I literally had two guy friends in college who did this.

unless you think journalists should not attend dinner parties with people they might cover (which is insane).

You’re full of shit if you act like you check your male friends every time they make a sexist comment, say something a little bit out of line.

This was brilliant and necessary. We can only hope that it registers with those to whom it applies.

What really bothers me is that no one seems to get (or deliberately ignores) that the Nazi Party didn’t just come to power and then boom, instant Holocaust. Any time you point out the disturbing parallels on our current path some apologist, either rightwing or left, will invariably say “how dare you, it’s not like…

In 1973 the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Watergate.

“He was born in Sicily or Donegal or Dubrovnik”

“[A]n immature and stupid response that literally could not have ended any other way.” What an impressively succinct encapsulation of exactly the type of reflexive bootlickery Burneko denounced in his piece. And the nice thing is, you can make literally the same exact argument in favor of literally any act of defiance…

Labor forgets its class consciousness sometimes, but capital never does.

Falling in line every time JUST MOVES THE FUCKING LINE.

Counter counterpoint: he has made all his legal remedies more valuable and effective by raising the stakes.

“These people deserve to suffer because they have political/moral failings” is the conservative argument about the poor. Don’t make it your own.

Visas for tech workers actually do take away positions from Americans in favor of foreign nationals. The job postings that no one matches and have impossible requirements are there so companies can claim “We looked for months and couldn’t find a qualified candidate! We managed to find one in India though (coincidence…

I don’t think Dems want to do those things. I mean, they will do them when it is politically convenient to do so, but they aren’t going to stake out ground and actually put themselves on the line for it.

Isn’t it strange to think that you can dislike something, while disliking something else more? I don’t like burned steak. But I’d sure as hell prefer to eat burned steak if the alternative is medical waste. That doesn’t mean I’m happy with the steak, and I’m probably going to complain that maybe you shouldn’t cook it…

It takes a pretty myopic person to think that any of these:

When Rod is at Chris’s apartment trying to call his cell phone and gets Rose instead, there’s an ad for the United Negro College Fund playing on TV. The slogan, “A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” sounds a lot more sinister in context.

The thing that struck me was the end when the police car pulls up. Usually in a horror movie the police showing up is a sign that the ordeal is finally over. However, in this movie when the cop car pulls up there was a big groan in the audience. Everyone knew that there was no way that the police would believe…

The top comment on the reddit discussion thread for the movie noted that Chris escaped the basement by literally picking cotton. If that’s intentional, and I’m inclined to believe it is...brilliant.