Right wing media is blatant about trying to manipulate its audience towards a specific decision. If that’s a normal environment for you, it’s hard to imagine a liberal media outlet being focused on policy goals instead of pushing a particular candidate.

Look, the focus group was split on whether they like broccoli or grean beans with their meal, same as they were split on potatoes or sweet potatoes. So just make it either/or.

Anyone remember how conservative bloggers used to refer to themseves as the 101st Keyboarders, like they contributed to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as much as the troops they used as their strawman argument.

Definitely. We’re just used to thinking of a lot of these communication tools as silly things we do in social bonding but in hindsight of course they’d have the same legal ramifications as other kinds of communications.

It gets weirder, we’re now in an age where the courts are trying to figure out how to deal with emojis in evidence, where one side can say ‘Clearly, it means this.’ while the defendant can say ‘No, I meant this.’

There’s just no room in the conservative movement for a conservative pundit who analyses facts and comes up with an arugment for their position based on that. All the audience wants is whoever is loudest at saying “We rule, libs drool” which is why Trumps rallies are filled with ooohs and cheers for the lamest…

For me it’s too early to have an opinion on this, I’m looking forward to the debates and hope the random lineups give us the chance to hear the candidates offer a good contrast to each other. I’m just happy we’re going to have much better debates than the tepid personality battle we got last time. (Sadly, I felt that…

Once history recognizes a conservative was wrong or some radical lefty was correct, Republicans turn them into a strawman argument where they ignore all context. Thus, McCarthyism is a bad thing that happens to conservative martyrs and MLK Jr would have joined them in declaring that civil rights have gone far enough.

It’s worth mentioning that with conservative media watchdogs often will conduct “studies” that count how many times a fact check site will call out a republican or conservative for lying vs a democrat, calling out a supposed double-standard.

That’s true but she’s worked on a few pilots (including the Greatest American Hero reboot) while running FoB so I’d guess she thinks she has time for another show in some form or another.

There better be a buffet of authentic St Olaf cuisine.

It’s hard to say but Melissa Rosenberg, the showrunner/creator, found a new job while working on JJ S3 and after the cancellations of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, the writing on the wall might have been clear. So there’s a chance we’ll get some kind of finale if only out of Rosenberg wanting to put a cap on her run.

Yeah, a friend loaned me a romance book she had. She thought it was funny that I happened to pick a name for my LARP character that was similar to the hero in the book. I wasn’t ready for the dark aspects. Overall, basically the story starts with an independent, strong woman who is taken captive by a barbarian warlord…

When I worked at a bookstore the romance readers knew when our shipment would come in and showed up with a list of the new releases they wanted. A couple years later I got back into comics and the direct market system totally reminded me of the romance readers, with how comic fans were often expected to let a show…

I sometimes listen to M/M romance audiobooks and when I’m driving I use my phone and an FM transmitter to play them over the car radio... when the sex scenes play I always worry the signal is reaching another car.

I think the problem with Armisen playing Obama was that SNL didn’t have enough black actors that they cast a non-black POC to play Obama. Obama becoming a major national figure should have made it urgent for SNL to hire a black actor who can play Obama. Instead they were “We got a black actor, already. Wouldn’t a…

As a gay MoC, people like that really make me furious. They feel like they don’t have to worry about their homosexuality taking away their white privilege anymore so they can go hate on a “lesser” group and be racist. Overall, that is morally appalling but also from a sense of practicality, it’s very clear the people…

I didn’t know Max Landis was involved with Dirk Gently until I started watching it. At that point, I didn’t like him because of his defenses of whitewashed casting but at least Dirk Gently had two black actors in the lead cast and an Asian man in a recurring role. I wasn’t aware of the harassment allegations and I’m…

Yeah, he’s just another right wing provocateur troll. They are dime a dozen and the only thing that differentiates one from another is who has the most connected benefactor. AOC is unusual because she’s good at discussing issues in engaging ways that get attention, is a sharp organizer and is skilled at challenging…

There’s a link to Jezebel’s earlier coverage. She had been pushing him to kill himself for a while and even spent a few days before practicing how she would behave with his family and friends.