Although the other thing here is, you realize that you’re also jumping to a conclusion - that Vallelonga should be given the benefit of the doubt that he’s arguing in good faith, and is interested in truth/factuality rather than anti-Muslim animus. Which, I dunno if you’ve been on the internet in the past few years,…

I think there’s an issue here of you and the other person talking past each other. If I’m understanding you correctly, your definition of “racist” or “anti-Muslim” requires intent - unless we can show that Vallelonga intended his tweet to be anti-Muslim, we shouldn’t call him anti-Muslim. But if I’m understanding Paul…

As Kim Tallbear, who Nick cited, said, tribal governments don’t define citizenship by DNA. Centering the conversation around DNA is casting the actual question of Native identity in the corner.

None of this stuff is governed by eternal, unalterable conditions, and customers may find themselves becoming incredibly angry later if they think the current situation can’t change (see also: commercials).

Racism, as an ideology, is actually a lot more recent in human history than most people think. It wasn’t really a thing until the 1400s-1500s, when Europeans “discovered” other parts of the world and had to come up with a convenient rationalization for why it was okay to enslave the inhabitants and steal their gold.

Bef…

I don’t think this is a good analysis, because it collapses the distinction between the old “culture war” politics of the late 20th century, and the new, broader politics of the 21st century. Pelosi came up during that “culture war” period, when Democrats and Republicans were broadly united around neoliberal…

Just thinking about how fucked up and traumatized Lapis was by being an object... and it turns out there are way more situations like that, on Homeworld and possibly Earth and the other colonies? That’s very casually horrific.

I took a class once in college that was entirely about democratization - the transition that various states have made from dictatorship to democracy. One of the main takeaways from the class was that from a short- and medium-term, outcome-based perspective it’s better to give some kind of partial escape path for…

That was a super “Disney princess” episode. Steven is trapped in a high-up tower, his only companions are some magical servant creatures, eventually he sings a wistful song about wishing that his situation was different, and it ends with the magical servant creatures sewing him a pretty dress to wear to a party that…

Iron Monkey is so fucking good.  That ending fight scene on the burning poles, so so good.

I think part of it is that in the West, CGI is frequently used to make stuff look realistic - it’s used to hide the fact that Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t really flying through the air or whatever.  But in Chinese stuff, CGI is more there to show obviously unrealistic stuff.  So the style is more cartoony and obviously…

There are a lot of reasons that Brexit is a bad idea, but an underrated one is that this panel will no longer make the same kind of sense in a few months.

I dunno though, I don’t think Millar was saying “this is what Captain America is and that’s a good thing.” The Ultimates in general was about the abstract concept of superheroes (bright! heroic! popular!) as reflected through the grubby reality of post-9/11 geopolitics (dumb! jingoistic! casually committing…

And the one common link between them all, Dick Van Dyke, eternally ‘oofing it up for generations of little blighters, innit?

Is Cannon Guy now suffering shell shock after the Great War, obsessively loading and discharging his firearm in a vain attempt to fight off a murderous Hun that still haunts his dreams?

The bit about Nevada barring this kind of recording is incorrect.  Nevada is a one-party consent state for public conversations and in-person conversations (both of which cover the classic “cop harassing a non-white person out on the street” situation).  Nevada only requires two-party consent to record a phone call.

“Don’t choke women!” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was a novel first.  The band was explicitly named after the novel, and the comic character probably was too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(novel)

That is a quote from the show

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a64d1c00-6eb3-4f77-9c77-64c98a65277b

It’s not just about how Amazon treats workers badly, though. It’s also about how they extort cities into giving them tax incentives; how they undercut small and/or local retail businesses while strongarming small/local suppliers, disrupting the social fabric of the middle class; how they collaborate with an…