Isn’t “critique that is fair” just another way of saying respectability politics? Because all the dragging I saw was about his push for diversity while wholeheartedly still supporting the crimes bill in the 90s that’s responsible for a lot of the militarization of the police.

With this leak and the Russian Bounties leak, someone is trying to get some 25th amendment action going. And while obviously I’d love to get this tool out of office, I think it’s more that GOP operatives are realizing that they’ll not only lose the presidency but also the senate if Don continues with his shenanigans.…

I’ll take overt American racism over smug, insidious English racism any day.

What’s ironic is that so many Conservatives ran to Parler for a hug box, which has its own TOS and has been banning leftists for mocking Conservatives on the platform.

Most leftists and anti-authoritarians also tend to shit talk Democrats, though. By leftists I mean medicare for all, open borders and universal suffrage.

While true, the 30 Rock episodes that I remember with blackface also were making similar points. Jenna and Tracy doing raceswapping to see who had it worse in the world was denounced in-universe by people that knew better, and it only served their egos. The live episode was even more pointed about the use of black…

She’s amazing in Southland, too. Shes one of the only cops I trust.

Goddamn... what the fuck?

Me: “There’s no way Trump, a germophobic billionaire, would have let a curable STI get to the stage where it’d cause neurological complications”

Double-nut allergies, oy!

Yeah, as a gay man I’m used to understanding gay subtext in genres where it would be foreign. Dumbledore’s relationship with Gindelwald seemed less romantic and more like a close platonic male relationship that got coded as gay because Jo doesn’t understand that those kinds of relationships exist without “OMG, they’re…

She was a minor known quantity before that. I’d attribute her being nominated for an Academy Award for Up In The Air for her career taking off.

These bad faith, dismissive arguments against Reade and the metoo movement just need to save us all the trouble and state outright that they’d still vote for Biden even if he did do it. Because really, that’s what they’re saying. Sexual assault survivors will always see small parts of our story in accusations, and…

Oh man, it’s pretty crazy that you’re violating doctor-patient confidentiality to discuss your patient Tara Reade, especially since you have all this intimate medical knowledge of her mental state!

It even goes down to the chromosomal level. There’s more than just XX and XY, and some people don’t even know that they’re non-XX/XY due to the robustness of the X chromosome and how wonky the Y chromosome is. Tack on expression and penetrance and the “Sex chromosomes as the basis for sex” falls apart at the social…

Exactly, they had a higher up from Obama’s BLS and they basically affirmed what you just said. Paraphrasing, but: Many people that are unemployed don’t think of themselves as it because they have a job to come back to once the pandemic has let up.

It’s okay to misgender transphobes because of their tendency for “civil arguments”, even when their “arguments” demean and dehumanize trans folks. When their weapon is turned upon themselves, see how they react. It’s rarely complacency or the “civil” way they expect trans folks to react, instead they let their whole…

God I hope TERF is a slur, I hope it hurts them when I call them that.

Book 2 is where JK started getting better. Even of YA standards, book 1 was pretty rote and tapped into some of the Dahl aesthetic, which is how it got attention. Book 4 was arguably a great book, but everything afterward was stymied by Jo’s lack of vision. A lot of the great themes are due to the “headcanon” of the…

I think part of the issue is that Midsommar was commissioned.