That you sincerely think it would be better to die and that you’re helping someone you care about do what you’re unable to? It’s like “encouraging a person you purport to love for weeks on end to join the military,” which I would consider an utterly irresponsible, abusive act, but someone’s ex-army uncle would…

Kawhi was definitely not the best regular-season player, although he was monstrous enough in the playoffs to maybe make up for that.

Has a basketball ever been torn into three pieces during a game?

True: zero people actually support Warren, and it would good to see more acknowledgement that she’s politically indistinguishable from Klobuchar and only dumbass fake liberals think any different.

Literally any flaw is enough for rightwing ratfuckers and hostile media to hang a smear campaign on. That’s the point: “her emails” weren’t, substantively, a problem. The problem was that it was possible to just make shit up about them and get it printed on the NYT’s front page.

Look, if you can’t understand that the angry man is genuine and the lady is a filthy scheming bitch, I guess you’re just incapable of logic.

“I’d love to vote for a woman, but this woman has an immutable personal failing that forces me to reject her out of hand.”

Shit...me too, and I thought Splinter was resurrecting their series on sex. Sad!

“Never” obviously isn’t true, but “very rarely” is indisputable. Put “interracial” into any porn search and look at the first several pages of results. It’s 90+% black men and white women.

while hopped up on pure human adrenochrome.

I guess look at Louis C.K. (NO WAIT DON’T LOOK): He jerked off in front of numerous women, it was well known, and nothing happened for years. That’s what typically happens in these cases historically, so if that’s the thing that gets a guy off, why not do it (y’know, besides the decency-based reasons)? The expected…

Yup. Their guard choices in particular are amazing.

The shittiest Olympians.

At his best he mostly looked pretty slow, tbh. I’m not really disagreeing with you particularly; I’m just saying that, even as he looked bad and poorly-integrated into the system, he was statistically very productive. If he were a healthy player who topped out at that level, there’d be no question this was a great…

Cousins still looked extremely good by advanced metrics last year. Certainly way better than you should expect from a dude making $3.5m.

I think the argument would be that the Civil War was sufficient ‘atonement’ for slavery and the modern US, flawed as it is, at least doesn’t have genocidal violence as part of its fundamental law. The trappings that carried over — name, colors, bald eagle — have been similarly purified by redemptive bloodshed.

I dunno about that last one — “We’re preemptively applying an authoritarian government’s censorship to all of our products, everywhere, because it’s super profitable for us” is pretty fuckin dark. Lying about it is at least somewhat less aggressively dystopian.

It’s probably wrong, but harmlessly so, and it’s important to force people to at least think about the possibility that officially endorsing slavery was an unforgivable sin for the early US. Like, yeah, why isn’t the flag of a nation with slavery enshrined in its founding document a symbol of racism?

Oh man, I thought you were joking. Klay is actually the absolute best, weirdest dude.

Rape by deception is a crime in which the perpetrator has the victim’s agreement and compliance, but gains it through deception or fraudulent statements or actions.