide with the 2000 presidential election, the first I would be old enough to participate in. I voted for Bush and, once I started talking to friends who were…

I used to think I was a conservative in the libertarian grain of “I don’t care if gay people can get married, just don’t tax me”. I stomached voting for McCain despite Palin, but as the party moved further and further away from reality and into conspiracy theories, I just couldn’t justify supporting the Christian…

My parents had a good friend, a guy they knew for years - decades even. He’d always been Republican, but the few times they discussed politics, the disagreements were over things like “was the Iraq war a good idea” and of course taxes. Then one evening, this “friend” broadly declared “every Arab should be killed.” My…

I don’t understand why someone feels the need to take it that far. What do you get out of that other than some deranged sense of power...I may have just answered my own question. Fucking terrifying. 

Sadly, and yes I’m about to generalize, I feel like 95% of the time the people who do that are part of the cult of…

I have been tempted to swoop into my community Facebook group and just respond to folks who are clearly MAGA that “Trump lost”, even if the post has nothing to do with the election. Folks still whining about masks, about the virus being an exaggerated hoax, about not being able to get their hair cut, etc.

I love it when RWNJs point me to articles on medium as proof of anything. I tell them “That’s self-published. There’s no editorial control or validating research built into medium, you can say anything there.” and I usually get back a “Oh, well where do you get your facts?” and I say “... the Economist, the LA Times,…

There’s a reason they do all that projection.

My favourite response when you ask them for evidence is ‘ do your own research, sheep.’

Pardon me if I'm being dense, but if you want is a grounded cop drama about corruption, why not watch a straight cop drama then? Why set it in Gotham and use Jim Gordon if you aren't going to actually take advantage of the Gotham mythos? I don't get what is gained by stripping a comic-book show of everything…

Apart from the presence of Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen, Gotham was never really intended to be Gotham Central. It was always pitched more as “Jim Gordon Begins.” Gotham Central was very much about cops in a superhero world. A superhero or supervillain shows up in every storyline or almost. Batman himself is a very…

David Mazouz actually got pretty good after season 1. Especially when he got to act opposite Sean Pertwee, which was the best thing in the show.