Fun fact: What the fuck are you on about? Can you even name an Enlightenment figure other than Thomas Jefferson?

I mean specifically the theory of the international Jewish conspiracy to control/take over the world. That one is many centuries more recent than the run-of-the-mill stuff like the blood libel and also a century older than the Protocols. Barruel weaved together 2 different strands, Christian antisemitic scapegoating…

Conspiracy theories in a recognizable form go back farther, to the Protestant Reformation. The idea of an international Jewish conspiracy starts to take hold almost a century before the Protocols were forged. It combines the trope of the secretive organization bent on global domination by insidious means - an…

A few days short of 45 years, actually.

I bought a laptop and cellphone last year for Black Friday. At one point a few months ago, I found myself unable to remember whether I had purchased them in 2018 or 2019. Intellectually, I know I’ve had them for less than a year, but it didn’t feel like it then and still doesn’t.

Trump keeps finding new ways to fuck us over.

There goes the only reason I’d ever have to join Twitter.

We’ve always been a subtitles country for everything except cartoons.

I’m Romanian, and I saw this with my family in the provincial town I grew up in. The theater was packed, and people were on their feet applauding after Bill Pullman’s speech. A whole bunch of non-Americans clapping and cheering a speech about the 4th of July, and I’m guessing most of them didn’t even know what that…

Yeah, I’m all in favor of fear as a motivator, but some people seem to be paralyzed by it. I’ve personally experienced moments of productive desperation - stayed awake for 71 consecutive hours once - but it only works like that if you start from the assumption that the challenge can be met. These comments about how…

Thoughts and prayers, motherfucker.

This is not good for him at all. Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask at the debate, and a solid majority of Americans are in favor of mask-wearing - that line of attack is now as wide and easy as a highway going downhill. And Pence is supposedly leading the White House’s COVID-19 task force, so Dems should certainly…

The ideal is that he lives long enough to die in prison.

The election will certainly not be postponed, and it’s too late to take Trump off the ballot. The electors - the Americans are actually voting for on November 3rd - will meet on December 14th. If Trump dies by then, those pledged to him will... basically do whatever they want.

You can just admit if you don’t know if she was going chest-commando, you don’t have to act like a human dingleberry just because you don’t know the answer to a question that wasn’t even addressed to you. I’m not calling you stupid cause you don’t know, heck, I don’t know either.

I only came here to ask if Julia Louis-Dreyfus is wearing a bra in that photo, but that stuff about roundabouts just reminded me how much Barsanti sucks.

Congratulations for figuring out what neither Barsanti nor anyone commenting so far did.

Oh, I didn’t realize he’d lost a role to Uma Thurman.

The only way I could see myself interested in that is if Chris Tucker... sorry, Vic Damone Jr. played War Machine.

Tom Hardy / Topher Grace = Topher Hardy ≈ Topper Harley -> Charlie Sheen