It’s entirely fair for you as a voter to hold candidates to that standard, and to view anyone who held these views in the past as disqualified. It’s fair to suspect a change of view like this is done purely out of political convenience, and that the change won’t be reflected substantively in policymaking.

That’s an unfortunate view. It may well be the case that she made a change out of political convenience, but refusing to accept that hateful people generally can change—when there’s plenty that have—serves a sense of righteousness at the expensive of keeping a full box of problem-solving tools. If murderers can be…

Tbh it seems kind of ridiculous to have to do a little dance and be judged on it before doing the actual amazing thing they’ve been training non-stop to do. It looks like some circus bullshit. I don’t know how female gymnasts feel about it, and I’m not saying the choreography isn’t good or anything—but the actual…

First, let me point out—and maybe you intended to respond to someone else’s comment—that I made zero argument about “changing what you say because of how the other side is going to misrepresent it.” I said that totally irrelevant of that, doctored videos playing on the news is bad. I’m not playing into anyone’s hands…

It’s actually bad whether or not it gives ammunition to anyone. It’s bad because people should not be intentionally lied to or misled, especially not by news organizations. It’s bad because these things are going to get harder and harder to catch. It’s not going to be obvious to many people not watching it on the…

my grandfather’s in his early 80s and basically in perfect health despite drinking like a fish and eating butter straight. Every time I go to my grandparents’, it’s cups full of gin, smoked salmon brined in gin, green chartreuse, bourbon, wine, the best cheeses by the plateful. And in slurred speech and with a bit of…

It’s worth watching (the actual address)! It’s an interesting little piece of history, to watch Trump give a speech that is uncharacteristically presidential in tone yet completely Naziesque in its deranged use of immigrant-commits-horrible-crime-as-if-that’s-representative-of-some-immigrant-specific-problem-when-stati…

Keeping things simple is a good way to avoid dumbness, for the reason Mr. Douglas provided in his reply. Another reason is that repetition of the words on the right is way more obvious and ugly than repetition of the words on the left. Not just in a single piece, but across many, by different authors. The original…

There is nothing about building a wall that makes sense. It’s a massive waste of money. It won’t stop the relatively small amount of smuggling that doesn’t happen at points of entry; it won’t stop the relatively small amount of immigrants that cross the border illegally. Anti-immigration conservatives did not want…

Fine, let’s say that they do deserve it, because I hate as strongly as you do. What does that tell us? What do we do now? What is that, besides an entirely self-serving declaration that you are a good guy who warned them and you hate bad guys who didn’t listen? Jack fucking shit.

Let’s set aside whether or not “they deserve it,” and ask what purpose that question, of what someone deserves, serves.

I love movie theaters but could really do without the audiences. Not a fan of capital punishment generally but anyone who talks or uses their phone in a theater should immediately be dropped through the floor into a spike pit. 

One other use: being able to read things that have been written in cursive, or in cursive-influenced-print. Like letters from grandma, the founding documents of our country, or Arthur’s journal in Red Dead Redemption 2. All very important. 

It’s incredibly difficult and often impossible to get a conviction without victim testimony. What’s this other, lots of evidence you’re talking about? Using statements the victim made out of court run into rules against hearsay and the confrontation clause. There are often no other witnesses to these crimes. 

I like living in a democracy, so let’s try to use democratic politics as long as they’re an option before declaring war. All those “evil” people are here to stay; let’s stop galvanizing them in their bad politics by telling them that that’s who they are and that they fucking suck.

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. I’m only saying that I see more cultural baggage behind this than “black people are scary and can’t have opinions” (we can look to Colin Kaepernick to confirm that theory, but I think there’s more to this here).

I think it’s a bit more specific than that, and has more to do with the hostility between muslims and jews; that black americans make up a large portion of american born muslims; and the association of black american muslims with the nation of islam, the leadership of which has been fairly criticized for anti-semitism,…

If there’s an evil conspiracy to destroy bethesda, sign me up! I loved Fallout 3, and I’m very resentful over their apparent apathy towards good story telling and writing, now I guess towards any story telling at all with this nonsense. The dialogue options in Fallout 4 were a disgrace and all but a few characters…

Is it just me, or can marvel and dc not publish anything without swapping artists every few issues, or fill in art? I’ve been reading comics for a long time and it’s nothing new but it seems worse now

Feeling good about doing what one perceives as good is a great, pro-social instinct we have developed through evolution. We can always add more reasoning to the process—the main challenge is identifying “good” in a principled way—but ultimately, there is no pure 100% uncut altruism, and he was probably only as…