Well, she does have a sugar daddy.  Which isn’t the same as being a hoe, but it’s not totally wrong to point out that she has in the past exchanged sex for money and citizenship.

I think calling Israel a “racist kleptocracy” is a little strong.

The process was kicked into overdrive by capitalism, though. This shit is exactly what the Situationists were warning us about.

Am I the only one without much sympathy for the second author? Yeah, those guys are playing her, but she’s also playing right into their hands. Anyone who believes that magical Disney romances happen after one or two dates is deliberately deceiving themselves.

Agreed. Nothing wrong with a site that focuses on highlighting issues/challenges women face in life/the workplace/etc, and the folks who complain about a lack of male-oriented opinion/articles on Jezebel are morons, but this is different.  Tracy chose to write about this, and it’s an issue that impacts women, too, to…

It’s like the airlines nickle-and-diming for everything because of the cost of fuel, but now that the fuel prices are manageable they still do it despite the strain it puts on their consumers.

I was talking about the voting public. Specifically the predominant red states of the south and midwest. Those voting bases that are still very much influenced by the culture of the small town religious leaders. The ones who are still set that all america needs to return to glory is to “get right with god.”

Yup, it is totally economically feasable for everyone dissatisfied with the fact that Duverger’s law locks us in a two party system to run primary challenges in the vain hopes that they live in a district where they can pull that off. Especially if they just got laid off.

Oh fuck off. I don’t have the resources available to run for office — I don’t have the money to fund a campaign, and I’d have to quit my job to make time, and that ain’t happening. On top of which, my employer doesn’t let me run for a partisan office while I work for them.

Well you obviously have very little education, or are willfully ignoring it, because anyone who thinks the USA in 2018 is even remotely comparable to Revolutionary France deserves to be called an idiot, full stop. I understand this is a left-leaning message board more targeted to hot takes than intellectual…

tell me, who are the hardline anti-corporate candidates i can vote for in the colorado senate this year?

You didn’t say it, and I didn’t imply it. My issue is that you implied, strongly, that unions are the only force that can combat oligarchic capitalism (the syntax of your argument strongly implies that the “death” of unions is the causation of us living in an oligarchy).

No, we can’t, you idiot. Guess who didn’t have a right to vote? Yea, that’s right, the sans-culottes.

So run yourself. The degree of entitled apathy I see in these responses is disgusting. The basic premise is “someone else should run for what I believe, spend the time and money to convince me they agree with me, and then make it as easy as possible for me to make it out to vote for them”.

the problem is we never have the option to vote for candidates like this, because we never hear about them, because corporations pay for campaigns. a candidate with a platform of limiting corporate power will never make it past local elections because theyll have zero funding.

If they believe that, that is their prerogative.  Who are you to tell them how to vote?  It sucks, but all you can do is try and turn out other people.... basically half the country doesn’t vote, anyway.

Oh, so you can’t vote if you aren’t in a union? Can’t give to a local politician? Your attitude is the kind of insidious defeatism that allows shit like this to happen. If you believe there is a self-interested 1%, then you outnumber them 99-1. Or 45-1, if you assume half the country disagrees with you.

Well no of course they dont. Because of abortions, gay marriage, taking peoples guns, and the idea that rules and regulations are always bad all the time.

I agree wholeheartedly, but its also legal to vote for politicians who will put laws in place to stop this. No one seems to want to do this. It’s legal to vote for policies that will provide a stronger social safety net, or higher taxes on the wealthy, or stronger protections for employees, but that hasn’t happened…

I mean there is a valid point in there.  Without condoning him for saying it, it’s pretty self-evident that there are a lot of different ways to imbue that word with real malice, and this is one of the (relatively) least offensive.