People also forget that Dutch colonizers managed to keep South Africa under the boot of Apartheid for decades despite being barely 10% of the population, and it was only international pressure that brought it to end (not, as we like to tell ourselves will save us in the US if things get really bad, any popular…

What this country definitely needs right now is to see the “softer side” of the politicians whose party is slowly dragging this country into the abyss of fascism on the way towards the biggest governmental crisis it’s ever seen.

1) So will the KKKeebler Elf manage to keep his post long enough to preside over his life-long dream of fucking over hundreds of thousands of filthy brown-skinned people? Because he’s up to his beady, hateful little eyeballs in Russia shit.

Depending on what his congregation as a whole really thinks, this was also a brilliant move on his part. If they really were mostly mad at him for what he said, there’s no way to spin his leaving that doesn’t make them look like bigoted assholes.

I’m reminded of that line from the beginning of Titus Andronicus: “oh cruel, irreligious piety!”

Yup. “Boredom” is the wrong word. “Stillness” or “reflection” would probably be better for the creative process.

If you think there’s nothing disadvantageous to being non-white in America’s racist-ass society (a dubious distinction which, I might point out, is not unique to America at all), and furthermore that it’s your privilege to inquire as to the ethnic background of people you don’t know, and furthermore to resort to…

Change starts at home. Refuse to answer the question enough, if enough other people start doing the same, and eventually (heaven willing) people might stop asking such a useless crypto-racist question in the first place.

It’s not just the British. Here in Germany, one of the first things people ask if you’re pregnant or have an infant is, “Junge oder Mädchen?” (“boy or girl?”). And as studies going back to the 70s have shown, people will behave differently towards the kid depending on the answer. We impose gendered behavior onto kids…

As pointed out right at the top of the comments on that tweet, this was already done in 2014:

As undemocratic as the EC is, it’s also what keeps this country together. If sparsely populated rural districts always got outvoted by cities, they’d eventually revolt. The only way they stay in is if they have a voice, and that only happens if they’re disproportionately represented.

There’s a really good article (from Cracked, of all places; scroll down to the second part) that points out that the drive to succeed — particularly, the narcissism and borderline psychopathy — is partially a coping mechanism for dealing with the crippling effects of failure.

Yeah, I like how they left some carefully-worded conditions in their statement that make it possible for them to continue to sit on their “thoughts and prayers” bullshit.

This film gave me, a 4-year-old at its release:

It’s weird how “no taboos” and crying about the perils of “thought crime” really just mean “I want to be able to use words that degrade people without consequence.”

Thanks for sending me down an early-90s-nu-skool-hiphop rabbit-hole, I guess.

always appropriate:

It’s also worth noting (according to Russian Conspiracy Twitter, but based on reputable sourcing) that WaPo has been sitting on a story for weeks at Mueller’s request. It apparently will reveal irrefutable proof of direct conspiracy between the president and Russian intelligence to win the election.

Well, as I pointed out, part of using a(n admittedly avant-garde) naming scheme like this involves using simpler local variants. With my example, the full four names would be on the birth certificate, and whatever other government records need it, but I suspect things like medical records, school registration, etc.,…

I’m afraid I haven’t the slightest idea to what you’re referring. I’m not talking here about bodily autonomy at all; I’m discussing how to name kids when the parents come from cultures with significantly different naming conventions (but both of which, I noted, mostly give kids their father’s family name by default).