I think you’re mistaking deeply cynical pragmatism for ignorance. They can see market collapses coming, there’s just no incentive for them not to try to make as much money as possible before they cash out and stick everyone else with the consequences. It’s no coincidence that they ended up with more wealth and power…

That was how I felt, then I noticed just how agitated Wall Street has been about her. The big donors ruled her out already and this is just her spinning that, but the underlying dynamic suggests to me that they see a genuine threat. Anyone that puts that fear in them is worth a second look

It reminds me of Johnny from Lost and the Damned being reduced to an emaciated addict that Trevor executes on a whim in GTA V just to show how edgy he is. They might have been a bland character, but they were the POV so it’s easy to get familiar and it’s jarring when the next writing team (who are writers and may have…

I’m just waiting for the inevitable “I mean, can we really expect him to know they were slaves?” take when the “locker room hanky-panky” narrative doesn’t take

What if they report stuff regardless of how it affects the outcome they’d individually or collectively like to see, and their readers get to decide if it matters to them or not before they vote?!?!

Their faces are great! It’s the pre-dawn butthole in my face that I find fucked up

The motivation the police have offered is about as plausible as the “random attack” story was. As it stands the official story is: Gay black man making $125,000/episode+a music career decides to enlist a friend and their relative to stage a hate crime, that he paid in advance for via check, rehearsed, and purchased…

Never forget, The Atlantic actually wanted to publish his shit next to Ta Nehisi Coates. Actually

“Didn’t you hear? He’s been arrested, so why even bother talking about what he did? Actually, he’s been completely dealt with. Because actually, Jussie Smollett is the actual-hey, where are you going? Pfft, can’t take the truth about who the actual hypocrites actually are. Actually”

Control freaks with messiah complexes obsessively limit their food intake while calling it “fasting” and spouting off about transcendence. Wow, if this was satire I’d call it lazy

Sony has convinced themselves that Ghostbusters and Men In Black are franchises instead of a single really good movie that people mostly remember for the casts and novelty (at the time) of the scripts

Why don’t we ask General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who has lent his credibility to both of those hucksters without any lasting repercussions?

Thank you! The real lesson in all of this is “don’t send entertainment reporters to do crime reporters’ job.” I live in Chicago, and it’s too fucking cold for anything “random” to happen outside in January at 2am on a Monday night, especially in the Loop. Before any other details came out, it was clear he was targeted…

My favorite part is how they break down the mystique of the memoirist by bringing in the people he’s writing about to call bullshit. Especially in a social media age where everyone gets to tell their story from their perspective, it’s important to consider that great storytellers can still be unreliable narrators

The Bunker is inspired, Juan Likes Rice and Chicken is easily the best episode to get skeptical friends on-board with the show, and my orange tabby cat’s name is Parker Gail (really), so I’m going to have to disagree with this take.

There isn’t a political divide in this country, it’s a moral one. “Both-sidesism” is bad medicine stemming from a misdiagnosis

The crowd she’s supposed to appeal to will never, ever budge. But that’s really tough for the “if we stay in the middle, we’ll appeal to the maximum number of people!” shotcallers to accept and adapt to (especially because it’s definitely just cheaper to replace them with people who do get it)

This is about establishing a precedent in defending the brand, not reimbursing customers (who didn’t pay Epic anyway, they paid the festival). If a company is aware of infringement and don’t make efforts to stop it, the eventual one they do want to stop can point to their previous inaction as tacit permission and…

In an era before the internet, a person who genuinely had that train of thought might see where their attitude is alienating people, and if they want to connect with other people they’d have to change that attitude and learn some empathy, or get comfortable being isolated. But in this era, those dudes are able to form…

But if they’d have delayed it for any longer, it wouldn’t have come out in the same month as Apex Legends so...