So much has changed so quickly. Lenin said something like “there are decades where nothing happens and years where decades happen.” We’re all modifying our understanding to make sense of this. I certainly don’t have it figured out.

I think Keynes/FDR/Warren policies are better for most of us in the US, but it very important to remember that they are paid for by workers in the rest of the world and that there purpose is to preserve power to exploit both us and them. It should be a conditional, temporary bargain

I don’t think the spectrum model is useful.

I think both people I would call liberals and people I would call progressives use the words vaguely. I also think the division I described is real and important and that the Bernie candidacy clarified that. I’m also willing to vote for reformists and lesser evils, but I try to be clear about my purpose. I could be…

I don’t understand your point, but she’s a liberal. Don’t progressives generally prefer, you know, progressives?

I didn’t mean to be insulting but Hillary is a liberal, not a progressive. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I assumed that was true of all her supporters. Wrong?

Sincere question: are there people who preferred Hillary to Bernie or Jill Stein and consider themselves “progressives”? If so, how does that even work?

No, it’s a super fucked up movie because she’s 16 years old. She’s 16, makes terrible choices, and marries the first man she sees. A man that agrees to marry this - again, 16 years old - girl, who never speaks a word to him. And the problem there is not that she’s mute, because mute people can absolutely have…

The Little Mermaid is really not a super fucked up movie. Though it’s easy to make it sound super fucked up when you ignore whole parts of the story and put the rest completely out of context.

She did not abuse her sister, but feel free to mischaracterize things because you dislike her.

Omg I miss Larry Wilmore and the Nightly Show so goddamn much. I think I might have been obsessed with it. I still lament it’s early demise all the time. Hell, I stopped watching TDS a while back because I just used it as a reminder to watch TNS. (seriously. Trevor Noah is not a good host).

I couldn’t believe how much Maher was kissing Milo’s ass. Cements the idea i’ve always had that Maher is a star-fucker and that over rides his morals. He doesn’t mind that right wingers have power, and their horrible ideas are/will hurt people. As long as they’ll come on his show and the money keeps coming in.

He really is a shit. And the softballs and tacit agreement, jesus I wanted to scream and vomit simultaneously. One of the first things I noticed was when Milo attacked Lena Dunham and Bill didn’t defend her on the merits, he was just like, oh don’t go after other HBO employees because it might make shit awkward for…

Bill Maher refuses to let anyone from BLM on his show but invites MY because he supports ‘free speech’. Bill Maher has been racist and sexist forever but no one blinks an eye or really cares cause he’s a ‘liberal’ white man.

It kills me that Larry lost his show and Bill will probably have his until he dies or retries. Television viewers have no taste.

Breaking News: Racist Invites Racist Onto His Television Show.

I’ve been saying all this for a while. Bill Maher is not who I had wanted him to be and I wish I was surprised that he softballed this.

My parents watched it. They said “Wow, it was really good, but it was really hard to watch.”

The daughter really captured it. As a person who was subjected to cruel, emotionally violent parenting, I wholeheartedly agree that concern would have been appreciated at any point during said terrible childhood.

That's the thing—the statistics land the way they do because of cultural factors. Survey statistics show men wanting more sex and women wanting less because that's how the culture sways things. But recent studies are finding what we think we know to be wrong. I really wish I'd gotten Daniel Bergner involved because …