He’s at the very least VERY anti-refugee. When the Paris attacks happened, and they closed the airports and borders for a time immediately afterward, he tweeted “Oh, NOW they close the borders” so that’s not great.

Dude take a breath. No one is shitting all over Jrue taking time off to care for his wife. It’s about the presentation. Jesus.

You’ve asked a question that has as its answer several entire academic fields of study. If you want answers, I encourage you to really look into it because it’s fascinating. There are so many factors to consider - religious, psychological, sociological, political, internationally political.... it goes on and on.

Oh my God what is wrong with you that you’re not getting this? She’s not conflating this movie ITSELF with furthering discussion about consent. It’s not a movie about consent. She’s talking about her personal motivations for taking a role where her character is raped, how she always wanted to use her role in this…

I wish there could be a deeper look at the Clinton relationship, but it’s so complicated that I think it will have to wait probably decades before we get a perspective that is about them as individuals in a relationship and not adopting the perspective of one political group or another.

Wanna say that I love the combo of Nick Offerman and Ron Swanson into a single person here.

Thanks for the reminder! I try to remember why I’m doing it as I write my millionth job application....

Ugh, no. She said something about how part of her will always be Pam and part of him will always be Jim. She was referencing their connection to those iconic characters and that iconic relationship, albeit not very eloquently. And then every news outlet in the world jumped on JIM AND PAM ARE IN LOVE IRL and then he…

Oh wow I bet that was really interesting to study! I have a degree in international politics with a focus on gender and peacebuilding, and am working on gender in international peace and conflict, so I can relate. It’s important to publicize the orgs that do good work, and I wish there was a clearer way to do that.…

It’s so hard to know who’s good. Even within the larger, multinational and regional organizations, some branches are so helpful and some are so bad. Like UN Disaster Relief is generally fine, as is UNICEF, but other UN departments... well I’m sure you know.

ICRC is very different from the American Red Cross and you’re right, much better, though it certainly is dependent upon the country. But when disasters (natural or man-made) happen abroad, they are absolutely one of the best places to give to in the immediate aftermath. They tend to have the infrastructure and…

“You mean to say that after all that, you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?” is my favorite sentence in all of literature.

It’s especially not Gabby because the reason Laurie wasn’t allowed to compete was because USA Gymnastics really wanted Aly in the all-around. It was about Aly, not Gabby.

EBJ is the BEST!

YES okay and my mother knows a guy who used to work with him who said he was useless. Like, before he went to help someone with a problem, the other IT guy would have to explain to him how to fix it the same as if HE were handling the ticket. So eventually they just cut out the middle man.

Back then, she was 14.

I like “This Will Be Our Year” by The Zombies. It’s short, the lyrics are lovely, and so sweet. Idk if it’s irreverant enough though.

Well. Walda’s baby.

My big problem is that she didn’t bother to name anyone. I mean, the kids obviously often want to take pictures and its better not to put their names out there. But she didn’t have to post pics with kids. And the “female chief” who is so inspirational has a name you know?

I think that kind of medical work is seriously great. There is nothing wrong with that as a concept whatsoever. The problem with “voluntourism” is when the service being provided is unhelpful. But nurses giving vaccines are giving something medically necessary that the children in question wouldn’t get otherwise. Of…