Wow. I wonder how this person gets out of bed in the morning. Big ideas are really worth fighting for and if you can’t manage some hope and the reality that we may not see all of it in our lifetime then just GTFO of the way and let stronger people forge ahead.

This had no valid critiques and is just a big damp wet…

That’s actually one of my issues with Bernie. I don’t think he’s accomplished much during his time in politics whereas Warren has tangible accomplishments. 

I honestly don’t get cynical people. What’s the point? That if we don’t get 100% of what we want, it’s not worth it to try for anything? That failure is inevitable, so fuck it? Is it a defense mechanism, to protect yourself from getting your hopes up?

Why are we still doing [checks notes] it feels [shuffles papers] really lazy.

I found myself begrudgingly moved by all of this, as cynical as moments like these are, and as much as I’m generally disinclined to believe a word that’s said on the campaign trail.

Let me just say that I’ve been reading cards for people for decades.

Sure they do. Do they need elaborate 3-10 step skincare routines? No. But MBB’s at the the age where serious skin issues start to pop up and at the age where a lot of girls start wearing makeup everyday. And while many teens can and do ignore washing their faces (and some get away with it), getting in the practice…

Yes, it would have been nice if he had realized this before he wrote his book, however the book was a reflection of part of that culture and someone would have written something similar.

Not all creativity is good, and I know drunk creativity to always be negative because the ideas are always shaded by that lessening of the conscience.

When you describe white privilege as “whiteness hasn’t been a hindrance” versus “whiteness has been an unearned advantage” I think it makes all the difference if you’re talking to someone who has had real hindrances in other ways (most notably economic, but potentially mental health, gender, sexual orientation,…

Hard agree that interviewers need to do better if they’re going to give these monsters a platform. They have to come prepared with a WIDE array of counterpoints, in order to successfully do what they set out to do: show objective truth, amidst the bullshit that white supremacists and racists spew.

So true. See also Ken Burns’ 6 hour documentary “Prohibition.” It lays out how that movement - over sixty years- tapped into every raw nerve from domestic violence and women’s suffrage on the left, to religious fervor, xenophobia and antisemitism/anti-Catholicism on the right.

They dont have a big enough audience to even factor in the equation for these rubes.  Remember, keep your people dumb and ignorant.  Tell hem college is bad as your leaders all go to Ivy league schools.  control

That is just really fucking amazing. He’s not even trying to avoid being a parody of himself anymore.

TR fanboy here...two of my favorite TR anecdotes:

Alex Jones? Channel reinstated? Wut? If someone walked into his office and killed his entire staff I’d be against that. Your point boils down to “well they weren’t really good or nice guys anyway.” To me that’s irrelevant.

1) Hitler could not logistically win even without US involvement. This much is true. History shows this in detail. His war and his methods of prosecuting it would have drained Germany long before he could have achieved dominance or victory on the grander scale. His allies were as backstabbing as he was, and were as…

Not he fought a war or killed Nazis or something, right?

What the fuck did this hippie know, amirite?

This is how they continually move the Overton Window. No matter what the Democrats propose, be it economic stimulus from the 1960s or Republican healthcare plans from the 1990s, propaganda flacks like Hewitt will call it “extremist.” Then those things get equated with the actual extremist policies of the Republican…