If a person is involved with a nefarious organization that “disappears” people and “secretly” governs an industry, I’m going to a bit interested in that...

Not in its current form but founder Bikram Choudhury was a creep who ran it like a cult and did just that.

Because she wants to hide the fact that she’s in an extremist cult from people who don’t know it.

I don’t think the main concern is that Musk is going to turn it into a conservative dumpster (although it’s certainly a concern for some people), just that he’s not someone that they trust or are comfortable supporting in any capacity... and this was obviously done FOR conservatives (specifically to build goodwill…

I’m pretty sure most people who don’t understand GMOs hear the letters and imagine a cackling guy in a lab coat, goggles on top of his head, pouring unknown but vibrantly colored liquids (probably green and/or red), labeled with skulls and crossbones, onto the food, then yelling “SHIP IT! THEY’LL ALL SEE!” to a…

Okay man. You are committed to blaming Jason Sudeikis for the actions of someone he had no idea even existed, even though you haven’t even the slightest hint of a clue about and zero practical experience with what is involved in this process. Go for it, my dude. I, as a woman, very much appreciate your mansplaining…

Yes. Hawaiian shirted characters dispatching people with the sharpened ends of tiki torches. Love It.

It’s a very simple fact of conspiracy theories that their adherents firmly believe that contrary evidence proves their conspiracy theory, in the “That’s what they want you to think/this proves its a coverup” sense. Which is why there’s no arguing with conspiracy theorists...

Lifehack: use the flag to wipe the vomit out of your mouth.

I’ll bet a dollar, she left because they offered her less money than Reedus. Or less money than she thought she was worth.

Not that controlling food intake and/or weight is not a method that cult leaders may use to control their members, but having watched both of these docs, and also recently watching the one on Heaven’s Gate, I think another reason weight and diet control is so common in cults is that there is the need/tendency of cult…

That’s not really the point. They got all these assholes on camera basically gloating about how important they thought they were on the internet by simply exploiting the fact that even though they are completely reprehensible and worthless excuses for humans their respective egos are very outsized. All one has to do…

You can have valid points and make them in an annoying way. I’m not a vegan, but I think that the arguments for being vegan are at least compelling. I still find people who yell those points at me to be off-putting.

...we stopped teaching people when they were younger to critically examine everything they are told...

The book and its sequels are absolutely worth your time, as are GM’s other books.

All fair points, especially the part about Twitter not being a monopoly. I was thinking more of Facebook/Meta.

Anyone want to bet that the NYPD cop is not just absolutely slathered in galling hypocrisy or that he’s reflective enough to detect it?

I work and recruit at a college in South Carolina. Kids from the northeast come down here because it’s less expensive and kids are becoming smarter about not taking out loans. Also, these college campuses are becoming more and more liberal. There are a lot of students here that don’t like seeing what is going on in…

As terrible as this is, I doubt sincerely that those states will give a fuck until their precious sports teams are affected. Once you see a bunch of players going to D1 schools outside of those areas for those reasons, there may be a change in tune. 

Imagine claiming that you can’t afford to pay a wealth tax because all your money is tied up in assets and investments and isn’t liquid enough to be given to the government in the form of taxes and then dropping $44 billion to buy Twitter.