I’m sorry, I was told in 2000 that letting China into the WTO would make them a freedom-loving human-rights utopia-democracy and that free trade was wonderful and never had any problems and the Chinese and Mexicans are just naturally hard workers who have no problem with low wages and we don’t need a labor arbitration…

I’m sorry, I was instructed that this sort of thing was Sinophobic and therefore impermissible. Well impermissible for Biden, anyway. Was I misinformed?

As well, there seems to be emerging evidence that the virus can reinfect survivors

Just fyi: I’ve Dismissed all your replies. Go complain about straw men to an actual straw man.

Yeah. I’m delivering groceries weekly to my mother-in-law. If we need to take special care of ‘the most vulnerable’ then we can do that. That’s a well-established model of social care.

You’re saying I don’t actually believe the things I’m saying? That’s what ‘bad faith’ means, you understand, right? Not that I’m saying things you think are bad, the current Folk Definition of these things.

Ah. “My kind.” Okay then.

No need to wait, here you go!

and they deserve your empathy

had better be just as open about demanding it from leaders like President Trump as well

I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who said the bravest human beings in history were not explorers or warriors but Tasters: The first people who ever looked at something and said, “I’m going to eat that.” Think of how many of those people we lost over the millennia. And how much we owe to those who survived. 

Oh. Well in that case I’m like the worst movie theater customer ever since I have never gone to the concession stand. I walk right in with a bag of salted almonds and two canned beers in my jacket pockets (I legit buy jacket based on pocket size for this reason).

There’s bad food in every genre of restaurants but something about bad Chinese restaurants is *especially* bad. Oh and Chinese buffets are the absolute nadir.

The vanishing of ‘hipster’ in common derogatory lingo can be traced to November 2016. Right about then it became, “Oh you don’t like ‘hipsters’? Think farmer’s markets and microbrews and shoegaze music are dumb? Okay then, here’s your alternative white subculture instead. Have fun!”

I feel like we’d be better off just not deep-frying anything. But then I’m prejudiced against deep-fried stuff since something about my mouth-chemistry/anatomy means that if I eat a single french fry or cocktail shrimp, I get this recurrent, hours-long metallic taste in my mouth that nothing can cover or wash out.…

Yeah. Isn’t that pretty much the prison chow line fight scene from Watchmen (the movie)?

No one is allowed to mock Ricky Gervais any more.

This was always my favorite:

Hasn’t bleach-drinking been a think on the far right for a while now? They’d call it “hypochlorite” or something and mock anyone for not listening to them?

None of you are allowed to snark against Ricky Gervais any more.