“You have to bring him down with ridicule, because if you stand on a soapbox and you match him with rhetoric, you’re just as bad as he is, but if you can make people laugh at him, then you’re one up on him. It’s been one of my lifelong jobs - to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler”

What’s funny to me in this is that Harmon says he wants his show to be apolitical, which, like, is impossible? I mean, the idea that a work of art has no say in the ethics of reality and how the world should work, and has no impact based on the society it was created in is pretty dumb. I figure by “apolitical” he…

I think there is a certain personality type of fairly intelligent and perceptive person who goes through a phase in their life lasting maybe a decade, from about age 15 to age 25 or so, in which they realize that many people and many institutions of society are hypocritical and corrupt. But instead of continuing a…

Maybe it’s because I’m a girl but I think Beth Smith (or is it Sanchez again?) is so fascinating in that she’s got all of her father’s worst qualities - the drinking, the lack of parental instincts, the irrational attachments - and the toxic, sexist part of the fanbase seems to recognize those as flaws in her, but not…

I swear to god, this copypasta is the most annoying thing about this debate.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterization - his personal…

I think the issue white boys are having is assuming that every time a woman is hired it’s just to “have more women” and not because of their talent.

Rick and Morty does that interesting thing that dime novels and gangster movies used to do - it condemns its mostly reprehensible central character all the time, but also allows viewers to revel in and tacitly celebrate their transgressive, anti-social qualities. (Lots of pop culture does it, then and now). But…

Jesus Tapdancing Christ! The women who write the show these fuckheads love so much are getting harassed & doxxed for writing the show these fuckheads love so much. That is android head-exploding levels of irrationality.

I mean go fuck yourself

Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.

Screamy Spice gets an Emmys cameo. Goebbels-wannabe Bannon gets a platform on “60 Minutes.” The only one told to shut up and go away is a woman.

Right. Because we can. It’s a fact. But they then immediately acknowledged the unacceptable humanitarian costs to both North and South Korea.

And that’s how the former game show host destroyed the world.

In the English language “they” is both singular and plural and has been used as the “singular they” for around 700 years. It’s why the phrase “they are” can refer to both an individual or a group of several. The idea that it only refers to groups of people is a modern misconception largely pushed by “grammarians” who…

Gender neutral pronouns are old, and well-accepted in the history of English.

You literally already do it all the time without realizing it.

“I had a substitute teacher today.”

“Oh yeah? What was their name?”

First, what is your issue with someone’s preferred pronoun? Why does it matter to you?