Unsurprisingly, lots of people have lots of thoughts about Netflix!

Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.

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In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket

We were stopped at a traffic light yesterday behind a guy in a pickup who had a whole nude foot, with a toe ring, hanging out the driver's side window, while he was driving. If I stipulate that I was not in Florida, you should already know that there were some New Hampshire plates on that truck.

Too much of an embarrassment for *this* White House

I wish he’d said “They merely adopted the dark. I was born in it…”

I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the company whose business is built on plagiarism is now accused of stealing another company’s secrets.

My ex got her MBA *while* in med school. Without an extra year. We always proofed each other's work and let's just say the MBA part was not hard.

I’ve been thoroughly convinced for years that “business school” doesn’t actually teach anything of value and is a scam on both the graduates and the public at large. I’ve yet to meet anyone with an MBA who actually knew more than me any ANYTHING.

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

I never even knew that Chip was dating batman.

Remember folks: Paxton Protects Pedophiles

Only a few more days until Mitch McConnell emerges as a beautiful butterfly

Polyamory might be conventional in some circles, but I don’t think most people in the U.S. know what it is. And given how repressed our country is generally, I bet a lot of people who do know what it is aren’t chill about it. (Which is a totally separate discussion than the merits of the movie.)

It was not that long ago that George W. Bush had an insurmountable lock on the Worst President Ever title. At the time, it was lock Wilt Chamberlain's 100 game. Impossible to imagine anyone surpassing it, let alone being so much worse that people don't even remember how bad W. was.

A thing I find interesting is that the people who cast Platner appear to think the key to securing support from Donald Trump voters is a sort of macho affect from the 70s when Donald Trump voters in fact support Donald Trump, whose general affect is Liberace.

“Thought you were supposed to be against hate and intolerance” nope. I’m for justice, and that requires hating injustice and those who seek to uphold it. You can’t be tolerant of people who are intolerant of your mere existence, because that’s not tolerance, it’s submission.

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

“Bratty” is the exact word. What a loser.

3. But crisis does not make a man. It reveals him. Graham Platner's crisis stripped away the masculine myth-making and it showed us a boy.

And these losers call Democrats/liberals/progressives “snowflakes.” Their paranoia over completely imaginary threats is unreal. It’d be funny if they weren’t the ones pulling all the levers of federal power at the moment.

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock

Twitter is a fascist cesspool, and anyone who spends significant time on the site eventually, inevitably has their brains rotted by exposure to the toxic sludge.

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

What an entitled whiner. Boo hoo, you don’t get a chance at a Senate seat. Congratulations, you don’t get to join a club of EXACTLY 100 people! 🙄

Well, at least he’s being open about his abhorrent, retrograde, vile beliefs. 🙄 And Christians wonder why so many people think their religion is garbage. (I say this as someone raised in a Presbyterian church.)

The desperation certain (mostly male) Platner supporters have to vindicate him is pathetic. What makes him special? Middle-aged, ex-military dudes with tattoos and “working class” vibes are a dime a dozen. My best explanation is that they idolize him and want to be him, misogyny included.

I could not be less surprised that Ryan Grim is pushing this. Let it go, man. Your guy is a rapist. He’s not going to win. And this shit is a disgrace to any good work Drop Site has ever done.

I just finished reading this and this is probably one of the best and most well researched article over at sktchd. @davidharper.bsky.social Incredible work, man.

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Damn, Onion writers. Shots fired. 🔥

My job exposes me to a broad swath of everything on Instagram, and boy, the amount of Michael Jackson hagiography without any hint of the controversy surrounding him is astounding. Many people (though not all) just do not give a shit about children’s welfare. See also: Trump, Epstein, etc.

It’s totally predictable but still mind-boggling to me that many mainstream, ostensibly anti-fascist news orgs freak out more about the far left than the much more real threat from the far right. (And the far right is just mainstream conservatism in America now.)

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

Just talked to my old friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

Matt Taibbi is another guy who I’m embarrassed to admit I was once a fan of. Greenwald, not so much.

I find the idea that there is a preexisting Homer "fandom" that is outraged about this preposterous. These are just free-floating racists

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

If I had a nickel for every time a weird little guy with the eyes of a malamute starred in a definitive fantasy franchise and then used their career-long blank check to make outsider indie movies, I'd have two nickels. But it's weird that it happened twice.

This Egyptian goalie is really ... the king of denial

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

emmanuel is so ruthlessly cynical that this is basically telling you where the typical democratic voter is on american aid to israel

He’s as brain dead as Mitch McConnell. Pure mush between his ears.