You sure there aren’t sympathizers IN the military? I wish more people understood that fascism is a process that happens when a fading empire deploys imperialist enforcement against it’s own people.

The CIA is just as sinister as these insurrectionists if not more so. Any energy those scumbags spend fighting each other is a win for the rest of America (and the world for that matter)

Personally, I think absolute truth is less important than the stories being told. “Bush did 9/11" isn’t literally true in the sense that he didn’t hijack any of those planes but when you look at the closeness of the Bush and Bin Laden families, the number of people with advance knowledge of the attacks that neglected…

I genuinely do feel bad for her as much as I do for the kid she traumatized. I'm hoping you're cynical pessimism is wrong and she manages to learn from this experience and grow into a better person. 

Hell yeah! Getting raped by our carceral system will definitely make this woman better and benefit society at large! We should end racism by building more prisons

I much prefer seeing people with actual power face these kinds of consequences

Or maybe that kid was the first person she saw with an iphone that looked similar to hers and her panic/desperation got the better of her? I think its possible to act like a shitty, self-centered person without being deliberately malicious about it (i.e. choosing a vulnerable target). 

I assaulted people on a number of occasions when I was young and emotionally unwell. Glad it was never caught on film and I never got arrested for it though. And I'm ESPECIALLY glad it never turned me into a viral avatar for shit that is wrong with society

It’s easy to overlook how evil the academic publishing industry is when far more egregious business practices are so common. Ultimately it’s a familiar scam: you build a wall around something valuable so you can exploit both the people who produce that value AND those who might benefit from it.

I adore this woman. If I had art skills, I’d draw her as a superhero and make t-shirts with quotes from this article.

You think its ONLY because of GOP messaging? Give the “sheeple” some credit - they’re not as stupid as you think just because they don’t live in a big city. Presuming they are is what actually fuels that whole “coastal elite” thing the GOP messaging is able to leverage so effectively. Maybe the distrust has something…

NBA players could push the issue by going on strike again; that is if Obama doesn’t step in to break it up like he did last time...

Obama was such a good politician that Democrats lost over 1000 seats while he was in office! And he did a GREAT job of expanding the surveillance state and providing CIA scumbags with legal cover to commit war crimes. 

Bowman still won as an underdog in a district where the Congressional Black Caucus chose to endorse his white, corporate-funded opponent. Dude still won by expanding the electorate (i.e. convincing non-voters to participate in the election). 

Obama is not your friend. He killed the NBA strike before it had any time to force meaningful policy changes. He expanded the surveillance state and enabled shady bankers to get away with stealing peoples homes on a massive scale (which SEVERELY reduced black wealth in this country). Under his shitty leadership, Democr…

He's part of the Justice Democrats. They're all pretty good

What if there was a new party that was able to peel supporters away from Democrats AND Republicans? A lot of socialist policies proposals are quite popular in rural parts of the country but they actively distrust Democrats...

I mean...the FBI does have a long history of doing entrapment. Do you think they’re suddenly good, ethical actors just because Trump was spent a lot of his presidency beefing with them? At the end of the day, they're just cops with more power and less accountability. 

Crazy idea here: maybe something like "national secrets" shouldn't exist. 

That’s a silly, ahistorical point. The IRA was fighting AGAINST the oppressive colonial forces that the police serve and protect.