A “Saturday Night Live” star called out MAGA-friendly comedian Shane Gillis over the misogynistic comments he made on the show. https://t.co/bYtL52FmPx
we'll see what happens but if the HBO series can survive until OotP it'll be totally worth it. this scene in the movie is such a bizarre inversion of arguably the best scene in the books, quiet and anesthetic, but Radcliffe also just wouldn't have had it in him to do this anyway
This entire scene is one of the best in the whole series and it's a crime it never made it into the movies.
I'm sure it would've been hard to adapt, but they didn't even try.
i'm just flabbergasted that it turns out the Pod Save America guys are so historically illiterate that they truly believe in No Enemies on the Left. like read any book about the French or Russian Revolutions and you're immediately disabused of that insane idea
i didn't read it carefully at first and so 100% assumed that the worker had made a crack about her weight. but no she felt wronged because the guy implied she couldn't afford a $15,000 animatronic bird. deeply odd choice to kamikaze your reputation over that
re: kelly clarkson — idrc what happened but regardless, it’s embarrassing to post about a bad retail interaction unless it was like, a hate crime. additionally, it’s even more embarrassing to do so as a wealthy celeb! like is this rly a struggle worth sharing w/ millions online?
Chait goes to the heart of what’s dangerous about Piker: not his language but his commitment to the century-old communist strategy of subversion. His stated intent is to take over the Democratic Party and then like some parasite leave it as a dead husk, replacing it with the kind of authoritarian communist/socialist regime he openly admires: China, North Korea, Cuba, the Soviet Union.
Like his forebears going back to Lenin and Castro he explicitly does not believe in democracy - except as a temporary means to power.
https://t.co/RMmNgS34hE
It genuinely doesn’t matter if it was a mental health hospital or the flu. Bailing on the biggest job interview of your life by disappearing for two weeks is damning enough all by itself.
the western progressive habit of decrying islamophobia is the subconscious, terrified reaction to a deeply unpleasant reality that millions of people in the Arab world are literal pro-Hitler Holocaust deniers
"their land" is so interesting. the second-to-last group of people to rape pillage and massacre their way through a plot of land are the ones who have eternal cosmic rights to it, apparently
just an insanely insidious chain of thought. "what's wrong with being trans? what, are you a bigot? you don't want to go on life-altering medication? why not? you don't want to tell your parents they abused you and that your name is offensive? are you a transphobe?"
am I the only one who thinks it's weird to jump to the conclusion he is trans because of this?
there's a real pressure for people in male/female relationships to perform gender roles and bisexual men who are seen as feminine are so often invalidated by or invisible to women
crazy how when a queer man says “i don’t like being expected to fit into heteronormative gender roles” all you supposedly woke people’s first response is “well your definitely not a man then”
one of the most common and fatal cognitive failures for humanity is "there's no smoke without fire" - this can be observed in the tv show The Traitors, where any fabricated allegation results in increased suspicion - and I really think this is the key motor of antisemitism
MUST READ by human rights champion and former Soviet prisoner Natan Sharansky, writing in Tablet:
‘Is the Whole World Wrong? Yes. We should stand firm in the conviction of what we know to be true.’
https://t.co/tzrsqxkElK
qaddafi will always be my favorite dictator for his indescribably bizarre obsession with Condoleezza Rice, commissioning a song called Black Flower in the White House which he set to a slideshow of official political photos of her and showing it to her