Politics isn’t genetic though, there are many people who reject their parents’ or childhood community’s politics. They just tend to move to a different area that’s more tolerant of their beliefs once that happens

I’m thinking more Linus from Peanuts “If we stay in this right-wing pumpkin patch no matter how dark it gets, the Make America Great Pumpkin will come! You’ll see, you’ll all see”

We have such a meme obsessed culture, but there’s no easy shorthand for “guy who blames everyone but himself for his behavior, then ends encouraging no one in particular to look in the mirror for the real culprit.” I blame everyone but myself for that shortcoming

Why not go drama and aim for Oscar gold? A Mother’s Love: Tears of a Cubone would sweep every major category

My point is it’s possible have an opinion on a movie without putting words in other people’s mouths. I feel like that’s something defensive people do when they know their overall point is unexamined but want to make it anyway, otherwise why invent a strawman to represent the people who disagree when there should be…

I feel like deciding that 90% of the people who disagree with you actually hold ulterior political motives that they aren’t voicing, but are instead using their opinion of a movie to signal to others their personal belief systems, is ex-fucking-actly what you spent the rest of your comment decrying

Hey Hollywood, the rambling boomer Facebook replies are coming from inside the house

On the one hand he’s a racist idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about (shootings are concentrated on the South and West neighborhoods, because most of the policing concentrates on a containment strategy to keep crime away from downtown and out of headlines).

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?