How is trying to promote his win as democratic somehow anti-democratic?

There is some elitism in it. But I think we as a country and a society veered the wrong way when we started immediately thinking a little bit of elitism like that is inherently bad. It’d be bad to try and pull rank and then just dismiss them and not argue substantively. That does happen too, I’ve had more than a few…

(I’d be very surprised if those two accounts weren’t just one person using sockpuppets... “Yeah, he’s right! Listen to what he says, it makes sense!”)

I’m no longer responding to “Hadriano” I suggest the others don’t as well. I’ve seen enough intellectually dishonest defenses of a bigoted troll. This is a common tactic they use; one comes in openly trolling posting bigoted things and making a scene, and then an ally shows up to pull the “you shouldn’t call them a…

He is the state in his own mind you charlatan. He reveres the abstract ideal of the state, embodied by him. He does not support the machinery of the state, because it opposes him. This is no different than authoritarians of every stripe.

Given that the person you’re stepping in to defend is rather objectively a troll and clearly prejudiced against the woman in question, yeah, you might deserve a little bit of shit.

And Trump is Trashcan Man starting fires all over the damn place, and ultimately too crazy for Bannon to control.

I’ve just realized that Steve Bannon is Randall Flagg.

While I’m in the minority around here in not being much of an Ava Duvernay fan, one thing that Selma got right was just how much thought was put into actions and how complicated the politics were in the Civil Rights movement behind the scenes. (Ralph Abernathy’s autobiography also nails this, and sadly unintentionally…

All due respect, I thin conflating the Women’s Strike to anything in the Civil Rights Movement is foolhardy. One thing that has always struck me about the civil rights movement was how damn ORGANIZED they were (and that just emphasizes how unorganized the current “resistance” is). The Montgomery Bus Boycott worked…

Allo still doesn’t have SMS...or a web client...or video...or many other things. But they have stickers.

I tried Allo when it first came out. The assistant was cool, but the use case for the rest of it was limited, especially because (as you mentioned) it was limited. I am back to using Google Voice for texting, but I always wonder how much longer I’m actually going to have my GV number.

God doesn’t exists, next question.

I’ve said it before - between Ben Carson and Jill Stein, 2016 was the year we blew the lid off that “doctors are smart” myth.

In comparison to the rest of the civilized world? Yes. That’s more indicative of our systematic obsession with punishment rather than correction.

But for a sentence in the US? No. Hell no. They destroyed property, they terrorized a group of people, including children, they brandished and threatened weapons...…

Like the gathering attack on immigrants, this mindless, stupid, vicious, pointless act (cruel to the point of outright sadism) is the kind of thing that—Republican operatives calculate—will keep Republican voters excited enough that they won’t even notice they’re losing their Affordable Care coverage, their Medicaid,…

Honestly, I’m surprised this was their trigger. It is a very dark kind of surprise.

NO! You left out the best part!

Isn’t the military known for being gleefully profane? Or is that the joke? Never can tell on the internet.

Yep definitely an accidental/misplaced poke but never an afterthought of heyyyy I think that was anal all along.