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Tom McKay
tommckay
Tom covers tech, politics, online extremism, and oddities for Gizmodo. His work has appeared on Mic, Yahoo News, AOL, HuffPo, Business Insider, Snoop Dogg's Merry Jane, Wonkette and The Daily Banter.

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I have no adequte words. It’s both an immense relief and a genuine pleasure to see that not only does Damon Lindelof actually seem to UNDERSTAND the original comic, but also that he’s not afraid to go deeper and poke the very foundations of the storytelling that the original comic was riffing on in the first place.

I think this is the most correct take - these people aren’t actually liberals, they’re wealthy enough white people that inequality doesn’t harm them (and in fact they usually benefit from it) and they’re closer to being libertarian than ‘leftist’ with some exceptions around healthcare and student loans (because those

Splinter didn’t exist in 2016.

Instead, you performed the digital equivalent of sticking your penis out of your trousers. This is very sad, and embarrassing, because (for now) you have so little to show intellectually or professionally speaking.

You know it won’t. The republican party has its hooks into their balls. They’ll vote 45. They will ALL vote 45. 45 Will have 62 million votes.

A libertarian offering a bad take?? I’m shocked, shocked I tells ya.

Replacing government workers from the private sector does not automatically get you cheaper, better quality services. It usually gets you higher costs with less service as the private sector attempts to extract profit from something the government does at cost.

It makes no sense.  I can give food to a neighbor.  But if the neighbor doesn’t have enough money for a house I can’t.  I think it’s hateful.

I generally agree, but I just think they’re not doing anything to prevent illness in the homeless otherwise so I give a big side-eye with these laws.

Three fucking cops were shot but I’m sure an armed guard who washed out of police academy could have taken the shooter out easily.

I think we’re saying a lot of the same thing here, especially this bit:

You know what guys and I would bet a dollar on this, I think Elon Musk is a crab person. I just have a hunch people. 

From The Verge piece: “A Newsweek employee I spoke to noted that the change in tone coincided with editors from the IB Times moving over to Newsweek.”

That is absolutely true. I used to work at IBT and I was utterly appalled at a lot of the editorial decisions that were being made. One article (if you can call it

You wrote a lot of fancy words to say “stop talking shit about Trump if you want to keep your jobs”.

And you’re insisting the patient be allowed to bleed out because they deserve it. I wonder which position reads as more humane and empathetic!

Given the results so far, it’s evident that Facebook does need people to be responsible for what happens on their own website. This is the kind of dumbass marketplace of ideas concept that the far right pushes. There legitimately does need to be a filter in place between idiots and bullshit.

So I hung in there through the “we didn’t evolve” and the “extream love”, but had to tap out at “Asians are super creative.”