There’s a vast and disparate lines of reasoning, but largely it’s because it’s been a base for Western imperialism for a long time, and warhawks in the US can rely on a permanent ally in an area of the world that the West can fight for a) ideological hegemony, and b) resource extraction.

It was a debutante ball that was created in a time that was really racist, made by people who had ties to really racist things, and likely did a lot of racist things during that particularly racist period. The ball in its form when Kemper attended it had left the racist elements in its history.

Every time that I see blackface I have to wonder how many steps it takes to get to that picture, how many people don’t warn them how stupid it is, and how they went the whole event without totally realizing they made a huge fucking mistake.

I’ve rented plenty films on Google and it should be totally feasible to have theatrical release in conjunction with at least a rental release imho. I assume it’s a matter of contracts and payouts based on this notion that we need to have theatre releases as the metric of success; even as a fan of theatre-going I would…

As a white guy that grew up in rural Canada with no black folk around, it isn’t just that she’s white with no black people around, it’s that she engaged in blackface willfully. Wearing another race as a costume is even stupider than the typical racism than what you get out of white people.

lol, how many times are we going to see grifters reskin devices from Chinese marketplaces? Soulja Boy and his “game system”, the “Freedom phone”, now this?

No, I’m talking Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage. All signs point to the sequel being at least as stupid as the first.

Or, how about this: Spiderman in the Venom-verse is one of the animated ones from Into the Spiderverse.

I think there’s two general rules about emoji culture:

It’s great of them to have the masculine-presenting preggers emojis official now, from what I’ve heard all the conservative pundits were looking for a new topic to be unbelievingly thick about (/jk, but kindanotreally, of course they’ll be tweeting in fury over this).

But this year, NBA 2K22 really stepped up its game when it comes to shoving elements of late-stage capitalism into the experience.

If you see somebody being assaulted by an armed member of the Chicago Pig Department, in an area where there aren’t others around, I think it’s a question of self preservation to not intervene. This guy feels like he’s cruising for a reason to put somebody down.

Yeah, they’re humans just as flawed as anyone else, doing a very not normal job with people following them around and making goss about whatever they are doing. How a person’s recovery and relationships is significant news is beyond me.

I definitely don’t discount Jezebel’s trashiness, it’s moreso that AVClub took me off guard. I’ve been on G/O media for years now, and if any of the sites is going to go for this style of content, it’s the one that wears the “supposedly feminist” thing with pride. Jezebel, especially of late, has some really great…

Mulaney and Munn are bringing life into the world, they are excited about it. There’s not much to that story, I don’t know why anyone cares to give the side-eye to Mulaney’s interview. Is there no suitable victim for sacrifice at the altar of celebrity?

I really find it so fucking weird to see the conjecture on the appropriateness of Mulaney & Munn’s relationship, or the opinions on Mulaney’s “inevitable” relapse. I get it on some level that Jezebel’s part gossip rag, part news-with-feminist-critique (I’m here for the latter), but the commenters in AV Club pulling…

Fukin Zardoz, pukin guns up everywhere.

I just hope that this film doesn’t embrace WOKE LEFT CULTURE, and continues the trend of the original about being about CHADS and STACYS waking up to the real world with traditional gender roles and advocating for MEN’S RIGHTS. /s

Hell, even if he’s not “proven wrong”, Britney won. She has been tethered to an unsupportive family for years, and she now has the freedom to set terms on her relationship with them.

Nice to see Chucky looking like Chucky once more! That Buddi look was trash in the last film.