See, in a world where an endless supply of pron is perpetually available from my smartphone, I feel less need to see it mixed with other stuff.

Kinda stunned to see "Green Room" on here. Suppose it gets around the "Black dude dies first" cliche by simply not having any.

And all that subtext was just about unintentional - it only happened because lead in a low budget horror film was the best work Duane Jones could get in the '60s.

Where, when and what was this, exactly? Some morans hoisting the stars and bars at random?

I'm seeing it more as the power of "hold my beer" harnessed for good.

I can vouch that isn't remotely a Black-specific problem.

Namely that Bree Newsome looked way better doing the same thing in a more prominent location?

Think it was some friends playing a deeply geeky computer (maybe board) game about medieval dynasties. One of them produced that quip as he attempted to generate as many children to be heirs/bargaining chips/marriage trades as possible. Was tres creepy, and, like I said, not remotely something I expected to have…

I never thought a VSB thread would have me flashing to the "you, get on the table, spray babies" line.

There's no way a guy who'd pull a stunt like this hasn't previously made enemies at work. And that sound like just the kind of thing this Bawston Straang idiot would do.

Okay, he's just an idiot rather than a powerful idiot. Suspect folks are perusing his file for dismissable offenses as we speak.

As a Packers fan who watched the 2014 NFC Championship game, I'll counter that I have *some* idea.

Conversely, it would have super-energized the racist white base that all polling showed was not overly engaged in the contest. Post election we know differently, obviously, but you know what you know when you know it.

This is where I have to ask if my home state of Wisconsin is considered Rust Belt. We very narrowly went GOP for president for the first time since '84 - I don't think the state is a permanent loss for Dems.

Or was it failure to campaign in the Rust Belt? Or was it insufficient minority outreach? Or was it (insert personal pet theory here)?

This. The GOP identified the largest homogenous group of voters in the country and promised them the world, shedding nearly everyone who wasn't white, heavily patriarchal, and Christian. There simply isn't any comparably large voting bloc left, so Dems need to have a coalition to win nationally.

Disagree on the settling, but agree on the heII no.

Man, if getting constant updates about Hair Furor destroying the country is preferable to talking football…you been cut *deep*.

…probably. I mean, the Bears were in Super Bowl 41 and had a losing record the next year.

Wife's from MA, we live in the midwest. She's come to accept that the Pats are the Evil Empire of the NFL. Her family's not so aware.