ITT: Hot Takes

ILX is utterly ungrateful and proved it by taking away Mordy's Star from Mordy

Regular guys who grill meat need to eat their greens

Maybe outing people through the power of leaked text messages is not a popular move

Cigarettes: they're so 1960s

KBP should not post in threads about popular music

Water, is it wet enough to be called "the wet stuff"?

Gin tastes like off-brand nail polish, you deranged lunatics

ILX Drama: it's really great, it's what your average man and woman in the street wants.

Waxed moustaches, are they too hetero-normative now?

Behind the curve bars still making 'Breaking Bad'-referencing cocktails: making fun of real families' anguish as their lives are torn apart by meth addiction?

Rugby: absurdist recreation of the British Empire or really neat thick wool shirts?

https://twitter.com/slatepitches

Twitter: nobody cares about your pithy opinions, dipshits.

Sourdough: The bread of the Libertarians?

oh shit I'm eating sourdough rn

our panglossianism about pop music these past two decades : not actually a good idea

Marx was right and chocolate-covered shortbread biscuits is the proof

Ryan Adams' '1989': misogynist take-over of Tay's personal space or desperate cry of help from some dickhead?

Bryan Adams' 'Summer of '69': You'll Never Believe What Happened To Jimmy! [Exclusive Photos!]

collect 'em here

First of all, the word “segregation” is a really loaded one in American history. If it’s not meant to be an allegory, then Rowling needs an American editor to tell her that she can’t throw the word around like this...

I almost hope it isn’t meant to be her attempt to tackle racial prejudice. Why? Because on one side you have wizards who are the one propagating the laws and on the other, people who are trying to kill them. The blame for the bad blood is a bit too evenly distributed to be a valid allegory.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/j-k-rowlings-history-of-magic-in-north-america-was-a-t-1764311530

that is hastily written outrage-fishing but the more harry potter tried to imagine an entire alternate universe instead of just a magic boarding school the more broken it became imo and i have zero confidence in its lens being applied interestingly to american history

^^^ hot take

. And at the risk of ending on a slightly cynical note, it is fair to wonder if here, too, Sharapova’s age and declining game conspired against her. Would tennis officials have been so quick to make an example of Sharapova if she were five years younger and at the pinnacle of her career?

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/maria-sharapova-drug-scandal-may-be-darker-than-you-think

http://www.vice.com/read/did-competitive-video-games-create-the-bernie-bros-719?utm_source=vicetwitterus

"One of the effects of a lifetime spent playing video games—and I certainly count myself among the ranks of the people who have—is that you begin to see yourself as the level 1 hero in your own game." So says Ben Labe, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "And when you begin to perceive the world in this way, it's far easier to see when other people are playing the very same game, only they're using 'cheat codes,' 'God mode,' or some such thing. The tendency, as when playing poorly-designed games, is to get justifiably angry because circumstances are not fair, and to begin to support policies to remedy this."

Smokey Bear: Does He Feel The Bern?

Instead of Harriet Tubman, The $20 Bill Should Feature a Slave, Because Slavery is What Really Backs The Dollar #marxisthottakes

You have so many modern day slaves to choose from, though. Factory workers in Asia, prisoners in the United States, or the spiritual slaves of white collar workers.

Why Ted Cruz is the Poster Boy for Forty-Something Furries who are still on Second Life

Why do Millennials watch seriously boring nerd shit like 'Game of Thrones'?

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/133825/white-supremacists-new-hero-red-angry-bird

Based on a game played on cell phones, the Angry Birds movie was almost destined to have a simplistic binary plot of good against evil. Racists who love the movie might want to consider what it says about their ideology that it needs to be validated by the most rudimentary narrative possible.

two more from twitter

https://mic.com/articles/143092/you-ve-been-eating-sandwiches-at-your-desk-wrong-your-whole-life#.J9lkT6qeQ

Lay out the magnificent sandwich/chip combo.
Empty chips onto wrapper/plate.
Insert sandwich into chip bag.

(via: https://twitter.com/StuntBirdArmy/status/737744669765931008)

And via https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/737755334127816704 we have

"Do Millennials Dislike Capitalism Because It's Not a Safe Space?"
"Jesus was Transgender? I thought he was Gay"

Why It Matters That Steph Curry’s On-Court Awesome Is Missing in NBA 2K16

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/why-it-matters-that-steph-currys-on-court-awesome-is-missing-in-nba-2k16

In an environment where we’re reminded of the ways in which surveillance mediates many of our interactions, this an important moment of navigation or, returning to Browne, it’s a moment where the watched is looking back. It’s my argument that, in a social environment where the movement of black people is produced through constant surveillance, Curry’s inability to be accurately transformed into a digital version is a powerful critique.

If there were an idiom that expressed not so much a mind exploding as a mind slowly deflating and leaking air, that's what I'd use to describe my reaction to that.

Harambe's death was inevitable, and so too was the defeat of an aging presidential candidate who identified as a socialist.

http://alexanderfine.com/blog/2016/7/9/harambe-and-the-online-left

fuck up

just the url is enough www.dailydot.com/debug/pokemon-go-disabilities-problematic/

"Man, This Taylor Swift Thing Sure Isn’t Gonna Help Tom Hiddleston Become the Next James Bond"

Jeremy Corbyn Haters: do they really just dislike panama hats?

The Olympics is a FIVE ring circus.

Why didn't Hillary go with the bold VP choice: Harambe (The Ape Who Died)

http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-stranger-things-popularity-donald-trump-2016-8

How the magic of Netflix's 'Stranger Things' can help explain the rise of Donald Trump

But perhaps a sizable portion of the country doesn’t want to move forward, and that's why Trump got nominated. They want to go back to a past they remember fondly.

And it's that glowing view of the older days that provides the magic in "Stranger Things"— the callback to a more simple time.

hahahaha wow.

dlh otm about the universe-building in harry potter though. i'm sure we've gotten into this elsewhere but there's such a hard break in the series when she suddenly adds the other wizard schools etc. etc.

SEE ALSO: Why Donald Trump is the monster from 'Stranger Things'