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My name is Barf. I’m a mawg. Half man. Half dog. I’m my own best friend.

I think you’re off by a factor of 10. 650k out of 330 million is about 1 in 500. It’s still way too many people, don’t get me wrong, just wanted to clarify.

Vance is a Constantly Untruthful Narcissistic Troll

Wait, what?

What’s wrong with Men in Tights?

You might be right, and maybe the reference to old Hollywood was more subtle and went over my head.

I think the big difference with Tropic Thunder is that the IDEA of black face is very explicitly the joke. Robert Downey Jr’s character and the idea of black face is what is being made fun of.

You might be right that it’s a commentary on Westerns, and it went over my head, and maybe because it was made when it was you didn’t have to be as explicit with the target of the joke it was just more subtle. The scene certainly doesn’t feel hateful, but it’s definitely odd to watch today. But given how explicitly the movie is making fun of racists and racism I’m certainly willing to give it some benefit of the doubt.

Huh. TIL.

Though the actual argument for why you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles now is the the entire genre it’s lampooning is dead.

The humor is pretty much still fine and flies, other than Mel playing a Native American, but even that is still kinda-maybe-sorta-okayish-maybe? since Mel’s character isn’t the butt of the joke, but other than that brief scene I can’t recall anything that watching now makes me cringe.

That creates its own potential (unintended) problems. There’s no one size fits all solution to gerrymandering.

Dave Wasserman did a really great job going through all sorts of potential solutions and the benefits and flaws.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hating-gerrymandering-is-easy-fixing-it-is-harder/

Short answer, it’s complicated. Long answer, read the piece, it’s really good.

Fascists are funny like that

I think we found Alec’s Lemmy account

Did Nazis co-opt the valknut? I know it’s Norse, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they did, just couldn’t find anything from some quick searching.

Well played. But also fuck you. 😀

Who was based on a doctor that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew.

Log scaling?

Bring in… The comfy chair

No but the white wars against white supremacists were in 1860 and 1940 so 80 years apart.

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