I mean, it’s because sometimes there’s a conflict between “be the change you want to see in the world” and “recognize the world’s fucked up right now.” That’s why.

Based on her polling, a lot of them were not big fans. Like, a lot. She was the second-most-unpopular candidate to ever run for president since polling on that question became widely available/reliable. Only the guy running against her saved her from the top podium.

Religious humor is basically a direct refutation of your thesis, at least if it has any hint of an edge to it at all. If at some point it stops being offensive to anyone, that’s precisely when it risks being exposed as not-actually-timeless-after-all. The fact that people take offense to the mockery of absurdity is…

Ridiculous, sure, I’ll agree, but a lot of that is because the show is hoisting itself up on its own petards constantly.

I mean, get Justin Roiland to write the stuff underneath it and I might watch that. Dude with a super gross mouth finally deciding to start flossing. Setup montage of youthful excess, confrontation with mortality, then: fear, five stages of grief, tartar, blood, tears, cross-cuts with a super old guy with arthritis…

Israel is most definitely committing genocide. They’re just doing it nice and slow, and giving their victims juuuuust enough rope to work up some guerrilla resistance (and some historically-predictable zealotry and revanchism) so they’ve got even more excuses to keep it churning.

All that irritation from all those morally/intellectually offended people represents a mere drop in the bucket compared to the billions of advertising dollars at stake. The corporate west has been having a toxic DL affair with sex work for ages, and we’re a long ways away from its contours shifting significantly.

Well okay, but you are aware that there are certain connections between the concept of space and the concept of time, right?

And I could say literally the same thing back to you, and we could be in total disagreement about basically everything. That makes it a pretty worthless admonition.

I agree. Black Lightning, season one, made insularity work. It served double duty as commentary for the black American experience. Finally, somebody had a halfway decent answer to the perennial question of “well why not just call Superman [or whoever] and knock this shit out in an afternoon?” It’s not an answer that…

Well yes, but “odd” is very close to the bottom of the scale for the DC comics universe. In order to get near the top, you have to, like, forcibly eject past versions of yourself out of your own asshole to fly around, which you can only do because your father was secretly Zeus and fucked a magic penguin.

Well yes, but some of those revolting opinions are quite palatable to cable news’s owners. It’s actually kind of weird that CNN and MSNBC bother tapping anybody from the Dixiecrat/Bannon/Trump wing of the party, when they’ve got the Bush and Cheney ghouls right there.

To be honest, I’m shocked it’s still so expensive. Back when T2 was released, yes, T-1000's powers were one of the most expensive and insane things ever rendered on film.

The idea of Bioware putting together a truly competent and engaging multiplayer addon to a single-player game was, at the time, utterly absurd. I can’t fault anyone who was skeptical or butthurt about it in advance. ME3 really flipped Bioware’s traditional strengths and weakness on their heads. It was a shocking game,…

The Bush wing would agree with your characterization completely. Indeed, the very fact that the albatross is bigger than the body is because all of us assholes rejected their brilliant idea of limiting the right to vote to only our betters. If only we’d stuck with explicit aristocratic/oligarchic voting setups, the…

>The idea that only the West thinks colonialism is bad may actually be the most genuinely stupid thing I’ve read on the internet this week.

I disagree, if only because Paradox’s gsg’s are some of the best no-I-actually-mean-play-a-role RPGs ever made. In Crusader Kings, the game very clearly shows you how being a ruler makes you a monster, but it makes being a monster seem like a totally reasonable reaction to the prevailing circumstances. That’s powerful…

Because advertisers need fig leaves, and the size/shape of those fig leaves changes based on a complicated collection of factors. Indeed, advertisers are generally very happy to advertise in and around outright smut, so long as nobody points it out and raises a fuss. That produces an Icarus meta for sex workers - yes,…

Well yeah, but to yet others it’s a dream that’s too beautiful to actually believe. Uncertainty can make for strange bedfellows. Imagine being a genuinely decent human being who simply cannot accept on faith that literal space aliens and the-powers-that-be (often embodied by people like Massen, remember) are trying to…

I mean, not all adult women sound the same. Indeed, one might assume that the logical and consistent position of the banner-wavers here is that adult women can sound like pretty much anything. How dare you ever try to say that a woman is not a woman because of how she sounds?