I’m with you on that, using that as a shield was distasteful. Voter suppression is a huge issue in Georgia, and it bothers me that Black senior citizens wait four hours in line and get kicked off buses but 20 something white progressives complain about going to vote (where they don’t face any of that shit) because no…

Peeps is the product of some food chemist who was high as fuck and went “ah, bunnies.”

I feel fucking paranoid, but all his talk about China “meddling” in the elections against him, his tweets about Soros and “fake” voters, and his comment that Democrats can’t be trusted with power—I really believe that the Democrats will win the House, possibly even the Senate, and he’ll try and declare the results…

I feel fucking paranoid, but all his talk about China “meddling” in the elections against him, his tweets about Soros and “fake” voters, and his comment that Democrats can’t be trusted with power—I really believe that the Democrats will win the House, possibly even the Senate, and he’ll try and declare the results…

Yep. Also, I would place a hundred on non-law students (even without permission) using the law library as a quiet place to read digital textbooks, journal articles on their laptop, and not the actual resources in the library, and that she’s never said a word to any of those white kids. It’s not uncommon for students…

LOL, I feel like so many folks, even if their countries dislike one another, have decided that the worst countries in the region, the one they can all agree on hating, are Iran and the House of Saud. Mutual enemies. Even citizens of Saudia Arabia’s allies often have negative feelings towards the country. I’m truly sorr…

When people talk about the economy (and don’t get me wrong, I think the bankers should have been prosecuted and inequality is still a major issue), notice how they often ignore how the unemployment (and U6) went way down to almost record lows, the auto industry was saved, jobs were added at a higher rate than under…

Yes, because the DOJ installing comprehensive oversight on police departments was “nothing,” so “nothing” that police departments lost their shit over it and Trump’s administration did away with it and installed Jeff Sessions of all fucking people. I can go down your list, but I’m tired.

As Killa said, she’s deliberately mischaracterizing Obama’s speech. She’s also pretending he did nothing, like he didn’t save the auto industry, expand the social safety net, rescue this country from the horrible economic crash, and so on. I mean, the man cut the unemployment and U6 rate by like 9%. That’s not even…

Also, she might, might have had a point if Obama had given this speech in Georgia, where voter suppression is rampant (even though her mains spiel isn’t even about suppression, but what’s “exciting” RME). But he didn’t—he gave this speech in Nevada. I’ve been screaming about how serious voter suppression is for the…

Also, Nevada isn’t fucking Georgia. Voter suppression is a very real issue that some of us have been screaming about for the past several years when the Voting Rights Act was gutted, but let’s not pretend like it’s a huge stumbling block in Nevada like it is in Kansas and Georgia and South Carolina and so on.

She and Katherine, the other white as mayo 20 something that work for Splinter, are bitching on twitter about comments.

She, like most of the white writers on Splinter, though Obama was going to be her magical negro. Lots of white progressives put stock into that racist trope, even though Obama never promised to be a leftist (he was always center-left) and always stressed how important down the ballot voting was in the US. You can see…

Never said the rebels were wonderful so don’t go putting words in my mouth. In fact, I specifically said I was strongly against interventionism and imperialism. But that’s the same ole tactic Assad apologists quip if you dare to defend the white helmets, even if you are against interventionism.

I’m more than aware of what Baghdad used to be like; I visited as a child (I have dual citizenship and I often travel on my non-US passport) shortly before 9/11 of all times.

Yep. Never really thought of it that way before, but yeah, that’s a very interesting point that Somalia and Libya’s historical course parallels one another in a way.

Yeah, this is extremely common in the MENA region. The Black Panthers were able to open an international office of sorts in Algiers due to patronage of Boumédiène.  Doesn’t mean that Black Algerians weren’t treated terribly.

Being firmly against imperialistic interventionism doesn’t mean one should erase the horrendous shit show that was the Qaddafi regime. He was far more flawed that most of the bastards we’ve embraced over the years, with the exception of the various rulers of Saudi Arabia and or support of Suharto during his genocidal…

Preach. Boumédiène used to pull the same shit.

Oh Sweet Jesus, please stop this white washing of Qaddafi. I was strongly against any sort of intervention in Libya, but this revisionism (well, he was flawed, but...) is disgusting. And no, this isn’t comparable to Iraq, because in this revisionism y’all are leaving out that rebels had already started a civil war by…