What words mean matters regardless of the situation. There’s a difference between a mass murderer and a terrorist and that’s important to recognize.

While terrorism contains the word terror, that is not what defines terrorism. Go grab a dictionary.

Terrorism has a definition: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

Killing a bunch of people randomly is not terrorism, it’s mass murder.

Yes. Here is the definition of terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

“The words “domestic terrorist” were not invoked.”

If anyone’s first (or second, or third or 43rd) thought to a call for gun control is, “Geez, let the bodies cool first” or “Don’t politicize this tragedy,” go ahead and delete your comment, delete your account and fuck right the fuck off.

buoyed by the praise that finally women were being allowed to play crass, impolitic characters.

Back in 2004, when blogs were still a thing that people did, I had a blog. One night I wrote a long-ish entry on why I thought Rodney Dangerfield was the only modern comedian on par with Chaplin and Keaton. When I finished writing it, for the hell of it I went to Rodney’s web site and sent him a link to the post. (To…

I feel compelled to point out how absurd it is to say “Latinx.” I get the push for inclusiveness, but Romantic languages are gendered. Nearly everything has a gender. Going in and changing words in a way that does not match the existing linguistic structures seems far more offensive than saying Latino/Latina.

Yeah, when you put it that way, you still sound like a giant bag of shit.

I think Kanye’s career output has been fantastic, but in terms of the bet outlined here, he’d be someone I’d specifically avoid choosing because of his mercurial nature. I’d be afraid of the possibility of committing to four straight albums of Dadaist anti-art.

Sky Ferreira

Hold on, you’re saying this is trash? A Mark Millar based film?

Bonus 13th question: who held back the electric car?

You’re not remembering correctly. You can read exactly what she said right here: https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/250286/jen-kirkman-louis-ck-gross-behavior-podcast/

Does every article about Seinfeld have to reference how he said college kids are too sensitive these days? Or about how he doesn’t really care to pander politically to anyone?

But what will the AV Club run clickbait headlines about now?!

“I thought people would understand the nuance of what I was saying, and they didn’t”

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