#DomSub2020

This is the last piece ever published by Splinter.

I’ve been trying to keep my podcast subscriptions light, but Robert Evans is the Kassandra of this generation. Not to take anything away from Katy or Dr. Mr. Cody (who are knowledgeable and charismatic), but Evan’s has a better understanding of the danger’s of the global Right and the deep seeded flaws in the American…

As much as I would love to see BlizzCon turn into a Free-HK sit in, the idea of paying a company an entrance fee so you can come and protest them is peak capitalism.

Yea. Everyone who is in a position to join or form a union should do so.

I was not paying terribly close attention to Bungie news. I rescind the first sentence, but stand by the second.

You can’t be out here calling for boycotts of Blizzard/Activision while posting fluff like this about Destiny.

I would bet there’s a team of PR flaks working tirelessly to compose a response, but at this point I think they know it’s too late for anything they say to hold any meaning.

Creating this connection in the popular consciousness, turning Mei into a pro-democracy meme, it is exactly the sort of thing that can get Overwatch banned in China no matter how much boot liking Blizzard-Activision execs are willing to do.

A group cosplay, with a Terran Marine wearing the Blizzard logo protecting Winnie the Pooh from Mei.

It’s good to remember that the “get woke go broke” slogan thrown around by the right is deeply untrue. In the American market, “wokeness” sells. It’s something that companies know they can commoditize, and they know that the hard right is large enough to give them free marketing but not large enough to meaningfully…

I’m about your age and we learned about Reagan in my history classes but we didn’t learn about Margaret Thatcher. My first cultural awareness of a UK prime minister was probably Tony Blair, and that was because of media coverage of Love Actually.

This is so so so fucking dumb. Bush was doing all of his worst shit before she was 18. When I was 18 I was basically taking the corporate media’s word for it the Clinton was just a chill sexy dude, and that it was okay to call him “the first black president”. I certainly had no fucking clue who John Major or Margaret…

Hold zero tolerance for intolerance. Meet hate with an hate.

Vote for Warren, #AbsoluteSexMonster2020

Shit’s still happening to this day. This was over ten years ago, but a company I used to work for had a habit of laying off or firing women from the hourly staff shortly after they got back from their honeymoons. Someone brought up the trend at an all hands Q&A, and management freaked the fuck out at the allegation it…

“Capitalism” isn’t exporting American values of liberty and democracy. It’s importing the autocratic ideals of China and Russia.

$6 for ballpark Nachos? I haven’t been to a game in years and it was easily twice that. I guess it looks less out of touch if you under-estimate it rather than over-estimate it.

The reason they aren’t as afraid of Bernie (and the reason I very slightly prefer Warren even as I give both of them money) is that they don’t think he can win the nomination. And between not having the “never Clinton” voters from 2016, and the leftover acrimony that many Clinton supporters still have for him, they…

Yea, the fuckup was the way the trailer was cut by some poor marketing intern. The episode handles the topic really really well.