Seriously. I love how Prof. Karpf specifically notes that the tweet had 9 likes and no retweets before Stephens nuked himself from orbit.

Personally, the part that I find most weird is all the fans talking up toughness...as though they wouldn’t retire their job on the spot if they were in his shoes.

Yep. Trump’s always reminded me of one kid I knew in elementary/middle school. He lied about everything, even easily-disprovable shit. He’d invite you to his house after school by saying all the other kids were coming over; when you then and asked the other kids if they were going over, they’d say “I hadn’t decided…

Jesus Christ, I’m so tired of Americans being too stupid to understand when they’re contradicting themselves.

Trump is the exception that proves the rule that you should never judge a book by its cover. He looks every bit the spiteful, leering simpleton from every angle.

Meh. I can’t bring myself to give a shit about any of this. The last few years, Neymar’s ratio of off-the-field drama to on-field excitement has been overwhelmingly tilted in the wrong direction. Some of that hasn’t been his fault, some of it has. I just don’t care anymore. I don’t care where he plays or what bullshit…

This is my thinking. “Voluntary” will come in the form of a tiny line of text on a tiny folded slip of paper included in the packaging of Echo Dots that says “Voluntary use of this product constitutes acceptance of all terms and conditions, including the possibility that we’re going to analyze recordings of the expleti…

Yep, for sure. But then again, plenty of people already beat me to the “fleece conservative voters out of their money by pandering to their worst instincts” idea.

Shit like this really makes me want to completely abandon my principles and just start scamming stupid right-wing assholes. Because they will clearly give their money to anybody as long as doing so allows them to publicly say that they’re pro-fascism and anti-[brown people/foreign people/gay people/any people who…

My first thought as well. Redacting a document is not difficult. In a sane world, I’d automatically assume leak. But in our world, you really can’t discount the very real possibility of rank stupidity.

Secondly, who in the world says, “I can’t believe they’re not working (few work harder)!”

Seriously. We have two options for offside, regardless of where we decide that anything off is off or everything off is off.

I saw you’d posted this somewhere else (I think you posted it? maybe someone else did?) and... holy shit, that just blows me away. Like, I watched the entire game, I knew City was fucking destroying them, but holy goddamned shit.

The only part of it that I can understand is that there is a thrill to watching a historic thing in sports. Knowing you’re watching a team/performer/whatever that is performing better, by some objective measure, than any previous—and likely better than anybody you’ll see for quite some time, perhaps in your…

Yeah I mean that’s all fair enough. 

Again this is only ‘controversial’ because it happened to Man City and the media believes they should win all 114 points this season, so it’s a travesty they were ‘robbed’

I wish there were no VAR stoppages at all, and I think they still need to take steps to make them shorter, but one of the aspects of the Prem’s implementation of VAR I actually like is that it seems speedier than some others. I can’t think of a VAR review this season that’s gone longer than like 30 seconds, and most…

Sure, Bush had a higher body count, but Bush didn’t spend his entire tenure actively trying to sew discord among his people, drive wedges through his country. Bush was old-fashioned polite GOP racist, absolutely, but Trump’s actively trying to start a race war simply to win elections. And I think you’re also…

Sure, but I actually started thinking about something related after I posted my comment chock full of intentionally-hypberbolic hypotheticals: they could all be seen as akin to falsely yelling “fire” in a theater. 

Right? Of all the ridiculous stats, the possession numbers being as mundane as they were was definitely the most surprising to me. And that’s in spite of the fact that one of the stats is that City had more shots by a literal order of magnitude! But I was still more surprised to see that Tottenham had something like…