And here I thought this was going to be because of all the assholes crowding the beaches and yelling to “build that wall” or some other racist bullshit.

The phrase that comes to mind is “too clever by half.”

Her recent A Blocks on this stuff have me feeling that we’re just starting to tug at the loose threads that are going to unravel a conspiracy of such Byzantine complexity that it’s going to be months of stunned speechlessness as the whole rotten edifice comes crashing down. I am so looking forward to it.

The only reason I’m not cheering on the collapse is because of all the good, decent people who didn’t vote for that asshole who are going to be collateral damage. The people that voted for him, though? Fuck all them.

Who gives a shit what a “majority” of Americans wants? Even setting aside the fact that a sizable chunk of them will reliably vote directly against their own stated wishes if it means fucking over oppressed minorities some more, their opinions on how the US should be governed don’t count for shit. What matters is the…

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for the good people at The Satanic Temple to wheel in a copy of their righteous statue of Baphomet and start holding meetings on school grounds. No Christians allowed! (unless they’re ready to turn their lives over to our Lord Satan. Praise!)

As the saying goes, when you’re accustomed to hegemony, equality feels like oppression.

“Ignorance” stops being a defense around the age of three. After that, it’s on you.

Nope. The correct response to racists is always a loud FUCK YOU, then peacing out on that shit.

There’s an excellent book called The Warmth of Other Suns about the internal migration of African Americans out of the Deep South and into the rest of the US after WWII. The author does an excellent job documenting how property values fell not because Black folks moved into the neighborhood (premised on the idea that…

Fun Fact: there’s a federal agency in charge of managing billions of dollars in housing grants precisely to combat this sort of segregation and redlining in housing. There was a whole article about it on jezebel a few months ago. IIRC, it’s the HUD, and it almost never uses those grants, or enforces any of its…

perhaps not entirely coincidentally, Cracked had an article out last week about just what sort of hell it was for the actors filming. Short version: nobody knew what they were doing because they were writing the script in nearly real time, including the ending. So that bit about the director coaxing ambiguity out of…

Oh thank Cthulhu the AfD is imploding. Man, those fuckers have been a gadfly for far too long already. Surprise! It turns out that the AfD suddenly getting a bunch of new blood right after the NPD imploded for being full of Nazis was not a coincidence!

Underestimating the potential for nascent fascism to metastasize always seems to end badly.

As an expat resident in Germany, I can attest that people here are watching all of these elections with nervous scrutiny.

In slightly less awful news, early exit polls in the Netherlands suggest that, while gaining a few seats, the party of Geert Fucking Wilders did not gain a plurality in Wednesday’s election. Since virtually no other party is willing to work with him, it’s likely that his party will just be benchwarmers for the next…

If words no longer mean anything, then you no longer have any rhetorical weapons against them, and the only weapons left capable of doing anything are the ones that their side wants everybody using in the first place.

Kinja’s copy-paste function is a harsh mistress.

FTFY

Sen. Gillibrand’s righteous fury is rather satisfying to watch, making the Commandant’s limp response all the more … it’s hard to say “disappointing” when bullshit non-responses to this sort of ongoing sexual harassment is exactly what I expected. Does anybody even remember the 2003 sexual-assault scandal? Tailhook,…