Then she’s learned nothing from the days when, as self-absorbed adolescent, she ran crying to Cersei that her father was going to take her away from King’s Landing. Jon is an experienced, battle-hardened fighter and commander, with an even more experienced crew of commanders at his back. She has no training or…

“What happened this past week is the NRA, the whole blame ISIS thing, said ‘hey, don’t look at the guns, look over here, divert your attention, take your eyes off the problem,’ because they don’t want to face the embarrassment of their failure in this gun control area, and they want to cover their butts and not talk…

I remember that attack. Crazy.

The fucking privilege of being able to think diseases don't kill people makes me extra ragey at anti-vaxxers. Fuck those fuckfarts.

At that age there’s a solid chance he’s already thoroughly tarred.

Several anti-vax organizations have been pooling their collective intellectual powers

He did a total adolescent selfie humble brag there. “Hey, THANKS for the congrats, but I don’t WANT your congrats! It’s about being smart, etc...” Of course, if he really didn’t want to make it all about his congrats, he just wouldn’t mention it at all, and would start with the second part of his tweet.

No one congratulated him. It’s like when people on FB start a post with, “Okay, since so many people asked me I guess I should tell you...” It’s a way for people to start talking about themselves even when it’s clear no one cares.

There are many examples in history of nations, organizations, parties, etc hitting an extreme as they die. Their popular support begins to wane, so the people who feel like staying end up more and more dedicated to their cause as the public shifts away.

think of it as an extinction burst - before change happens, expect bad behaviour to get much worse out of desperation.

There once was a girl from Nantucket
with talent as deep as a bucket.
She tried to “sound black”
and wrote songs like a hack
so they gave her a Grammy when they should have said “Fuck it.”

“Get over it. You have an amazing career and you’re on a hot show. Take your shirt off.”

About Newton, He was quoting a skit he’d been doing recently. Because Ali wasn’t Australian, he had no knowledge of it, and nearly flattened Bert on live television. I don’t know if ‘boy’ was a racist slur in Australia at the time, but if it wasn’t, then it was an honest mistake.

I think partly in the Australian context it wasn’t intended to be racist the same way it would have been if it was in the USA - like, it seemed that it genuinely wansn’t intended to be racist. But it inadvertantly was, and it’s kinda awesome watching Ali react to that.

Sorry to quote you again, but I’ve also been thinking about the time Bert Newton said “I like the boy” about Muhammad Ali when he was here in Australia (I think it was the logies in 1979?). Like, it seemed honestly non-racial, but it was interesting (and I mean great and I guess indicative of what kind of man he was)…

Yep - it’s sickening. Like, you’re ok so long as you never ever forget what you owe (white) society. And it’s even more disgusting when people then try to justify it with “but he took a dive that one time no one can really even remember anymore and that’s why we boo him!” Stfu and just admit you’re a racist piece of…

Yeah that sucked. Black Expat in Oz here.I went to one of his matches and the booing was deafening. It wasn’t booing against the other time like they tried to played it. It was specifically targeted against him. I left the arena before the end. Even his ad for John lewis got shut down. I realized how far Australia had…

Someone at the time (I don’t know who) commented that white Australia loves to see indigenous footballers perform for our entertainment, and will reward them with admiration and affection as long as they know their place and stay in it.

Logan’s dog is probably a Chihuahua... As in Mexican