“Slavery is only terrible by TODAY’S standards! You can’t judge it by modern morality, because nobody felt as though there was anything wrong with it back then.”

I’m guessing that, you know, the millions of SLAVES probably didn’t think it was hunky-dory, even back then.

YES! SO MUCH! I wonder if that was intentional.

Ha! I should have scrolled down before commenting - I’m glad my brain isn’t the only one that went there :)

My brain automatically filled in your censored sentence to say “Are We a nation of Daleks?” which, considering they’re basically Space Racists also works in context.

I read an early review which mentioned that a dog gets killed, and it was enough to make me Nope out of watching it.

Bay Area resident here: earthquake zoning *is* a big part of it, but i think one of the things that non-locals don’t realize about an Francisco is that it’s actually teeny-tiny. We’re only seven miles (a big chunk of which is Golden Gate park) so there really isn’t the sort of construction space that there is in…

I should have read the rest of the comments before typing mine :)

I would argue that it could be good if it wasn’t a ‘Big Bang Theory’ spinoff. I think that a series about someone on the spectrum taking place in a not-too-distant past where we knew a lot less about autism may actually be a good concept for a series. They could have made something passable if it didn’t have to have…

HIGH-FIVE FOR VAU DE VIRE!

^^^ This. I’d argue that the ventriloquism piece is one of the EASIER aspects of all the stuff she’s doing.

This is so bizarrely true and makes zero sense. I have a few records of Edgar Bergan. They weren’t even live recordings in front of a live audience. It’s so bizarre - i do not understand.

I’m a ventriloquist in the Bay Area and even I think three ventriloquist winners is a bit... odd. Like, even in the variety show circuit, it’s not like ventriloquists are this super big presence that you see much of. I’d expect to see more stuff like aerial and contortion (and, if we want to be representational,…

I’m kind of surprised there haven’t been more circus arts winners, since there are SO MANY skillful aerialists around that I would think would do well.

::raises hand:: Ventriloquist here. It’s not nearly as hard as folks think it is, especially if you have the benefit of being miked. I had been puppeteering for several years and decided to try ventriloquism for gigs when the other puppeteers weren’t available, and I was pretty surprised at how little time it took to…

I can’t either. I saw the ‘parody’ videos of the scene first, and assumed that somebody just pasted Pennywise’s head into one of those ‘JibJab’-style sites, but when I realized that terrible TERRIBLE composition job was actually in the movie? Oof. No. I don’t know how it made it past the editors without somebody…

I can’t bring myself to dislike her, because even though she says some really dissappointing stuff, she’s also not irredeemably awful, just kinda sheltered and privileged. I find myself kinda rooting for her, even though she probably doesn’t deserve it.

No, I totally get it. I mean, I haven’t really been paying attention to her for a while, but I remember back when she first got on the scene, I would get whiplash vascillating between “She’s not so bad. I mean, she’s not exactly enlightened, but I think the Republican party would be a lot better if they were more like…

I like the cut of your jib!

I manage supportive housing for the formerly homeless, and that house is bigger than our facility that houses EIGHTY PEOPLE. ::eye twitch::

“actor-turned-writer/director-turned showrunner of the upcoming Netflix series based on Margaret Atwood’s Alias”