Clearly, Tessa Blanchard's cameo tonight is setting in motion a long-term story to reunite the "real" 4 Horsewomen.

I'm low-level terrified. She has tons and tons of expertise, as you should know, but, right, no actual dealmaking, community relationship building, or possibly-hostile-bureaucracy experience.

On your point, yes, it is their job, and they do so through the legal system or legislatures. I was talking more face-to-face, peer-to-peer, you know? That's what Bowls was talking about: the random people throughout the country, not those in power or with power.

Got it. Have a good one.

I think I can head part of this off by saying to your last sentence, "No, I was not doing that." Note what I was responding to

1. Your solution is the absence of a solution. "Black people of any class are treated unequally in America. We need to convince our fellow citizens who either don't particularly care enough to do anything or are hostile to sacrificing their advantages that this must be solved now."

(I wanted to create a subthread since your point was tangential but important.)

Right, that's fine, and I admire your abstinence education for the brain as being reasonable myself/"please, be reasonable" is also my 1st option, but high schoolers are going to have sex and people are going to hew to the things that are already important to them, so we have to figure out what to do when they don't…

Pokemon has never been HARD, but it's back to Red/Green/Blue/Yellow. That is, the main game is easy with occasional fair spike in difficulty that are telegraphed. The spikes are the fun level of challenging rather than reason to grind for awhile. It reminds me of Tales Of games, in that sense.

I have wondered since how much that caused low turnout for Clinton. I don't think Sanders voters would listen to Trump or conservative outlets that would make the case that downtrodden low-income people of all types should dislike Clinton, but perhaps it had some effect.

You're right in that it actually just provides a better user experience for all sides.

I love the deconstruction, but Saturday Night Live isn't the news media and even Weekend Update does not present itself as such. It COULD equally deconstruct political comedy and comedy in general, which (like poetry) depends on using the right number of words, the right words, and the right order of words to have…

I'm going to use this a ton, but it'll be weird to cite "this person on the internet, Pray For Mojo." Thank you, nonetheless.

Alternative point of view: There are lots of websites and places in the world where I am forced to interact with horrible people.

*cosign* If your joke was a Twitter hashtag already, it's probably not worth making.

Disclaimer: this is just from someone who is generally in a lot of conservative circles (born and raised in small town Wisconsin with "the grassroots," elite college with "the establishment," heavily involved in policy and politics in Wisconsin with "the movement"). I don't actually know the answer.

I mean, HONESTLY, do you not see that these are embankments against a tide they/we see as inevitable? Both sides do it, and both sides are right to care. It's just about choosing ways to effective get the country on board and reach your policies.

Which country is that, again?

Source: some dude on Twitter (presumably, because it went viral without a source, although that source was sort of a district judge here who referenced a witness who basically cross referenced the 2013 database of registered voters with DMV records).

Whether it's Dostoevskii or Bresson getting into 1 of their high-minded, amazing philosophical discussions, I've adored how they keep it grounded in "the ordinary world."