Yeah, all those people wanting to eat... food, and stuff! That’s why I don’t eat or breathe or consume liquids! That’ll teach the MAN!

“...now is there some way we can restrict this to white people?”

Excuse me while I laugh extremely hard at your attempt to pass off your inattention to a movie’s themes as some kind of cold-eyed realism about the intentions of the filmmaker.

Captain Marvel. It is 100% a scathing critique of American imperialism dressed up in patriotic colors to get past the unofficial censors of dangerous ideas, and it’s wonderful.

I really don’t understand how someone could watch ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, which is basically a thin veil of comedy over a deep well of social commentary about the blood-soaked roots of imperialism and its toxic effect on the cultures it impacts, and say, “Eh. Pretty hollow.” Seriously, look past the dayglo junkshop…

And I believe that we should still listen to old-timey radio dramas instead of watching the moving pictures. Surprisingly, that doesn’t make cinema “despicable”.

Absolutely! They’re so fucking EMPTY! Like that movie they made earlier this year about the good soldier for an imperialist power who begins to question the constant stream of propaganda telling her that she’s a hero defending the way of life for the people of her homeland, and finds out that the enemy she was taught…

Oh, yeah. I mean, ‘Black Panther’, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’... I so frequently can’t even tell which of those I’m watching, they’re so similar!

Katie-Beth Shrike is in this issue????

“Horrible People Agglomerate Into a Single Viscous Mass of Hate”

“Okay, kids, it’s time for your mandatory study of religion! Today, we’re going to learn about all the wars Christianity caused. Now, this may destroy your faith, but they said we could be objective, so let’s do this shit, okay?”

In this case, I think some of it might have been not wanting to draw attention to the fact that this co-worker was dating the boss’s son--the company had some pretty strict rules about nepotism and direct reporting, and if they ever had a relationship “on paper”, one of them would have had to quit or transfer. But…

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?

Oof. That’s almost as bad as the big sign that they put up at my old job congratulating my boss for becoming a grandmother. In small print below it, they put, “And congratulations to [co-worker], the mother of the child.”

It could be worse. The full version was, “What, you’re no longer down with this dominant, prominent, malcontent, nonevent, rubber cement, breach of trust with fraudulent intent pussy?” 

I think it’s unquestionably a nasty mix of “I am a white person and as such entitled to say whatever I want to and about black people” and “I’m (not-so) secretly racist and I say it in my head all the time and am really mad that I can’t rules lawyer a way to say it out loud”. Because yeah, you just know that if it was…

“This book makes me look like a racist! I’ll show her I’m not by burning it!”

I’ll admit, if I could jump back in time like Sam Beckett in ‘Quantum Leap’, I’d jump back into Marco Rubio during that first debate right after Trump called him “Little Marco” and just haul off and deck the guy. Send his toupee flying, knock his dentures out of his mouth, and shout, “I dare you to say that again, you…

Because Democrats don’t fight for it. The conservative movement in America has done enough work to frame the issue as “saving babies vs killing babies” that even progressive politicians who fight for it won’t do so vocally or make a moral case for it. So it becomes a “necessary evil” to the moderates, which makes it…

I guess that third thing he forgot was “don’t commit crimes on behalf of an ethically bankrupt president who demands loyalty but never rewards it.”