This guy sounds like a douche-nozzle, but I’m okay with this bill. Loot boxes are predatory, and regardless of how I feel about general microtransactions, we’d be better off with loot boxes (at least ones that require real money) being axed.

Eh, true but they probably wanted their kids to keep up appearances. Social pressure and expectations drive the rich. Look at the Kennedys and Bushes. None of them have to go to Ivy League schools but they do because it’s what is expected of them. Plus, it’s how the wealthy and elite keep the power and economic…

You get out of college/university what you put into it. There are a lot of dedicated students who learn more at a random community college than some of these kids do at an expensive prestigious university.

The weirdest thing about all of this is that none of these kids needed to go to school or do anything for the rest of their lives.

I also won’t hold my breath.

I’ll wait for the right-wingers to start in on this lady for taking tons of money from the government for handouts, like they so love to do with anyone who’s not a rich white person and who gets any sort of legitimate benefits.

This is crucial. I work in a medical office probably with 75% conservative women. None of them has any idea who Jussie Smollett is.

It reminded me of “It’s Guiliani time!”

I gave Jussie the benefit of the doubt at first, but thought there was something hinky about the “This is MAGA country!” line.  I mean, I’m not doubting that some Trump supporter somewhere would say it, but it sounds so... like what a script writer would make someone say in a movie rather than something someone would…

As someone who has worked with a lot of ‘creative types’ in the past, I can second this. 

Not to paint too broad of a brush stroke here, but a lot of “creatives” I know aren’t exactly the most analytically minded people.

When I first heard the story my initial reaction was that it sounded exactly like what someone in Hollywood thinks a hate crime looks like, but I was willing to give him the benefit of the…

Regarding #2, maybe because he is black and gay and the Chicago cops don’t have a great rep in dealing with either of those communities, he didn’t think they would take it seriously?

1) people you don’t know might be quicker to rat you out. Kind of hard to put this thing on Craigslist

It also got out of control when every idiot in Hollywood and Congress started tweeting about the case. Funny how so many people correctly doubted this story from the start, but no one in Hollywood was smart enough to figure it out..

Let me add to this to the above, though, and i think this is important. Believing victims is critical because we want that show of support to future victims. It’s imperative that they come forward when something happens to them. Completely discounting even WEIRD events is what keeps victims from reporting abusers. A…

What you see here hinges on whether you believe that “Make America Great Again” is a dog whistle meant to unite racists, misogynists, and homophobes under one umbrella, or you’re delusional and don’t care about people who aren’t white men.

If white people knew they could be arrested for calling the police for no reason on black people, we would start to see progress.

“Trump flew out to Iraq on Christmas evening, and landed this morning. He visited the Al Asad Air Base outside of Baghdad, where he spoke to a group of about 100 assembled U.S. troops, the majority of whom were members of the special forces.”

Emotionally immature. When they can’t name their emotions, when they can’t process actions and consequences beforehand, they count on silly gestures they’ve seen in movies. Ignorance and crassness that is unsupervised and met wth lazy, unwarranted loyalty and it’s easy to see they’re being manipulated by the…