The theory I’ve seen to explain this is having to fulfill a contractually-obligated amount of screen time for non-Freddie characters. But I don’t know if any theory could explain what’s in that clip.

Question: is your room entirely covered in Heath Ledger Joker posters, or are there a few Tyler Durden ones mixed in?

Becoming a fully atomized subject of capital is self-care. All human relationships are transactional, so don’t perform the emotional labor of being even minimally civil unless they Venmo you first. Don’t look up Hochschild’s original definition of “emotional labor,” use the internet’s definition (any action that makes…

I just need to know if anyone says “smell my belly button,” my favorite Finnish insult (the only one I know).

Springsteen ripoffs, Dylan ripoffs, Replacements ripoffs...it’s a shame such a prolific ripoff artist turned out to be a scumbag.

It reminds me of the time the pastor of an evangelical church wrote a letter to the editor condemning my parents’ United Methodist church for selling pumpkins at Halloween. This weirdo decided that trick-or-treating was Satan worship, and how dare anyone not share his outlandish interpretation of the text.

Well, I didn’t like Enterprise when it came out. So I moved on with my life like a normal person. I didn’t hate-watch it and then go onto Trek BBS or whatever was around then and whine about it. I didn’t post lamentations that it didn’t live up to some vague standard based on my platonic ideal of Star Trek.

It’s funny how a review that criticizes the episode for not going into some arbitrary level of “depth” is so glib and vague with its complaints (I’m not calling them “critiques” given how surface-level they are). Take this part:

Another for the “bizarrely angry Discovery review” pile. This one is better at seeming like it’s not a “waaaaah this doesn’t make me feel like TNG made me feel when I was 9" screed than the ones on Reddit, but that’s all this is.

About time this masterpiece got the respect it’s due. I’ve been doing my part.

Absolutely not. The US’s standard conception is that Democrats are the left, and Republicans are the right. This is, of course, insane, ahistorical, Cold War nonsense. And political differences aren’t “tribal signifiers,” they’re differences in material interests, differences in core values, different opinions about…

It’s win-win: Liberals get to pretend they’re activists for refraining from using slurs, conservatives get to pretend they’re under attack by squads of Maoist guerillas whenever anyone objects to using slurs.

Yes, it’s moderate. Communists and anarchists are left, democratic socialists are center-left, social democrats are the center, liberals are center-right, and conservatives/libertarians/chuds (just different window dressing on the same anti-human nonsense) are right wing.

Oh, come on.

She has received the lambasting due to all those who fail to support Xi Jinping thought. Her actions are not in line with the great philosophy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, which is indistinguishable from capitalism with porn filters.

Man, I wish you had drowned.

Garth Ennis loves dropping profound truths that sound like the ramblings of an alcoholic 19 year old who thinks he’s a genius because he read a book without pictures once.

Kids today would say “this song is better than having a three-way with my parents, which I’m not guessing about, I actually did that.” Be sure to use that slang with everyone you meet.

Rob Lowe is allowed to be near a girl that age? Weird.

Lol you sound like my redneck cousins who post on Facebook about how “MSNBC is bias!!1!”