Yeah the idea of thinness as a virtue needs to die already. For the most part its luck as much as anything. If you are born into the right in environment with the right genes you will probably be thin and stay that way. Just as being overweight is in many cases genetic. Yes you can maximise your genetic lot but you…

You sound like a terrible friend. Also a “trim waist” is not a virtue so you can stop signalling so hard. I really wish we could get over the idea that thinness is some kind of purity badge. Most people are fat or thin through a combination of genetics, luck and the habits of a lifetime. Yes you can change your…

Its one thing to express an opinion. Its another to use the issues of black men to get clicks. Its also another thing as a white person to demand a black man’s narrative conform to your standard. White people do not get to decide how a black man’s story should be told. It would be different if the reviewer had more…

Anything is terrible in extreme. Unions don’t want to cost jobs they are simply there to protect workers. Unions don’t force corporations to move to other countries, corporate greed does. Unions are the best defence for workers against corporate greed that treats them as disposable. 

Being white has a lot to do with Brexit. Racism was played a definite role in the leave vote. The entire leave vote skewed heavily white and male. 

Imperialism is just another from of racism. Just because Brits use bigger and better words to describe their prejudice doesn’t mean its not the same thing. Brits have not lost the idea that they are somehow better and should be telling everyone else how to live. That notion played a big role in Brexit.

I think Amazon has grown to fast to quickly though and is in danger of becoming too powerful. Having its power checked isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I also hope it forces Bezos to consider their position on unions. Lack of worker protection is why tech has issues with rampant sexism racism and general bro culture.…

Solar might help with that. If more buildings had solar panels and drew less power from the grid that would help with the load issue. 

Omar should apologise because she said something offensive. That’s what a good person does. The fact that the GOP doesn’t apologise is what makes them assholes. Even if that wasn’t true she is the first female Muslim in congress the standards for her are higher, its not fair but its the reality. Plus she doesn’t have…

If it were any other lobbyist they wouldn’t be necessarily be Jewish, nice try at moving the goal posts though. I’m not saying Omar is actually Anti-Semitic just that she spoke poorly and came across that way. I think she should apologise because she has upset people and then move on.

Frankly as an Aboriginal I don’t think any American has a right to speak about genocide righteously but that’s a whole other thread.

I kinda see both sides I get that Omar probably wasn’t trying to be offensive but she still gave Neo-Nazi’s ammunition and that’s not a good thing. I think if she was going to criticise Israel she should have taken a different tactic. The US support of Israel is actually about a lot more than just money. Its also…

For me it was “All about the Benjamins” it probably wasn’t meant that way but it sounds like its straight out of some Neo-Nazi’s spiel about how Jews really run the government.

As an Aboriginal I find it hilarious that Americans think they have any room to call Israel a “criminal state”. 

This is one of those cases where I can tell the intent was not to be Anti-Semetic but I can also see why people are upset. Clapping back with “Its all about the Benjamins” was really not a good idea. It plays in to the old”Jews run the world through secret shadow cabal” conspiracy theory. It fine to criticise Israel…

She really should not have clapped back with “Its all about the Benjamins” though. That actually comes across as unfortunately Anti-Semetic because of the Greedy Jew stereotype and all Jews control all money conspiracy theories. She is trying pull an AOC by talking about bribery and it ends up sounding a lot nastier…

You know what I buy in Winnipeg right before a big storm? The same damn thing I always do. We got several inches overnight recently and I still went to work. It wasn’t exactly fun and my bus was kinda doubling as a snowplow at certain points but I made it. 

All pubs have similar decor and basically the same menu. Pubs are not chains the way burger joints are. Pubs are meant to reflect the character of the local community. It more likely (considering how old and famous the London version of The Grapes is) the owners of the Bath and Oxford locations set out to emulate the…

A lot of pubs have the same name. There are hundreds if not thousands of pubs called the The Royal Oak (The name comes from the legend that Henry VI hid out in a hollow oak tree after his army lost). If Sir Ian owns this one I doubt its part of chain. Generally pubs are owned independently except when they are owned…

The Canadian economy is capitalist with planned socialist restrictions and it works well. The restrictions on the market were why we avoided the implosion in the housing market in the 2000s. That’s what pedants like you don’t understand. Complete free market capitalism doesn’t work either, it simply exploits the poor…