Look at this from the opposite direction, i.e. comparing (1) what Carrie Fisher did to Harrison Ford for a brief coke-fueled period... to (2) the fate of our country right now... 

If you’ll forgive the buttinski... it really sounds to me like he was emotionally and sexually immature, intimidated/disappointed by real sex with real women his age compared to the princess/centerfold imagery he (and most dudes) got programmed with. He saw in you that princess/centerfold, nonthreatening and eager to…

I believe we’ve traded posts on this before. For propaganda, I don’t know. For hatred and discrimination, reject abstraction and humanize the victims. Document individual incidents. Turn a comment away from -ism and to the victimization of one real person with whom people can sympathize. Ask “is it right, happening to…

I think Nate Silver missed an opportunity. He thought he needed to defend statistics, when what he needed to do was sound the alarm, earlier and in terms people understand, that the polling mechanism is broken, i.e. can’t give us what we want, i.e. a forecast with very low uncertainty — we call it an accurate…

Do what, restore the value of truth and recognition of journalistic integrity? I don’t know. How do you get consumers of propaganda to Choose Journalism? Especially when they’re not listening to you now? There has to be a way to reach enough of them over time to matter.

I think people expected the quantity and tone of coverage of topics and candidates to directly correlate to dispassionate moral judgments of the candidates. Trump said and did mean-spirited and socially-unacceptable things, and seemed ignorant, even willfully so, of subjects and details traditionally considered givens…

The DNC knew how many Senate seats it had to win to make a Clinton Presidency worth the price of its stationery, and that they needed one more than that under a Trump Presidency. The result hardly qualifies as GOP obliteration, or even GOP defeat; they have one seat more than they need, and may get a second with…

I’d say “Will stand up to fascism” needs to be on t-shirts and buttons, but will anyone wear one?

And yet, despite what I posted and what Jason98 said in another post, that is “Satire is not designed to change anything,” satire does have the power to change minds, if we confront it.

I wish I could believe “people will see what is happening locally.” Well, really, it’s the implied “and understand why” that’s the problem. They’ll see it but who knows what they’ll take from it?

It’s a mistake to think that shows like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver or The Daily Show can reach through the conservative bubble — or that conservatives need to watch it.

“Accomplish” is an interesting word choice.

Pretty sure nasty descriptors of disliked persons is in the GM style manual.

I believe you can both reply to and dismiss a post.

If we had a good educational infrastructure for all, the corrupt, worthless asshole would never had been elected.

Trump said multiple times late in the campaign that Obamacare is too expensive and that he’s going to get your costs down.

Those rallies stop being adulation when he breaks a promise his base cares about.

You may be right — sometimes he doesn’t have the will to complete a sentence.

Now that’s hope. I am verklempt.