The government might be less efficient than private business (though most government inefficiencies I know about have to do with business manipulation and/or privatization), but to argue that private charity is more efficient is a little bit ridiculous. The government runs some of the most effective poverty reduction…

Private charity is doing everything it can. But the need is simply greater than we can handle. In my town, they're turning people away from meals on wheels, because there simply isn't enough money to fix it. That's a great theory, but it has simply been proven wrong. How many more old ladies have to resort to living…

I like it when my side uses tactics like this, and I hate it when the other side uses tactics like this.

Like this one? http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto…

The problem isn't the "you can't please everyone" card. It's the corollary that he's assuming. "You can't please everyone, so everyone should just please me"

Holy shit I totally did not think about the fact that the poster targeting one specific girl with rape advice. Good Lord, that's awful.

What's crazy is that these kids simply don't know that the world could be different from the way it is. I work with teens, and sometimes I tell them that I'm sorry they have to navigate all of that bullshit all of the time, and they're like, "What are you talking about?" The online drama/interactions/anonymous attacks…

If anything this highlights to me the fact that rape is not a sex thing, it's a power thing. Because pretending to be someone's friend for months just so that you can sex them is a ton of work when you can get laid pretty easily by just, you know, being a decent person and caring about other people.

Yeah, and his ad is him standing in a pink house talking about his mother? I think they are overestimated their target audience pretty significantly. However, I think a lot of progressives in NC are organizing, and hopefully the Moral Mondays folks will have people getting out the vote, so he could perhaps ride in on…

I think it's kind of interesting that the new FDA commercial is fairly dependent on the fact that you have to smoke outside most places. Most of those laws have been passed in the last ten years or so, and its surprising that they are going with "cigarettes can be a minor inconvenience" over the more hard hitting…

It's not that sex trafficking at major sports events is a myth, it's that we don't have any data that suggest that sex trafficking is higher at sporting events than any other major event that gets a lot of people together. It was reported a few years ago that eleventy gazillion people get trafficked at the Super Bowl,…

Yeah, it's like trying to figure out which city had the most breakups by looking at cookie dough sales.

Yup. Though we usually just call it the Alamo. And the caves? Natural Bridge Caverns maybe? They're like 45 minutes northish.

Yeah, I don't know anything about the show really (beyond riding and cars), but I think that's fair. He could do it in another project, or find some other way to change the privilege structure through his current show.

I guess maybe I should have higher standards than just acknowledging privilege, but I can't help but think it's pretty good that he's aware, and maybe with a little help and support he can start to take action on it.

So why all the vitriol towards Seinfeld? He seems to be one of the few white male comics that are aware of the privilege, and he's using his voice to call it out. We migth fault him for not doing enough, maybe work on diversity in his show or something, but pointing out privilege with a megaphone like he has seems to…

Wait, am I misunderstanding something? Isn't he pointing out his own privilege in a sort of confessional way? That the only reason he doesn't acknowledge it is because his ego can't handle the idea that other people might be just as deserving if not more?

I went to a concert of his once (it's complicated). He gave a long discourse about how people are like boxes of crayons, and he's like a 64-box, maybe missing a few tertiary colors (cause he's humble like that). But most of the girls he meets are like twelve-boxes, and they don't understand him when he's talking about…

the problem is that that puts an even heavier burden on people who are hit the hardest by the problem. It's requiring a superhuman effort from people who are already being screwed. And sometimes it works, there are incredible people who make huge sacrifices so that the next generation can have opportunities that they…

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