Thing is, Lord of the Flies was a response to a particular conceit of British pulp novels which depicted young boys/men being stranded as a fun adventure with little internal conflict. Golding took the subject of entitled British boarding school boys and the kind of savagery he saw in how they acted with each other…

The only way this could not be completely awful is if it were an exact recreation of the original story but gender swapped, because that would tell us some interesting things about how we perceive violence and gender. Anything else is going to be a stereotyped mess.

“Later, spotting a crowd of people, he said “What a crowd!” and “What a turnout!”

Always relevant.

Here’s an idea: even if you want to say climate change isn’t settled science, maybe it’s not a bad idea to find alternative sources of energy when fossil fuels are held by people who hate America and when they’re a finite resource?

If you don’t know whether you are watching a filmed rape or not (and so many actresses come forward immediately or years later to say they were raped on camera or had things done to them that they didn’t agree to and couldn’t say no to without losing the entire paycheck from that day) ... is it really ethical?…

I am at the point that I am literally going to punch the next person that says “but they’re both just as baaaaaaaaad”

It’s not that he doesn’t know, it’s that this is his long term public relations strategy. His mentor was Roy Cohn, the lawyer for Joseph McCarthy, whose advice was to never apologize and to counterpunch EVERYTHING. Trump would beat up a 3 year old who weakly kicked his foot out of anger.

48 hours to condemn actual fucking Nazis.

Statistic:
Only 23% of Registered American Voters cast ballots for Donald Trump.
Only 24% of Registered American Voters cast ballots for Hillary Clinton.

President Lazy Boy is a draft dodger. All of his attacks are about his own shortcomings. You don’t need to be shrink to see that.

I don’t understand the concept of meal kits when you can:

did it really surprise people?

So glad the Democratic Party didn’t apply a litmus test to this guy. Something bad might have happened.

It’s almost as if the Democratic Party should’ve supported an actual progressive.

At this point, the right wing has successfully tagged liberals and anyone else who disagrees with him with the stereotype of the wealthy elitist. We’re at the point where a real estate billionaire from New York and his hirelings can accuse others of being elites. Yikes.

If we’re going to jump on things that don’t count because they “were added later”, let’s talk about “In God We Trust” and “The Pledge of Allegiance”.

I sure hope he speaks English

Wouldn’t a “cosmopolitan bias” be the one that favors rich professionals?

So would that also mean that thoroughly unqualified “legacy admissions” will be illegal? Several come immediately to mind...