This could very well be the end of the Russia probes. So...you know, don’t panic. But panic.

I have heard it said on NPR that the biggest blow to the FBI’s credibility was having Comey helm it, but an even bigger blow was firing him. I have no clue what this will mean, so this will be...something. It’s going to be something.

Well, the issue here is a bunch of psychobilly right-wing conservitards (is that a word? Is that how you ‘tard’ a word? They do it a lot, I’d thought I’d...no?) who think that, because they own all the guns and the folks with combat experience and that they’re all real men with hair on their nuts, any civil war would…

...what world is this? Over on another web site, I’m arguing with some dipshit neo-Confederate who thinks that modern liberal Democrats are the ones continuing a subversive slave policy through welfare programs, but over here I’m apparently a Confederate apologist. Holy shit. It’s like I’m bouncing between alternate…

Why does everyone assume I’m defending him? I’m not defending him, I’m setting up how he had the perfect pitch to be a role-model in U.S. history and his key decision, when it came to him, resulted in the complete opposite.

He did choose treason, and there’s no disputing that. No one here is disputing that, and the fact he chose to commit treason in favor of an indefensible point is also key to what I was saying. But, it’s unlikely he was ‘very happy’ he wasn’t executed after the war: his seizure of John Brown resulted in that man’s…

How are those two things even equivalent? “I see that, so I have the right to paw at it?” We scold children for acting like that, what grown man thinks that it’s okay to do that in adult life? Holy fuck.

Actions and beliefs are definitely two different things, but I disagree with your assertion that Lee would be happy to go along with it: while he did recommend the deportation of African-Americans from Virginia, deportation was also something Lincoln supported. Lee was also in favor of assisting freeman in gaining a…

Yes, except with snakes, which are automatically cooler.

I’m not whitewashing him, I’m trying to point out how someone who was fair for the time made a choice that defined his legacy as something only Nazis can get behind, and how that should be the real lesson of his life. It’s not defending him as a slaveowner, it’s using him as a warning to Republicans today placing…

You’ve completely missed the point of what I was saying, and I wasn’t making apologisms for Lee. I was using the view of him based on his contemporaries, as well as his actions (supporting the integration of freed African-American combat troops into the Confederacy before it was a life-or-death issue, showing respect…

Guns of the South, very good book. Though I strongly doubt a talk between Lee and Lincoln would have had much headway: I can’t​ list the many particulars at the moment, but once the war started, the sheer destructiveness was almost inevitable.

It’s been so co-opted, though. It’s very difficult to separate it from those lunatics these days.

Robert E. Lee, and this current fracas over his statue, should serve as an abject lesson to people adopting certain, regressive viewpoints these days. Gen. Lee was an American who can best be described as one of the country’s better angels: a loyal soldier, a moral man, a talented, brilliant officer, and a man who let…

It’s already been answered, but I wanted to raise my upset at how this flag is now co-opted by the virulent fanatics on the right. This is a flag I’d be proud to hang in my office based on the proud colonial tradition and connection behind it, but frankly it would just send the wrong message. It wouldn’t be seen as a…

I can see several problems with this, but the most prevalent is the large number of immigration laws immigration agents need to know for enforcement, from visa classifications to proper documentation. Are they going to slip that in behind traffic codes?

Yeah, I got no clue how to process this. I mean, this isn’t weird, right? Is this weird?

It’s weird when Welcome to Night Vale became less horrifying and more realistic than the actual news.

Mark Green is not going to be Secretary of my Army?