Ascot guy: “I say old chap, they’re now selling discount free-range escargot. How garish! This is what Trump has wrought upon the proletariat! The scoundrel!”
“DECKS OFFICIAL, FLIPS TABLES AND COMPLETELY FREAKS OUT AFTER LOSING”
Seven decades of data say that isn’t what happens.
I see the joke you’re trying to make, but the truth is that there was a healthy bootleg anime market in the US at this time. Healthier than the legit market unfortunately.
This is trying way too hard. Bleach Boy is a terrible nickname, and I hope it sticks with him forever as penance for being an attention whore.
I remember when Video Oasis moved their Anime section to international and dumped most of their collection. I ran to a pay phone and within 30 minutes there were 7 people in the back room of their store ransacking eight shelves of beat-up anime VHS tapes because you couldn’t find most of the titles they had anywhere…
This reminds me of when I first discovered anime. The only place I could find official releases was from those mail order magazines we’d get in the mail. Then as it got more mainstream I had to get it at stores like Suncoast and specialty gaming stores. It was expensive then too for DVDs. Each disc came with like 4…
He surrounds himself with the devastatingly incompetent, the homicidally bigoted, people celebrated by literal Nazis, he lost the popular vote, he runs crying to mommy at the slightest rebuke from anyone, continues to conduct business while receiving top secret briefings, wants to wipe out overtime pay laws, has his…
Hindu nationalists have a lot in common with white nationalists, like disturbingly so. I have never liked her.
Noted white nationalist for Chief Strategist (Steven Bannon)
This is the guy who created the “Crosscheck” system for voter suppression which may be responsible for Trump’s taking the electoral college.
Here’s Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who wants to run the Department of Homeland Security, just carrying…
I wish io9 would have moved to Jez instead of to Gizmodo, because yeah, those commenters and comment threads aren’t as fun as they were when io9 was it’s own thing.
Umm...that’s happening NOW to black people. Or have you not watched Adolph Guiliani call BLM a “terrorist” group.
The powers that be are terrified of protest and organized action from below. It’s democracy in the truest sense and as such a direct threat to their consolidated power. The strategy- demonize and oppress the opposition and avoid an uprising and loss of power.
I’m a Christian, and if they try to start a Muslim registry, I’ll register too. I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that bigotry and hatred cannot and will not succeed as policies of the US government.
Who started calling them the “greatest generation” anyway?
What was so great about state sanctioned discrimination, internment camps, and lynchings?
George Takei recently shared a spin on “They came first for the Communists” that I find fitting. It went something like: