Maybe this will work on neo-nazis like it works on zombie?
A huge expanse of cold, Arctic air is sweeping through parts of Canada and the United States. Known as a “polar vortex,” the weather system is expected to deliver record-setting low temperatures and a particularly nasty wind chill.
Viola Davis, one of the most incredible and amazing actresses of our time blew our minds away with her acceptance speech at
Critics’ Choice Awards. She won Best Supporting Actress for The Fences and by this speech she showed us, why she was the one to win it.
She’s brilliant, she’s stunning and she deserves it.
“Privilege of a lifetime is being who you are,” she said, stating that there is nothing better than staying true to yourself. No matter what you do, no matter how you try to behave to impress people, you will only succeed if you are being you. I’m so proud of her.
Denzel Washington blasts journalists everywhere for promoting fake news.
Last week on the red carpet for his new movie “Fences”, Denzel Washington was asked about the hot issue of these days - fake news, in particular a fake story that he appeared to be involved in. Not only did he nail the answer, he gave journalists everywhere a very important lesson.
“Anything you practice you’ll get good at. Including BS.”
“With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story about to hit theaters, Star Wars is continuing the ever-developing tradition of women leading sci-fi blockbusters and TV shows. Indeed, women often find greater representation in sci-fi and fantasy movies and shows than in any other genre. These women are incredibly strong characters who audiences love to root for– and who kids can look up to.
Some of these movies are set in the far future, or in more advanced civilizations where women have either gained equality on the front lines of conflict, or in societies where women were always considered as capable on the battlefield. In many cases, their gender isn’t an issue, while in others it’s their greatest asset. After all, being underestimated can be as valuable as being super-strong or super-fast.
So, in celebration of the imminent release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, here’s ScreenRant’s 20 Greatest Female Characters In Sci-Fi And Fantasy.”
them: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MEANS HUMANS MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT
biologist:
Like literally the only reason we didn’t go extinct is because we are aggressively social creatures who community organized and helped each other when faced with disasters that drove other species over the brink.
(Like we’re so aggressively social that we looked at APEX PREDATORS and went ‘they look soft! Friend????’)
(The answer was yes because wolves are also aggressively social and they adopted the strange tall not-wolves just as eagerly.)
humans @ wolves: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll let us pet them?
wolves @ humans: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll pet us?
Part of the New Internet Grammar: using question marks not to denote questions, but upturns in voice, so that a tentative statement gets a question mark but a flatly delivered question doesn’t.
I’m assuming by “he was a Nazi” you meant he played a PARODY of Hitler in a MOVIE and in that same movie he also plays a barber who disguises himself as said Hitler parody and delivers one of the greatest anti-fascist speeches of all time.
It’s okay. It’s an easy mistake to make.
Literally where does someone come up with the idea that a Polish immigrant with heavy leftist leanings is in any way a Nazi
In fact, Chaplin was harshly criticized by the American far right for being very anti-Nazi in the period leading up to America’s entry into World War 2, and many lambasted his film, “The Great Dictator,”–in which he parodied and ridiculed Hitler–as “anti-German” and “war-mongering.” The Nazis themselves, as well as the Nazi sympathizers and supporters of the American far right, hated him.
Chaplin’s films were banned in Nazi Germany, and Nazi propaganda smeared him constantly. (Part of the smear was claiming he was Jewish–which he was not, but calling someone Jewish in Nazi Germany was guaranteed to inflame public sentiment against them.)
Chaplin was concerned with social issues like homelessness, and was a liberal and an anti-Nazi at a time when to be either one (let along both) was to be accused of being a Communist–which at the time was pretty one of the worst things you could call someone–and indeed “anti-American.” (Because, again, American conservatives loved them some Nazis–right up until the time Hitler’s forces started invading other countries–and even then, the bulk of the US thought we shouldn’t “interfere” in what they saw as a strictly European affair.)
Even after the war, and even after the world realized the despicable things the Nazis had done, Chaplin couldn’t shake the “Communist” and “anti-American” accusations from conservative American “journalists,” politicians, and others on the far right, who were still angry with him for his pre-war anti-Nazi sentiments.
And when he refused to participate in the McCarthy’s “Red Scare” Communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s, he was banned from re-entering the United States, while on a trip to England.
In short, Chaplin’s ANTI-NAZI leanings made him so many enemies in the US that they set off a chain of events that eventually saw him kicked out of the country. Oh, sure, the US finally issued a formal apology and invited him back, but by that time, his response was pretty much, “Yeah, too little, too late.” And justifiably so.
Chaplin stood against everything the Nazis stood for, and was smeared and punished for it.
So don’t you fucking dare call Charlie Chaplin a Nazi.
Dishonor on you. Dishonor on your family. Dishonor on your cow.
Heavy leftist leanings is right, HE WAS A SELF IDENTIFYING ANARCHIST
DONT ERASE THAT PART OF HIM ITS CLEARLY SOMETHING HE CARED A LOT ABOUT ENOUGH TO INCORPORATE IT INTO ALMOST ALL OF HIS FILMS
He was criticized as a Jew during a time when it was a worse than average time to be Jewish, and he refused to deny it. He was able to make such provocative films because he owned his own studio (he was basically self-publishing his movies, so he didn’t have to get approval from the ratings board, and could critique whoever he wanted). he ended up getting blacklisted and then deported for it.
If you feel like this comic doesn’t accurately represent you, and that you personally don’t act like this, good. That means this comic isn’t about you.
If you DO act like this, and are working on a counter argument about how not all _____ are ______ , well that’s just disappointing.
“Does Trump, his staff, and his fans now refer to facts and the truth as liberal propaganda?”
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Matthew Dowd, Chief Political Analyst, ABC News, via Twitter.
The News: The Washington Post reported this weekend that the “CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.”
Follow-up reporting by The New York Times called “the conclusion that Moscow ran an operation to help install the next president… one of the most consequential analyses by American spy agencies in years.”
Trump isn’t having it. “I think it’s ridiculous. I think it’s just another excuse,” he said in a Fox News interview Sunday, suggesting that Democrats are looking for excuses as to why they lost the election. “I don’t believe it.”
It reads like so: “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again’.”
Why’s this odd? Because in no reality was Trump’s electoral win “one of the biggest”. In fact, it’s one of the smallest, and if we wanted to riff on this we’d turn it over to The New York Times’ Paul Krugman who has a few things say about it.
Back to what we’re talking about
Slate reports, “Numerous outlets have confirmed the bombshell Washington Post story that reported intelligence agencies concluded that Russia tried to boost Trump’s chances of winning the election by undermining Hillary Clinton.”
Meantime, despite what the Trump team says, “there is a loud chorus of bipartisan voices, including Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, going public to accuse the Russians of election interference.”
Sidenote: Trump, as it’s been reported, has ignored the intelligence briefings that president-elects traditionally get. “I’m, like, a smart person,” he says.
This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.
These koi are really aggressive. But look at the markings!
Fun fact: These aren’t koi, they’re ordinary goldfish! A lot of people think that koi are just large outdoor goldfish, but they are actually separate species. However, like koi, goldfish can easily grow to tremendous sizes and live a long time, provided they’re given adequate space and nutrition.
I just did a quick bit of research and it looks like it should be quite edible for the fox. Though it might have a very bad trip from the mushroom’s toxic compounds. Apparently deer eat Fly Agaric to get high, and humans can too, so long as they dry the mushroom first, or ingest the urine of an animal (usually reindeer) that has digested the mushroom. From what I read, it is not a pleasant trip.
So this fox should likely be okay, but it’s gonna have to cancel plans the rest of the day as it halluinates and deals with nausea and other discomforts. By the way it’s chowin’ down, I get the feeling it knows what it’s getting into. Or that magpie back there egged it on.
The fox and the magpie are gonna trip out together. Then they’ll talk about how to solve world hunger.
Honestly, these types of conversations are so surreal for me, because growing up I had so... so much feminist fantasy to read. Like, there was a clear distinction, fantasy was for women and science fiction was for men, I just read both. And bunches of other stuff.
