Dillon’s right, of course, it’s really pretty stupid that the acting categories are gendered. That being said, the way that awards get votes on and decided is also stupid and there’s no doubt in my mind that if they weren’t gendered we’d see women less than men, and if Dillon got nominated they’d likely be the only…

You raise a really fascinating point, especially with the tech bro. That actually sounds a lot like what the US’s answer to fascism could be. A technocracy that discriminates and controls by algorithm.

9 points...against what is easily the single most incompetent and corrupt president in the last century. And the *best* Biden can swing is a 9 point lead. Let that sink in for a moment.

Those armed counter-protesters WERE law enforcement. 

American fascism needn’t (and wouldn’t) be German fascism though. A lot of German people in the 30's did want to be told what to do by an authority, even if a lot of those people didn’t want that authority to be Hitler. The Kaiser was only recently abdicated and the Wiemar republic has largely been a chaotic mess…

omfg

And yet, those BLM protesters have repeatedly met with armed, grassroots-driven, counter protesters who were ONLY too happy to use violence against those whom they were told, by their politically motivated leadership, needed to be ‘put in their place.’ And those armed protesters were supported or, at the very least,…

I had never see that document before. It is chilling how much it reads like something written by the Bush administration to be sure that torture had the veneer of lawfulness. The “For more than 20 blows with a stick a doctor must be present” is straight up Orwell.

“...Mein Kampf is a favored literary work. His OWN wife said so.”

According to his wife, he read it almost nightly. Make of that what you will.

No, the difference is that trans-inclusive feminism argues that while all experiences between all communities of women, whether it be transwomen, disabled women, women of colour, LB+ women etc, may not be the same and shared by all they still fundamentally as people do face persecution and discrimination by society in…

Yes, he would. Hitler is one of Trump’s idols, and Mein Kampf is a favored literary work. His OWN wife said so. He would know EXACTLY what the symbol means. It’s far more likely he thinks a) the average American is too stupid to realize it (and he’s right) or b) it would attract exactly the kind of ‘quality people’ he…

Wait, we’re surprised by this? This precedes Trump in the Republican Party, and by this point is pretty much par for the course. Let’s recall that the phrase “enhanced” or “sharpened interrogation” is literally the word-for-word translation of the German euphamism that the Gestapo used on their prisoners:

The issue there though, especially more in the US it seems, is that “The Left” is considered overlapped onto “Progressive” which isn’t the case. I’ve met too many people who are economically left-wing but in terms of social policy are severely lacking or rather conservative.

After having had several long conversations with the latter group in recent weeks it’s clear they’re just somewhat smarter and more manipulative than the former. They want to claim to argue from a base of respectability but still portray transwomen as rapists and transmen as victims of misogyny.

I don’t want to hear anybody say that this is an accident. I’m sick of the excuse of stupidity or ignorance to be used to defend this administration’s actions (“Trump’s too stupid to know it is a Nazi symbol, yada yada yada). Even if say Trump really didn’t know, he is not operating alone in the White House. He has…

Seriously. I don’t begrudge the White House, Congress, etc. their ability to conduct regular testing. I think that’s an important and necessary thing for government to do in the middle of a pandemic, even when we’re short of tests. But testing themselves constantly while actively downplaying the importance of…

Apparently if there is a God He doesn’t always look out for the willfully stupid.

“my God is bigger than coronavirus” preacher guy that died of same a couple of weeks ago”

Remember that “my God is bigger than coronavirus” preacher guy that died of same a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, I admit I laughed my ass off at that one.