I am currently reading “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson, you might find it interesting towards your point. Lots here but she makes the distinction between race (an imaginary construct by European white colonizers to the Americas) and caste (social and cultural power consecrated by slavery in the U.S.), and that designates…

My 5 year old somewhat watches Ryan’s World, but she’s actually really entranced by the Pond Monster channel. Judge all you want, don’t know how she found it but she wants to visit Steven and Grace and hunt for pond monsters. 

He has been documenting and working with government officials all along, since he worked on the frontlines in NYC during the initial outbreak. He’s also a veteran and his cousin died of COVID. He’s doing exactly the right thing, which is informing the public based on his expertise and experience, just like Rebekah…

Because of the American ethos of living to work rather than working to live. It’s insidious. 

My dream. It’s unfathomable that Americans want to work themselves to death. Fucking live some life. 

Yeah, so he wasn’t acting. He was being himself. An abusive, overrated tool. I’m glad she did this. It is extremely brave of her, even now in the #metoo era and her motives are clear: help others. 

I know many dry drunks whose sobriety did nothing to stop their abusive natures. Your analysis is spot on. 

I plan on clinging to principles while the world burns, with the most vulnerable populations suffering even more than they have - even dying for my principles - right to my cold grave, where my principles will keep me warm. 

Yeah, it really is. Guess Jezebel readers aren’t on social media. 

Wait, Kanye understands GOD. Trump thinks he is GOD. Bigly difference. /s 

Also and, people will actually vote for Kanye out of “purity” or “protest” or because they think it’s funny. I don’t understand the tone of this - there are actually a bunch of people who do this? She’s making a legit case against stupid votes. And she has a platform, particularly among the mini-van majority…

You make good points, but this child will grow up amidst not only the abandonment issues adopted children often already experience, but with the publicity and Internet history to go along with it. They made him a public, monetized commodity, and he will know that some day. I’m glad he’s (hopefully) in a better home…

Too much money, time, and platform. Reading her tweets, I thought to myself “this is a lonely woman looking for attention who decided to direct her unhappiness at a vulnerable group.” Oldest story out there. It’s easy to hate when you really are just unhappy with yourself.

Agreed. If it’s a perceived threat to trump himself, then it’s a simplistic label to give him and his supporters something to target. See all the infantile names he calls his political opponents. Truly dumb, but here we are. Literally, here is where pure stupidity, generations of it, has gotten us. 

“Believe all women” comes in handy when you’re magical thinking candidate didn’t make it. 

There is no conundrum. These are not valid complaints, and you know it. Just stop. You’re part of the problem and this site learns fucking nothing, ever.

“taking progressive votes for granted” ??? I’m a progressive and I’m all in for Biden, with no hesitation at all. What you really mean is, the Democratic party, while far from perfect, tries to serve its broader base and not sell you pie-in-the-fucking sky dreams that won’t happen. Or more simply, you want them to lie…

He’d only lose them if they attach themselves to some moral high ground for the sake of their egos and, by doing so, re-elect trump. Just what pride can anyone take in that? 

Grovel to AOC apparently. I guess she thinks she’s more influential than she really is. 

I hadn’t even thought of this, my MY GODS if I was trapped with my ex. Murder, she wrote. <ex of 48 year-old man with maturity of maybe, generously, 14>