Counterpoint: Criticizing something is not the same as being disrespectful toward it.

Let me put it a different way. Those are symbols of our right to protest as well as our major symbols of our country. If you protest those you are protesting your right to protest. It creates a paradox.

I haven’t spoken on this issue I guess I will now.

Speaking as a veteran, this whole thing has fuck-all to do with veterans, and the people saying we’re being somehow “disrespected” by Kaepernick’s actions are full of shit.

I should have known the person who would defend this play would bring up soccer.

I’m disappointed there wasn’t mention that this was a race-related killing.

You have never hung out with a baseball player.

the best clap back

“You guys are heroes”

“They only showed him kill that guy on replay” is my favorite comeback of all time now. Find that hill and die on it, buddy.

In related news, Weiner has upgraded to AT&T’s unlimited data plan.

I’m fine with it. Feinberg is good and Nolan is bad, so it’s pretty much a wash.

I don’t understand why there is any debate about this.

Good thing you’re around to explain which politicians he’s allowed to think don’t care about black people and which ones do

You make a fair point.

Putting Bannon (or even Rick Santorum) in the same boat with Romney or George HW Bush or James Baker or Hank Paulson—the type of Republicans who have traditionally wielded real power within the party apparatus and government—is puerile looney tunes exaggeration.

Um... not quite.

“When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, ....I wish it were 1825

Yes, I’m a generation X’er who once nearly got into a fistfight in my Sociology of Gender class because a guy said that if a girl is drunk and lays down on a guy friends bed she should expect him to have sex with her whether she wants to or not (which basically happened to me, exactly). On the other hand, I also got…

Could you say what he objected to? I’m always confused by the safe spaces discussion because I have no idea what either side is really asking for. If a safe space is, like, we’re going to have a black student group and not invite alt-right racists to the meetings, I can’t see what anybody’s objecting to. If it’s…