What a talent and an icon. I’ve been a big fan for many years.

Yeah, my experience COMPLETELY turned me off of religion - organized or not. 

Ronald Reagan, Phyllis Schlafly, bringing the evangelicals into the mainstream as the ‘Silent Majority” (fuckers were never silent a minute of their lives). Reagan’s deregulation of communications, so now TV preachers were not only all over the place, hucksters, preachers and shills were legitimized, like Emily said. 

There’s a very good book called Satan’s Silence that goes into the factors behind the Satanic Panic. It was such a weird confluence of issues and different lobbying groups: evangelical beliefs and conservatism, parental fears and the relatively new and public acknowledgement of CSA, even feminism’s focus on the woman…

I have heard this too but I also cannot remember where, maybe the MFM podcast. However, I did grow up in an evangelical household in the 1980s so the satanic panic was my childhood. We were only allowed to listed to shitty christian music, had to attend church so many times a week and anyone with a van was probably a…

My mother was all-in during the Satanic Panic of the mid-80s. She was a stay at home mom who had Trinity Broadcasting Network going all day. And she blindly followed whatever those televangelists were spouting.

Fun fact, Chuck Yeager is actually still alive.  He is close to 100, still quite the interesting guy.

She’d tell you that Satan causes those birth defects. God would NEVER let that happen.

The underlying issue is that the vast majority of the current media/press aren’t journalists.

With a sword that’s +3 against Magic Sex Demons but only if the demon in question is in its man form at the time, if it’s the lady form it’s -1 because ya don’t hit girls.

With a sword that’s +3 against Magic Sex Demons but only if the demon in question is in its man form at the time, if it’s the lady form it’s -1 because ya don’t hit girls.

“Look at my African-American Lizard/Demon Fighter over there!”

remember 3 days ago when the media was practically orgasmic that trump had totally changed his rhetoric and was taking the virus seriously?

This isn’t going to be news to anybody, but journalistic standards of objectivity are completely incapable of dealing with the situation in which the White House is occupied by a liar and a con man. Entire generations of journalists have been trained to assume that both sides of any issue are occupied by people…

all those impeccable qualifications AND she’s a black! All those people who called him a racist better start preparing their apologies now...

Tetsuo as a small time jerk with a bad attitude and inferiority complex who goes insane upon gaining unlimited power has its equivalent in 2020 America, even without him turning into a disgusting orange blob.

Actually there *was* a pandemic in Akira, although it wasn’t the major problem going on — it was just in the background as a dystopian feature — one panel in the original comic (not in the film) shows a protestor holding a sign complaining about the poor treatment of “the pandemic” by WHO.

“because I don’t think I could handle constant droughts”

Wow, Ultraviolet (2006). That’s a movie I haven’t thought of since, well, probably 2006, probably shortly after I left the theater.  I’m curious to watch it again, if only for the fact that I don’t remember a single thing about it.