Trump’s supporters take license from the president’s behavior to be awful people. Trump’s detractors take license from the president’s behavior to be even worse people.
*Bernie Sanders walks up to a death row inmate being marched to the execution chamber*
“I know you’re probably a little busy, but why don’t you quickly fill out this absentee ballot.”
Sure the Clintons killed a lot of people back in the day to secure their political power, but I don’t think it’s fair to judge that based on modern standards.
“I’ll swallow your soul!”
-Disney executive looking at a beloved animated feature and contemplating a live action remake
You’re going to be right most of the time if you just assume the thing everyone is getting outraged by is overblown.
I got my first likes for a course I made in Mario Maker 2. I feel so accomplished.
I find the tutorials for level design on Mario Maker 2 quite fascinating. It’s just interesting to here the heuristics on what make an enjoyable level spelled out.
It reminds me of how I played a director’s commentary mode of Portal that explained how levels were shaped by tester feedback. The Companion Cube came about because so few solved a puzzle that required them to carry around a cube from the beginning of the section.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Bozo the Clown
Giving the left credit for being right about racism feels a bit like if someone fired indiscriminately into a crowd and then you give him a thumbs up because one of the people he hit ended up being a pedophile.
Winchester is 6 months old now. I don’t know what challenges lie ahead, but I feel so lucky he has three older siblings that are obsessed with him.
#ChristianPrivilege
Being used to absolutely no one caring when you say “I’m offended.”
When I first married, we lived an hour for Orlando. We bought a season pass to Disney World and went many times, usually ending in Epcot for dinner. I am looking forward to eventually going back with all my kids, though.
Man, it was nice exploring Disney World with no rush. If you didn’t have time for something, you’d just say, “Eh. I’ll see it next time.” Also met other season passers who knew all these hidden little secrets about the park.
I’ve been to Baltimore once. All I remember is I had a crab cake. I think it was good.
There. I’ve contributed to the discussion.
My 3yo drew the solar system. I love how she strove for color accuracy. I mean our seas somehow ended up purple (wrong crayon?), but she specifically didn’t color in the sun (because it’s white).
Student loan forgiveness doesn’t make sense to me unless it’s the colleges paying back the loans.
I had only contact watched Veronica Mars—my wife binged it multiples times and I just caught bits and pieces of each season here and there—but the new season on Hulu was great. I think that’s the first Hulu original I’ve watched.
My wife is very upset by the ending while I don’t have the emotional investment.
The assertion is that Trump, who constantly yells at everyone who disagrees with him, maybe yells at minorities a bit more. All I can say to that is “maybe?”
No matter how much Trump lowers the bar, the Democrats limbo right under it.
“I know how to defeat Trump: We’ll rally around how great Baltimore and Al Sharpton are!”
Even more than 2016, it seems like 2020 will be a contest of who is trying to lose more.
Why are the Democrats trying to reverse Milkshake Duck Al Sharpton?
Man, four kids is a lot of kids. Interestingly, it makes me feel wealthy.
If they can get Beyond Meat to be cheaper than meat, then you have something. Until then, it’s just a novelty.
I get that some people do take The Babylon Bee headlines seriously–no matter how ridiculous they are–as happens to The Onion and others. But the only reason the The Babylon Bee gets dinged for it is that The Onion happens to be more well known.
You could clearly label ever piece satire, but when you’re explicitly told that a clearly satirical headline is satire, it starts you on the wrong foot with the audience, like you thought they were too dumb to figure it out.
I still remember the first time Snopes really went after
The Babylon Bee, which was before I started writing for the Bee. It was for the article “CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication” which I refuse to believe anyone thought was real.
Still, the Bee ended up getting a warning from Facebook because the Snopes dinged them as fake news. It was insane.
I think I recall a scant few days when the term “fake news” first came out, when the discussion was focused on those few cases when satirical news websites were mistaken for regular news websites.
Of course, leftists quickly pointed the term at Fox for a few weeks or so, then Trump pointed out how often mainstream sources push false narratives, and now the term’s a hate crime.
Fake news has many faces and may actually be based on a kernel of truth. It is fake in that it is considered news at all or in that it is misused to promote a conclusion or hype a narrative which the facts within it do not support. It can also by a total fabrication as well but that is a little rarer form although the media doctoring quotes or excluding context comes close.
I like to think of it as finally being able to personally speak truth to power.
Minorities tend to be Democrats.
Democrats tend to vehemently disagree with Trump
Trumps vehemently yells at those who disagree with him.
Trumps yells at minorities more than non-minorities.
Talk to me about beyond meat after all the cows have died.
Soylent meat is people.
The clear problem with satire these days is that its too close to something that will actually happen at some point. To be far enough a way from that makes it unfunny, too close and its just tomorrow’s news today.
Sadly, today’s headlines, read like MAD Magazine bits from 30 years ago.
MMMHAG! Make Mad Magazine Humorous Again!
Any you feel like sharing with us? My maker ID is NB2-QPV-PKG.
One of my levels ended up disproportionately popular; I got my first spam comment on it today, and the rest of them are still at single-digit likes.
I knew you could share for a level; i didn’t know for your maker account. I’ll find and share it.
Baltimore is a rat preserve infested with Democrats.
For Heaven’s sake won’t somebody think of the rats? They are God’s creatures after all. What do those PETA people say? A rat is a pig is a child?
Truth! Isn’t it some sort of war crime to have those poor rats represented by Elijah Cummings?
Well in all honesty who else can authentically speak for rats?
Well, yeah, there is that….