Eh, there were never that many actual hippies, just like more people supported the Vietnam war than not and how Martin Luther King was pretty unpopular (among the white mainstream) in his time.

You’d be remiss in failing to mention that self-proclaimed “rabble rouser, mountain mama” Meghan “my father” McCain also swooped in with her much-needed, oft-desired help.

OK, this is probably just a problem with Vox not bothering to translate the PDF (it is in German...), but a 3% decrease in car trips is much different from a 3% decrease in congestion.

Yeah I’m not one to side with conservatives, and I think them trying to turn this into an even bigger thing is ridiculous, but we can’t pin this one on them. Leftist twitter behaved basically in exactly the way that people constantly accuse leftists of behaving and turned this into a thing when it didn’t need to be…

How long ago did the “Don’t” fall off the sign at Google?

54 percent of white voters voted for Trump in 2016, 57 percent in 2021. If all liberal white people shunned racist family, they would hardly be able to have any family relations. Statistically, nearly all the people who have a problem with Sweeney have sat through a family function with racist people. They have at…

Ms. Williams has played a remarkable career, I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to be on the opposing side at any point. I would be of the opinion she won’t win the US Open, time and injury history just aren’t on her side. Everything else is sort of a gift, well earned, but still a gift.

Well, yeah, she’s not expected to have a deep run because she’s 40, which is like 62 in tennis years where 32 is getting ready to be put out to pasture. Her longevity of success is literally unprecedented aside from Federer also still hanging around at 41. We haven’t seen tennis players have noticeable success at this…

Kind of. I live in rural downstate Illinois, and our county is—or was—pretty purple. Yes, it almost always goes R, but it did vote 49% for Obama to 51% for McCain. And then, somehow, voted 72% for Trump?!? I just don’t understand it.

She hasn’t lost... yet. There are better players this year and she admits herself that she’s not playing her best lately. Love seeing her play, though.

It is weird to me how the “Silent Majority” never shuts up and is always in the minority on just about every issue. 

It’s a short stroll from the right-wing American mantra of “Fuck You, I got mine” to get to the place that says forgiving anyone’s debt (unless it’s mine) is a bad thing.

Absolutely love her. Her serves, returns and volleys remains untouchable. But. The younger players have figured out that she is less agile, less able to play through injury. All understandable given the historic run she achieved through sheer discipline. Younger players who are able to force Serena to move around…

“I struggled to pay off my student loans and now people are getting their debt forgiven. How is that fair?”

I mean, yes, she’s suffered racism and people being assholes in general but I think people expected her to lose not because of anything like that or because they underestimate her but because she’s barely played since last year due to injuries and she lost in the first round at the Australian Open this year (and only…

One of the worst ways the right weaponizes ignorance is using the average person lack of understanding and taxes. Mailman isn’t paying for shit. The interest on student loans in the US is so ridiculous the program could be restructured so it just pays for itself and wipe out a huge chunk of existing debt at the same…

This is not uncommon at all for “blue” states.

Get 20 miles south of Chicago and you are basically in Iowa or Indiana. There’s a bit of civilization stretching from Springfield to Champaign-Urbana and then you’re basically in Kentucky except for the St. Louis suburbs that are in Illinois.

You ever talk to someone from…

In Oregon? Home of the white nationalism utopia?

Oregon is a pretty damn deep purple, so I’m not surprised. When my wife (then girlfriend) and I visited friends while Trump was busy on the campaign trail, there were a helluva lot of Trump nonsense out there. Then, when our super white friends took us to one of their favorite dining spots, the place went dead silent…

Once you get out of the NW Portland area, things get redder the further East and South you go. To the point that a persistent dumb fantasy of some Eastern Oregonians is to become a part of Idaho. BTW, thanks Idaho, not only did we have to treat all your Covid overflow patients, now we gotta do all your abortions too.…