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"I think this is a good/funny interaction"

Generally, I prefer the Cronenberg method of art: come up with the stupidest idea you can think of and then think so hard about it that you develop genuine insight into society and the human condition.

Pretty much. It's not as stupid as, like, Stranger Things, but it's still pretty stupid. And that's fine! Give me that high-concept slop, please!

I have a couple problems with Pluribus but none are big enough to temper my enthusiasm for an old school science fiction story. It feels like it came out of a Best Sci-Fi Stories: 1967 collection.

Oh, sure, but that's so attenuated from the specifics of this situation that you might as well say it about any man and woman in the country.

What

This is naive. You can refute it with the actual facts of the Nuzzi case or you can refute it with... I don't know, basically anything else that has happened in the journalism industry in my lifetime?

The real sexism is that Ryan Lizza hasn't been fired out of a cannon imo

There are like a zillion examples of double standards for women and this just isn't one of them!

Strange, strange take. RFK gets to keep his job because he's part of an unaccountable fascist regime. Is it telling us that justice isn't a law of the universe? That God isn't real?

This is the problem:

This is the most interesting part of the Nuzzi scandal and it's helpful to remember who did and didn't face consequences for their coverage of the Iraq War run-up. It's the same problem.

There should have been a reckoning at every major journalism outlet after the Iraq War. They repeated lies and then generated some lies of their own and silenced critics and a million people or more died over it.

The people saying the Nuzzi scandal doesn't matter are wrong. Period. And it's probably the most consequential journalism scandal about an individual journalist since Glass. People are right to post about it.

SKIP: Absolutely.

It looked pretty unimpressive at the time. Everyone hated Mastriano!

You made an insanely racist post and you should consider not doing that in the future

“Mortician Trying To Figure Out How To Load Frank Gehry’s Body Into Frank Gehry Designed Casket.”

Aaron Rupar positing that it's Communist to build tiny cars because of a crazy Trump tweet where he says he's just approved the building of tiny cars. Someone quotes Trump and then says, "Translation: you will absolutely die in one, but the funeral will be energy-certified." Someone else responds, "But also, 'women should be having more babies!'"

Fellas, is it communistly misogynistic to build smaller cars

Yeah, I saw people yelling at/about you but I think you're basically right. Limiting pardon power makes sense to me within a less punitive system, but that's really the last step in a series of broad reforms.

If ever a moment has called for drawing a distinction between the actual left and the Nice Fascism of the Democrats, this is it.

My main beef with this thread is that the pro-police, pro-prison sentiment is credited to the left and then every example is about Democrats.

The kayfabe has broken down to such a degree that even the sickos are starting to realize what's actually going on

I want to analyze schedules which are populated on an Outlook calendar. I go to export. Whoops, you can't export Group calendars. Okay, I'll save the calendar file and convert it to an Excel file. Clippy appears in a cloud of thick, blue smoke. "It looks like you're trying to go fuck yourself,"

They wanted the picture to match his career

And just to put my marker down:

No, $140k a year is not a poverty wage. Also, most everyone who has been arguing this point for the past week is basically trying to redefine poverty out of existence. Ghouls.

People understand social exclusion at a gut level even if they don't have the language for it. It's not a personal pathology, it's a systemic disparity problem.

Damn, it sucks a ton of shit actually

It is wild to see otherwise intelligent people say stuff like, "The Supreme Court is now just enacting the political opinions of its justices"