Gosh, I can’t believe Forbes whiffed on a social justice issue, they’ve been so deeply committed to those principles throughout their publication history /s

Mike Duncan seems like a pretty cool dude, and the Revolutions podcast is incredibly good

Oof, gotcha. I would say call blocking and getting some kind of agent/publicist/distributor with very humorless attorneys on retainer could counter all that, but I can definitely understand not wanting to deal with all those headaches.

Just saying, if you do ever make something like this I would probably buy a copy. Good human level story telling is entertaining and captures facets of our real lived histories that get lost otherwise.

I honestly could write a book about working for that guy with all the crazy stories I have.

Or make it a podcast and stylize it like an old radio drama

Other websites: “You guys always act like you’re better than me!”

Lemmy:

A: We’re happy to work with a wide variety of organizations with different cash flow scenarios! We accept payments in precious stones and metals, narcotics, slaves, and human organs (sorry, no Discover)

wrestle with jIMMY

Their uniforms may be a little unorthodox, but their experience with time warps will make them an invaluable asset to the Federation

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=t_lpSSTIbpM

Kelloggs CEO reading this comment section getting ready to drop another banger

“Look, I get it, everyone has a story and contains multitudes and all, but the paperwork from the children’s hospital clearly says he was officially contracted as an “Entertainer and Humorist,” so that’s the title we need to refer to this John Wayne Gacy with. It’s just basic professionalism.”

Yeah, and the fact that people basically can’t talk about this game without mentioning it got boycotted because one of the people who makes money from it is a massive piece of transphobic shit is a small step forward all on its own

Eh, people don’t buy for the gameplay mechanics most of the time, they buy for what they see in the trailers and read in the descriptions. Being the only videogame available for this IP, having the WB marketing juggernaut behind it, releasing at a time of the year without much competition, coming out on every single platform - it would have been weird if this game wasn’t the best selling one in 2023.

“Ronald Reagan? The actor?!”

Yeah, this sounds like a really reasonable list

In terms of “most influential, in a positive sense,” I feel like LBJ at least deserves a mention too. Lots of stuff people just assume has been around forever like Head Start and PBS/NPR and Medicare came from his administration (plus all the civil rights acts). If it wasn’t for the whole ramping up the Vietnam war thing and all the sexual harassment he did he’d be an easy favorite for me.

I’ve only recently started educating myself them, so this group may have some ugly things in their history I haven’t learned about yet, but -

There was/is a nationalist social democratic Palestinian organization that Hamas essentially chased out of town with support from Israeli religious conservatives, and I feel like people who want a free Palestine need to talk more about them, because social democratic sounds a hell of a lot better than whatever the hell Hamas’ policies are

I’ve kind of been completely absent for the past 3+ months

relatable tbh

Oof, that does deserve a more prominent mention

Oh yeah, he was terrible too

Another horrible thing he did that video didn’t have time to fit in - the re-enslavement of Haiti