Damn, I almost feel bad for CaraDi... she came in guns a-blazin’ only to trip over her own feet

These people have learned exactly nothing from 2016. They fucked us, and instead of being even a tiny bit humble, they’ve spent an entire year digging their heels in. There is not a doubt in my mind that Trump is getting a second term.

I’m really not trying to invalidate her bitterness. It just came across as stealing someone else’s moment and making it about her.

Except it didn’t play as funny, it played as bitter, which, fair enough, but no. That’s exactly the wrong venue. That moment wasn’t about her, but she made made it about her, and I think that’s bullshit. It’s the Natalie Portman version of Kanye snatching the mic and saying Beyoncé should’ve won.

Okay, so if I’m understanding you correctly, the lesson here is MLK was full of shit? That sounds like a smart hill to die on.

I didn’t say anyone was “owed” anything. I said that being empathetic and compassionate is better than being retaliatory or vengeful, even moreso for your own sake. Not sure what’s remotely controversial about that.

I mean, okay, but does that not feel like kind of a cheap shot to say right before you hand over the award? Like, “Here you go, you undeserving MENZ.”

Yeah, I guess if you want to stretch the idea to its absolute extreme, buying Pol Pot an ice cream cone probably wouldn’t make everything okay.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. The OP, not you.

Me too, totally blindsided with tears. Fuck...

Well that seems like a reasonable comparison.

What? I was just chopping onions.

No, leftist being key. I’m sure plenty of self-respecting people like Biden. Not leftists. But I guess any chance to rack up a bunch of cheap stars by making a lazy, unfounded comment is one you gotta take. What gets you off, gets you off. Who am I to judge?

Yeah, except no. No self-respecting leftist is supporting Joe Biden. But nice straw man, I guess.

A) He’s not running.

All of this, forever.

You just made me cackle loudly at my place of employment.

Fair enough. I can understand, and generally agree with, your premise. The problem is, a hierarchy of oppression exists whether we want to acknowledge it or not. In 2018, if I get pulled over by a cop, I’m reasonably sure I’m going to drive away from the situation unmolested. Black or brown people don’t have the same…

Maybe I’ve just been lucky (“privileged” is probably more like it), but there have been very few (and possibly none) bosses over the course of my life who’ve really dug deep into the trenches of the dehumanizing bullshit I often hear about. I did have one politely ask me to “leave my problems at the door” while I was…

As a second-generation Italian-American from New Jersey, I say with no hesitation that no, we are not an oppressed minority. In the Oppression Olympics, we’d come in, like, 39th place. Once you’re accepted as “white,” the whole discrimination thing rings kind of hollow. Which isn’t to say Jersey Shore wasn’t deeply…