While I think toxicity and automatically labeling minority-opinion holders as trolls can be an problem around here, I think this is a slightly different issue. As an observer of this saga from the grays over the past couple of days, I think the big issue for a lot of commenters is that IrisJK comments like this…

Why? Why are you putting in this much effort into proving some people out there agree with you?

My father did this to me when I was a kid (control issues, not money concerns) and the delay was enough for my arm to not heal quite right. It hasn’t had any deliterious effect on me physically long term, but I’ll point out that as an adult I don’t speak to my father anymore. There’s a number of reasons for that, but…

As a lawyer that graduated in 2010 at the top of my class and having worked on law review, but still struggled to find a paying job post-law school, I say with all sincerity: Get bent.

I don’t see where myjah said “that the absence of charges automatically verifies the truth of the accusations.” The point made was that just because charges aren’t brought doesn’t necessarily mean that the accusations aren’t true, which yeah, is true.

I think that was the joke. I hope anyway!

I think her military service is a huge advantage here, but President Obama is a natural-born US citizen and people questioned his nationality seemingly only because he is black and has a “funny” name.

I work for a very small company and we have a nursing room in our office, as well. It’s not that hard.

I learned to drive with a manual transmission, and I continued to drive manual until my saab shit the bed tragically and I was given an automatic as a hand me down. I’ve really missed driving manual, so when it was time for me to get a new car I did some research on the model car I wanted. Turned out, if I got the…

Really? I was thinking what a step up it was from the first! I never liked the original Outsider’s voice.

My eye started twitching involuntarily when I got to that part.

Then people needed to vote for Bernie in the primaries. In most states, you can’t vote in the primaries if you don’t actually enroll in the party. The majority of people actually enrolled in the party chose Clinton. If people actually want more liberal candidates coming out of the democratic party, they actually have…

Holy hell, I can’t imagine thinking that was funeral appropriate, regardless of whether it was accurate or not!

That commenter was doing that in threads last night, too. Flag and delete at will.

Yeah in my town you do actually have to press the button or you’ll wait there forever for a crosswalk signal that will never materialize.

I think he is saying big league, or at least he thinks he’s saying it. I hear “bigly” as well most of the time, but it’s been explained for months now that he’s trying to say big league. Most people just keep making fun of him and saying bigly, though.

Yeah and Canadians are still kind of annoyed about that apparently! It came up at a legal conference I was at last week in Canada. One of my Canadian colleagues noted that Canada only went to the metric system because the US said it was going too, but then the US bailed but by that point Canada had gone too far down…

It’s still the standard in the legal world. I tried to change it in my office but it was a losing battle. We have to file everything with the court with two spaces after the period so it was pointless. My jurisdiction doesn’t give a crap though so single space forever.

I’ve been asking that since last week when he did the interview circuit wearing glasses that were severely bent and crooked on one side, resulting in him not only sounding but looking unhinged.

Bourbon is actually quite good in lemonade, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be in an Arnold Palmer.