The phrase “emotional abuse” always raises an alarm for me. Not that it doesn’t exist, but the range of different things that could be described by different people as “emotionally abusive” more or less guarantees that it will serve as a catch-all term for a lot of things that most people would not consider to be that.

This is why I don’t understand anyone who can accept anything any company shill says without question. Companies, their spokespeople, and their CEOs routinely tell obvious lies and evasions when evaluated with even the smallest amount of common sense. Yet people still act like anyone who got rich that way makes them…

If it had -been- there during the reign of 45****, it would have never been found, it would have been consumed immediately.

The U.S. government asks social media companies to censor themselves from spreading known false information. Idiot judge calls it “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

Honestly that was my thought as well. Is it supposed to be recognizable to Chinese audiences? Because even though I’m well aware of the dispute surrounding it, seeing that Barbie map it would not have occurred to me what (if anything) that random squiggle represented. If it was deliberately included as a suck-up to…

It’s nonsense for it to be included unless they added a bunch of other dashed lines all over the map.

Looking at the still, I don’t see how it’s possible to take it as anything other than a very pointed joke for the exact reasons you state, which is weird because you’d have to be pretty well-versed in Sino-Asian politics to get it, and 99% of the people who meet that qualification live in those countries and have all…

When I heard the movie had done this, I thought it sounded like the absolute worst, most craven example of Hollywood sucking up to the CCP - like, in what scenario would you need to include any maritime boundary on a map, let alone this one?

Would it? The US segment obsessed with patriotism seems to overlap with the people who love Putin and they’d probably think giving Alaska to Russia would be part of making America great again. It’s a weird, weird world these days.

The article is atrociously written, but I think the “bad-faith acting” thing was intending to refer to the bad portrayals Tucci mentioned, rather than saying that any straight actor playing a gay part is inherently doing it in bad faith. (Not objecting to the overall point you’re making, but just trying to clarify…

Oh I’m sure razzle-bazzle’s life of vomiting Internet outrage is the work of a true artist.

I think it’s safe to say she didn’t know she was working with Nazis. I mean, sure, she knew Voller/Schmidt was an ex-Nazi, but that was 25 years ago and there was no reason to think he was still carrying the banner, just as we gave tons of ex-Nazis a pass in the real world, particularly when they were getting us to…

You literally signed up specifically to tell us that you’re a bigoted homophobe?  Uh, okay there, buddy.

I do love a good self-own.

Note to self… Bryan is a bigot and a homophobe…

On the one hand, yeah, this is just some dumb venting by a celeb that has no effect on any of this whatsoever. On the other hand, I’m so fucking tired of a bunch of ancient, privileged, hypocritical jurists twisting legal doctrine through bizarre pretzel logic to prove there’s actually nothing unconstitutional about…

That was always a ridiculous hole in the entire plan.  1. those records are digitized and obviously backed up off-site, and 2. no one houses data centers in class-A downtown office space.  I don’t know if this was an oversight by the author and screenwriter, or deliberately meant to reinforce how stupid and futile the…

I prefer the old Superfriends cartoon Lex Luthor backstory. He was a friend of Superboy’s who was trying to develop a cure for his weakness to kryptonite until a fire broke out in his lab and Superboy callously put it out with his superbreath. Which caused hot vapors to blow onto Lex and cost him his lovely head of…

“What? We're paying 0.01% of our net Superman profits to nobodies who don't even have a reality show? Shut it down!"

Cool, look forward to them getting as far as costume tests before Zaslav sells Superman rights to Citibank or something.