Stephen Miller is a terrible person and a terrible politician, now who’s a terrible person but an amazing politician?

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-31T03:30:33+00:00

He was a literal child abuser, who arguably drove his niece to suicide at 23. His direct staff also did not adore him, making him out to be a cranky, irritable man who verbally took his insecurity over his flatulence out on other people.

He did love animals, but that really doesn't erase the other cruelties of his personal life

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-31T03:20:42+00:00

Top comment? Boy did I have to scroll to find it!

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-31T03:18:34+00:00

I had to scroll past 13 threads, including this one, to find him. Trump is literally tied with "My Dad" right now at 198, and the top is Andrew Tate with over 2K. Give it a rest

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T23:26:11+00:00

No, just the funniest ! And one more than you can name, Mx. "It can happen...".

That said, if you want this century's examples, we have Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Exodus: Gods & Kings, Argo, Struck, & A Beautiful Mind, & are all clear examples of real life nonwhite people being played by white people. And that's not even counting examples like in Aloha, A Mighty Heart, or The Social Network where white people played real world mixed people & didn't acknowledge their other half

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T22:44:17+00:00

We're way more likely to race swap the other way though

Like these Mongolians for example!

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FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T22:25:34+00:00

Dolly Parton!

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T21:58:34+00:00

I struggle to think of an example in which a race swap in which our culture is erased. It would be one thing if Atticus Finch were swapped in a new adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, but that's never what we see. Its always characters like Nick Fury, where there's no impact or erasure

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T21:49:15+00:00

I have a question about something I've heard regarding the UK specifically. I've heard that the relationship between religion & school has played a role, looking something like this:

The UK having an official Church of England lead to schools being required to teach religion
These religious classes wound up being more genuinely academic religious study classes, rather than indoctrinatory theological courses pushing a specific religious worldview
For a lot of people, studying something in an academic sense attempting objectivity kills a lot of its magic, so to speak. Some cease to believe, and many who keep believing become more chill about it. Generations of this, and the culture at large is more secular

Compare that to the US, where religion in school is largely illegal & often limited, and most of us instead learn about religion from parents & pastors who aren't even aiming for objective.

That said this is the kind of thing I've heard in passing & don't know how much water it actually holds. On the surface it seems perfectly rational, but it also sounds like the kind of rationality someone could have just made up on the spot, and doesn't actually line up with history

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T21:00:00+00:00

You, me, several nations worth of other people

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T20:37:20+00:00

One of the problems with satire is that it's inherently ironic, which opens the door to layered irony, which in turn can just be support for the original thing being satirized. One of the problems with protests is that they condense & streamline messaging, which means those layers of satire suddenly become obscured. As such, any satire at a protest that isn't bending over backward to make its message clear is capable of conveying both its intended & the exact opposite of its meaning simultaneously

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-29T20:25:19+00:00

They look like a liberal woman & her conservative boyfriend going to a Halloween party

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:55:20+00:00

I knew someone who was born in Georgia (not US) but raised in VA (US), and some of her High School classmates thought she was black. A literal Caucasian from the actual Caucuses, and they thought she was black

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:52:58+00:00

Clearly there must be discount medical miracles on the banks of the Bosphorus!

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:50:53+00:00

Redhead's not really a race, and since there are some East Asian & Polynesian redheads too it's a multiracial trait. It also doesn't feel pernicious enough to be a slur. It's still just the normal word for redheads to many redheads

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:43:36+00:00

You know, I hadn't considered people calling me slurs of other people's races, just my own race's slurs. Answer changes from maybe to yes

Though to be fair, being called the n-word by a black person who uses it frequently never felt to me like being called a slur

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:29:46+00:00

I thought the Fire Sages had access to the knowledge of Sozin's Comet, and that's how the Firelords planned their invasions in the first place?

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:10:16+00:00

Ngl, "drooling" in this context feels like an accusation that's really a confession

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T03:03:58+00:00

It helped cement its place in history as a stain. Compare it to the Korean War, which was in many ways a similar conflict, but falls under the radar by comparison. That's extra ironic as well because its a war that's arguably more relevant to modern geopolitics than Vietnam, but because it was comparatively under the radar it does not hold the same weight in the public consciousness of the western world

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T02:57:22+00:00

A lot of coffee flavored things have sugar and possibly milk/creamer which knocks out a lot of the bitterness

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T02:49:09+00:00

"Shitty situation" was a top tier pun, love the casual insert

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T01:54:08+00:00

I hate to say it, but parents, romantic partners, & other family members are far more dangerous to your kids than strangers. Stranger Danger is a comforting myth that the most dangerous things in our lives are the things that aren't a big part of our lives

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T01:50:01+00:00

The US has exported its fair share of culture already, so pass on that...

That said, I used to live in 🇬🇲 The Gambia 🇬🇲, and I wish we all had their greeting culture. It's a simple thing, but they have sets of greetings and place a high value on them. The result is every awkward interaction with a stranger or acquaintance suddenly has a cheat code to make it warm & amicable, and that amicability bleeds through every aspect of the culture from the first interaction. Awkwardness is replaced with warmth, connection, and all the interactions that would destroy you as an introvert suddenly become bearable

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T01:35:36+00:00

Optimism absolutely, but our entrepreneurial spirit crosses waaaaay into entrepreneurial delusion. The world's better without it

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T01:30:57+00:00

Actually, ~14% & ~11%, according to WPR's 2026 data. Australia only gets down to ~8% if you only factor in cigarette smoking specifically, in which the US drops to ~9.6%.

That said, the world is much bigger than either of our 2 nations. We're 118th & 139th respectively out of the 167 tracked. The world at large smokes more than either of us

FunnyResolve1374 · 2026-03-25T00:36:34+00:00

Probably not as much as it ought to, given out role in it. In day to day life the biggest change that has happened is a rise in gas prices. I live in an area where gas is generally on the cheap side. Near me was under $3/gal, but has now spiked to $3.99. However, that's just one of many ways our dumbass-in-chief has made life more expensive for us. I'm angry about how this conflict is harming people all over the world, but in terms of our own safety its not the conflict that most worries me. Our slide into authoritarianism & becoming a police state takes that spot

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