My response to the question was assuming that it was, in fact, the honest answer. I was assuming that he didn’t have a good answer to the question, that he was stumped. So say, I’m not sure... that’s a hard question to answer.

It should I agree, but the kid asked the question. The point I’m trying to make that people seem to be missing is that Sanders is a politician and he needs to appear like he takes the concerns of voters seriously. He needs to appear active and engaged, a man of action. This is one way of doing that. There are probably…

In his case if he didn’t know it would have been the truth. And it’s not a politician’s answer, most politicians find it hard to admit they don’t have a good answer for something. 

Why not offer to share with the young man the resources that he’s able to gather on this topic? If I were Sanders, I would’ve arranged to sit down and speak with people who are authorities on this subject. People who have thought about it, written about it, and lectured about it. And I would have offered the young man…

You are equating a very concrete question, that demands a very concrete and practical response, with an awareness of the racial disparities in policing in America. Sanders is clearly aware of these disparities. What he is accused of not understanding, is what the experience of those disparities actually demands of the…

My point is a lot more basic than you’re taking it to be. It observes that the categories with which we understand anything at all, even the experience of violence or trauma (such as in war, rape, domestic violence etc.) cannot be considered separate from those experiences. These experiences don’t stand totally…

Idk what the format is or why it would be bad. So I can’t respond to that. The spirit of the I’ll get back to you response is that you are not just leaving them hanging with I don’t know. A politician saying “I don’t know” would be crazy, in itself (crazy in a good way to me). But they could take it a step further in…

More real, sure, but not totally different or absolutely realer. If you imagine that civilians have one understanding on the one hand, and soldiers who have experienced war have one entirely different understanding on the other, than you are blind to the way that, before you or others went to war, your understanding…

How I wish either of them would have responded:

But a game, like anything at all whatever, can be a way of talking about things. That doesn’t make the game more important in itself. It’s not a way of elevating the game to the level of an Art (capital A). It’s merely a way of talking about it that is valid. It’s something else you can do with the game, besides just…

Yeah, don’t overthink war and terrorism guys! These are not even that serious, and anyway It’s just a game (about political topics we have a very hard time thinking about in our society as it is, but which I must stress, are really no big deal).

It’s kind of a creepy glitch yeah, so probably a good thing. 

I was more concerned about the possibility of you hearing that piano music even after you stopped playing the game. That would be a really evil glitch if that were the case.

Are you still hearing the piano music? 

I for one have never been mad that this guy doesn’t want to stream wit women, mainly because I don’t give a shit about streamers, streaming, any of the games these people play or that whole culture.

You’re confusing a lot of things here. We are talking about two separate groups of people who have problems with pokemon for two separate reasons. One of them sees it as endorsing animal cruelty. And though they are taking an extreme position most of us would not take, their view makes sense, is entirely rational…

A lot of people on this comments section are assuming the thirst person’s partner is abusive. I personally would love it if we all didn’t throw this word around so easily.

Can’t say she’s 100% abusive on this one action alone, regardless of how wrong it is. Abuse is a pattern of coercive and controlling behavior. Taken together with other things, we could definitely call her abusive and what she is doing abusive. But we don’t have the information to make that call, and I’d caution…

To you..because you aren’t an evangelical Christian. If you shared a world view with the bible thumpers you too would very likely believe it. 

But by very definition, to them it does. Think about it. If you define anything that has to do with monsters as being demonic, than it doesn’t matter what it is, whether you play it or not. If it has monsters in it, it is referencing the demonic. The popularity of that game for kids would naturally be at least a…