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But there's also something very funny about critiquing a movie about a man grappling with guilt over violating hospitality norms by also violating norms about how we relate. I admire the consistency.

Right, most of the times I experience homophobia today it's based on the idea that a man who doesn't have a woman with him must be dangerous. This turns women into tokens to collect for the sake of proving my worth as a man, which... isn't the feminist win that people think it is.

Yeah one of my favorite things is when I manage to give straight guys compliments at clubs without it being read as flirty/gay, which breaks the ice and also helps them get comfortable complimenting each other - and then they often gain the confidence to actually dance, too!

Also, the "organized" retail theft thing was because in California the Retail Association couldn't amend theft laws due to prop. 47, but could make a new conspiracy law. Lobbyists shifted their view of the facts to match what they could offer politically. It was a wag the dog moment.

repeatedly not flip the coin an infinite number of times in a finite set of time until the entire world drowns in chicken nuggets and I never have to answer another thought experiment again

looks like the houthis just drew...an inside straight 😎

No no you have to understand, money isn't meant to be exchanged for goods and services. It's meant to be a Social Merit Score that entitles me to goods and services because I am a superior person! I'm not supposed to lose it when I have privileges!!! 🙃🙃🙃

it's giving pain

Crimes Georg is a victim of dozens of crimes a day and is a statistical outlier that should not have been counted.

Look this being Nolan I can only assume it would involve Odysseus interrupting sex to comment on how Nobody sails the wine-dark seas like him.

Right, everyone in this article comes off terrible, and incapable of dating outside their class. And it is only noteworthy because the gender roles are reversed from usual - I've basically seen the gender flipped versions of these constantly. Like, what did people think equality meant? Vibes?

ah, a variant of the classic

Every right wing position these days is "can you imagine?? the rule of law???? that's socialism!!!"

I don't know, his version of sex seems like an edge case.

Come to think of it, I wonder how much the right wing is also driven by a kind of self hatred and insecurity - the way they desperately want to be seen as cool in the culture wars. Feels like each side envies the other's approval, but pursue it in the exact ways least likely to work.

Gonna resurrect Wilhelm Reich thought by proposing all politics is reducible into the choice of whether to Yoon or to goon

did you just call alf's hog a joke? what are you, some kind of alf hog size queen?

Actually, that's $15 more dollars than any Persian emperor had. So she's infinitely more decadent than a Persian emperor.

Yeah it really does come down to how harmless it is. Every other demonstration of Trump's incompetence has an implicit body count that makes it harder to laugh about.

I'm convinced she's projecting her own shame about her sexuality onto queer people as a way to avoid grappling with it, tbh. So it sort of makes sense there'd be more of this the more conservative the world becomes; gotta have a villain to blame for patriarchy's discontents.