Black people aren’t monolithic, many support her and many critique her. Stop using them as a shield, it is gross.

Yeah I have no dog in the fight but some of the more radical twitter users I follow have basically given up voting for Clinton because in large part her online fanbase is awful.

So you voted for him despite him never being a Dem to begin with, and now that and his age are big flaws of his? Did you bother to do any research before you voted then?

Some of Hillary’s supporters are her biggest impediment to getting Bernie voters. The arrogant, condescending assholes who make up her loudest fans, see this comment section for a wide variety, are putting lots of high profile Sanders supporters who were planning to grit their teeth and vote for Hillary well off. Same…

Are you trying to prove my point or are you a total idiot?

I meant more broadly, like in the UK there are Labour politicians who happily call themselves centrists despite being further left than many Democrat politicians who demand to be called progressives.

Yeah, your country absolutely does love pretending that Democrat automatically means left wing despite any mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Yeah, it is more than snobbery though to be honest. It is deeper than that.

No, I’m not. I am thinking of ‘left wing’ people who ring their hands about structural inequalities caused by capitalism and pretend to care whilst still benefitting hugely from that same structural inequality. Just because right wingers hate poor people doesn’t magically mean supposed progressive don’t as well.

Yeah, progressives will consider class if it supports their existing argument but if it doesn’t it doesn’t matter to them.

Such a great piece. So many middle class liberals, both writers and commentators of this site and further afield really can barely hide their disgust for poor people. They know that they aren’t allowed to hate poor black people without losing their left wing credentials (although they would dearly love to do so) so…

I don’t know about that, he complimented her at the end of last episode. We will have to see.

She will kill the waif and leave I think , doubt she could kill JH either. Fully grown adult man with his training, would be implausible.

I didn’t say he thought he was burning white walkers. He knew who he was burning, his madness was caused by 3 eyed ravens whispers is what I speculated.

Yeah, could be a bit far but there is going to be a big ‘Bran changing the past’ twist though. I am sure of it. As sad as it is to say, Hodor isn’t important enough - he was just used to show us Bran’s power.

A youtuber , he has some interesting takes on stuff. He has been wrong on a few things but he always thinks things through and is interesting none the less.

I read a super interesting take which is that the Mad King was driven mad by the 3 eyed Raven trying to speak to him and let him know to ‘burn them all’ i.e the White Walkers. Makes a lot of sense.

The last episode was incredible, but this one was a bit meh. Overall great series so far though. I am glad Arya has left Braavos, think we could see 4 Stark + Snow kids back together sooner rather than later.

I love the fact this has 7 stars on a ‘progressive’ website. The comment section around here has gone to hell in the last 12 months.

That is the most tenuous explanation I have ever read. You have twisted yourself into a pretzel to justify that. The whole of GOT has been white saviour, this is just an extension of it.