There’s really not much nuance needed to take down Joe Biden, he’s been a shithead on basically every issue his entire career and has done very very little to change that in the last few months. His foreign policy is worse than Obama’s, he’s essentially just continuing Trump’s whole bit in that way, FP being arguably…

• The idea that China engineered COVID as some kind of weapon and deliberately set it loose is insane

The idea that China created the virus deliberately as a weapon (which people like Ron Johnson have suggested) is indeed a stupid conspiracy theory (as the virus clearly looks natural and very much like ones we’ve seen in bats), but the lab leak hypothesis isn’t the same thing. That doesn’t mean it is necessarily true,…

I mean...multiple Wuhan lab researchers were hospitalized with a respiratory disease in November 2019.

But what if the person who stayed consistent was consistent because their beliefs were good in the first place and the person who changed did so because they used to pretend to be Native and had a bunch of horrible reactionary beliefs?

FWIW, most of the “defenders” I run into are reasonable people who ::wank gesture:: at the dumber shit he says, and view it as just light entertainment.

Probably because of some kind of masochistic tendency, much like why some people read a blog about pop culture, entertainment, and celebrities where none of the bloggers actually enjoy pop culture, entertainment, or celebrities.

FFS, IT’S an INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED PODCAST!!!!

The best description I ever heard of Joe Rogan is that he’s like a time-traveling 18th century European emperor. He’s incredibly demanding of his guests and asks a bazillion entitled questions, but he’s also massively gullible and immediately believes literally anything they tell him.

The constant over-the-top monocle-popping surrounding anything #SnyderCut related, contrasted against the “if she doesn’t lose her job then who even cares, just log off lol” reaction from many of those same people to the treatment of Ellie Kemper and Lindsay Ellis, does a fine job of demonstrating that it was all…

They’ve been doing a good job pandering to their white majority audience seeking validation and a pat in the back for being “allies” while driving away PoC members from frequenting the site anymore. Many people never came back after members here passive-aggressively called Ray Fisher a bunch of racially coded words…

Ah, I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s noticed Laserface copying and pasting from his Word document titled “South Park: My Same Tired Take” on every South Park-related article on this site in recent years.

South Park infuriates people who have no sense of humor about their own beliefs.

South Park is, was, and always has been a pretty damned entertaining (at best) show invested with WAAAAAAAAAY the fuck more sociopolitical weight than it was ever intended to bear.

When I saw that there was a South Park article up, I had a feeling there would almost certainly be an appearance in the comment section from that annoying Laserface guy, who’s weirdly obsessive about how much he hates this show. And... yup, there he is directly below your comment, with the same exact post as always!

The Whedon version of Justice League was trash upon trash. This review, and early feedback make it sound like this version is in line with Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice. Which means there is a good chance I will enjoy it. Hooray.

Oh, it won’t go away for a while. There’ll be followup articles about Snyder stans throwing hissy fits about the negative critical reaction; articles about how many people ostensibly watched the Snyder Cut on HBO MAX; articles dissecting weird moments and easter eggs; at least one For Your Consideration article…

I’m not sure how you can know anything about the culture war bullshit that predated Eminem by a mere decade (all the way up to the halls of Congress, repeatedly!) and think that somehow a bunch of paranoid rappers are a harbinger of fascism.

Post-Fascist America: oh if only that rapper hadn’t made songs ridiculing self-righteous pearl clutchers for his entire career!