Why? 

Why? Couldn’t a parent acknowledge their child turned out to be a dumb bimbo, and support them in their Instagram influencer career? At least make sure they save some money for when they’re 25, jobless and devoid of any real life skills? 

Status/class and money are different things. 

“But the real question now is how culpable is Olivia in this mess of a scheme.”

I bet if this were about Bernie they would spin his ignorance as a positive. I more curious about why the music director at that church thought that song was a good idea.

Have you been to Park Slope? I can totally believe this.

Yeah, seriously. Being unhappy with the result of an investigation doesn’t mean the investigation wasn’t carried out appropriately. 

Yeah, on the one hand, I feel like black girl magic is like black lives matter and me too - for them to succeed as movements, they have to transcend whoever came up with the phrase first. It seems dumb to even want to trademark them because they are concepts that shouldn’t be owned or controlled by a single person but…

I don’t see how Gillibrand’s office mishandled it though. Based on the information they had, the man was investigated, his behaviour was deemed inapropriate but not firable and he was still reprimanded and suffered consequences. I guess the woman wasn’t happy that he wasn’t immediately fired, and it wasn’t enough for…

Yeah, I kept reading, waiting to get to the part where they handled this inappropriately, and that never happened. As far as I can tell, her office handled it well. I guess the woman wasn’t happy that he wasn’t immediately fired, and it wasn’t enough for her that he was warned, lost a promotion and had his desk moved.…

Well, look at what happened in Germany. A lot of analysts agree that Merkel’s party losses at the poll, and the huge gains by the far right, are due to her open door policy and letting in a million refugees basically all at once. Not that it was a bad move - Merkel isn’t an ideologue, she did the math and figured out…

Religious idiots have believed this for ages. There are loads of cultures where rapists are forgiven as long as they marry their victim. 

He’s a pig and represents everything wrong with this country but saying you are certain he’s assaulted children before is, um, imaginative and dramatic to say the least. I think he’s just such a fucking contrarian he’ll defend anyone the far right thinks is being persecuted for their beliefs, like warren jeffs. 

The woman is a dumbass and I hope the jaguar clawed her selfie arm. 

Banh Mi, ramen, pasta with fresh mushrooms in a cream sauce, pierogis, shrimp laksa with rice noodles, dim sum or soup dumplings or just dumplings in general.

But even if he is guilty. The family and their suffering and Lee’s death doesn’t give them veto power over anyone who wants to investigate or report on the case, regardless of their angle.

Thanks. I’m actually very familiar with the UNHCHR’s different mandate holders’ reports on the situation in Palestine and human rights abuses, as well as Amnesty and HRW. You seem to be assuming based on my comments that I am sympathetic to the Israeli government when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. I despise…

If I need to educate myself I don’t do it by reading the mostly hot takes of the Jez staff writing about politics. Maybe you should try Foreign Policy, the NYT, WaPo, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Guardian, you know, real news sources?

Did I have to resort to insults to make by point? No. You shouldn’t have to either because all you did is make yourself and your points eminently dismissible.

THANK YOU!