So glad this was published. Now we will have an opportunity to debate BDS and Israel and finally solve that issue for good! We’ll get it right this time, Kinja!

Afghanistan isn’t really in the Middle East, it’s Central Asia. It’s a nitpick, but given that the article touched on issues of cultural erasure, it’s an important thing to get right.

This way they get the clicks AND to demonstrate how superior they are to anyone who clicks.

To be fair, the listing agent isn’t a professional wordsmith writing for publication. They were likely using “political” in the way many people do, which is as to mean “partisan,” and in Jezebel’s case unabashedly so. Slate’s tone is more neutral, which fools people into thinking their viewpoint is as well.

The Noem tweet where she conflated the souls of individuals with the metaphorical “soul of the nation” was as clear a manifesto for theocracy I’ve seen from one of these morons in a while. Elected Republicans normally like to skirt around their intention to ignore the Establishment Clause.

Are you under the impression that Lorne Michaels is the Governor of New York or something?

The thing is, for stuff like this, wills are not binding if there’s an objection based in law or the child’s welfare. You can’t force someone to take care of your kid and you can’t “will away” your legal or financial responsibilities or anyone else’s. So, the writer can say what she wants in her will, and the husband…

My first thought was “how did she not know?” But my second thought is that she’s lucky: she got to see the movie, and appreciate it, in a way that most people did not.

Here the thing: they weren’t arresting a video, they were arresting a person. We don’t know what they saw, or how they perceived it. Second, they did shoot the guy, so there’s good evidence they did try to kill him (which, as always in these discussions, seems to be people’s preferred version of equity). Third, at…

If you were to ask your average racist if they think this shooter is white, they will say no. If you ask your average Arab person if they think this person is white, they will say no. If you ask your average white person - Census Bureau employees and yourself excluded - if this person is white, they will say no. Race…

I am well aware that lots of people were racist in the early 20th century. It’s just that one could be horrified by the excesses of the Belgians in the Congo and still be extremely racist, just as one could be horrified by Dachau and still be extremely racist. Burroughs being against the mass slaughter of Africans…

I think being against the Belgian project in Africa in the 19th century is kind of like being against Nazis today: it’s such a low bar that even virulent racists could clear it easily.

“We will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.”

Great! I guess all the no fly lists and extra security checks Arab-Americans endured after 9-11 wasn’t racial profiling after all. They’ll be so relieved.

“which will lose most of its value as soon as you try to do so, because it’s mostly based in share value”

We have been able to, but we have not been. Which is to say, saying “we can do both” when we are not doing both, or at least not doing the important one with acceptable diligence or efficacy, are empty words offered in resistance to solving the problem. Pointing out that Elon Musk is “well actually” not that rich when…

So, 60 years ago a thing happened ergo why are we talking about present day problems, something something Elon Musk isn’t *actually * obscenely rich something something lip service to the poor something somthing taxes are stupid.

Normally I am the first to point this out, but in this case it is less relevant: Musk and Bezos have meaningful control over billions of dollars, and shit tonnes of actual cash. It is all imaginary until money until someone tries to take it from them.

For Jezebel, there is no real choice when they stumble upon the opportunity to say something snarky instead of something true.

Interesting choice of words, sex-traffickers. It’s very evocative of certain perceptions of these murdered women.