I do understand that this is, fundamentally, what the press believes their job is, but I would argue that if the role of a newspaper is simply to serve as a message board for elite debate, it is not an institution or occupation worthy of much intrinsic respect or deference.

Ash is the only male Pokemon protagonist who gets any recognition and he's had to earn it.

OH SNAP, we're getting Pokemon: Indonesia?!

MEETING AT THE PATRIARCHY HQ A FEW YEARS AGO: The King of Sexism: Society is getting too feminized. Any ideas how to stop this? Wormtongue looking fantasy adviser: I suggest we make young men get eating disorders and body dysmorphia from their favorite celebrities. The King of Sexism: Genius.

The people who are claiming, in a big old bald-faced lie, that The Feckless Dems are to blame for a horrible, transphobic law (which will almost certainly get overturned due to how facially unconstitutional it is) that the Dem governor vetoed are preying on trans people for clicks.

"*Dookie*-era Green Day is now oldies" is what you repost to kill your Gen-X friends instantly.

Jab, hook, cross, uppercut.

this is lovely

Literally just what the second season of Yuri On Ice would have been. ...now I've made myself sad.

Fun thread.

I've had a years-long fantasy of an ice-skating duo dressed as Jin Kisaragi and Tsubaki Yayoi from Blazblue, dancing a set to "Childish Killer II."

I reserve that specifically for tonkatsu sauce.

If you see this, post a monster.

This and Mexican Food are the only times in which the Japanese food is less superior than the American version. A Japanese 7-Eleven will blow an American 7-Eleven out of the water. You could eat at a 7-Eleven in Tokyo every day of the week and not feel like you’re dying.

I was forced to see The Guilt Trip (it was our "seeing a movie on Christmas with grandma" film one year). I'm glad my mother and grandmother enjoyed it, because I found it viscerally unpleasant.

Yes, nee-san, we know.

do people understand that politicians don't get to, like, keep money they don't spend on social programs for themselves that there isn't actually an incentive for politicians to "swindle" you

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I unironically would love another Harris run based on "well well well, remember when you all called me a liar? Sucks shit, doesn't it?"

Advertise your account with a gif.

dwarf hating will never be as popular as elf hating because it doesn’t let you be misogynistic or homophobic with a veneer of plausible deniability like hating the “knife ears,” send skeet.

We live in an age of disdain for anyone who knows what they’re talking about. You can say something that’s plain facts and no matter HOW diplomatically you phrase yourself, some asshole will holler and cry “condescension” or worse. As if understanding what you’re supposed to be mad at is unimportant

It strikes me as problematic the extent to which knowing how something works or even wanting to know is seen as endorsement of it.

We almost had this, at one point. Took over a lich's base and all its loot at surprisingly low level, and started planning how to set up a legitimate hot springs business and how to spend our wealth without crashing any markets. The DM had to blow up the planet to get us to leave.

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I don't think I've seen it specifically mentioned before, but...Mike Johnson *does* look like a wax statue of Stephen Colbert brought to life by a warlock, right? Like, it's not just me? I keep getting jumpscared seeing him in photos.

Anime fans are laughing now because we listen to opening and closing songs in Japanese where we don’t understand half the lyrics.

Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?

Europeans think all the random loot in Fallout is because of a nuclear war but America is just like that. Yesterday, I found a rocket launcher looking for my phone charger.

Surely there's a way to bring the thumbnail up? m.youtube.com/watch?v=knpF...

Post a banger that isn't in English. A good chunk of my Playlist isn't in English, so I'm spoiled for choice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=knpF...

Okay, hear me out... Moulin Rouge.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Classic Asian Literature Calligraphy Third Wave Feminism History of Japanese Painting Buddhist Philosophy Took the latter two in the same semester, which got mightily confusing when we hit Zen Buddhism at the same time.

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

if they pull this off and become the ones to prosecute X over the child sex abuse material, it'll be like the time the UK dismissed Johnny Depp's frivolous libel suit and the US didn't

Try it, you shits.

Dark Souls 2 Remastered when?

Even USCIS??

Weird, vidjya game-poisoned thought: palmistry is like trying to read a person's particular world seed generation.

"We are going to create a database, a list, we're going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods know exactly who to send those pies and fruit baskets to. We are going to give these people bragging rights like you wouldn't believe. These guys aren't gonna need to buy a drink for a week."

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Meet me in co-op Elden Ring. Praise the chest, but hole.

If you think about it, The Bachelor is just a socially-acceptable harem anime.

I'm enjoying playing Flotsam, so far...but I have to admit, it's surprisingly stressful. The food production chain is difficult to set up, so it feels like I'm just treading water between fishing spots.

The older I get the more I think political comedy hurts more than it helps, every jackass online is more interested in posting glibly passive aggressive, and ultimately nihilistic, quips than acting normal for five seconds.

Isn't this the main character's power in High School DxD?

"Local barbarian who only understands force is deterred by threat of force." Oh no. However will we theorize about this?

This is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.

On the one hand, I extend him the respect any creative deserves over their work, and any person over their motivation. If his heart's not in it, and he doesn't trust anyone else to do it? Valid. On the other hand, I can't help but have "the Chad Robert Jordan" running on loop in my head.