calling it “unpatriotic” …

Since I went to a nerd school (where the popular kids were the ones with the highest GPA and football games were so you could watch the halftime show), our taunts of rival schools were shit like, “[Rival School] doesn’t recycle!” and “[Rival School] drives solo in the HOV lane!” and “[Rival School] is a…

It would be really bitchin’ if those riders also stipulated that the films have to pass something like the Bechdel Test.

Actually, a lot (all?) of Swiss law is passed by popular referendum, so they’re awfully close to a direct democracy. But even they have elected officials, so yes: the semantic argument that the US isn’t a “democracy” but rather a “republic” is really just popular branding masquerading as political science, and is very…

I think Americans are by and large wildly, naïvely optimistic about just how unwilling they imagine themselves to be to accept a dictatorship. There are very few checks left in place, and That Asshole has made abundantly clear he has no respect for them, and as soon as the GOP sees them as an obstacle to their staying…

This, it should be noted, is That Asshole’s MO: he tests out some horrible idea first among his friends, to see how the crowd reacts. Then at a rally. Then among his advisers and toadies in Congress. Then it becomes the official position.

What the hell does “whites invented motion picture (and TV)“ have anything to do with my POV … ?

As Yr Wonket put it in their commentary on this thing, there is one part of his screed that is demonstrably incorrect:

That last qualifier is the kicker here. In the US, photo IDs are difficult to get by design, so that students, the poor, minorities, people who move frequently, etc. etc. can’t get them, leaving the vote to be decided, as it has been since the country’s founding, largely by wealthy white people.

This is a deliberately deployed type of bullshit conflating two meanings of “democracy” in order to associate “Republican” with “American” in the minds of the ignorant simpletons that make up most of the US electorate, namely: the meaning of “democracy” that most people use (“governments are decided through elections…

Man, you took a lot longer to call that dipshit out for being an obtuse troll than I would have. I commend your patience.

Also worth mentioning (though I’m sure HamNo is losing his mind over it over on Splinter) is that SCOTUS has been hearing arguments this last week on a case that would gut public-sector labor unions. Given the justices’ lines of questioning—and that Squirtle McFuckFace deliberately held a seat vacant for almost a year…

right? I hate that usage. It brings up images of pick-up artistes and cops.

This has been one of the singularly good maxims to come out of the excellent “Yo, is this Racist?” blog, to wit: tolerance of racism, willingness to overlook it, willingness to enable it by not resisting it, downplaying its existence or effects, or willingness to normalize and legitimize it by not denouncing it loudly…

I wub woo.

In all discussions of this film, it is obligatory to include the OG man-fish romance story, courtesy of The Mighty Boosh (RIP):

That’s the one! I can’t remember where exactly it is, but it’s along a major highway near a major city (I want to say I-20 outside of Dallas, but I’m just making that up).

Well, given that the filmmakers more-or-less confirmed that there was a gay family in the first one, I’d like to hope that Disney is finally maybe going to start taking some small steps towards not being so homophobic in their films. An actual decent representation of a lesbian character would be great, and Elsa would…

A good friend of mine plays in an orchestra as second chair to a first chair that very obviously got hired for reasons other than her musical abilities. Whenever my friend discusses Soloist Barbie’s playing to her colleagues, it goes like:

Please enjoy @TrueFactsStated and his campaign to fund attack billboards, notably this one directed at Ted Cruz that recently went up: