“I’m gonna hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton, a center-right corporatist and war hawk whose record and allegiances, where they are not actively hostile to most of what I care about most deeply in my capacity as a citizen, at best only happen here and there upon a fitful, accidental, momentary quasi-agreement…

For serious. Did you see that bullshit article here a few days ago about how the Democrats working with the three Republicans to prevent the skinny repeal was a bad thing? They have good intentions, but good intentions mean jack shit when you get diagnosed with cancer.

I am in the country. Rural central Texas. People out here are aggressively petty and vindictive. I know so many people out here just waiting for a break in so they can shoot someone. My friend’s husband posted this on facebook. This is what the country is like.

I just don’t get how Stassa can turn an incredible blow against the Republican party on their keystone issue into a defeat for the democrats. This was a win! The Democrats won last night! What they did in attracting moderate Republicans worked! The minority party managed to stop healthcare from being repealed. …

Who do you think is the democratic base? History and statistics tells me that it is black women over the age of 30. They voted for her 97%. Even more would have voted, but voter suppression ala Shelby v Holder in the midwest prevented that.

What disaster? You mean the one that the Democrats stopped by voting as a block?

Depressingly, that same woman was later accused of practicing identity politics by progressive purists.

Yeah, Democrats! How dare you try to take back power in the face of relentless voter suppression and gerrymandering!

There’s this joke I’ve heard.

One of the things I love about the guitar community, especially the gearheads and equipment enthusiasts, is the passion for learning about tones and sounds. This sort of shit usually doesn’t come up because all of the talk is about resistor values and differences in guitar pickup sounds. This is super disappointing. 

I prefer the Benjamin Hart version of this think piece over at The Awl:

There have been way more retail job losses than there are current coal miners. The only reason people care more about coal miners is because they are white men and retail employees are often black women. It says a lot about the state of journalism in this country where one is reported and the other isn’t.

Liberals like Ivanka Trump for the same reason conservatives like MLK: you can put words in their mouths and they won’t/can’t refute it.

As a liberal who lives in a small city in bible belt Central TX for graduate school, especially as a queer POC, it is misery out here. It’s lonely, so many people have a chip on their shoulder and want to show you that they’re superior. I just go along with it because if I don’t I’ll waste my time. Also, there are…