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I am still convinced that Trump will be a long-term disaster for the GOP. I think the GOP is going to lose control of both houses over the 2018 and 2020 election cycles. Get set for a decade of Team Blue rule. It's kind of like how high fever, vomiting, and diarrhea are how our bodies fight off dis...

Let's make it rock a little early-90s style:

I agree with Radley Balko's take on this clusterfuck: "As a libertarian, I've voted for candidates from the LP as well as from both major parties. But I can't remember wanting one party to lose as badly as I want the GOP to lose in November. They basically need to start from scratch." Careful what ...

So long as we're stuck with a two-party system, I'd at least like to see both parties be more-or-less sane, rather than have one be the Raving Loony Party. Because for all that the Democrats suck, they're not likely to improve until after the Republicans do, because the Dems don't HAVE to; all they...

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Every twit who term-drops "late-stage capitalism", especially the ones who only have a dim understanding of what that term was intended to mean.

So, the writing is like a public school textbook.

Jennifer wrote: ↑

16 Apr 2018, 15:33

A Trumpster (who in other contexts undoubtedly spends a lot of time sneering about liberal "snowflakes") is upset by an AP history book.

And ranting about how it doesn't tell THE TRUTH about Benghazi or Hillary's email server.

Strictly speaking, this is not an alternate history so much as alternate geology: what would our planet's climate be like if Earth rotated in the opposite direction? I'll check my bookmarks when I get home, but I came across this site a few years back where this guy did these detailed what-if globa...

Temperatures will go from 41 last night to a high of 80, later today. This week should be warmish.

Monster has cans of caffeinated sugar water in every convenience store, gas station, grocery store, and pharmacy across the US... but it's the other guys who are the massive multinationals who dominate the energy drink market. Even by advertising puffery standards, that's a bold one. Again, it's ma...

I've been enjoying the show "Black Lightning" on the CW network, though I say that as someone who had no prior knowledge of the actual comic book character. (Were I familiar with the book, perhaps I would currently be filled with Comic Book Guy-style nerdrage.) I think right now there's only one ep...

thoreau wrote: ↑

16 Apr 2018, 13:02

Faux-Woke Capitalism is enough to make me want to vote for Bernie.

Eh. Some peoples' money needs to be redistributed, via completely voluntary exchange, away from them. That's how I see empty puffery rhetoric like that on a product.

The stage when Coca-Cola markets to dumb socialists?

But that's any stage.

I’m saying a retarded 9 year old could handle “X is murder. A person does X, they are A - a banana, B- a jar of mayo, C- a murderer ... And if you take 99% of abortion opponents and see them refuse to readily agree that women who get abortions are murderers in any consequential way (deserving punis...

dhex wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2018, 21:18

that is an unusually awful thing to say to someone else in public because you saw them in a movie.

Yeah, I can only deep-tissue cringe at something like that.

Charlie was going through some really bad shit at the time, clearly:

lunchstealer wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2018, 19:10

They have a point about the EAT MOR CHIKIN campaign. That shit is creepy af.

When Chicken Run was out and they had a Burger King tie-in ad campaign (I think because Burger King had no chicken dishes), I always wanted to see those ads opposite EAT MOR CHIKIN ads.

It's peak what people who don't read the New Yorker think the New Yorker is like but isn't but since this is actually in the New Yorker, I guess those people were right all along: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/chick-fil-as-creepy-infiltration-of-new-york-city/amp?__twitter_...

thoreau wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2018, 16:16

Enough abortion. When do we get to grammar? Or condiments?

Prescriptive or descriptive mayonnaise?

Jadagul wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2018, 14:57

I'm all there for something something evolving language, at least in theory. But that doesn't apply to claims about the history of the language at all.

History evolves!

Jennifer - broadly I think what you are doing there is building a mechanism that allows you to selectively apply generous definitions to statements you find less offensive and strict definitions to statements you hate. I think you just made up the idea that someone who says abortion is murder isn’t...

Something, something evolving language.

9. The newcomers are ignorant of the dynamics at play, but the incumbents don't have a real complaint about gentrification in this situation? I guess not? None of that is mysterious, but I have a hard time seeing it as anything other than an attempt to scapegoat those unwelcome newcomers (you know,...