With her Stannis Baratheon act, apparently Ingraham now wants to appeal to grammar Nazis as well as the regular kind. And like Stannis, she picked the wrong fight.
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I know. Still, the article is interesting for laying out all their code words and social networks and showing just how far virulent Nazis have burrowed into the mainstream. HBOās āSuccessionā is dark satire, but the Nazi-enthusiast anchor at the showās Fox News stand-in is pretty close to reality.
From the AV Club recap:
Mark Ravenhead (Zack Robidas), a hotshot ATN anchor who skews younger but has an alarming history that includes sightings at fascist rallies and a marriage conducted at Hitlerās old Bavarian retreat, not to mention a dog with the same name as the fĆ¼hrerās (itās spelled differently, though, so itās okay). [ā¦] Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), who thinks Mark is a lovely guyāāWho wasnāt a bit salty when they were 21?āāis tasked with giving Ravenhead āthe full colonoscopy,ā but resorts to softball questions, the answers to which still ring alarm bells. Why has Mark read Mein Kampf multiple times? Heās interested in that part of history. How come? āThe scale, the tragedy,ā he says. āEurope decimated. 7 million Germans, 20 millions Russians, 5 million poles.ā Even Tom has to remind him that heās short about 6 million.
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She had it right the first time. Her āChristian raceā is lacking only the āwhiteā to be absolutely reflective of this asshatās thought process. Fuck her and may her business die a quick death.
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Does the irrelevant white supremacist not understand that refusing to put up with abuse is not the same thing as violating oneās freedom of speech? Especially when the people she blocked could be arrested for what they said even without violating their first amendment rights.
Probably not. Her response was basically āI have nothing intelligent to say so Iām gonna nitpick your grammar.ā The only people dumber than her are her followers.
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Strip them of their tax-free status, the assholes.
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Oh?
In that case, sue the shit out of them for unlawful discrimination, because if they are for profit then that negates the whole bs āreligious freedomā argument.
They donāt get to have it both ways.
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Yup.
There are enough people who will argue for their āreligious freedomā over gay marriage who know the facade comes apart here. There are far fewer judges who will buy that in this case. They may themselves be okay with it, but donāt want to deal with the fallout.
And since theyāre caught on record saying thatā¦ well, itās hard for them to claim that they were "misunderstood,c.
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Sad anecdote:
My own mom didnāt āget itā about gay folksā right to get married until one day it finally āclickedā; she placed it in the context of her own life as a White woman, married to a Black man, and how that used to be illegal, for the same exact bullshit reasons.
That was about 5 years ago.
I love my ma dearly, but man, was it disappointing that it took so long for her to have that particular epiphany.
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Yup.
Loving v. Virginia (a more perfectly named plaintiff for the case you couldnāt have asked for) was long enough ago that only the most hardcore bigots want it overturned. And unlike abortion rights (which can be so easily twisted) or gay marriage (far more recently enshrined), even a sympathetic judge knows that there arenāt enough people to support overturning it, and that there will be people in the streets.
Though part of me wonders if some of the decline in Leverageās ratings was due to the show outright pairing off a blond white woman with a dark-skinned black man (Parker/Hardison is a delight and a terror to behold ā for all the myriad ways they can fuck you up if you mess with them. Fight me.) and just enough people who liked the show for the wrong reasons couldnāt handle it. Theyād never say it aloud, and would have tolerated had the sexes been reversedā¦
I could be wrong, but if thereās one safe bet Iāve discovered itās to not underestimate the average level of casual sexism and racism in your average (especially white) person.
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Yep, long before the doco came out I did a research paper on that case in school. It had some personal interest to me, obvi.
At your recco, I started watching that show recently. Iām almost done with the first season. So far Iām really enjoying it.
Because the show is so old, I already know lots of the plot points, including the eventual Hardison/Parker pairing. (Lots of foreshadowing, in the just the one season Iāve seen.)
And while the interracial relationship was probably a factor, at itās core, Leverage was a series about people getting actual justice in an unfair society, by any means necessary; that probably had a lot to do with it too.
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Gotta admire the fact that they got a show steeped in social anarchy and specifically anti-billionaire onto Ted Turnerās networkā¦ and that it took execs three full seasons to figure that out.
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So Leverage switched networks during its 5 season run?
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No.
Just Rogers got a phonecall
āAre we running a communistĀ¹ show on our network?ā
āFourth season! Too late!ā
Yes it took that long for them to realize that a show with the tagline āThe rich and powerful take what they want, we steal it back for you.ā wasnāt exactly in favour of unfettered wealth accumulation.
Ā¹ in the typical way that anyone on the right sees everything that isnāt pure, unchecked capitalism as communism. .
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Whenever the Democrats are in power, the righties throw a lot of disingenuous pseudo-populist rhetoric around. They would have been fine with a Robin Hood show back then as long as the villains were rootless cosmopolitan liberal coastal elite rich people.
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Molly is one of the defenders of Charlottesville, BTW.
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Nonsense! If it wasnāt for the Gay Agenda forcing all the wimminz into lebianism heād be beating them off with a shitty stick! Heās been forced into these actions by liberalism and tolerance stealing all the hot chicks from him. Why canāt you see?!?!11?
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