Honestly, with the mess Trump left things in, I’m surprised he’s got anything at all done. And at least when reporters ask him a question, he replies more or less honestly, not with a bunch of blaming, boasts, self aggrandizations and outright lies.

Protip: Joe Biden is not surprised. Joe Biden is a politician, who uses rhetoric to attempt political goals.

Fair enough question, I suppose.

He has no current job skills, so he’s stuck on the minimum wage job track. Assuming he lives to be 80, that’s $62,500 per year. So far, he hasn’t contributed enough into social security or medicare to be eligible to collect on either. He could get the minimum 40 quarters in by the time he’s 65, but he’s unlikely to…

Mr. Robert Jones is getting about $87,000 per year, which seems a bit low for taking a third of his life. I have three problems with these exoneration cases, as there needs to be prosecution for abuse of power by the prosecutors & police, the settlements often are a joke, and for every person exonerated there are…

Who are we to judge which marginalized groups are and are not worthy of working with? Seems to me like you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater? An argument could be made that “western feminism” (including feminism practiced by black Americans) does not represent “Muslim” or “LGBTQ” feminism and therefore…

Delaware is just a series of P.O. boxes in Maryland that corporations can register as their addresses to avoid paying taxes. It started as an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the Founders so that no actual state had to be in the awkward position of being the first to ratify the constitution. They made up a fake state to…

There is always some weird assumption that the policies advocated by progressive are ALWAYS better. They simply aren’t. And when those unpopular policies are delivered by a person who think Twitter re-tweets and “YASS QUUEEENNN” from white men living in Brooklyn counts the same as votes, you’re not going to be…

For all the whining about “evil money,” this race was over the minute Black clergy called Turner out from the pulpit as bearing false witness. I’ve been through many a crazy election - Ohio somewhat specializes in those - but I’ve never seen anything like that.

Woah. The politician with more local connections won a local election? That’s some real nefarious politicking there on part of the Establishment.

My least favorite part about volunteering for either Sanders run or more issue-based stuff with progressive groups is the sour grapes conspiratorial routine when faced with…

I have my MA in English and I hate “death of the author.” There are very few texts that it legitimately applies to (often it’s an older work where surrounding historical events are no longer common knowledge, so contemporary readers are working in the absence of context). I think it’s fair to feel meaning in a text…

I see both sides of this, and I’m a little more on Mackie’s side right now.

I do think it’s extremely unfair and evidence of a fan’s fantasy casting and romanticized fetish of what being queer means for a very simple reason: applying sexuality to pre-existing characters after the fact is an injustice TO that sexuality. Why not create new leading characters with their own show who were Gay to…

Men are just getting the treatment that women’s friendships have been getting for years.  

I remember in the DVD commentary for Superbad, something I never thought I would reference, they mentioned a review from The Hollywood Reporter, which complained how the movie didn’t make it to the finish line by explicitly have the two leads couple at the end, simply because they said they loved each other, even…

Mackie phrased it really badly, but I think I see where this is coming from. There is this tendency to portray a man displaying any sort of emotional intimacy as gay. And there is nothing at all wrong with being gay, but that same perception also leads heterosexual men to suppress their emotions in the name of being…

Oh ok, from your comments on this thread you’re just an asshole and a moron.

I feel like what Mackie may be getting at when he is saying “the exploitation of homosexuality” is the fetishization of gay men by straight girls. If the majority of these shippers were gay guys wanting to see a gay superhero romance that would be one thing... But all the Stackie (and Stucky) shippers I see on Tumblr…

I personally enjoy seeing platonic straight male friendships that don’t have toxic masculinity energy. I'm not a fan of shipping these characters and I think that's where Mackie's frustration comes from. But of course he can't share an opinion on his own work without being told to shut up. 

It’s fucking weird to interpret every male relationship as being homosexual or trans or whatever the hell else. That's rather obvious. Or it used to be.