Time to turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit!

Relevant thread:

“You know what this slowly dying online media property really needs to perk up reader engagement? Tasking a bunch of our writers to write fluff pieces hyping a slang term from 20 years ago! That’s the ticket! Kids these days love that half-ironic stuff!” — GM ownership, right before high-fives and doing some lines at…

This hot-ass take is one step away from, “sure, the last guy was awful or whatever, I guess, but he sure made great television, amirite? God, this guy is so boring! Bring back the clown show!”

I’m just going to leave this here:

I mean, what’s the counter-argument here? The draft should be male-only, because that somehow makes the US’s imperialist wars of aggression less likely?

There’s the argument to be made that we go to war all the time because it isn’t politically or socially painful, and that this is wrong. It should hurt to vote to send our nation’s youth to war, both personally (politicians’ kids should be first in line for military service) and professionally (all their constituents…

I remember reading somewhere that there was a plant that grew wild in the Roman Empire that was effective as birth control. It was so popular that they harvested it to extinction. 

Raise your hand if you’re surprised the spokesman for the sheriff’s office recently shared racist “jokes” about the “China flu” online and the actual sheriff is a former Blackwater mercenary.

Surprise! Letitia Wright comes from a batshit crazy conservative Christian sect, and has been wearing that shit on her sleeve since Black Panther came out. Anybody who is at all surprised that she turned out to be an anti-vaxxer loon is a moron.

Read The Winter War, about the outgoing Hoover Administration’s efforts to hamstring FDR’s programs to save America from the Great Depression. Their fuckery is why the President is now inaugurated in January (before FDR, it was in March).

Conveniently, their dogs serve as good scale models of the size difference between their respective humans.

I really like how this here “feminist” blog decides to devote a profile of a sitting congresswoman to a discussion about her lipstick choices.

How about this?

I life-size statue of Virginia native Missy Elliot, decked out in her disco-ball track suit from the beginning of the video for Where They From.

I’ve said it many times that Joe Biden needs to win in November, and I will phone bank as much as I possibly can to do my part to make sure that a Biden victory happens.

It’s pretty amazing to me how—-coming back here after a couple months hiatus—-I find that virtually all the political coverage has been moved over to TheSlot, where I can get yelled at by BernieBros and read a daily series of articles about how Joe Biden is The Worst™ (really enjoying watching Tara Reade facing…

Ever since this pandemic started and I read about all the angry assholes refusing to abide by any sort of basic safety measures, I keep thinking of that kid in the testimonial video for Patrick Swayze’s pedophile character in Donnie Darko. The kid’s mother talks about how he used to wet the bed and cry a lot, but now…

It’s like we saw the mountain of dezinformatsiya coming down on us with the whole Burisma thing, and decided we’d just let ourselves get buried.