that fails to recognize that the people most inclined to protest have the most to lose. If my family loses even two days’ income it could lead to some difficulty choosing between food and medicine that month after rent was paid. Me and my five year old would be homeless long before “a few weeks”were over. I think it’s…

While I hate EVERY FUCKING ASPECT of all of this, I like having a home, though. My mortgage won’t be paid by someone in solidarity with a protest.

I see your point.... but how would a lot of people just stop working? Even for a day? I imagine a lot of people would lose their jobs. Doing that could mean “comfortable lives” to hungry and homeless, in a heartbeat. Or are you saying people should protest anyways for the greater good?

People love to bring up WWII as the one example of (1) a just war and (2) a successful humanitarian intervention. I guess they’re able to ignore that the US entered the war because of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the scope of the Nazi crimes against humanity (which weren’t even crimes at international law…

It’s almost as if foreign policy is an incredibly complicated matter or something.

People have this idea that the U.S. can intervene for humanitarian reasons in other countries’ conflicts without (1) the appearance of illegitimacy or partiality or (2) losing American lives. Let’s be clear: intervene or abstain, SOMEONE is always going to be mad, both domestically and abroad, and humanitarian…

worst of all his pathetic attempts to appeal to Republican non existent better angels.

Well, focusing on the issue central to this post, the question becomes “What response is the right one?”

Progressives HAVE been vocal about the Obama deportation policy. But he’s also done a lot of good in the immigration arena, from DACA to the STEM OPT expansion to the enforcement priorities memos for ICE. So we can demonize him for the deportations alone, or we can admit that (like many other issues) it’s fucking…

Thanks all you racist white people who did everything in your power to block these poor refugees from escaping and elect Trump! These deaths are on your hands.

An elector in my state resigned because he couldn’t vote for Trump, yet the pledge he signed when he became an elector says that he must vote as the state votes. He said that the current role of an elector is not what the founders of our nation intended, and he thinks “our Republic is lost” because of it. He’s a…

I feel you, sister. It’s bizarre and disturbing that this so-called “Carrier deal” is exactly the same kind of deal that local and state governments have been making with disloyal corporations for years now. Invariably, the companies take the tax breaks, use them for as long as they are beneficial, and then bail out…

Can they bring in Heather Locklear or Rob Lowe? #seasonsavers

The same people you hear that refrain from, “because this is where we’ve always lived and why should we move or do something so that we can make money, they just need to bring the jobs back” are the same ones who say people in countries with famine and drought should just up and move someplace else.

Exactly. I pissed off my niece’s fiance for pointing out that the GOP did indeed resist Obama every single step of the way. And pointing out how the treatment Trump is getting is incredibly hypocritical for them to complain about. Since he hadn’t read about it on news he sees, it must not be true.

Agreed. I spent 2-3 days thinking I would change my attitude, but FUCK THAT. If these people can be unabashed racists and misogynists, than I am proud to be an asshole elitist liberal who [gasp] believes in science and factual information.

I got called a liberal elitist for commenting about a nativity scene being removed from a city hall “Go to a church if you want to see a nativity display.” After getting a bunch of defensive “don’t look”s I asked if this was an Islamic display would they be just as upset? Ignored. So I said “Get over yourselves.”…

Jason Bateman is an underappreciated national treasure.

Please be an obscure Dodgeball reference? That movie is one of my many guilty pleasures.

Mayhap... you a Stephen King fan?