No sher, Shitlocks.

Actually a great point.

I was told I wasn’t a proper liberal because I disagreed (mildly) with some finer point of some 20-something’s view of what constituted free speech. Then got piled on by a bunch of other people trying to shame me on Twitter. The gist was that because I’m older, my “old fashioned” form of liberalism wasn’t valid,…

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.

I’m as leftist as they come (a proper European leftist, not one of your pant-wetting American “leftists”) and I agree there’s too much bullying and shaming on Twitter from the left. Too much “reframing” of peoples views. But I’d rather face that kind of abuse any day (which is just social pressure in the end) than the…

But isn’t that the definition of conservatism? Constantly being behind the social-change curve?

It’s amazing to me that your election lasted for two years, and yet half of you didn’t even bother to vote.

The popular vote citation is used to counter the idea that Hillary was unpopular. She won the popular vote - so she wasn’t unpopular.

I dunno. Was it because 3 million more people voted for her in the end?

Doesn’t everything?

Interestingly, after the American Revolution, the English thought “we’re having a bit of what they’re having” and enacted the Reform Act (1832 I think), and from that point on the monarchy effectively became figureheads with little real power.

Claim to be.

I was quoting the copper, but yeah we do say Happy Christmas now I think about it.

“Why don’t you just put “Merry Christmas” like everybody else?”

More than fair comment, but it’s also worth noting that TS is not American and does not live in America. She’s not going to have the same perspective as one might hope an American white person would have, with all the historical baggage that entails. She has an entirely different historical context.

A couple of men and a woman actually.

That’s probably because rape of women originally had a biological purpose. Rape of men has no such purpose.

Sort of not at all.

I would expect internet to still be available - it’s not like electricity (which has been knocked out)