Hating on Reagan is fine, but this is one of the most oft repeated myths that is WAY off base.

In the 1950's there was an increase of vets winding up in institutions over PTSD, amongst other things, and an increasing sentiment that institutions were cruel, costly, and ineffective (much like some dialogue on prisons…

Talked about, sure. But most social media is algorithmically designed to keep you outraged and getting you to engage. Anger and hatred of the “other” does that better than anything else. That is where the dollars are. And modern “news” sites are pretty much in the same mold these days.

when you get upset about me calling out the Jan 6 crowd

I should not butt in here, but I THINK Freddy was actually responding to Cancer up there. I could be wrong, but that makes more sense.

The issue we’re having here is essentially an actor trying to take all the credit for a successful show.

So my kids are fans of Subway, so I go in from time to time. Can someone explain why they bother to have sandwich descriptions at all. Are they vague suggestions? We always joke about the fact that I can pick almost any sandwich and they will start out with “which meat would I like?”, “do you want this”, “do you want…

No capitals. No exclamation point. No hurrrrr. Just a simple comment. You are the one that continues to be all enraged.

You: Literally nobody says the ancients were not racists.

Its a little different (even if she is certainly not going anywhere as a candidate). Biden IS old and COULD die at any moment. That is not really the same thing as a host on CNN stating on air to his female colleagues that women in general are past their prime at 50 (maybe even in their 40's), among the many other…

Hey, believe what you like. Aristotle absolutely believed that some people were inherently inferior from birth, and that it was only proper and efficient to make them slaves to give them purpose, and that non-Greeks were far more likely to produce such people. He also absolutely used specific negative terms to refer…

I absolutely will not disagree that the Greeks thought the same way about the Celts that they thought about “Nubians”. You are correct. Just because they did so did not make them less racist. They were just saw all such groups as equally inferior. Just like Americans were heavily bigoted towards Irish, Italians, or…

Does the ministry release statements demanding changes to all the “documentaries” that say the pyramids were built by aliens?

I do think the gaslighting on this is hilarious. Writers like Aristotle, Ovid, and others routinely wrote about black individuals in mocking and negative wording (“burned face people”) and spoke of them as outsiders. They did not see them as equals.

It would be like looking back at the US 2000 years from now and saying…

I don’t think there is a comparison there. I personally dislike them for very different reasons. I happen to be glad both are gone.

On Don Lemon, this was a case of the fact that he has said so many things belittling women over the years, various female staff at CNN were not going to let this most recent one go without a fight (nor should they). It is telling that even though his most recent comment was about a GOP candidate, his colleagues were…

Nothing against this cast, but I am not surprised by this. National Treasure was not popular because it was “good” or a highly sought after concept. It was popular because of Nick Cage’s energy and general “Nick Cagey-ness”, and his bouncing off of his co-stars.

^^^^^^^^^^Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize that some form of citrus (lemon or lime generally) is what brightens up a lot of soups.

Actually this is the first I noticed it will be two films. Why? (aside from money of course). If you can do Phantom or Les Miserables in one movie, what on earth in Wicked needs 2?

Old Man Mario: “I’m getting too old for this shit. Time to save Peach for once and for all. This ends here! Bowser’s gotta die.”