Two straw men in one post. The movement against police brutality doesn't "hate cops" and nobody "demands more government." People oppose violent, biased policing, and would rather see government policies and resources dealing with root causes than taking a fist to symptoms.

They must have just set it. Or, everybody else commented without actually watching it first, which is entirely possible.

I spend a lot of probably-futile effort trying to understand how two incompatible thoughts so frequently occupy the same head.

I have to say though, I have never before heard Moby described as a "7-foot-tall dude who’s all energetic." I always thought of him as 5'7" and vaguely sickly.

Maybe his years-long twitter run is the act of a very, very well-prepared method actor about to audition as one of Sean Hannity's hemorrhoids.

God, I *hope* his nonstop idiotic Obama Is A Secret Muslim Communist Fascist European from Kenya tweets can be explained by cocaine use…

It was actually quite front-and-center in their minds - this is the first paragraph of the original study's manuscript:
"Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation…

They even replicated the original Milgram study in 2009. The narrative had started to become, "Well that experiment was done in a really conformist time period in the US and probably wouldn't hold up." Turns out it did. Just a slight modification to the original but the same basic findings held up.

"Dr. Lori Brotto is an internationally recognized expert in this exact topic you're asking about. I gave her your letter and she immediately passed it on to somebody else. That other person said, 'You should see a doctor.'"

I want a prequel based on the Doof Warrior guitar-playing guy. I picture a nice biopic montage of him learning basic chords, doing body suspension work, and spending time as a petty arsonist before he has the flash of insight that leads him to combine those 3 interests.

Yeah, Ice-T's "Rhyme Pays" is in that category too.

This article did not define "Grigoriadis" as the last name of the reporter who did the interview, and so when that word first appeared in the sentence, her lyrics involve “describing her vagina with more words than [Grigoriadis] thought existed, and then amplifying its power by rhyming those words” I was seriously…

Mine too. And Black Flag and Misfits. Like, I realize that according to the other stuff I love, I am supposed to love those bands. But I don't. And I really did try.

I think Elba would be a great 007, but I have to admit that I largely want to see him get the part because I am looking forward to the inevitable supercut of idiot media heads reporting that he is "the first African-American to play James Bond"

He used the Ben Franklin effect! If someone doesn't like you, instead of doing them favors, have THEM do a favor for YOU. It's a cognitive dissonance phenomenon that Franklin used on political enemies.

I saw this documentary at a film festival a few months ago, the director came and gave a Q&A afterwards. I liked it, I would give it more like an A- or B+.

From the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder, criterion D3:
"Persistent, distorted cognitions about the cause or consequences of the traumatic event(s) that lead the individual to blame himself/herself or others."

I definitely wouldn't say he was a jerk, more that he got caught up in something bigger than him, and got both credit and blame when he really didn't deserve most of either.

The miniseries was actually based on a book of the same title, by a New York Times journalist named Lisa Belkin.

Genevieve complains that "Vinni's arc gets gendered" due to that phone call and if this were fiction I'd agree - but it makes me wonder if the phone call was simply an actual event that actually happened. Any mention of it in the book? My understanding is that Nay Noe Wasicsko consulted on the show, so I'd be somewhat…