I will never understand the compulsion of politicians and commentators to use their platform to declare art offensive like this. It never ever goes well. The best case scenario is that you increase the exposure of the thing you’re trying to denounce. At worst you become permanently associated with the thing you’re…

How is "oh my god, they are using bad words in a song" still a thing?

The weirdest thing in conservative antifeminism is that feminists are somehow both stuck up killjoys and sex crazed sirens.

“Black people fuck? Not in MY America!” - every conservative ever, since always, on every piece of black pop culture to ever exist

“God DAMN these black bitches for making my white penis feel funny!”
Angry conservative with his pants around his ankles

Epstein and Ghislaine often went after girls from troubled homes/girls from low income families on purpose. They would usually have a girl of similar age make an introduction (though how they met the first girl, I’m not sure).

Methinks Mr. James P. Bradley got in some fappin’ to the WAP before his moral outrage overcame him.

One more time: Can anyone name me another profession where no matter what the end result is you are never to question those in that profession? Oh and if you do you are labeled as ungrateful and a non American? We know the system isn’t designed to protect those you deem as expendable but I have a question for all the…

That article uses no citations, is self-referential (using the Bible and people from the Bible as sources) and notes the shroud of Turin as archaeological proof. It is also written by a person whose very livelihood depends on the existence of Jesus.

Sorry, I think I was getting my replies to you and Woke Up Dead co-mingled in my head! I didn’t mean to snap!

Look, all I know from being raised Catholic is that every time the priest said, “This is the body of Christ”... he held up a little white cracker.

What you are referring to that the ‘historians agree’ upon is that there were a number of rebels, prophets and teachers through the ages that through stories and myths became the “historical Jesus.”

...I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but: just as there is no proof Jesus was (insert skin tone), there is also no proof of his existence. Ergo, faith.

Because it became a TV show where the main goal is to chase ratings and dollars. If you upset the interviewee, they won’t give you more access. Without access, you can’t fill time with content and use that content chase ratings. So they won’t challenge anyone in a real, straight forward way.

That is in no way a footnote of the three-fifths compromise. It is the crux of the whole matter. If it seems counter-intuitive, then it’s because you’ve bought into the brand of American exceptionalism that says the anti-racist North was at odds with the racist South. The north was(and is) filled with plenty of…

I don’t understand.

I have always found it interesting that the three-fifths clause was not because the northern states wanted to count slaves while the southern states didn’t, but just the opposite; the larger southern states wanted them counted because then that would allot them more congressmen in the House of Representatives - which…

I like how you say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, and then each of your next three sentences are about how the Civil War was, in fact, about slavery.

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history…

Congrats to Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders for winning a g-d Hugo!