Airlines are not out to get anyone, and they “squeeze profit” out of all those seats because they’re responding to market demand. Passengers demanded cheaper fares and were willing to put up with being treated little cattle in return. Airline travel used to be nicer because it was more expensive; now people are…

Airlines are not out to get anyone, and they “squeeze profit” out of all those seats because they’re responding to market demand. Passengers demanded cheaper fares and were willing to put up with being treated little cattle in return. Airline travel used to be nicer because it was more expensive; now people are…

You can also blame Wall Street for that as well.

Wait... I feel like the part that’s missing here is that cultural appropriation is much more of an issue when it’s white people doing it to other cultures, and not blacks or Latinos or Native Americans or (insert) borrowing from what we might call Anglo-American culture. Which is important to point out.

Instead of being facetious about it, maybe examine the fact that there could be a real outcry if a man tried to give CPR to a woman and she was upset after the fact?

It’s a scripted show and all the “contestants” involved are being fed storylines and lines... why is anyone treating this as any more or less horrible than when a critically respected actor delivers those types of lines?

Well, having read the links you posted, neither of them actually support your point. The first article makes it clear that when fathers seek full or joint custody, they get it 94% of the time - which doesn’t break down anything except that 6% of fathers who want custody of their kids don’t get it. No comparison to…

I don’t feel bad for the rich for not wanting to pay taxes, but I do understand it. I don’t want to pay taxes, why should they? This is not a question of whether they should (they should), but whether it’s unreasonable to expect a wealthy person to voluntarily want to. And I don’t think that is a reasonable standard.…

And that’s fine, and totally ancillary to my point.

This is exactly right, and exactly why Republican arguments of “if you want to pay taxes, pay them” ring so hollow. Government tax policy is only worth changing if we change both where the dollars come from, and where they go.

That is like saying that if a blind casting director decided on the best actor for a part without deliberately asking their skin color, he whitewashed a film.

As much as that asshole deserved all that... I really wonder whether the reaction to this story would be the same if you reversed the gendered pronouns in this bit:

Honestly, I increasingly can’t justify the sheer length of the games. For all the talk about how slow and long baseball games are, football is infinitely worse. A 60 minute game lasts, at least, 3 hours. And even within that 3 hour time span, there are what? Maybe 12-15 minutes of actual plays being run? And that is…

It’s part of the contract. It’s not like the client is being unknowingly saddled with thousands of dollars of fees. They’re paying for shitty fried diner food and delivered sushi. This kind of petty cash expenditure is disclosed in the contract.

Goodbye, illiterate person.

Not to mention 0% plot, characterization, or common sense.

It’s called hypophora. Learn about it before making an ass of yourself (again).

It’s not cause he didn’t hear “Indians” it’s cause the whole Christopher Columbus finding America story is a big, fat White lie. Christoper Columbus never set foot on American soil. Instead he and his crew went around the Bahamas killing the Natives. That’s all he did and this kid knows that.

If getting into a finger pointing match with a preteen is pointless, expressing disappointment without specifying the source of the disappointment is even more so.

There is an opportunity to gain trust here and she’s throwing it away.