Very excited. As an older person that has loved this site, it has taught me things that were unfortunately normal for my Gen X self, shouldn’t be normal. So, I get where you are coming from with “What do I read now”.

If you still believe in the mythological “2023 moderate Republican” then I’d maybe be careful throwing around words like “clownishly.” 

I did not watch the cartoons these characters were in, but I think I have followed along well enough to get what’s going on. Overall I enjoyed it.

Ah, thank you. Well, maybe DeSantis did mean listless then, in the sense of them all acting in lockstep. He’s still dumb as a sack of hammers.

The insult makes no sense anyway. I’m not particularly nautical, but isn’t “listless” an adjective you apply to people, while “listing” is what ships do when they’re drifting off course? (Boating people correct me if not). Surely Trump’s voters are the very opposite of listing, anyway...they’re sailing mindlessly in…

Oh, Dex. To be fair, you weren’t the genius Jedi Grand Master who thought, “Secret army supposedly commissioned by a mysteriously dead Jedi Master and built from the DNA of a bounty hunter who worked exclusively for a Sith Lord? Hell, yes, I want to use that army!”

We are living in a very cruel period of American history.

Whaaaaa... a white Christian perpetual victim is making a completely made up bad faith argument?!?  I just don’t believe it...

Don’t worry, buddy, Sears has gone to live on a private equity firm upstate.

Clem on Buffy I think is the clear choice

GOP and weird little brand bans go hand in hand. Remember shit like ‘Freedom Fries’, Dixie Chicks, Starbucks and Merry Christmas?

peta is a terrible organization that turns off most people to the idea of animal rights and shouldn’t be calling out individuals just buying a pet. bother farming  corporations and big box pet stores that still sell animals.

These aren’t 1%er mega yachts being attacked - there is no way on earth a pod of Orcas could sink one of those - these are normal people who decided to spent their holiday sailing in the Mediterranean in small boats.

But sure, lets laugh at their lives being put into mortal danger because boats.

Exactly. If I want to engage critically with a work it’s because I thought it was worth thinking about. It seems kind of infantalizing to place some media as out of bounds for discussion because it checked certain boxes. (But I get that when most ‘discussion’ is like “WHY BROWN PEOPLE!?” people get defensive before…

Oh, I think those things you mention are above-average. That’s the problem: the actual average of creative works is so, so low that these “objectively” mediocre works are above-average.

It’s so strange to me, as a teen and comic book reader in the 90's (pretty much the timeframe all these MCU films come from), so many of the stories were female focused (Jean Grey, Psylocke, Rogue, I can go on...), and these dudes lapped them up and mentally and physically jerked off to them.

What exactly got us to a point where watching Buffy felt like a betrayal that Gellar had to mend?

There’s a whole internet industry of people claiming to have never seen it before, supposedly watching it for the first time and filming themselves for reaction videos.

Comparing human women to the cattle that we use and abuse for to exploit their biological reproductive functions for our own gain is probably the most honest thing a Republican has said about abortion in decades.