“Is ironic bigotry from a comic still acceptable?” I think the key is that people should be able, at the end of the day, to distinguish your ironic bigotry from actual bigotry. And I don’t think you can do that simply through using absurd levels of hyperbole anymore, not when there are people online who legit talk…

My original plan was just to ignore him, but I like yours better. :)

I think that’s the most depressing part to me--this guy is going to go through his life blaming his problems on “those black kids that got me fired”. (And I think he will not refer to them as “black kids” in the privacy of his head or even around friends.) The thought that his own actions were responsible for the…

I suspect he reads almost nothing but self-help books, on one topic or another. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? Then you should have put that information on the first page so I could get it to shut up, dammit!”

I know. It’s really got me seeing red.

“But what else could I expect from a bunch of low-rent, no-account hoodlums like you? Hoodlums, yes, I mean you and your friends, your whole sex. Throw ‘em in the sea for all I care. Throw ‘em in and wait for the bubbles. Men, with your groping and spitting. All groin, no brain. Three billion of ya’ passin’ around the…

Yeah, but “they” in this case usually means “complete assholes who hate the fact that suddenly they have to at least pretend to care about other human beings”.

It looks like Saudi Arabia, from the preceding two lines. Trump is probably saying, “Hey, why do we spend all this money every year supporting the Saudi Arabian military when all it does is get us grief from terrorists?” Which, he’s not wrong, but I’m a little stunned that Trump looks at a sleazy business deal…

I’m really confused—how does the gun play into this, when the threat is to your job? Like, is the guy with the gun just there to make sure that you follow through on your decision, and don’t close your eyes or something? Does he really need to threaten to fire you when shooting you seems a lot more dangerous? Is he…

Because I disagreed with it. I’m really not sure how much clearer I can make this short of drawing you a picture.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but... it’s amazing how many people only care about fidelity to the source material when it comes to casting non-white actors.

You’re right. When you buy a Beanie Baby, you at least have a toy you can give to a kid. With crypto, you don’t even have that.

The apex of “WTF?” was seeing it happen in old episodes of “The Flintstones”.

I got your point. I disagree with it. If all you have to say is simply to repeat it, you may find that this conversation gets old pretty quickly.

“What if she’s lying, bro?” feels like it should go up there with “Grab ‘em by the pussy” in the Hall of Shame when the history of sexual harassment is written.

I’d suggest reading ‘Icon’, by the late lamented Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone Press. It made a lot of cogent points about the ways that the “immigrant experience” in America is very explicitly not the black experience, because black people didn’t come to America voluntarily. Even today, immigrants from African nations…

Jordan would do a good job if those reports are true, but I would have gone with a Latino or Middle Eastern actor for Superman. I think that Superman’s story has always been the story of an immigrant who was welcomed to America by its most loving people, and who repaid that love by becoming our greatest champion. I…

Note: Superman died when he remembered a little too late that his whole planet is lethal to him now.

But again, Bush administration. Not even the second Bush administration, which started almost twenty years ago now, but the one before that! If your honest defense is, “Hey, maybe it’s possible that Norm Macdonald drifted blissfully through fifty-eight years of life on this planet never once managing to empathize with…

The words were “The victims didn’t have to go through that.” It’s not just saying “They suffered too”, it’s very explicitly saying, “They suffered more.” It was not a mistake, it was not an accident, he was very clearly and explicitly saying that he felt more empathy for the person who sexually harassed others than he…