So I expect the DNC in all their cluelessness to run anything other than universal healthcare or wage growth as party platforms. Maybe something about trump being a meanie and also bad.

The sheer abstraction required to see the needless deaths of millions of innocent people and the utter devastation of an entire country as merely striking a blow for freedom against those evil weird Kims tells you all you need to know about these folks’ worldview and the sources from which it developed.

You can read about People’s Republic of Korea on wikipedia:

If USA hadn’t wanted war in Korea, it shouldn’t have forced a partitioning of the country against the will of the people, leaving dictators on both sides. There was a provisional unity government, accepted by the Soviet Union, but which USA refused to accept.

Sorry, “oh boo hoo” isn’t exactly my idea of an appropriate response either. If you don’t want war on the peninsula (neither do I, you know), I can think of no better way to prevent it than to let the native ROK peace movement — the people who elected the current gov’t, who’ve developed said movement in spite of our…

Honestly if you don’t see the US as the single greatest obstacle to peace not only in Korea but the world at large, and don’t think we’ve been so since the aftermath of WWII, I dunno what to tell you. We did not intervene in Korea for any reason other than to reinforce our own global hegemony, and any other…

Oh cool, didn’t realize John Bolton was a Splinter commenter! You should shave, dogger.

Gotta say, the whole “meeting with the DPRK just legitimizes them!” angle is really perplexing to me. Not exactly Kim fan number one here, but the fact that within living memory the US killed 20% of the North’s population (including one in ten civilians) and completely razed their infrastructure in service of propping…

Equally obsessed, but I KNOW why it isn’t played where I live: The words “Black Man” scare the shit out of everyone.

Know who horrifies me even more than this guy? The non-zero number of people who will vote for him.

The worst part isn’t the fit criticism, but the “Kate won” comment. She’s needlessly pitting women against each other.

Legally changing your name because someone you dated a few weeks gave you the idea? That’s going to be awkward after they break up. I snickered at my co-worker behind her back when she got a tattoo of her boyfriend’s initials on her ankle (they of course broke up a few weeks later) but this is a thousand times worse

American culture is stupid.

True, and I think a lot of these types of men are specifically drawn to ‘strong, grounded’ women because breaking down an independent woman is more ego-gratifying than controlling someone who is already easily controllable.

I read his ex-wife’s account and their biggest issue/reason for divorce was him being controlling, even though she said that in the beginning he was drawn to her independence. He pressured her to dye her hair blonde :S and during their first dance at their wedding he leaned in and told her “I’m the alpha in this…

“Grimes, the artist formerly legally known as Claire Boucher is changing her first name to c, the notation for the speed of light...”

No, that is a shallow view of them, if stereotypical. Asians, both men and women are fetishized. Do you even want to know how often privileged white males go to East/South Asian countries with “yellow fever” and expect the nearest asian women to drop everything and marry him/give him a blow job, all while being timid…

Specifically, I’m gonna guesd you mean they’re ok with their male children dating Asian women. I tend to find that any exception falls away pretty fast when it comes to “their” men and “our” women.

There’s also this mistaken belief out there that one’s religion is somehow immutable. It’s not. There are literally hundreds of sects out there, and my response to these people is always: you have consciously chosen and/or adhered to one that espouses this bigotry. No human being is born with any specific inherent…

“I’m supporting what my beliefs are,” he added.