Man, I was going to say she started under the assumption of an HRC presidency, but...last year? What??

She seems to be imagining the existence of a significant chunk of well-meaning prolifers, who genuinely want to reduce unwanted pregnancies to reduce abortion, and so support PP’s missions of sex education and birth control access. That’s a nice thing to imagine, because otherwise a significant portion of our fellow…

Making things apolitical is political. I’d be happy for abortion to be apolitical, because it would mean the prolife movement had been utterly, permanently excluded from the political sphere. If Dr. Wen were offering to do that, I’d put her in charge of anything she wanted!

I don’t think they’re conservative so much as delusional. She wants to work with people who call themselves pro-life but want abortion to remain legal and people who want to criminalize abortion but expand access to birth control and that’s like 20 people in the world. Reaching out to unlikely allies is great, but…

I mean, it sounds like a generic sports site, so how bad could it be? Were it not for Deadspin’s reporting I would assume Barstool Sports was indistinguishable from Bleacher Report. It’s sloppy, yeah, but not unthinkably so.

I’m just trying to imagine the situation where the two sides of a civil war are “Racist” and “Communist.”

I mean just the background awfulness of [sweeping gesture with both arms]. It’s bad for mental/emotional health under the best of personal circumstances, never mind with serious personal stress thrown in.

Yeah, the basket of deplorables is for real. West Virginia is basically the canary in, uh, itself for how thoroughly whites will annihilate themselves before they’ll help any nonwhite person anywhere — including their imagination — to benefit. A real hard crash will peel off a few at the edges, though.

Financial ruin, like people experienced in 2008, seems to do it. Of course the cost of that in human suffering is probably still greater than the benefit. It’s scary how much closer the calculation is getting, though.

Reconstruction failed because it was run by white men who still, even after the insane horrors of the Civil War, couldn’t convince themselves that Black people were people. Same reason the New Deal and school integration failed. Until we have programs designed and run by administrators with the understanding that…

Lots of studies suggest that “openness to new experience” on the Big 5 personality test is very strongly correlated with political liberalism

It’s completely unfair for you to have to deal with emotionally draining political dumbshittery while you’re mourning. I’m so sorry. Take care of yourself first, your family next, and national politics not a second before you feel like it.

It’s like speculating what Oliver Twist would do

Jesus preached about peace and turning the other cheek, but when it came to people cashing in on religion he sat down and braided a leather whip and thrashed them with it. Jesus would beat the shit out of Kenneth Copeland with a rawhide whip. Just straight fuck the old guy up. It’s a genuine marvel how thoroughly…

And, I mean, also a misogynist closeted gay man. He’d be running Liberty U today.

There is, or at least ought to be, a wide, wide space between “unacceptable” and “manslaughter.”

An article and thread backing you up:

Honestly, when was it not political? It has been, at the very least, since, say, the Levite’s concubine — who was raped, murdered, and then butchered by her husband to incite a war — or Lucretia, whose rape and later suicide were used to justify the overthrow of the Roman monarchy.

I mean, it’s the Obama conundrum again, isn’t it? He’s genuinely politically liberal, but the most successful way to do that as a member of a disfavored minority is to be temperamentally small-c conservative.