I don’t know what you or anyone else would consider “white” culture. I would argue that Hollywood is generally “American white culture.” Wild West movies, American style sci-fi movies. The Maltese Falcon. Most modern American movies, too. You go to, say, France or Japan or even Canada, and you get rather different…

JetBlue is great. Unfortunately, they keep passwords around in plaintext and will send them to you through email, so avoid buying directly from their website.

Ah, the anti-head-bobbing thing would be useful. I haven’t generally had trouble with the head on tray thing before, but the last time I was on a plane, I had my ESA in my lap, and he took issue to me putting my head on the tray. Maybe I’ll try the reclining thing next time. It’s worth a shot.

I think you can still say “I’m glad I don’t live in NC.” After all, they’ve had to weather a lot of lawsuits and economic losses over things that they may not even support... and now they’re going to have another lawsuit because their reps are doing stupid shit. Even if you love NC, you’d probably wish you didn’t have…

Does it really make a difference to your sleep, being able to “recline” a few inches? I ask this as someone who has never managed to fall asleep on a plane without putting my head on the tray table...

That’s generally fair to say. I think the US has had a fairly significant influence on our policies over the years, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill, and a lot of that is going to be from backroom talks. I think that’s the nature of being in a global society, and especially of being neighbors to a country as…

The tax on digital media that was created because they were calling us pirates. Just because they aren’t dictating policy directly doesn’t mean they don’t affect it.

My politicians? I live in the US now because jobs are easier to come by, but I’m Canadian. I think that our politicians would have dismantled drug laws a long time ago if not for the US influence, and that damned tax on digital media in the late 90s/early 00s was a direct case of them influencing us. (I don’t know if…

Hmmm. You say that, but the US definitely has an influence on Canadian laws because of how important a trading partner they are...

Ah, I apologize. Figured you were claiming Trump to be morally superior based on that.

She didn’t. It’s propaganda. Much as I don’t like rapists, people like that still need defense attorneys, and she was told to defend him.

Uh, yeah, no. He shouldn’t have used the word, even quoting someone— which he got wrong. I’m with her. It’s not okay for the alt-right to use it, and it’s not okay for the left to use it. This is how the alt-right calls us hypocrites and gets Americans who aren’t neo-Nazis against us. Just don’t use it.

At the conference’s conclusion, Spencer declared to the press, “The alt-right is here, the alt-right is not going anywhere, the alt-right is going to change the world. And you all need to pay attention to this.”

Oh, from the wording, I kind of thought he was her step-son or step-grandson or something. (I obviously haven’t paid attention to the Trump family.)

Honestly... probably it is. I’d love to know his personal thoughts, but I think that he should worry about his safety in Trump’s shit-list America and keep his private thoughts private while trying to do whatever he can to keep the man from destroying everything he’s done.

I know. It’s bizarre thinking.

The Trump voters I talk to, including the military folks, don’t seem to think it’s a mistake. They don’t think there’s any problem here.

I honestly do not understand these protests. What are people hoping to accomplish? The vote was democratic. Just because we don’t like the results, and are afraid of the results (for good reason), doesn’t change that a democratic vote got the man into power. Protesting this is protesting democracy, which is... well...…

You know what Canada is? Canada is your annoying friend who insists on coming over with a bottle of wine (girls night!) to tell you how everything is going to be just fine even though you got laid off, put your dog down, and found out your husband has another family—two houses down.

To be honest, SJW was never not a slur. Would anyone have called themselves a social justice warrior? No. They’d call themselves an activist or something.