I would say that generally when I’ve heard the tiresome “humanist” shit it’s from women, and the “all lives matter” thing I’ve only ever heard of white people saying, which makes it harder to attribute any positive explanation to the latter. They’re both gross bullshit, obviously.

People who reject the feminist label to be a ‘humanist’, and people who believe in All Lives Matter over Black Lives Matter are examples of people who stand in the way of social progress. They’re obstacles to a better, equal society. They help to validate the opinion that disadvantaged groups aren’t actually…

I think Bill Cosby is almost certainly guilty of everything these women claim, but this is not even remotely suspicious or underhanded. It would be borderline malpractice for his lawyer not to attend.

You’re not clever.

More or less. Guardians is a little different, because it was made up entirely of unknowns from the general public’s perspective and was marketed more like Fantastic 4. Suicide Squad is marketed as a team-up, even though it only has 1 well-known (Joker), one sort-of-known (Harley), and a bunch of ???

Mild and appalling are not antonyms. Also, I don’t get how you read this and think he isn’t calling it sexist.

lol woah, that’s an overreaction. Lawson is great...one of the good ones, I’d say. Awkward turns of phrase happen. That doesn’t mean you need to read sinister intentions into them.

“What if we did the Avengers, but with lesser known characters and none of the setup movies?”

Where is her clear and convincing disavowal of anti-vaxxers? If she’s a competent medical professional who believes in science and the safety of vaccines, where is her statement to that effect?

One of us looks like a wing nut in this thread, and I don’t think it’s me.

Stein’s warning about corporate influence in the vaccine approval process is often voiced by “anti-vaxxers.” In reality, most members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee work at academic or medical institutions, not drug companies.

Comparing vaccines to GMO crops from Monsanto is dangerous and anti-vax.

Even hinting at being antivax makes her antiscience, and dangerous.

I mean, of course liberals are really worried about the consequences if Trump wins the election. Duh. It’s for the same reason as principled conservatives are worried abotu him.

The difference between the left and the right is that on the left we at least try to shout down the extremists in our midst.

“Wow, liberals in the media really do seem to be particularly worried about Stein and the Green Party this year.”

“Furthermore, Jill Stein is right! We have a HUGE conflict of interest, here in America. You have big pharma running the regulatory agencies.”

Except there’s no evidence to support that a third party or independent would ever do better than either two-party candidate. And even less evidence to support that electing one would somehow “break” the two-party system, which arose for different reasons and have become institutionalized in our country's politics for…

Nobody likes Bloomberg. Stop trying to make Bloomberg happen.