The article doesn’t make it out that way at all. It’s pretty clear that Smith wanted to form a union, the UFC didn’t want her to, and as soon as they were able, they cut her a severance check (hush money) and let her go.

Yes, brown people are not murdered or incarcerated quite on the level as black people. But it’s still significantly higher than what White folks experience.

Well, it worked like gangbusters last time, so, what else do they have going for them?

Eh. She agreed to marry a rich idiot asshole and get some of his money. She didn’t sign up for the rest of this shit. I save my sympathy for those who deserve it, but I don’t really think this was what she was thinking she was getting out of the arrangement.

She doesn’t have to try. That’s what people like you don’t understand. They just need to throw something out there for their supporters to latch onto. The republicans want the memos released, not because of anything that’s in them, but because it will give Trump supporters some new shit to twitter about. These people…

Right, I agree. I think, to an extent, each person draws their own line. I know people who disqualify any sport that relies on subjective judging to determine scores (e.g. gymnastics, figure skating, etc). But for me, I draw the line on my own definition of “athleticism.” Which is basically using the body to move…

Being a professional carpenter takes a high degree of skill and endurance. But carpentry isn’t a sport. Saying something isn’t a sport isn’t necessarily a knock on that activity.

Word. Mainstream libs don’t seem to understand that these people aren’t really on our side. We vote for them because they’re competent technocrats who at least resemble actual human beings.

I watch it. I like it. But there have a been a few episodes where I knew a lot about the subject that I could see were cherry picking information and sources just as bad as any other show, so it makes me wonder just how much of the series is like that.

It’s a tough one. I mean, a number of Indians and South Asians have stated they find the character problematic, so we should probably listen. AND, I think we’re getting a little too sensitive about these things. I’m a LatinX of Mexican descent and I’ve, on several occasions, been told by white people that Speedy…

Haha. Sorry.

Sorry to interrupt your class, sir. However, I never did say I wasn’t mediocre. If real recognizes real, then mediocre recognizes mediocre, my friend.

He’s probably a Jordan Peterson fan. In that world, every single problem in the world somehow hearkins back to some insidious Marxist conspiracy to take over the world via a bunch of mediocre college professors.

You guys post this shit just to remind us just how depressed we should all be, right? Like, some days the fear and loathing dulls enough to be so cutting all day long, and then I read these letters and remember how fucked we all are. Gracias.

If it meant getting a full-blown Brehein essay out of it, then, yes, it should have counted. That movie got the shaft in A History of Violence, and it got overlooked here.

I’m not a tough guy on the internet or off it.

Yeah, you did. It’s just my tendency to want to find something semi-redeeming or explanatory about Trump’s success that I stretch until I tear something.

I mean, I basically agree. I just think he owns the room by being a shithead. Other dudes are charismatic, they’re just not shitheads.

Internet tough guy Conor fans are my favorite. Haha

Yes, he’s the only fighter to have a tough, interesting backstory.