Nonviolence only works when violence is a verifiable, potent alternative. Do you honestly think that MLK won civil rights victories solely by standing on a bridge? No - he won because whites realized it was better to deal with him than deal with Malcolm X and his armed black militias. Gandhi won his struggle because…

I worked as a campus rep for Americans Elect, and I still feel completely fleeced by the con job those assholes did pretending that they wanted change, gathering a bunch of donations, then bailing out when they didn’t get the result they wanted. The same shadow players popped up with different organizations with the…

No, because a restaurant is a public accommodation and thus is treated differently than an artisan. Thank you for not bothering to read what I said at all.

Service is difficult as well; I’m not sure where exactly I would place bartender for example, because there’s often an artistry to that - part performance, part creation. It also requires attendance whereas the baker does not.

That’s not a universal arrangement, however. Just because I’m a taxpayer does not mean I get to go into your business at 3 AM and do whatever I want. As a business owner, I can refuse to serve people not wearing shirts.

I’m by no means saying this is right. I find that behavior despicable.

Anti-discrimination laws are based primarily on the right of unrestricted travel. Those businesses are referred to as “public accommodations” because we recognize that restaurants, hotels, and places of interest are vital for the ability of a person to travel from one place to another.

No, capitalism as a whole is rather discriminatory. The difference here is that we’re talking about artisans, not massive corporations. That’s a local boycott, which are almost always more effective than national ones, against businesses less capable of resisting them.

I have no problem with that. Ensures that your beliefs are applied universally and not just at your whim.

I’m curious what the cost of these raids is compared to the supposed cost of these undocumented immigrants staying in the country.

I am, frustratingly, with the baker on this. It’s not just the baking of a cake that makes it a First Amendment issue, it’s the fact that a wedding cake in particular - which often has extravagant and time-consuming decoration - transforms from a good to a piece of art. We have multiple television series based solely…

The Tennessee Heritage Protection Act states that no monument or statue “dedicated in honor of a military conflict” can be removed

One of my high school teammates died due to a cardiac condition. He was standing there, then fell over dead in front of literally the entire school. There was no warning, no chance to save him.

Who the ever-living fuck calls it a port-o-toilet?

Not really. The Great White Orange will stop reading one-third of the way through the first paragraph because his name never appears in the print. Rookie mistake.

Absolutely, but York is woke enough that he’s willing for some of those dicks to be black.

I moved here to Tampa two years ago, and I can argue with none of the mockery made here (or in previous years).

They say these deaths come in threes. Pat Summitt, Buddy Ryan...

So who are we rooting for? Dan Snyder? Dan Gilbert? Stan Kroenke? That Deadspin Award nomination is a virtual Who’s Who of people that need to die in spectacular and humiliating ways.