I doubt it. The guys behind Digital Homicide cannot have any assets worth taking from them besides money. Even then, Sterling would likely only want enough money to pay his legal fees.

What’s particularly disturbing about lawsuits like this is that, even in cases where they are clearly frivolous, as this was, they can force critics to spend significant amounts of money on legal defenses.

Obligatory: Dicks out until Rick’s out.

I really wish I could say I am surprised at this, but I am not. If they had let him speak, they probably would have kept him on-stage even if he were to out more trans people or undocumented immigrants.

Why are Barbie dolls and “pink things” only for girls while GI Joe action figures and “blue things” only for boys? Why must girls only play with “feminine” toys and boys with “masculine” toys?

Amen, hallelujah, pass the damn tea.

Obligatory for anything related to “Beast Wars”:

Spoilers: Shockwave still can’t shoot for shit.

comedy is more often than not based of challenging what is considered good taste

No, you are thinking of 4chan’s /v/.

My point was that edgelord behavior — e.g., “ironic” racism — can eventually stop being “ironic” and start being sincere if someone does not grow out of that behavior. To do so requires a functional sense of empathy and a willingness to look at your behavior with a critical eye.

45 said that shit, but I still feel like I should apologize. Ye gods.

I have experience with this sort of thing; I used to post and troll on 4chan. I know what it feels like to say outlandish things for a laugh, then keep on pressing buttons when someone expresses even an iota of offense to it. The visceral joy of saying something really fucked up and getting the “proper” reaction for…

You are not supposed to be voting for a friend, you are supposed to be voting for a gotdamned leader.

Trump thinks he is the smartest man in the room.

Doing a gag that got him positive attention from White supremacists and anti-Semites, cost him a multimedia deal with Disney, and cost the people working on his YouTube show their jobs was a good thing?

It is more telling that he views his entire fanbase — a group of more than fifty million people from multiple countries — as a monolithic entity that he somehow “knows”. Only someone with the certainty of a god, a politician, or a fool would claim to “know” how everyone reacts to his work.

every time he’s at the center of a controversy, he gets more defensive than introspective

No one in this comment has the right to be a judge for comedy.

The “just joking” defense is a load of shit.