Her nomination passed through committee approval, where most hope for resistance laid. Senate republicans have the numbers, so it seems like a foregone conclusion at this point.

Ms. Hachi I certainly do know that :)

Please do, really and truly.

Yes, I think you’re right; I took the OP’s statement about love to refer to this beautiful gesture, not as a stand-alone platitude, or as “loving the other side”.

As a Canadian, I can tell you this isn’t being asked as a rhetorical question this week. The greatest threat to our values and peace and security is the ideology of white nationalism, now endorsed and embodied by Trump.

I don’t see how these things (putting our lives and bodies on the line, and expressing love through rigorous, public, moral solidarity) are mutually exclusive in the least, no more than MLK’s and Malcolm X’s tactics were counter to each other; these ideas undergird each other even if they run up against each other in…

Loving the other side, IMO, will not get us anywhere.

We really believe this BS about love conquering all, and that is hilariously naive because it doesn’t, never has.

With respect, I’m not getting exactly what about this is deserving of mockery.

They can’t take it away from us- love, solidarity, civility- the harder they attack, the more we come together.

It bears noting that the largest terrorist attack on Canadian soil was the Montreal Massacre, which was aimed at women studying science, and feminism in general. It keeps getting glossed over that misogyny is a cornerstone of many of these hateful ideologies; it’s intersectional.

Saw it on his twitter feed yesterday. He’s worth following.

*throws hands in the air*

Couldn’t agree more. Generally I find libertarianism to be a euphemistic but ultimately meaningless label of convenience for “selfish assholes” who espouse any ideology from religious extremism to corporate fascism, as it suites them.

Talk about floating goalposts. I can understand the incredulity of his acquaintances, but this guy is a white nationalist who committed a heinous terrorist attack on a vulnerable minority, and you still hesitate to use the word ‘racist’? This IS the problem; we brush off hatred and extremism when it seems “normal”.

FOX news stuck with the narrative that this terrorist was an Islamic extremist rather than a white nationalist Trump supporter for 2 days. Fucking disgusting.

I agree with you about those spineless republicans, and that’s who I’m talking about working to unseat in 2018, although that goes double for democrats who afford nominees and this administration generally more cooperation than was afforded to Obama. There’s no gain in playing nice, no cost to obstruction.

YUP. They’ll leave the order intact so they can point at it as they gut rights and protections under the guise of religious freedom*

YUP. They’ll leave the order intact so they can point at it as they gut rights and protections under the guise of religious freedom*

Not sure I see that happening, but there’s nothing to lose in applying pressure on them to do so.