These gaming culture wars are as frustrating as they are exhausting. Can’t we just play the fucking game, offer our criticisms where appropriate, and then move on to the next one? Maybe Ion Fury is legitimately fun. But also, maybe “Ogay” is a lame and base joke. Maybe the developers, after rethinking it, are…
Whenever someone uses the term “SJW” as a non-ironic derogatory insult my eyes tend to glaze over and all I hear is the Charlie Brown teacher, and I lose all memory of the previous 5 minutes. I think it’s some sort of defense mechanism or something.
I realize that anecdotes aren’t the plural for data, but it’s been my experience with Boomers and Silents with power that this is the defining generational divide. Not to dismiss the racism and misogyny, at all. But whether we talk about Democrats or Republicans, people or who are pro or anti-structural racism,…
“Well, that’s one more miserable son of a bitch that I’ve managed to outlive.”
To co-opt a Bette Davis quote: “Mother always said to speak good of the dead. David Koch is dead. Good.”
It’s sadlarious how you keep beating this drum.
Trump: “Wait a minute. No president has done what I’ve done.”
It used to be Lincolnwaswrong. They shortened it at Ellis island.
Clearly a Soros-paid Antifa member crisis actor being used to try to damage the president.
I’ve often wondered why I’ve never seen slavery deniers. You certainly hear from the holocaust deniers, but the slavery version seems to take the form of “they actually liked it and it got them to the best damn country in the world!” rather than “it never happened.”
Confederate statues - “We need them! We need them as...uh...a constant reminder that slavery is bad! So we can learn from history or something!”
Sorry bro, but the natural progression of Right-wing politics IS fascism. The promotion of strict hierarchy, the stratification of society, the rejection of egalitarianism and xenophobic/isolationist rhetoric ARE the foundation of Conservatism as a political ideology. This is why it appeals so strongly to the blindly…
Strictly-speaking, it’s about power. Right now, the most dangerous man in Washington is Mitch McConnell. Which is saying something in a Washington wherein Donald Trump is the president. Donald Trump breaks norms because Donald Trump is a narcissist who is trying to fill the hole in his heart caused by absentee…
What makes you think politics is something you can just “put off”? I see my politics as an integral part of my personal morality and who I am. How do you view politics, as a “team sport”? Do you think agreeing not to criticize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians during a trip to Israel is like agreeing not to bring…
Israel responded by knocking down her grandmother’s neighborhood and shooting another ten kids in the back with butterfly bullets.
Whoever at Splinter is Tomato or is pulling them out of the greys to drive engagement: please stop.
They hate Muslims more.