This Erik Prince guy, it’s like his allegiances can be bought and sold - there’s a word for that which escapes me at the moment...

I hear a lot of stories from a lot of people, but, you know, anecdata and all that...

Not coincidentally the non-Marvel/DC comics publishers usually give the financial and creative control of the works to their creators, so that’s where writers looking to make original comics end up going...

What seems is being claimed is that they are buying the more diverse comics, just not in the numbers Marvel would like - but given the traditional lack of marketing effort aimed at women and the traditionally hostile environment of comic stores, that’s not surprising, really.

That’s decreasingly true. There are those (white, hetero) dudes trying to relive their childhoods, but the audience for comics has become more diverse. It’s just traditionally been a hostile environment for new readers outside that original group, and the comic industry has done a crappy job of marketing to them,…

“white geekboys are throwing temper tantrums that their preferred media doesn’t reflect them?”

It’s weird - I’m not even married yet I routinely have meals alone with women and somehow manage to not sleep with them. Even more weirdly, now that I think about it, the women I have slept with, the sex preceded meals alone. We got to know each other while in group social situations (which in turn led to sexy times…

Even coal industry execs admit this won’t bring back jobs - because they automated them, and the market for coal isn’t going to bounce back. Coal’s really been dying for a long time, but the last 20+ years saw coal plants get decommissioned and replaced with gas-fired plants in the US because of low natural gas…

I think it’s like the anti-vaccine people who accuse doctors who give vaccines of being murderers when, at the same time, they’ve only blamed vaccines for autism. They know that their anti-vaccine policies are going to result in deaths - or at least they acknowledge people have said that - and so project it on their…

He’s got the degrees, but he makes up for it by being batshit crazy.

Well, given that we’re talking about a situation that, if left unchecked, will result in the deaths of many millions of people and there are people who deny climate change and the Holocaust, referencing the Nazis isn’t completely inappropriate. It’s just not a great thing for people in his position to bring up…

Yeah, but Sue is first to admit she doesn’t do a lot of baking herself. Also, are we sure it doesn’t work in reverse for lesbians? Maybe baking turns people into lesbians?

“***help me fill in the blanks***”

It’s more specific than that. It seems like: [Correctly remembers that someone spoke.] [Completely misrepresents the substance of what they said.] [Makes a claim about something happening that’s utter bullshit.] [Correctly remembers that someone spoke.]...

Even some of his “true” statements are questionable: he claims he put “wiretapping” in quotes, but he did so only once when tweeting about it, which is to say, he wrote it without quotes more times. The other is that, more ambiguously, he says he “predicted Brexit”; in fact, he made a number of statements about it,…

We see the dueling influences of Bannon, the outsider who wants to destroy the system, and Trump, the total outsider who wants the system to be responsive to him, but has absolutely no clue how the system even works to begin with (and isn’t smart enough to figure it out). But yeah, it’s the kind of thing you see in…

Well, there’s McMaster, who by all accounts is a pretty competent guy, but it seems like the White House is trying to sideline him. Certainly anyone with any position of actual power in the White House is horrifically incompetent.

“this administration is just that comically stupid”

Well, thanks to Twitter, he doesn’t need the media to filter what he means - he just needs a White House team to deny what he said.

“He doesn’t have to go through the filter of the media to interrupt what he says or what he means.”