Why can’t she be dismissed? Black women are just as good at racism/sexism as everyone else. It’s just more ironic when they do it.

N.B. Almost getting shot doesn’t make you less of a moron.

The economic and relationship stuff in Atlas Shrugged are equally bad. Reconsider your question in that light.

It might be marginally better than the US, but in most places, Canada’s mental health services are utter shit, too. It’s always apolitically safe to cut funding for it, so they do.

The first rule of oligarchy is, never talk about oligarchy. That was Shkreli’s mistake.

over run with assholes, phonies, crybabies

The old upside-down-box-and-stick works too (just like the cartoons!) I’ve caught dozens of mice that way. Of course, if your mouse-control strategy revolves around killing them, you’ve probably already failed.

Man, as a toddler growing up in the Whitest Place in the World (we keep all our brown people on reserves, see) Sesame Street was my only positive everyday exposure to people of colour. I’m so glad I didn’t have to endure Elmo’s sociopathic-brain-injured-3-year-0ld act back then.

Depressing and not true, but, like I said, men as a class are dangerous, so as a woman, you can’t know who to avoid. The outward signs are not reliable.

Jeeeesus.

I never offered it.

Right, me too. The question, “who would I have to be to do that sort of thing?” is an interesting one. I can’t imagine it.

If it didn’t, I’d be a racist, like you. Jesus, you’re slow.

I don’t suppose it ever occurred to you to read what I wrote honestly, or to represent it honestly, huh? Shame.

Ah, look. More racism.

It might surprise you just how much people learn about you by reading between the lines of what you write. To the point that your assurances or denials are transparent and ridiculous.

I think you’re misreading me. I don’t know why I’d turn into a deranged, fucked up asshole — maybe a head injury? — but it’s just a thought exercise, as in: “what sort of man would I have to be to do that sort of thing?”

It’s not that we’re all like this, but we are all capable of it. I’ve never committed a non-consensual act with a woman, nor do I plan to, nor can I imagine a scenario where I could. But I also can’t read my future mind. For all of the indicators of violent tendency, be they cultural, economic, medical, whatever,…

How am I not Pythagoras again?

You have evidently forgotten who Pythagoras is in this scenario. Hint: it isn’t you.