One of the more interesting aspects of bowling for columbine was Michael Moore’s argument that America has an antisocial violence problem more broadly construed than just a gun problem. I think that argument is aging pretty well
The entire pro-smoking consensus feels like the end point of the Oedipal politics of the online American left. Rejecting real social progress just because it’s something your parent’s supported
the entire anti-smoking drive feels like the natural endpoint of neoliberal safetyism- all forms of recreation must be proven to not cost the government or insurance companies money, ever, and therefore we're teetering on the edge of outright banning cigs
I’m ranking all the state flags starting with the worst. Ohio is
#50
, because it’s visually busy and none of the design elements compliment each other
Austin is reddit. Wes Anderson is reddit. Your hobbies are reddit. Your personality is reddit. Your appearance is pure reddit. Your friends are reddit as well. Your religion? I’m afraid that’s reddit too.
@Sturgeons_Law
If you study something I would hope you have a higher level of comprehension of it than the average person or else what would be the point of studying it?
Nate Sliver is like Neil DeGrasse Tyson because they’re both guys whose job it was communicate basic information from their field to the public and confused that with being a public intellectual and started commenting on other fields. Now he Monday morning quarterbacks the CDC.
Bernie completely abandoned his movement to play nice with the Democratic Party and campaign harder for Joe Biden than literally anyone else. So I cannot imagine being such a dead ender that you feel the need to still litigate primary fights on his behalf. We all got owned.
@JStein_WaPo
@ericawerner
@mikedebonis
The only difference between a republican and democratic controlled senate is whether Mitch McConnell or Joe Manchin gets blamed for blocking the checks
@scrowder
He’s right, in Canada you would be taken before a people’s tribunal and they would democratically decide which rusty saw they would use to cut you open
Zoomers are like fish in water when it comes to cartoons. They’re so inundated by them that they don’t even understand what cartoons are or what they’re supposed to do
I don’t want to be glib about this man giving up his own life, but this is the strongest piece of evidence in favor of the 1968 comparisons that people keep making