Recent content by akillesheel

I'm going to say it - I disagree with this. I have zero problem with illegal immigration. When I'm eating a pupusa from a Salvadoran restaurant or drinking wine from grapes picked by a Mexican worker, my enjoyment isn't contingent on whether or not those people had the right papers. Migration...

not all redistricting is gerrymandering. do you know where the word comes from?

asking a palestinian, diasporic or not, to condemn hamas is like asking a Black South African during apartheid to condemn Nelson Mandela. or an enslaved American pre-emancipation to condemn John Brown. when somebody is starving and handed food, you don't criticize the way they eat.

the schedule is about the same strength as last year and the roster is probably two wins worse IMO. it'll be a great stress test to see how much coaching can actually change a team's fortunes, and/or how bad Mack Brown actually was. this paper suggests that CFB coaching can be responsible for...

fundamentally untrue; The Lego Movie was hilarious. for me, what's missing from these discussions is the fact that laughter is supposed to be joyful. the kind of "jokes" that conservatives complain about being censored or cancelled aren't joyful, they're just, as you say, mean. most of the...

I'm coming to this thread very late, but I've been reading a book of leftist parenting essays of late. one of the authors quotes this conversation between their child and a friend, and I thought it was really illuminating as to what moving away from old-school, tough-love parenting might look...

well, i did say it would take a single brain cell to understand.

simply cannot imagine having a single brain cell and celebrating taking money away from education and sesame street so ice can arrest a couple thousand more citizens and we can drop a few more bombs on countries that haven't done anything to us

the dems with 19% favorability are doing everything they can to fight against the "marxist" in question. precious few non-Republicans are criticizing the Dems from the right, lmao

i'm saying it wasn't blatant state-sponsored propaganda. so many of these superhero movies have superheroes as stand-ins for and/or collaborators with the US military and act as implicit endorsement of their causes. most of them have to have their scripts approved by the Department of Defense so...

there may be no bigger self-report in the history of the internet.

liked superman a fair bit. with it being nearly a given that a CBM is going to be DoD propaganda, this one breaks delightfully from convention.

There's an interview circulating with the actor who plays Supes in this iteration where he addresses this exact point - this only becomes a problem when you try to create a Superman movie that mirrors what we see in Spiderman and Batman, with memorable villains and life/world-threatening danger...

what reality is being denied, if you understand that sex and gender are not the same?

it frustrates me because you could argue that "democracy" as it is currently imagined in the United States does have some real issues - namely, that loud pluralities or minorities can be completely ignored. rather than the productive dialectics imagined, in some form or other, by most of the...