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Alex Franklin
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Sad!

I just assume that if somebody is too terrible at communicating to not be mistaken for a joke, they don't really deserve to be taken seriously and it's made the internet as a whole a lot more tolerable. Now if I really feel like talking to an insane person, I just try to play along. Either they really are joking and

I find it really unnerving the way he always seems to be making this weird kissy face at the camera.

Tacos ARE a weird shape, though. You have to turn your head to the side to bite into them, it's like they're designed for people with insect mandibles.

Why does he need to be a VP, isn't he already the King?

Combinations?! Whoa, let's not go overboard with the whole political correctness stuff, here. It's the primary source of terrorism, after all.

That's good to express your own opinion! But it's more fun if you keep disagreements friendly, because then you have an opportunity to change someone's mind or better understand where they're coming from. Like, the nebulous category of "internet people in comment sections" tends to have a bad rap, but when you take

Yeah, it's very easy and tempting the way our brains are wired to see sexism as a struggle for power between the sexes, but this sort of thinking is incredibly harmful and very limited in its utility for making progress. Sexism doesn't favor men or women (at least not directly), it favors dichotomies. It attempts to

I've been trying for weeks to come up with a parody of John Coulton's Cruise Crazy that's about Ted Cruz instead of Tom Cruise. It could totally work! You'll see!

Are you really cicada John Oliver articles?

Is it at all worth my time to look up what "race baiting" could possibly mean? Everything I'm getting from context is that it's as stupid as the phrase by itself sounds, but hey, maybe this is the one time the internet invents a word that isn't awful and pointless. Statistically, it's gotta happen eventually, right?

Yeah, it's honestly not that hard to understand. If there exists a word that is offensive to use against a group of people, and someone in that group uses it, obviously they're not trying to insult themself so they must be using it in a camaraderie-y way. If someone not part of that group uses the word, that

This is why I prefer to just think the whole thought instead of merely a piece of one.

I was apparently very lucky to get sex education from a Unitarian Universalist church, considering everything I hear about the crap other places taught (and didn't teach).

Oh god, that's almost a spot-on description of my elementary school music class. There was all this tedious nonsense about "finding Do with sharps and flats" and it made no sense. It wasn't until much much later when I took actual piano classes that I realized what that even meant. Of course, by then I had all but

I like how he didn't even care enough to specify "that girl's name," he just wanted to say a girl's name and was too lazy to even pick one at random.

this human has a strange comment history, and I'm not sure why this is here.

Thanks, I've updated my Chrome xkcd filter to add ", in between farts," to the end of every instance of "Rush Limbaugh."

It must be pretty stressful for his wife and kids, for him do get death threats. I mean, you know they probably aren't serious, but there's no way to be sure. How old even are his daughters right now, anyway? I feel bad that I never really thought of this before.