Yea, and I understand what he was trying to say. But it’s a sign of his age and how out of touch he is that he felt the need to phrase it that way. It wasn’t malicious, it was just weird and uncomfortable.

Reddit?

I’d say Biden veered into “uncle Joe” territory with that whole unprompted tangent about “gay bath houses and round’ the clock sex”.

If Warren had “pounced”, that would have been deeply alienating to Bernie’s supporters. Not every Bernie supporter is a “Bernie or Bust” Trump voter, probably less than 1% of the entire Dem primary electorate. They’re just so gawdamn loud, it seems like way more than there really are.

Hard tangent, but I guess The Root and Jezebel are going to have to really pick up the slack for Splinter. At least until big Jim Spanfeller decides to cut you guys loose too.

On this topic, Warren read those 18 names on stage to bring up the issue and followed up on Twitter to discuss a 19th. Bernie wasn’t able to make the town hall, but he was actively on Twitter talking about this issue at well.

I’d probably prefer Stacy Abrams, but I’d bet cash there are advisers whispering in her ear to avoid a two woman ticket.

#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…