There’s a difference between standing up to someone and bullying them. The Democrats have just been allowing themselves to be steamrolled. I’m not saying play dirty, but, FFS, they need to get MAD.

I always feel so sad when I hear that. Because the tolerance of liberals is for things that are intrinsic to people—their gender, their sexual orientation, the color of their skin, their deep spiritual beliefs about the very nature of the universe and its higher powers. What these people are saying when they say, “Why…

Well, generally Democrats assume the other side won’t set fire to the state house just to prove a point.

You’re just as bad as them! - says the moderate white liberal. I bet when they watch Star Wars they shake their heads in judgement when the rebels blow up the death star that was about to kill them.

But at NO point will their “hopeful-I’ll-get-rich-too” supporters EVER wake up to that fact. Dear lord we are so fucked.

That’s the thing that pisses me off about the Democrats, they always try to play nice. They keep trying to find common ground and listen. They’re dealing with children. They have to stop being nice and kowtowing to these fucking pissbaby toddlers.

“But we kept the trannies out of the ladies bathroom!”

You mean those evil racists are also lying power hungry hypocrites that don’t use their office to serve the people but to enrich themselves and amass power?

Interesting takeaway from this election cycle: Turns out that the GOP, the party that routinely wraps itself in the American flag and the Constitution, not really all that interested in democracy.

It wasn’t the auto industry areas that went Trump. To be honest it was a very small group (2% or so) that switched from Obama to Trump. They voted Bush twice, Obama twice, and got nothing for it. Their one stoplight towns are still crumbling and their jobs still disappearing (to automation not the mexicans they are…

What’s the alternative? Coddling them how they claim we demand to be coddled?

Yeah, pretty much. Were extremely fucked. As a straight while male living in New York City I am considerably less fucked than everybody else, but it makes me sick to my stomach the shit my friends are going to have to deal with, be it having an abortion, or the 2 amazing women I know who just got engaged to each…

I’ve heard that argument. I think it’s mostly BS to keep the rich rich. That said, jobs are gonna be automated no matter what, which is why HamNo has proposed a basic income before.

Yeah, and its not like it costs the government more to help poor people. They’ll be just fine cause they’ve always been poor so who even really cares?

SO true. I always tell my students to pay attention to uses of “us” “them” “we” “they” etc. in texts they read, and I remind them ad nauseum not to use “we” or “us” etc. in their own writing because it leads to assumptions and generalizations.

he also told the tech leaders that they could call him OR his people because theres no chain of command.

Agreed. Nothing he says at these makes me nearly as angry as the fact that he’s going on a medieval-style Grand Progress instead of, idk, getting ready to do the job he’s just been elected to do. Bragging over any actual work, I guess.

The problem is less what he says at these stupid fucking rallies than the fact that he’s having them at all.

Why not both?

Is anything ever actually said unless a man says it though, really?