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Wait until someone explains to him that taking down statues is not “erasing history,” it is simply changing who we choose to venerate and celebrate.

Note also that Trump never sued the filmmakers of THE APPRENTICE, a major Oscar-nominated film that contains a scene in which Trump rapes his wife Ivana.

Ah, he’s a busy man. I’m sure he’ll get round to it.

Maybe?

TFW the acting roles dry up

And one important caveat: shit science research is mostly published in shit journals that no-one reads. Occasional clunker gets through, but peer review and journal reputation are generally effective screens against bad science.

If people don’t want to go to a place, how is it the fault of the people and not the place?

In some cases you draw a boundary with someone so that you CAN have a relationship with them, not in order to stop having one.

My impression of Trump stubbing his toe on a chair while shambling his way to the fridge in the middle of the night:

“OW! FUCK! <points sternly at chair> I place a TARIFF on you!”

My impression of Trump stubbing his toe on a chair while shambling his way to the fridge in the middle of the night:

“OW! FUCK! <points sternly at chair> I place a TARIFF on you!”

THE GAME (Fincher, 1997)

THE GAME (Fincher, 1997)

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

"Editorial indulgence has resulted in such a sludge of footnotes and block quotes that the eye must often dismount and continue on foot."

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and they’re like “remember that time we came in second place in a war?”

“The only difference, Kenny said, was that the fan-users ‘felt better’ and looked happy as they approached heat exhaustion, while the group who weren’t using fans were acutely aware of their misery.”

Trying to imagine the kind of man who would enjoy this

And while it's true that relatively few black people are killed by police every year, these numbers are A) disproportionate to their population and B) a leading indicator of less severe but much more common experiences of discrimination. Getting killed isn't the only bad thing cops can do to you!

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Devastating, and you can already feel the effects in university life, as administrations brace for this in ways that even a familiar term like “austerity” might understate.

Sadly the actual advice most men need to hear is “be genuinely interested in women, listen to what they say, take them seriously and view them as human beings” but to package that as Dating Advice starts to turn it into yet another tip for tricking women into sleeping with you.

Me, contemplating the fact that Trump and ChatGPT are pretty rapidly eliminating all the jobs to which I could apply my 20+ years of professional writing experience.

Exactly. Skill issue.

Imagine looking at the global economic forces that have driven homogenization across the world and getting it 180° wrong – “This feels like women’s fault.”

Yeah, I think about it a little like the Michael Keaton 1990s comedy MULTIPLICITY — if you’re making a xerox copy of a xerox copy, you’re never going to see an improvement in quality.

Why is that guy being fed into the woodchipper making the woodchipper his entire personality?

when i worked at the cemetery, one of my coworkers mentioned hearing about this at a conference or something and i was absolutely fucking disgusted, and everyone acted like i was the weird one

Ah, a rare glimpse of Trump’s volatile side, eh?

Indeed

He has no other side.