An acting teacher once said, “Do you want to ‘make it?’ Then be independently wealthy or be the son/daughter of a famous actor. Otherwise, you should quit now because it won’t happen.”

His words ring truer each passing year...

This place is pure fucking poison. What a sad, sad end to a once vibrant site. It’s as if Black Flag went Christian Rock.

“Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.”

“I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri.” —Abe Simpson

I’m in the Greys, so nobody will see this, but pleassssseeee everyone who’s commenting on this read up on the Veiled Prophets. I’m not saying she’s a Nazi, I’m sure she’s a perfectly nice person these days, but just read up on em and you’ll realize why some people are a bit wary. 

So this is one of those things where i wonder which real story the media is trying to distract us from. Like how back in the day Jonbenet Ramsey would pop back up every time there was a development in the Clinton/Lewniski thing. 

The Atlantic reported in 2014 that the Veiled Prophet Organization initially barred Black and Jewish people from joining.

There’s more black people at Veiled Prophet Ball than work at the AV Club

The best part of this “story” is that it totally sounds like a subplot in single-camera sitcom:

The AV Club needs fewer Vice and Buzzfeed hires. 

If you’re writing about his supporters and their conspiracy theories, are you really no longer writing about Donald Trump?

The Anti-Corbyn smear campaign was intense, and even state side there are attempts at accusing Progressives like Sanders and Cortez of Anti-Semitism sprinkled through the occasional Op-Eds

Never met an anti-Corbynite that wasn’t also anti-Sanders and Cortez, you’re a unicorn.

Then your understanding of history is overly simplified

“than folks shrieking about how the only way to deal with Die Juden’s money controlling the media and the governments to let them feast on children is to boycott their businesses and break their windows”

His treatment of political dissidents was nothing compared to his predecessors, and his treatment of the LGBTQ Cuban community improved significantly over time. You’re willfully accepting the State Dept’s narrative when you call him a dictator, from the beginning of his revolution, when he kicked out the mob and the…

I’ve barely seen ANY anti-Semitic bullshit that justifies the media narrative. It’s almost like the Israel lobby has spent billions each year trying to tie together criticism of Zionism itself with anti-Semitism, thereby cheapening actual anti-Semitism and allowing even the expression of Palestinian solidarity to be…

They are forced to live in a ghetto, are routinely bombed, and Israel has a strict embargo on them (including cement for the aforementioned bombed buildings)

But can you say that one side has a bigger impact on the other, that one side is ultimately the driver of the conflict? Or do you think Hamas would still send the rockets if Israel were to suddenly stop their settler expansion and ethnic cleansing?

“I can condemn the US for invasions and sanctions and condemn Cuba for their numerous human rights violations.”