there is a famous Dr. King line about the difference between a negative and a positive peace: the absence of visible tension vs. the presence of justice.

People like Talib don’t take positions to screw over, or own the GOP. That is a conservative game. They fight for what they believe in, not out of resentment for other human beings, but because of their belief in and support of other human beings. If your only reason to support a politician is because you want to…

Muddy the waters of what? What the fuck are you even talking about? This is not a matter of public relations for her, or of scoring some sort of political or partisan win for herself. This was quite clearly a deeply personal decision about which she, understandably, is deeply conflicted about. I’d say don’t filter…

What makes you think politics is something you can just “put off”? I see my politics as an integral part of my personal morality and who I am. How do you view politics, as a “team sport”? Do you think agreeing not to criticize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians during a trip to Israel is like agreeing not to bring…

A boycott of Israel is not an attempt to destroy Israel. I’m sorry, but it simply is not.

No... it’s not.

God, this is an abysmal take. No wonder the U.S. is reviled abroad for cowboy diplomacy and regime changes that leave nothing but destruction in its wake—people like you actually believe it’s a viable way to conduct foreign policy.

Dropping bombs on apartment buildings, leaving Gaza under a siege so severe most people do not get the adequate number of calories, and violent raids that arrest children at 3 am to keep the occupied population from a state of normality are not “restraint”.

There’s also no such thing as a “right to exist”. That was a very smart PR line cooked up by the Israeli government. No such thing is in international law. A state exists, or it doesn’t. No state has such a right, it’s only brought up surrounding Israel because of a concerted push by their advocates to muddy the…

Honestly, Squall’s character growth is the best part of this game (unless you’re more into batshit anime plotlines and twists, then that’s on another level). I really hope that this remaster helps to rehab this game’s image. Yes, it’s a game that’s entire battle system can be twisted and broken on a whim, not…

He has every one of Hillary Clinton’s negative attributes with none of the positive ones and none of this will matter because for every person on the center/left spectrum radicalized by Trump, there are two or three people who just want to vote for whoever can promise them they won’t have to care about politics again…

“Her attempts to take a sensual moment into the realm of consensual made me realize it was a pyrrhic conquest at best.”

*douthat

Using words like apropos, disinclined, anecdata makes you look like a total asshat. 

Are we supposed to assume from that passage that she was sexually attracted to him because he went to Harvard? Because there’s no fucking way it was for his looks.

-1 nonsensical commentary. 

Shut up.

After Trump repeatedly called them “failing,” the NYT decided the best course of action was to prove him right.

the criminals are admitting who influenced them. it’s republicans. again, because you must have something stuck in your ears or something, the criminals are openly admitting this, how fucking hard is it to understand?

On the one hand, irrespective of someone’s politics, I would like an explanation for why my panel was cancelled - to know what the infraction was, and to have an opportunity to correct it.