A couple of those examples (say, how the slaves brought important knowledge) seem less like attempts at making slavery into a positive thing, and more of a very clumsy attempt to document some kind of... agency or personhood for people who are often only depicted as helpless, faceless, no-impact victims.

The 20’s would be a nightmare for a black time traveler. An entire decade of partying white girls with short hair and we have to either poker face it or get lynched? That’s uncool.

Here’s a freebie, internetters (and Mark Burnett if you’re reading): I would watch the hell out of a reality show called “80’s house” where hordes of teens were made to live like those like my generation and prior: with zero internet, corded rotary phones, no GPS, shitty TV dinners, etc.

High school in the late 90s-early 2000s was the best.

Um, the Modern Stone Age. Duh. It says it right there in the theme song.

Are you an historical re-enactor of a time before the concept of humorous exaggeration was invented?

I mean, I can go to Flagstaff and stargaze now, only I also have the option to, y’know, go to a movie. Or turn on a light in my home so I can read a book. Or admire any of the clean and healthy people walking down a busy, well-lit street at night. Or brush my teeth with toothpaste. Or flush a toilet.

I love that you’ve divided the world into “people that agree with my opinion” and “naricisists.” The irony is hilarious.

Albert is on the money, as always. As a black man, there are few things that annoy me more than hearing some person (you know what kind) fantasizing about how cool it would have been to live in the Roaring 20s or during the dawn of rock n’ roll in Ike’s America. I think I’ll pass on being a sharecropper or hate crime…

You do actually have the option of watching those TV shows, playing those video games and still have smartphones and decent internet. We have all of that right now except now you can watch those shows whenever you like, probably on that smartphone. Living in the past today would easily be preferable to actually living…

But you can play all those games, watch all those TV shows and movies, and listen to all that music NOW! On your good internets!

Any era before germ theory and penecillin was inferior.

Enjoy your typhus.

If I had a time machine and went back in time, I would talk with John Rockefeller, possibly the wealthiest man in history. I would tell him that I could travel to China in a half a day. That I could talk to any person on the planet and hear not only his voice, but also see his face, in real time from anywhere. All…

Or you could just keep playing those games on all of the available platforms with emulators, not have worry about the system/cartridge breaking, and still have access to all of the modern games as well.

I read that sentence and had to stop for a google. Like, THAT SHOW is the reason she even exists to us. WHY.

No, never get rid of Emmit. Get rid of Robert Evans’ MVP Watch. That shit is dated-comedic poison.

“Is Joe Flacco elite?” is one of the best NFL memes ever. I hope someday we force presidents to debate it, wars fought over it, planets colonized in the name of it.

Gray comments are like the marginally thoughtful versions of redstate.com comments.

I always get them when I’m driving buy Trader Joe’s. They have like $7 flowers my wife LOVES. So cheap for the amount of points it buys. And I never do roses anymore, those are for rookies.