Politics And Current Events

Post by **mikey** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:09 am

The term master bedroom first appeared in Sears catalog in 1926...

Post by **Troy Loney** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:10 am

shafnutz05 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:07 am
Sam's Drunk Dog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:02 am I bet Coronavirus killed more people in those states than landmines too.
I can only imagine the breathless giddiness the editors experienced when they proposed this stupid headline. Journalism is dead.

There are a lot of amusing takes about the news media. About how these places have to sort of "wade" through the current environment and decide if they want to focus on long form investigative reporting and the monthly subscription base required to fund it, or just produce click bait headlines to drive traffic and ad revenue. The best is the institutions like the NYtimes that try to have it both ways, so you constantly get them having to edit tweets and headlines because of the differences between the stories and the headlines/tweets/

Post by **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:13 am

I read that article last night. It was infuriating

some words like "cakewalk" do have genuinely racist origins, but mixing that in with words that have absolutely nothing to do with race is intellectually dishonest and frustrating

Post by **grunthy** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:13 am

Post by **Troy Loney** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:14 am

shafnutz05 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:07 am Case in point:

CNN could probably survive for a while by just getting hate clicks. People hate reading this article is probably 75%+ of the overall traffic. And survive for a while, in that it's still the standard bearer for the fake news thing. So if they just went full trigger the very online conservatives, it would eventually lose it's symbolism as a mainstream news org.

Post by **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:15 am

CNN has a whole show dedicated to airing FoxNews.

Post by **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:15 am

lol

Post by **willeyeam** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:16 am

some of it is silly without a doubt, but at the end of the day I can't muster up much energy to care. Words we are allowed to use or not evolve and change over time and we get over it. Remember when retarded was commonplace?

Post by **Troy Loney** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:20 am

Freddy Rumsen wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:15 am CNN has a whole show dedicated to airing FoxNews.

And? I am sure Fox News has comparable programs, are we just going to pretend that Fox News doesn't present a story that is vastly at odds with the rest of the news media? I don't have cable, but I assume Stelter's show is a ~serious version of the daily show. It's informative to try and understand how other people see the world.

Post by **NAN** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:21 am

Sam's Drunk Dog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:02 am I bet Coronavirus killed more people in those states than landmines too.

Or murder hornets

What happened to those?

Post by **Morkle** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:21 am

willeyeam wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:16 am some of it is silly without a doubt, but at the end of the day I can't muster up much energy to care. Words we are allowed to use or not evolve and change over time and we get over it. Remember when retarded was commonplace?

Yea, I felt the same way when someone posted that Twitter link about the words they're changing. With all that's going on - it's just a meh, from me.

Post by **faftorial** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:23 am

Morkle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:21 am
willeyeam wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:16 am some of it is silly without a doubt, but at the end of the day I can't muster up much energy to care. Words we are allowed to use or not evolve and change over time and we get over it. Remember when retarded was commonplace?
Yea, I felt the same way when someone posted that Twitter link about the words they're changing. With all that's going on - it's just a meh, from me.

Post by **count2infinity** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:23 am

Registers as sub meh over here...

Post by **NAN** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:25 am

MalkinIsMyHomeboy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:13 am I read that article last night. It was infuriating

some words like "cakewalk" do have genuinely racist origins, but mixing that in with words that have absolutely nothing to do with race is intellectually dishonest and frustrating

The thing is, words and terms like cakewalk, I bet only a small handful of people know the origin. It no longer has that racial meaning behind it today. Things change over time and the original meanings fade away. Some don't.

Post by **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:26 am

Most people will probably continue to use those words in everyday life anyways. It's like how everyone still refers to S&T Bank Music Park as Starlake. In fact I had to lookup what it is called now because I had no clue.

Post by **MR25** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:27 am

Yeah I can't get too worked up about words changing.

Post by **Troy Loney** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:32 am

NAN wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:21 am
Sam's Drunk Dog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:02 am I bet Coronavirus killed more people in those states than landmines too.
Or murder hornets

What happened to those?

There's a brain eating amoeba going around Florida now.

Post by **Trip McNeely** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:35 am

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/americas ... index.html

Bolsonaro got the Corona

Post by **Troy Loney** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:36 am

I guess it's official this time.

Post by **NAN** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:41 am

Troy Loney wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:32 am
NAN wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:21 am
Sam's Drunk Dog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:02 am I bet Coronavirus killed more people in those states than landmines too.
Or murder hornets

What happened to those?
There's a brain eating amoeba going around Florida now.

Post by **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:42 am

Troy Loney wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:20 am
Freddy Rumsen wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:15 am CNN has a whole show dedicated to airing FoxNews.
And? I am sure Fox News has comparable programs, are we just going to pretend that Fox News doesn't present a story that is vastly at odds with the rest of the news media? I don't have cable, but I assume Stelter's show is a ~serious version of the daily show. It's informative to try and understand how other people see the world.

You would think that Stelter's show is serious.

Post by **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:43 am

Acting is canceled.

Post by **willeyeam** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:46 am

That's one I don't get. Isn't the fundamental gist of acting, well, acting?

Post by **blackjack68** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:49 am

Isn’t the whole point of acting pretending to be someone or something you are not?

If you want more opportunities for Black or Asian or LGBTQ actors it shouldn’t just be in roles where they are playing those people. Since most here seem to love Hamilton, that’s a good example of allowing actors to act despite the person they are portraying.

Post by **mikey** » Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:50 am

Like I have been saying for a while now, this whole woke Olympics thing will have little choice but to cannibalize itself before it accomplishes what it means to...