I’m struggling to figure out why Tarantino needs to scream that word at him in order to get that comparison.  Someone saying the “n-word” is not the only thing that is capable of testing a black guy’s patience.  There are a lot of ways that Jules’s reaction and Vincent’s reaction to provocation could have been…

cool

no one has spent years stewing over anything, but even if they had, so what?  why do you care at all if people dislike a tv show intensely?

I think John Kelly is the most likely source for the bulk of story (likely indirectly), and he has little to lose career wise by going on the record.

A lot to unpack here, but this was an interesting thing to read:

So apparently this is going to be the “but her emails” of this cycle, where the media essentially adopts and amplifies conservatives’ bad faith, impossible-to-meet, ever-shifting demands that Biden sufficiently denounce rioting and looting and violence (oh, you repeatedly denounce looting? rioting? but did you…

First of all, this article is going to have zero impact on the election. There is not anything in this article whatsoever that even implicitly discourages people not to vote, or not to vote for Democrats. It’s a story about a ridiculous own goal by someone who should know about basic things like “optics.”  

I don’t think a little joke referencing an old meme is “shitting all over” anyone, but hey, good on you for coming to the frothing, rabid defense of a PR move by two extraordinarily powerful people. 

I mean, the Zimmerman verdict was outrageous, but this is materially different. 

Are you kidding? In that video, he was running away from people who were trying to stop him and disarm him because he had just shot and killed someone. You don’t get to kill someone, and then claim self-defense when you shoot bystanders who witnessed you killing someone try to disarm you so you don’t keep killing…

We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that Republicans have always sucked (before COVID, Bush’s body count was way higher than Trump’s). But Trump’s America is one in which truth just doesn’t matter at all, and in which a significant portion of the country will just go all out to defend the nuttiest shit. And so I know,…

Antifa definitely exists. But it is a decentralized movement whose only organizing principle is being against far right nationalists. Some people who are antifa are peaceful, some endorse and engage in property damage, some endorse and engage in actual violence. It is dumb to ask him to denounce antifa as a movement,…

hmmmm....indeed, looks like that might be the case 

She absolutely used the site wrong.  She defrauded people.  Whether it was designed for sex workers or not (I’m not even sure how that’s relevant), it definitely was not designed for fraud.

It’s one thing for the RNC to parade a bunch of Uncle Toms and Aunt Beckys out to be used as props to help salve the consciences of white voters who want to do racist things like vote for Trump while considering themselves not racist. Tim Scott and Ben Carson and the rest are grown adults with their own agency and if…

So, one thing is, it just comes off as incredibly unseemly to look at all of this through the lens of “How might this hurt or help Trump?” One person was shot 7 times and seriously wounded in the latest incident of an endemic of police violence against black people that has lasted as long as there have been police in…

I actually don’t know whether left voters are more or less loyal to Democrats than right voters are to Republicans, but that right voters vote in lockstep and left voters don’t is an item of faith among political pundits. If you have evidence one way or another, feel free to share it. Also, would be interested to see…

“Cancel culture” is perpetuated by a bunch of people who expected, because of their station in life, to be able to say whatever they want and be met with, at most, respectful, muted pushback from other people in similar stations; instead, they are met with straightforward, rude pushback from the plebs of the…

From the polling I’ve seen, abolishing/defunding the police only has about 15% support among the public (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/22/abolish-police-gallup-poll/). That sounds like an abysmal numbers that no prominent would want to touch with a ten foot pole. On the other hand, making all abortion…

Who cares dude?