On the flip side, I have experienced discrimination and ostracism within the Indian community—people who want me to somehow prove I am Indian.

I suspect that’s mostly based on Obama’s skin tone. If he were a few shades lighter, “biracial” would probably be applied more often than it currently is.

“Secret Muslim goes on television and makes a white woman cry.” - Fox News

Ellen is interwoven for me with my own coming out. My parents were both fans of her sitcom, and had been watching up to that point, and I knew it. I, fourteen, read in the newspaper about how she was a lesbian, and was coming out on her show, and how big a deal this was.

And for people who are too young, she faced a firestorm for having come out; people demanded she be fired, certain radio hosts called her “Ellen Degenerate” and considered themselves fiendishly clever, and she was basically shunned by craven networks who feared losing their audiences.

I wish he could be in his last year forever; he’s been his best self lately! He’s probably gonna be a great ex-president too...

For the majority of us who have been anticipating this film forever, we do not root for Ryan Reynolds, per se. We root for Deadpool, and accept Reynolds as a great choice for the character we know. And the movie looks VERY good, from a fan perspective.

I’d also note that I met a number of such people in law school. Many of them subsequently lost their high-paying jobs in the Great Recession, and quite a few have never completely gotten their careers back on track. None of the guys in that subset identify as libertarians anymore.

Regarding your first point, this is my all-time favorite quote regarding Libertarianism (to the best of my admittedly limited research the attribution is accurate)

There are a couple of different ways they can go off the rails:

It’s been proven time and time again that states, especially southern ones, can’t be remotely fucking trusted with power.

I wonder at what point libertarians actually become crazy assholes. Like in paper “less government, more social freedom” sounds like a believable political idea. Did it just go off the rails at some point? Like Republicans used to be a real party. Then they adopted the Southern Strategy. Was there a similar path of…

That’s because this article is 0% substance.

The teeth of the comb are like the branches of government over his hair. There are too many of them and they hold too much power when it comes to shaping his coif.

What did I just read? You can use all the big words you want in your writing, that doesn’t make it logical or sensible.

This is also the sort of thing that jumps out at me whenever I see feminist-naysayers on the internet arguing that Western women don’t get to complain because women in, say, the middle east have it so much worse than us. While they’re not wrong, that doesn’t mean we’re not affected by the same poisonous misogynistic…

I feel like I use these way too often here:

During his confession, O’Kroley told the police “it was easy to kill” Nosal because “she had ruined my life.”

“She had ruined my life.”

This is horrifying. Makes me think of the Louis C.K. skit.