I, too, remember when characters like Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg were cartoonishly over-the-top villains whose self-aggrandizing debauchery and knowing, intentional evil were considered the sole domain of the “shut off your brain and enjoy the bright lights and loud noises” flavor of action flick. Nowadays, he seems…

You know nothing about me or my friends. You know nothing about the history of violent opposition to violent oppression and how effective it has been. You speak solely of the absence of tension, the very negative piece MLK decried in the Letter from Birmingham Jail. You cause nothing to be done, so you are a…

They don’t matter to getting good folks elected. At all. Your “basic demographic math” is why the Democratic Party is focused so heavily on keeping the “moderate” (right-wing) portion of their voter base while failing to do anything to energize unlikely voters. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged with infrequent and…

The right will point their finger at anyone and everyone that disagrees with them, group or no, name or label or no. They will make up names if they have to. Being part of a movement with a name isn’t giving the right anything they haven’t already taken for themselves. By now there’s probably at least one right-wing…

The Confederacy had, written into its Constitution, a prohibition against any member state abolishing slavery. If you think that’s anti-fascist, I don’t know what to tell you.

“Antifa” is not an organized group; it’s an international decentralized movement with no leaders or hierarchy, the history of which reaches back nearly 90 years. There are organized groups that are part of the Anti-fascist movement, but I doubt the Right - or you - could name any of them without a trip to Wikipedia.

Ooh, “straw man”, good job naming a fallacy! Now try this one: The Spotlight Fallacy. You’re only focusing on times that protesters are accused of engaging in the kinds of violence you decry, while ignoring the number of protesters - including antifa! - who do nothing of the sort. Your logic is the same as the…

Your pretense that India’s independence and the Civil Rights Act were won solely on the backs of nonviolent protest is ahistoric to the point of base revisionism. There is too much history to begin to list here, but perhaps you should look at the fact that India first transitioned from a holding of the East India…

I guess you’ve never heard of “work-for-hire” or “non-compete agreements”? Work-for-hire means the stories he wrote as a staff journalist for BH Media are the intellectual property of the company, and I’ve signed at least two non-compete agreements that barred me from speaking in any business capacity to any contact I…

Conspiracy theories do thrive on that pretense, don’t they? QAnon has its “secret arrests”, anti-Muslim paranoia gets “taqiyya” - anything to pretend that things which don’t fit into the theory’s model are just deeper proof that the theory is true.

Are...are you serious? “Absence of evidence is evidence of conspiracy” is literal tinfoil hat thinking.

Two problems with your...whatever that was.

Oh, right, he didn’t mention race...except for the fact that “globalist” almost always means “Jew” when it’s coming from someone like Allsup.

I taught at a Corinthian Colleges school in 2003-2004. During that time, in addition to the grievances already listed, I had students in my programs who were lied to about the requirements of the program - at least one had been told that she could be placed in a night-shift externship (which did not exist for that…

Trump’s escalating war came just hours after his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, called Cohen someone who “has lied all his life” and “a person who is found to be an incredible liar” despite having lauded him just months earlier as an “honest, honorable lawyer.”

I remember applying for a position at Home Depot in ‘06. There was a job posting for a computer tech position I was qualified to do and capable of doing at one specific store within two miles of my house, so I fired off my resume. My “interview” was a “job fair” (actually, a mass intake event for only Home Depot) in…

I’m holding out hope that it was a way to keep from getting “gotcha’d” - admit you’re not an expert, and any attempt at “but what about this obscure aspect of the conflict / single sentence from one person” falls flat.

“Georgia is better than this.”

I cleared my YouTube history and paused it a couple years ago. The only times I have regretted that decision have been when trying to re-find an obscure music video or YTP I can’t remember the name of.

Georgia is similar. We had a ballot item in 2016 that talked about “community involvement” in building schools or some such - but the actual referendum would have been to allow the governor’s office to create “community boards” to build charter schools in districts that didn’t want them, over the objections of the…