Bigotry and racism are not situations where one should ever play devil’s advocate. There are no valid points that can make bigotry or racism valid/acceptable, so there is no need for a devil’s advocate in these discussions.

Pretty much. If you decide to intentionally use the word in a joke to be “edgy” you’re probably a misguided asshole. If it slips out in a heat of anger, you *definitely* use it all the time. And you would have to be a colossal moron to not understand the impact and meaning of a word you use all the time. I don’t know…

“To be fair, I had no idea what it meant for 20+ years.”

Why do you need to be fair? And why in the world would you think your ignorance let’s somebody else off? It it about you?

As you said, you were lucky you said it in a safe space and not some place you got your nose broken. (I’m not the tough guy, but my dad could…

I don’t like how all these apology statements talk about how the person may have “hurt” other people and other communities. When minorities are angry, we are not angry because we are victims, like we are weak people to are slighted by the smallest breeze. We are angry because you disrespected us. You signaled that you…

“who last year was also the only player to remain on his feet before a game while his teammates knelt to support the Black Lives Matter movement”

Well, I think that’s the case in Albertosaurus (Eberth & Currie, 2010), but in Tyrannosaurus I think the evidence is more limited. From what I remember, Sue was found in association with two much smaller individuals--although I don’t think they were ever described.

Yup, and with about a quarter of the manpower and cost it’s gonna take to tell these dumb motherfuckers their fucking stupid we could be installing tidal generators and shutting down coal plants on the coasts.

They’re not even trying to prevent it from being fixed. They’re trying to prevent it from being recognized as a problem. It’s like a gaggle of morons standing around a burning house and instead of arguing about gallons per minute out of the fire hydrant for fighting the fire, they’re pretending that a burning house is…

Sounds like quite the colour out of space.

They’re going to file a massive lawsuit against reality and call it a day.

I’m sure Republicans would sue the sky because of rain if they thought they could get someone to pay up. After all, it undermines the rent-seeking water industry. Can’t just GIVE water away. See: anti-rain-barrel laws.

A classic

Problem is their voting base are the ones that believe we can pray this away and that humans couldn’t possibly have any effect on the climate and the earth will heal itself, because when prayer doesn’t work then it was just god’s plan.

Will a lawsuit against the tides be next?

So if dinosaurs had developed orthodontia they would still be ruling the Earth. 

Teens never change.

Fun fact - you’d be in a lot more danger if a juvenile T-Rex was nearby and hungry, versus an adult. Adult Rexes mostly ate larger prey and had a top speed of around 12 MPH based on biomechanical modeling, whereas young Rexes could hit 33 MPH and hunted stuff that was much more comparable to humans in size and weight. 

And such reconstruction rehabilitation jobs can be spread out into other areas of remediation, not just oil wells. Wetlands, urban failed infrastructure, dam removal, coastal restoration, oil leak cleanup, and on and on. Unfortunately there is enough reconstruction need to go on for a very long time, not just a…

Proponents of the Green New Deal have popularized the idea of putting oil and gas workers to the task of plugging wells the industry has abandoned as a way of providing just transition job.

Well, that’s certainly a mood.