I think it’s a good indicator of how physically attractive she is, that she’s allowed on the teevee even though she has a personality resembling styrofoam.

I made it 48 whole seconds.

This is so spot on. “It’s so big on me!”

I won’t argue with any of that, just making the point to moriartysringtone that it’s far from black and white. I’m saying that for white people to declare Mankiller racist is problematic, and to dismiss all other aspects of her leadership based on that notion is way oversimplifying a whole tangle of really complicated…

I bet the employee fudged and oversimplified the context of the e-mail. He certainly got in trouble for something, but I also rather doubt that it was specifically and exclusively missing work for the birth of a child; that’s a really dumb e-mail to send, and Musk is far from dumb.

I did not say he was self-serving in general, and I wouldn’t know. I have nothing against him. I am speaking specifically about this Instagram. I find it tacky and a little pompous to basically declare “look at my mom overwhelmed by how successful I am, let me paraphrase what she said about how awesome I am, look at a…

The Cherokee practiced slavery before Europeans invaded, so as I say it’s more complicated than racist/not racist. They did not enslave people inter-generationally based on ethnicity, but rather enslaved people from tribes with which they were warring temporarily. During the era of slavery of African Americans, the…

That’s not how I understood it at all;

I’m not sure it’s as simple as that. She didn’t want to extend the status of her tribe to a different ethnic group, which is sort of understandable for a people in the context of their ongoing genocide.

So your argument against this being self-serving is that people who are fans of his don’t think it is? That’s rather unconvincing.

Whatever. If you’re making some “obvious” point, I’m not getting it.

Which half?

I guess to me, trolling is inherently insincere, and there seems no reason to suspect that she’s insincere. If I wanted an abortion I would not want to have to either wait or receive “counselling” based on completely non-medical rationales to accommodate someone else’s religion, one that I do not share. The…

So true.

The christian right is gunning to destroy secularism under the guise of championing it. “religious freedom” is secularism, but they can’t actually use that word because it connotes the fact that all religions are equally tolerated. It was only a matter of time before someone would challenge a law using a state’s…

Is it trolling? I think Doe has a legitimate grievance and also serves a higher principle of secularism and fairness under the law. It’s certainly not a joke. I’m not a Satanist but I feel exactly the same as she does on the matter.

This is clearly going to be an unpopular opinion but I find this kind of braggadocian and self-serving.

People use children as excuses for all sorts of backwardness and discrimination. I think they project their own confusion and fears onto kids because it’s a lot easier than taking personal responsibility for those feelings.