No, I think there's still a lot of fun to be had with politics. The problem is that a lot of "comedians" and "cartoonist" aren't doing a lot of funny stuff with politics. They're basically just doing "ha-ha, you're stupid".
Am I the only one who doesn't think This Modern World is particularly... funny? Not sure whether it's just the subject matter itself, but I can at least chuckle at most of ths stuff in this thread, while TMW just leaves me cold.
I can't help but feel like Putin's increasingly unhinged rhetoric (which is bordering on "anyone who so much as dares mention the name of Ukraine instead of calling it 'Southwest Russia' is going to feel my unfathomable raaaage" territory) sounds more and more like desperation ("why won't anyone...
Since defenders of Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine keep bringing up stuff like the 2003 US invasion of Iraq as their default whataboutism, I say it's about time to have a serious discussion if only to show that hey, we can acknowledge when the US has screwed up.
Full disclosure: As a...
I consider all religions to be essentially widely accepted superstitions, but I'm not actively seeking out to convince believers that their religion is wrong. As long as those people do not cause harm, it's live and let live as far as I'm concerned. If they happen to use their religion as...
Might expand the scope of this thread to Catholics. Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, who dscribes herself as a "straight white suburban Christian mom", is fighting hard to reclaim all those titles from the Republicans, all the while standing up for marginalized groups such as the LGBTQ+...
Yeah, several of the other French presidential candidates who lost in the first round were asking their supporters to vote for Macron in the run-off just to prevent Le Pen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-germany-russia-gas-ukraine-war-energy.html
Words cannot describe how much I despise this **********.
Loyal only to himself until the end.
(Curiously, the photo of the pipeline parts on trains was taken either in or near my home town...
Finally saw it... really had to force myself through it. And I'm one of the people who think Thor: The Dark World is okay-ish. This one, though - worst MCU film to date.
Long, dragging, everyone keeps acting. So. Goddamn. Seeeeeerious. There's hardly any joy in this. So much by-the-numbers...
He shot an unarmed man who was receiving treatment in an emergency room in the head, and he wasn't put behind bars afterwards? Truly, the police is not above the law, the police is the law, Judge Dredd style.
Hey Nazis, if you consider Hitler such an inspirational figure, how come you never talk about the way that little cowardly piece of jive ended his own life?
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