Two men were banned from flying with an airline because they got drunk and started making racist statements towards the indigenous people in the plane. Thunder Bay is a cesspool for racism. Hell, I live in Toronto and had a car full of white guys yell the n-word at me while I walking walking down the street. If you're…

Canada is really not much better. Our political system is slightly less broken, and we have slightly better social welfare systems. Otherwise, our people are just as garbage.

As someone also living in Canada, in a town where a woman was intentionally hit by a trailer hitch thrown from a vehicle because she was walking while Indigenous, I unfortunately am disgusted but not surprised. This isn’t just a Trump problem. 

It’s a newish job but things with him aren’t looking good. He’s the type that seems decent but really fails when it comes down to it. There’s a broken light on the back of the building and I’m campaigning to have it fixed. Wish me luck. 

Maybe I am psychic, but I am thinking your boss is generally a shit boss, right? Because people who respond to employees concerns about their safety in that way are probably totally inept at all aspects of people management. I am sorry you are going through this. It is not OK. 

Most men don’t understand the fear of walking down a street. Or how always we start thinking of ways to defend ourselves—if that random stranger comes my way I’ll kick him on the balls, or I’ll run that way. If I scream will people hear me? Should I pull the handles of cars and hope they have alarms. And then the…

missing in all the talk of how ‘we can’t afford that’ is the fact that we’re currently paying for betsy devos’s ten yachts. maybe we could stand to shift the balance sheet around so she’s got two yachts and people don’t end up on the street two weeks after losing their jobs.

Preach. Seriously, this is a great comment. 

“And yet, there is absolutely zero follow-up about, wait, why exactly can’t the richest country in the world match the amount of paid maternity leave offered by, say, Sweden? Sweden is by no means as rich as we are.”

Alex Pareene can eat a bag of dicks.

Ok, boomer.

“And if you think a woman can’t beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day.”

Fair take is a fair take. The central problem with Klobuchar isn’t inherently feminist or non-feminist, though it has deeply feminist implications.

All of this. Her shot at Pete was true, but it rang hollow coming from Klob. When the woman known for targeting other women in her own employ with terrible anti-women policies attempts to play the “equality card” it just makes feminism look like a joke.

Equality for me, but not for thee.

On the one hand, it IS good to check in with people before you’re about to dump something on them. It feels like an ambush sometimes when someone just dumps a bunch of heavy emotional stuff when you aren’t in a position to handle it or respond. If someone just woke up or is running late, they’re not going to be in a…

Oh, and the paternalistic “He was president; I think he knows better than you about politics” bullshit? SIT YOUR ASS DOWN IN ALL OF THE SEATS.

The average person doesn’t have enough money in their bank account to be moderate.

Thank you.I wasn’t looking for pats on the back, but to paint a picture that even what I do isn’t a reality for the urban and/or working poor,who simply don’t have the time, live in food deserts, or don’t have the knowledge that I do.

I tend to say that in the majority of human history, the poor were just literally starved to death. Whereas now, we have unhealthy, cheap, subsidized food where the poor are killed by diabetes or heart disease instead. And then blamed for it.

The “whisper network”, as it’s called in another comment