Those with the power to enact substantive policy change are framing this moment as something that can be solved through a sort of passiveness; it serves as a way to abdicate any responsibility, through a performance of a weird perversion of allyship.

Honestly it depends on the riot.

Spotify’s method is definitely more “classism” than “racism” if you’re going to jam it into an “Ism” box.

I mean, their initial offer couldn’t have been that far from the $6MM figure, otherwise Witherspoon wouldn’t have even bothered in the first place.  

From a gaming perspective, honestly if gamers who are big into the social aspect of gaming could convince their circle of gaming buddies/friends/teammates to not be shitty in online interactions with other human beings, that would be way more important than ... pretty much anything on the list.

I mean, that’s one reason we’re not rich. Another would be that even if we were willing to hold out for $6 million for narration, no one would be willing to pay us that.

I mean, the numbers don’t lie, Quibi is struggling.

Out of control is not a few fires burning at night only to be snuffed out all day long.

Certainly if people are largely peacefully protesting with the occasional brick being thrown through a window you are correct that ordering the national guard to start skull busting would create an explosive situation.

No this is about black quarterbacks not misfit black girls.

Except in this case, ultimately it really should fall to the states, unless the states are incapable. The Insurrection Act Trump is citing isn’t a bad piece of legislation. Basically it is designed to be invoked if the states exhaust their resources in stopping widespread rioting/looting/violence/whatever you want to…

It’s worth clarifying that the word “statement” here could potentially overstate the distance between the two phrases. It was in fact the immediately following clause in the same sentence.

Of course you would, but that’s why it won’t happen. There’s a lot of justified anger at the governmental response here, but let’s take a breathe on thinking some small disruptions in these programs is the harbinger of mass starvations in city centers.

I’m a millennial who would shop there, but the problem is that I’m too value oriented.

“his new mommy has medical, professional training,”

which is flat-lining because the middle class itself is at death’s door

1. Violence is an understandable and very difficult to condemn on moral grounds response to oppression.

Nope.

What a great speech by Obama.

I think outside of Kernan maybe only Charlie Gasparino could make me root for ARS in a business media talking head debate.