You can get a new iPhone 7 for 250 bucks. You can get a new iPhone 8 (that released in September) for 450. It’s pretty much required to have a smart phone in this day and age. An iPhone is not the symbol of wealth or status you seem to think it is.

I see tourists or middle class people with expensive gadgets.

I’m glad “poor people” and the “working class” have a visible look to you. When we were on welfare, my mum always made our clothes and we were well-dressed and clean. You can’t always judge on outward appearance.

There are 21 free museums in DC, the nation’s capital, many among the best in the world.

I work at a large not-for-profit museum in my city. visitors have to pay $18 to get in, and there are a number of special exhibits that cost $12 each. it’s prohibitive for families who aren’t rich and it makes me sick. yet the president makes over a million dollars a year. at a non-profit institution. my guess is that…

I’m with you. I’m a student right now, and being based in DC, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian museums are a huge part of my entertainment. Especially as someone who struggles with depression and getting out of my apartment, knowing I can always go out and see a new exhibit really helps with my…

You think the deYoung Museum and SFMOMA are excellent? :/ The setting of the Legion of Honor is nice anyway. Funny you don’t even mention the Asian Art Museum which along with the LoH probably has the highest quality special exhibitions, and no one beyond the LoH has a permanent collection really to speak of. Though…

I’m going to be Captain Obvious here- there are lots of people who don’t spend hundreds of dollars to see pop stars, or video games, or even food. The Met has been free because as an institution (with help from the government and donors) they decided that even people who can’t shell out to see Taylor Swift should…

As a former MET museum employee myself (many years ago), you are absolutely right. The worst fucking people in the world were the asshole New Yorkers—between getting pennies thrown at me, being accused of lying to tourists, and generally disgusting comments (sometimes direct and sometimes to their friends...like we’re…

The Art Institute of Chicago may be the best curated museum anywhere. (this from someone who’s spent decades traipsing through the museums of the Western World) So it’s worth it is what I’m saying.

San Francisco museums, which are all excellent, are all on the higher side; Legion of Honor and deYoung are $15 general admission, SFMOMA is $25, and Academy of Sciences is an insane $36 ($26 for kids. KIDS.)

Also, apparently, they spent $65 million on those fountains outside the Met. Based on the Met’s estimates, those fountains could have paid for tourists’ fees for about a decade.

It should be free.

One nice thing about living in the DC area is the Smithsonian museums are free. Well, as a tax payer, we have paid for admission already. There are some other private collections you will have to pay for, but the MoMA level museums are the Smithsonian ones (National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery,…

Oh, I’m sure he has his pockets of support. I frequent a rural area in which drunk driving is so common the cops rarely pull people over for it, and heroin and meth incidents take up major real estate in the local paper. But if you mention marijuana, the locals ruffle themselves up in indignation, yell about it Not…

Damn, when you put Littlefinger in the title, I thought Aidan Gillen was coming for The Root or something. Calling Tucker Carlson Littlefinger is giving him way too much credit; he’s more like Robert Arryn

Oh they are that and then some.

Aren’t Republicans supposed to be in favor of States’ rights and against government overreach? It’s almost like they’re hypocrites or something

It’s almost if they believe men and women should be socially separated. I always wondered why the right in this country are so afraid if Sharia, I think they’d actually really like it if they just gave it a chance.

White people trying to claim POC are the actual racists is akin to men claiming women are the emotional sex. It’s projection pure and simple and it’s fucking laughable.