I think you missed the point of the Big Short. The guys who shorted the real estate market thought they’d provoke a rational market response, with the people who were buying the bundled toxic real estate debt realizing (as the short-sellers had) that the market was overvalued, and revising their valuations…

On the other hand, anytime a bad take is made public then a good take needs to be made x10 because the public are morons.

i can’t get over the disturbing fact that the scale of the cats is all wrong. unless all the cats are teeny, tiny miniature cats, (which they are clearly not), it hurts my brain to even look at them.

Based on metatext from JK Rowling herself, the series revolves around the fight to keep the ghost of Myrtle Warren out of the wrong bathroom.

Lemme just say that the “pusillanimity of Press Secretaries”* isn’t lost on me, and I understand that there will be moments when she’s spinning her ass off. BUT those will be moments I recognize and will be able to read between the lines. And sweet babeee jeebus no lies or snark and deflection to boot?!?  Bring it.

what’s wrong with “both sides”?

Oh, look, it’s the “both sides”, “horseshoe theory”, bullshit again... Because promoting transphobic crap, fringe electoral fraud nonsense, and supporting a white supremacist con man (Carano) is exactly the same thing as pointing the sistemic racism in our society (Arielle)...

When you claim a harassment campaign against a woman for saying systemic racism exists and calling out a woman woman who harasses trans people, spreads false information about COVID during a pandemic, and actively endorses an armed insurrection of the US Government to overturn a lawful election as equally bad it says…

“both sides"

Expressing hatred towards trans people and tweeting out conspiracy theories put out by the same terrorists that stormed the Capitol because their guy lost is different and substantially worse. 

This is an extremely bad take. Just so you know.

Yeah, it amazes me that crusty old white dudes will wail about “cancel culture” when they clearly have never been in danger of facing a real consequence in their life, and probably never will. 

Cool, but this is absolutely a story that needs to be covered by the news. We should not help the Conways cover up abuse of their daughter. 

You’ve got it wrong - that’s what we start out as. After that, the sky’s the limit, except in winter, when your front door’s the limit.

I wish RLM’s “Fuck you it’s january” had been a regular yearly feature.

I would like to see this extended to the ‘Hey, somebody said something on Twitter’ Stories as well.

You never had to talk about him in the first place. You’re a pop culture website, nobody was coming here to hear about all the shit Trump did, especially since they could read about that on actual news websites. You could have been a refuge from the crap, instead you fed right into it.

For me, it’s Cannibal Witch op-eds first, then everything else.

Alternative headlines that did not make the cut because none of them were mine:

Oh he can still post comments. It’s just they don’t show up in notifications and their comments don’t pop up on the articles. You can just go to the comment section of his profile and look up his rants from there.