To be honest, I think the misogynist vote probably cost us the election last time. It’s a distasteful thought, but maybe the country isn’t ready. I’m not sure I want to sacrifice the good a Democratic administration could do, or at least the evil it could keep at bay, for that 1/46 representation.

Can you show me where Sanders has promised that?  Because I’m getting nothing.

You know, maybe you’re on to something.  Maybe that’s his thing and this was his plan all along.

Bolsonaro’s a piece of work too though

Good luck with that bro

As someone cursed with facial hair growth in abundance, I just don’t like feeling like a goddamn Wookie (spelling?) all the time. It’s annoying that there’s this tactile sensation on my face. So I blow through two five-blade cartridges a week clearcutting it out.  And on the more serious level, yeah, it’s not really…

This.  It’s lame, but we know it works.

I think a lot of them didn’t like him then either; we just have such a polarized political landscape that they weren’t willing to risk the libruls winning. They may have a pretty alien sense of right and wrong, but it’s not like they don’t understand how a winner-take-all voting system works; the Jill Stein crowd…

Women helping to enforce patriarchy is neither new nor particularly remarkable.

The stats in this article are written really confusingly. We’re not in milk ducks territory, but it still took me a couple reads. The 80 to 59 drop section, at first I thought it was still that 59% of Republican men were more likely to believe women than before #MeToo, which seemed good. But the last paragraph seems…

Trump was fairly specific about what he stood for; it’s not like he played his cards close to the chest on any of his real talking points (racism, trade protectionism, disdain for traditional Western alliances, et al).

Obama’s probably a better analogue. I didn’t vote for him in the primary in ‘08, it wasn’t my…

This.  As a Minneapolitan, I look at this logo and think that this is a guy who plans to win states inland, and that’s where we fumbled last time around.  It looks like something you’d see at a threshing show.

Yeah, it sounds like the guy understands how voters actually make decisions, with their gut.  If we were all policy junkies we wouldn’t need representatives.

This is just some harmless trollery by some kids.  Like, why is everyone here such a buzzkill about it?

I mean, yeah, I thought it was at least a little funny and basically harmless. I don’t really get the outrage.

This needs to go straight to the cloning lab for the Jurassic Park treatment

That’s been my mom’s transformation on police issues in the last few years. Reworking deep parts of one’s worldview at 60ish can’t be easy, even when presented with hard evidence. I got a lot of admiration for that sort of thing.

This is a really darkly amusing take.  Underrated post.

For a less dated reference point, I’ve been thinking her rainbow-girlhood schtick does seem to lack the self-awareness of, say, a Carly Rae Jepsen. CRJ sings with a very young-teen perspective, but clearly that isn’t her actual worldview, if you look at any interviews. There’s an element of Peter Pan to it, of…

I think the kind of sex work one engages in due to being homeless and hungry probably doesn’t offer much to recommend it.  We can be supportive without denying the reality that being a streetwalker kinda sucks.