I’ve seen ads within the past few months where Bialik is using her credentials as someone with a PhD in pseudoscience to hawk a dubious brain supplement, so...

All I gotta say is thank Crom I was born perfect and never did or said or thought anything stupid, unkind, unscrupulous, or ill-informed.

So, first of all, that’s a thing a lot of people do with shitty beliefs they don’t want to admit they hold...give voice to it but then tepidly disclaim it. “Some people think this....I don’t necessarily agree..” It’s very often a cowardly way of voicing the author’s true opinions (see J.K. Rowling’s initial toe…

Actually, a lot of anti-vaxxers adopt exactly the rhetoric she has adopted with regards to vaccines. They emphasize the personal nature of the choice (as if there are no public health consequences to deciding not to vaccinate a child who could be vaccinated against highly infectious diseases, and also as if a parent’s…

I don’t think “you should get your children vaccinated” is an “arbitrary, fluctuating standard.” I also don’t think “children who would not be born alive without routine medical intervention should be given that routine medical intervention rather than be allowed to die, and it’s abhorrent to think otherwise” is…

Yep, legitimizing dangerous anti-vax/vaccine hesitant talking points, and saying you like pineapples on your pizza, are the same thing. 

Doesn’t this kind of undermined OP’s point?

This is weird. Bialik’s career has not been ended, and she is very likely to end up as the host. Mike Richards’s career also has not been ended despite much more serious allegations; he still gets to run the show. Beyond that, it is actually possible not to say fucked up things publicly!  

Do you think “children who would need to be born via C-section could just be left to die and that’s fine” is a legitimate opinion?  I don’t. She does. 

She published a book on raising children that legitimized vaccine hesitancy, and continues to espouse anti-vac adjacent opinions. Some people think having bad, dangerous opinions ought to disqualify you from getting high profile gigs that come with a lot of positive publicity (for example, one could imagine more…

I’m not sure what this has to do with anything (???)

And a big LOL to whoever said they’re “not here to judge the value of someone’s labor” or something like that.

They’re calling it a non-alcoholic spirit.  You this shook by the idea of “decaf coffee”?

So the answer is, no, nothing about the label, marketing materials, or description of this product gives the impression there is alcoholic in it.  It’s just this weird imaginary conversation where (1) the person you’re talking to provides no other information about what they’re drinking besides an inscrutable brand…

Words to not ‘evolve’ to mean the exact opposite of their meaning. This type of thinking is exactly why there’s an article about how ‘pork wings’ might be the answer to the chicken wing shortage. Words don’t mean whatever you want them to mean.

Suffice it to say, I don’t think I need to continue to engage with a guy who think socialists want class divisions. If that’s what you think socialism is, go nuts man. I don’t think you understand what socialism is about. It’s not about devaluing certain labor, it’s not about preventing people who don’t do enough…

I mean, that’s the theory behind how wages are set in a free market. You’re right it doesn’t work that way in practice (one of many flaws with free market capitalism), but that’s how it’s supposed to work. It’s also how the inequalities produced by free market capitalism are justified…some people have lives where they…

Lol, what? I asked you a question and you answered (snarkily) a different, irrelevant question.

Socialists absolutely discourage class divisions.

Capitalism is about assigning value to labor. It is about saying “Your labor is worth $X because it generates $x in revenue.”