Yes, but “Black people can be republicans, too” from a black man is not racist. It’s a fucking choice. “All lives matter” is a racist (or at least ignorant) backlash against a needed, or at least totally warranted, movement/phrase. It’s totally missing the point. “Make America great again” is a phrase that has a lot…

Isn’t “tone-deaf” another word for, “If you’re not following the logic of everyone else, if you’re not following our tone, then you’re somehow wrong?” I think your tone is pretty fucking bonkers (and you being “someone who supports the general tone of this country”), and tone-deaf actually sounds like another word for…

Haha, that works.

It’s just like people using “gantlet” for “gauntlet.” It’s the right thing to do, when you mean running through a series of hurdles/obstacles, so in the same way, he was just pointing out that “timelines” is pretty incorrect, or at least pretty misleading, when to say two or more chunks of a timeline of a show. And by…

Yeah, like, a “timeline” is the broad term for a time in which something happens. So different timelines would be, like, different sets of things happening, altogether, right? I see how it would not be wrong, but it’s close to being wrong, in that the general use of “timeline” is to mean “the whole thing,” not a part…

“but its reputation as an outrage machine is well earned”

I get it, I just feel like any case where people are vaguely uncomfortable around someone leading to them getting fired deserves looking into. But yeah, it seems like there was more here.

I think it’s up to everyone else to also gauge their own, reactions, of course. I mean, Crawford, being the guy that makes everyone uncomfortable, obviously has a lot to do with it, but as a person who is awkward sometimes and probably makes people uncomfortable, this isn’t coming from hostility (or intended…

I *think* it’s actually a manufacture of American thought, or, actually, I think it is predominantly used in America, anyway, wherever came up with it. According to Chicago Manual or my memory of it it is.

<i>White Noise</i>, oh, I can’t wait to get back to it. It’s so good.

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And, moreover, I guess I was mad for everyone jumping on this guy, the commenter, here, when he said, “Yeah, he has a point.”

I know, but I’m just saying, there’s a fight being fought here about, “Oh, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is such a jerk for standing up for language, who cares about him?” And I say, here, that I understand where he’s coming from, and though it’s a battle that has little chance to be won, I still wanted to come in to voice my…

Or really like it, anyway. Love it, or like it, in different measures.

Love Valerian.

The American. Like everything else, in that movie, is my favorite.

I’m not certain I used each comma artfully, but if I didn’t, then that still doesn’t mean someone could not do so. One need only look at David Foster Wallace or Gabriel Garcia Marquez to see the beauty and utility of long sentences.

That doesn’t mean that I can’t see the utility in keeping “awesome” what it was.

Sure, yeah, and “you guys” is the enternal proving ground of, “there isn’t something here,” for that. As in, how many times have you said, “You guys,” in your life? That’s the plural “you,” lol.

That’s a good point, and math isn’t language, so I shouldn’t say that, because it’s not a direct example.