You’re entitled to a seat. That’s all you get. You aren’t entitled to police your fellow passengers or pick and choose who else gets on the plane.

Right? And giving of the gift bags (based upon the expectation for the same) just smacks of “Apologies that we exist!!” Gross...

Honestly IME adults are the fucking worst. The worst flights I’ve spent have always involved entitled asshole adults being rude and annoying. And adults seem to be the ones that start fights after being asked to stop doing something, I’ve never had a 7 year old curse me out or threaten me for asking them to put their…

this is 100% the correct take.

Thank you. I promise to not let my children kick your seat or scream in your ear and I promise to change their diapers only where appropriate and do what I can to reduce the chaos but for the love of god, don’t expect me or anyone else to not have children or for them not to do the shit children do (giggle, talk too…

I am also entitle to not have to listen to your child scream the entire flight.

We should all strive to be considerate to people around us, especially when encased in a small aluminum tube. That means parents do their best to placate kids, and that means everyone else understands that human babies make noise sometimes, and that others realize that bringing that tuna salad and brie sandwich may…

I had the same reaction to reading this story. So now if you’re traveling with an infant and simply bring all of the items necessary to care for that infant on a long flight - diapers, wipes, butt ointment, two spare outfits, bottles, formula, spit-up cloth, light blanket, heavy blanket, pacifier, intelligence…

“He was supposed to be motivated to get out and nuclear physicist level brilliant, but after getting sober he really isn’t taking action to do more than be a bike mechanic who settles done with an impregnated girlfriend he’s dated for 5 minutes, who I’m sure most of us don’t care about at all. If Lip doesn’t “get…

Age shaming is lazy and dishonorable. Argue policy or don’t comment.

What does a guy whose relatives died in the Holocaust, whose family fled to America as refugees to escape persecution, and whose identity is the subject of torch-carrying Trump nazis screaming “Jews will not replace us!” know about being a minority, right? This is a dumb and false line of attack.

I’m kind of getting annoyed with the constant onslaught of divisive rhetoric about Bernie Sanders from commenters on this site. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s coming from GOP/Russian trolls. Some of y’all need to knock it off. We need to embrace the big tent mentality or we’ll lose again. Stick to policy and avoid…

Three members of said band are black. Why are you erasing them?

Lots of ties between hate groups and the military/police.  

I can’t understand how people are surprised by this.

I love how anything the left does nowadays is dismissed by centrists as right-wing tactics, while their entire attitude of dismissal, revulsion towards the ‘extreme left’ and co-option of right-wing tactics to vilify people like AOC is fair game and somehow immune to criticism. 

I remember the US pretty well before 9/11, when the Democratic Party made a conscious decision to chase after/undercut the right and passed or collaborated with them on cruel, punitive legislation like welfare “reform,” the crime bill, deregulation of the financial sector, DOMA, tax cuts for the wealthy, etc.

That’s how they dismiss these kids, as though they are just pawns with no agency, just like the right did to the Parkland kids. Just like some are trying to do to the European kids. Kids raised to be concerned are acting now, and they should. I’m glad they got an adult to drive them and help them. 

Seriously. I joined my school’s ecology club when I was 14. Our advisor was one of the Earth Science teachers. He showed us realistic videos, many of which PREDICTED what we’re seeing now. He took us to the local landfill, which is huge, and we took the tour. And we did little projects that probably don’t mean much in…

The full video isn’t more flattering. Have you watched it? She said what she said how she said it. I’m not mad about it, because it illustrates the cronyism that dictates law in this country and positions it sharply against the new class of legislators trying to get shit done.