The problem is that being a cop is attractive to a certain type of asshole personality. The same type who become HOA presidents and turn into dictators lording over “their” HOA. They hunger for power over others.

Don’t have a good answer for you here, either. Harry Potter is really good children’s lit. As long as you talk to your kids about why the author sucks IRL, buy the books used so she doesn’t make more profit off of them, and point out the problematic parts of the series (huge red flags for the goblins at the bank at…

I too was too old to read the first book when it came out and totally dismissed all the hype. But I was on my junior year abroad in London when the first movie was set to come out, and I really wanted to see it, so I decided to read the book before I saw the film. And holy shit, I was shocked at how good it was. I…

Yes of course. Maybe I didn’t say this here but the prevalence of violence in mainstream porn is disturbing and worrisome and people that choke without enthusiastic consent are awful people that deserve the worst 

Or, hear me out, it’s okay to like things that influenced you as a kid and it’s okay to be bummed out when the author is revealed to be a bigot.

Jeez louise, the millions of people who built an entire personality around liking a series of chidlren’s books must be having a rough one.

Yeah, I’m done with big cities as well. If it’s over two million people, it’s too big.

When the Leader of the country won’t wear one and mask wearing is so politicized that cops won’t even enforce it where it’s required, it makes it hard to enforce.

I wonder how the Daily Mail is going to blame Meghan for this ?

It’s entirely possible he already has and it was mild/non-symptomatic and they covered it up. His age and obesity don’t make that likely, but it’s not impossible either.

Last time Parks and Rec came up around politics I remember commenting about how left that show as and had someone here keep responding about how wrong I was. Their entire argument seemed to start and end with “Ron Swanson was a libertarian!!” Which is true but one of the shows arcs is how Ron, while never admitting…

The older I get, the more I wonder why people live in NYC.

https://gizmodo.com/anti-maskers-forced-to-dig-graves-for-covid-19-victims-1845046526

I like Nolan movies. I want to see this movie. Nevertheless, WB can huff my nuts on this one. Your movie isn’t worth putting people’s lives at risk for, you dumb suits. Even if we get a vaccine soon and it’s safe to go to the theater I’m going to wait and pirate this movie because fuck y’all.

When I saw that it was “most of” the cast, my first thought was “I bet Chris Pratt isn’t going to be there.”

Why would you feel sorry for her?  She is a huge comic book fan and writes fan fiction to this day, and she got a huge amount of creative freedom for Eternals (including building massive sets all around the world to film at).  People can contain multitudes, why be pessimistic about her stretching her wings?

I never have been a fan of westerns, but I want to be a fan of westerns, if that makes any sense. I like the idea of what can be done with them. I just so often dislike the way they’ve mostly been done. I have no interest in traditional John Wayne style westerns, but if you give it a diverse cast (gender as well as…

I will probably see this eventually, because I love Regina King and want to support her work. But man, do I struggle to watch anything that features Jim Brown as a character. This quote struck me in particular, because Brown’s off the field life and legacy are conflicted at best:

I can guarantee none of the fans there wore black lives matter pins at their office. You have to be trumper to go to a live sporting event during covid.

If an artist is racist but a work is not transparently racist, can you separate the art from the artist and enjoy it?

Not really true in Lovecraft’s case, though.