They really don’t know what to do, do they? when a large & increasing number, of their victims retort, ‘Publish and be damned to you, sir!’ Attempted blackmail really doesn’t work at that point, when enough of the world has decided that being a mustache-twirling silent movie villain is actually a worse thing to be,…

She’s gone and done it, according to latest reports. Apparently she or her financial advisors read the same stars/leaves as you.

Hear, hear! We don’t give the Supervillain’s not-quite-as-evil Chief Henchbeing a pass, just because they’re a bit conflicted and in a tough place as an only-slightly-less-disposable minion, do we? Then why should we give their real-life inspirations one, either?

A grown BLACK man. That’s a crucial point here. Intersectionality, demonstrated as blatantly as possible. Just another way of calling Crews ‘boy’ in the 21st century.

I think a little of both - people who run in the same social circles end up closer than they are to outsiders, ‘frenemies’ sort of, wasn’t one of the leading Democratic Party advisors married to a Republican pundit, Matalin or something? But also, you get people who are savvy enough to realize they can’t get away w…

‘You were spotted in the mob,
Now you’ve lost your fucking job-
If you’re a Nazi and got fired,
Clap your hands!’

It used to be possible, 20-30 years ago, to think that they at least MIGHT just be ‘contrarians’ playing ‘Devil’s Advocate’ in the safe knowledge that it meant no more than arguing that the Empire might have a point, or perhaps velociraptors have just as much right to eat people as we have to eat chickens, or that…

Media, academia, business. The idea that CEOs get to do whatever they want, because they’re ‘makers’, literal ‘ubermenschen’ has been around for a long time. Ayn Rand got so popular because she was only telling them what they already believed...

Oh,it’s been normal for a lot longer than that. ‘Greed is good’, ‘I don’t believe in society’ - so much of the Eighties were dedicated to celebrating sociopathy in power, in politics, in business, and in general society with ‘cruelty comedy’ becoming completely unchallenged as the standard for humour.

Someone just read it for the first time after getting recommendations on a board for familial abuse sufferers and they were all OMG I didn’t know there were words for what I was going through, with the gaslighting and ‘love your torturers’ and all...

Also acting like the relative wealth vs poverty of the abuser vs the victims is a non-factor. It seems as if the so-called liberals in America are no different from conservatives or libertarians, in that regard.

There’s also the sex-with-robots/run-over-protestors law professor who manages to be anti-government WITH tenure from a state university...

And why is transactional sex the good conservative Christian thing all of the sudden now? Didn’t they used to be against prostitution?