Great post.

Agreed. If they’d stayed true to the book and had all the black characters banished to show the racism that Atwood described, they’d be accused of not having a diverse enough cast. If they cast color-blind (as they did here) they get accused of being insensitive to the intersectional nature of oppression that WOC…

“What I don’t understand is why the public needs access to military-grade weapons, or why it’s so difficult to ban people with mental-health problems or criminal records from purchasing rifles and pistols.”

So the show’s problem is that it treats its POC characters the same as its non-POC characters?.

Yup and the chart on the right shows artillery trajectories. The AP mislabeled them.

blazing saddles? huh?

Well, for starters, while I’m not a right wing troll, I do think it’s worth pointing out that Fusion/Gizmodo/Gawker’s reporting on the details of incidents like this, especially when said details don’t fit the narrative we all tend to lean towards at first reaction is, bluntly, fucking awful. If you want to know…

The harmonicas are obvious: Blues Traveler tribute band.

These aren’t medical devices. These are instrument to measure ballistics (ie artillery)

However, your clickbait youtube video and unrelated article don’t seem to provide any illumination on the situation.

Doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to progress from “angry enough to hit someone with a baseball bat” to “terrified of going to jail for murder and drunkenly attempts to cover-up crime by disposing of body”

Is this how you have sex? By discussing all the places that can be touched prior to engaging in any touching? Can I kiss you? Can I touch your neck while kissing you? Can I kiss your neck? Can I bite it just a little but then kiss it again? Can I touch your arm as I move my arm to get more comfortable? Oops, my leg…

Just because they encountered each other again doesn’t necessarily mean he followed them. Putting the pieces together, my best guess at the timeline is roughly:

You aren’t describing road rage, you’re describing road mildly annoyed.

You fucking putinbot. Sorry I had to do it before anyone else did.

Perestroika will involve laying off the regular workers and doing it all through an app and “independent contractors.”

Keep in mind, this whole Syria mess started with the “Arab Spring,” which was an unimaginable cock-up of directionless policy concerning shifting, amorphous tribal alliances throughout the region.

Fair, it’d be fairer to say we had a poor vision of how to actually achieve the goals, and a poor understanding of how nation-state building would work in the modern age and with the fractal ethnic and religious factions and the deep-seated terrorist organizations rife throughout the region.

This Guardian article suggests in the $800-1100 a month range, although I imagine there’s some freelance type piece work as well. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house

This is a difficult one. The Fantastics, written almost 60 years ago, is the longest running musical on the planet. Like The Merchant of Venice, Huckleberry Finn, Gone With the Wind, Crime and Punishment, and other dated works of art, yeah, there are parts of the musical that are certainly offensive from a modern…