Without endorsing the point being made, an interesting datapoint is that the founders of If Not Now and Sunrise substantially overlap (I knew many of them in college)
Yeah this is a much better response to this than pretending it means a draft is imminent
The automatic registration thing is being shared by certain news sites in a deliberately misleading way. Men already had to register for the draft, now it’s just being done automatically
This is a pretty fair article (takes the position that protests have become less frequent bc of Trump repression efforts) but the headline is designed to be rage-click bait
most of Scorsese’s work avoids this but I really do think wolf of wall street fails at this task. you can say it isn’t intended to glamorize the fraud but it really does. i mean the film ends with the real life criminal Introducing himself as the greatest salesman alive
great example of how racists are impervious to results that break their point. Another one of his videos, he asks an Orthodox Jew for a pound claiming he’s hungry. the guy gives him a pound. this is somehow still proof that Jews are cheap to the racist
No. 4: Hated by All the Right People by Jason Zengerle. It’s not a badly written book, and there’s some interesting inside baseball on how the media works (I didn’t know Tucker gave Maddow her start). But Tucker just isn’t an interesting enough figure to fill a book. There’s less than meets the eye.