ITT: Hot Takes

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'