“It’s past time for Biden to tell us what he’s offering, what he’s willing to do to make any of our lives better or make the world marginally less cruel—because from what we’re seeing, it doesn’t seem like a whole lot.”

He’s actually better than I expected. He walked a picket line! A President had never done that.

I wanted Liz, but yeah. Say what you want about Biden; he’s not interested in turning the US into a fascist nation and tearing apart the Constitution in the process.

This.

No one’s saying it should be “enough” to pick that guy. Personally, I’m saying it’s the only sane choice. Is it perfect? No. Do I wish there were better choices? Sure. Will my taking an uncompromising stand somehow provide us with better choices? Absolutely not. It’ll just get that orange fuckstick a second term and a…

An ex-partner who has a history of abuse that Boebert has justified, rationalized, and even celebrated. An ex-partner she has failed to protect her own children from if the 911 call from her son is any indication. Boebert herself is a demonstrated liar who has her own accusations of domestic violence in her past. She…

She’s a proven liar and has numerous run ins with the law. She has engaged in violent and threatening behavior. She is not owed any benefit of the doubt. There are plenty of other people that deserve your misplaced sympathy.

Like, even though her politics are terrible, there shouldn’t be an exemption from her being safe or feeling threatened by a ex-partner who has a history of abuse.

Taking her words at face value certainly is a choice.

It isn’t how it sounds.   She was gently ribbing and had glowingly praised the same group in the same paragraph.  It is click bait.

Sigh...and just as I’m reading your final comment on the thread, below is an entire article about whether Cardi B got laid for NYE. I just think it’s embarrassing.

The lesson the studios are going to take is “more toy movies!!!!”

I don’t think the reason actors are nervous about gratuitous, full frontal nudity is because they don’t think their bodies are adequate. They’re nervous because they don’t want it to be a gimmick that distracts or detracts from their work. This article does exactly that. Saltburn bored the crap out of me but it had…

Ape who starts argument on the Internet decries arguing on the Internet. Ape who decries making demands of others makes demands of others.

Well, we’re at an impasse, I guess. Maybe we have different definitions of what building a movement is? I don’t know.

It’s very much the same zeal and enthusiasm present when Jez kept speculating about John Hamm’s endowment like a decade ago

Man alive, everything about this writeup is just so gross. And, if I had to guess, exactly the sort of attention that makes Barry Keoghan insecure, uncomfortable and hesitant. Good job for completely missing his point!

In its prime I thought the main appeal was the articles gave the commenters a chance to opine and play and hash out whatever was on our minds, often with the author participating.

I don’t think any of their current writers are qualified to write what you just mentioned. I’m totally cool with examining pop culture since it’s a trash field revealing how people express ideology. It just doesn’t help when the people covering it don’t know how to approach it and end up reinforcing all those -isms. 

Agreed. I wish they would dump about 90% of the celebrity/fashion and just stick to politics and examination of the many -isms. But I click on it, so I guess I’m not helping.