Show runners feed it too. New Doctor Who is a good example where for the first several series the companions always wanted to fuck/fell in love with the Doctor but everyone who has ever watched Doctor Who knew he’d never end up in a relationship.

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

I’m not him (that you know of), but in re: your question:

I was wondering if we were going to get a happy piece about Juneteenth after yesterday’s misery porn. Congratulations to Opal Lee. She owns this victory and unlike so many she lived to see it, which is an even bigger miracle given how many of our elders the pandemic took.

Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell exist. 

Manchin got primaried in 2018 and beat his progressive opponent, Paula Jean Swearingen, by 40 points. Manchin is the best you are going to get in West Virginia.

Which of course led to this:

what progressive (white or otherwise) even listens to Manchin & Sinema when they see that their actions are stopping progress that would actually help marginalized people? any that do are 1) dumb as hell 2) not actually progressives.

both of those asshats need to get primaried.

The conservative right’s goal is to make white people believe that they are under attack.

Because he allows a certain breed of mega-wealthy some societal inertia that allows them to continue to screw over humanity and civilization for their own temporary wealth build-up.

Trickle-down economics:

This asshole has been running the same play for 40 years and every time its tried, it fails and ruins the people who tried it. How does he keep getting his ass on TV and in front of lawmakers? There is not a person to have been wrong more consistently, and yet given more chances to be an “expert” that I can think of.…

I can’t wait for this guy to join Reagan and Limbaugh in hell.

Did trickle down economics work, by literally anybody’s metric?  No?  Then why does anybody give 2 shits what this dumbfuck has to say?

I’m sorry we are exporting this bullshit to our northern neighbors.

I find it interesting, too, that it wasn’t until real, concrete evidence of police behaving badly started coming to light and real talk of reform started becoming mainstream that these disrespectful, desiccated US flags popped up on some people’s lawns and pickup trucks.

Well, he literally refers to himself in the third person as “Law Enforcement”, so unfortunately this is closer to literal truth than satire

They think the world is a prison and they are the prison guards.

Just time and again the question is: What the fuck are cops thinking?!?