The thing about people (or organizations more broadly) who believe themselves utterly immune to any consequence is that they're often right for a while. They're seldom right forever. And when they go down, you can point to a lot of stuff that led to the fall

I mean, it only works until it doesn't, and it's not at all clear that there is not a cumulative effect to the slow drip of bad shit

Do the posting crime, you do the posting time. Go read a book or something

His more ambitious stuff gets the majority of the attention, and fairly so, but Al Ewing might quietly be the best meat-and-potato superhero writer working today. He just knows how to cook a damn good burger

It is honestly crazy to me how much I'm enjoying a comic called ALL NEW VENOM

what the formulation "israel has a right to exist" is meant to stand for is "the nation of israel has a right to define its electorate such that particular people are represented and others are not," which is something so plainly ridiculous that it cannot be stated outright.

Should be sooner than that!

The "bisexual" bit is a very dumb rhetorical flourish! But this, to me, is the meat of what she's saying, and I just find it hard to get het up about her saying "voters, including our base, should feel like we like them"

I'm not going to weigh in on whether McBride is ideal political representation for trans folks -- not interested, not my place -- but I do think if people are going to criticize her they should do so by sharing what she actually said

I don't think this is a genius-level insightful comment or anything: I honestly think it's a sort of clunkily-worded observation. But I also think that if Mamdani had said everything but the bisexual bit, people flatly would not be reading it in this light

I actually think that one was very likely a personal Schumer thing. Like, I don't think he makes the moves he makes because of AIPAC

I think it was a reasonable experiment for the time but yeah, man, we're done with it.