Dems this time are supposedly leaning on healthcare and worker protections (e.g. the minimum wage), but leadership and media coverage keep walking into the rakes as fast as Republicans are able to toss them out. Unfortunately, they’re letting the pace be set for them, but I also don’t know that there’s a viable option…

Unfortunately, while that’s something that’s showing signs of change, there’s a 30 year old playbook supported by a lot of money and inertia that’s slowing it down. Best bet at this point is to be vocal in contacting your reps, vote in primaries, and offer money or time to your progressive candidates in primaries.…

People get it. Every “I’m not racist, but” racist I know has hated Sharpton for decades. This is pretty much an in-group thing at this point.

That runway was brutal the first (half-dozen or so) time(s) until you got the guns down-pat. Middle-school me took a while to learn from mistakes.

From what I’ve seen, I think she may be an assistant. Which is an important, and valuable, and perfectly fine job. Just that she’s an awful garbage person who happens to have that job.

You know how it is, you’re in there to pick up some floss, the next thing you know you’ve got $50 worth of stuff, and then you realize that if you self-checkout, there’s not a person handling all those items, so you go get some self-care supplies, all your make-up, ten bottles of wine, six pairs of shoes, some…

I know a lot of people who have anxiety pretty bad, and I have a touch of it myself, and I’ve never seen it force anyone to drop a racial slur because someone’s talking in a restaurant. Not one time in my 25-30 years of remembered life.

I recall reading that they were having a LOT of trouble hiring people who could recognize their asshole from their elbow with greater than 60% accuracy. That there wasn’t someone carefully, intentionally looking at things for a public appearance isn’t surprising. What brainpower they are able to muster is likely…

Wannabe Nazi Sebastian Gorka wants to talk about how someone is racist? Literal fascist Sebastian Gorka thinks someone should apologize for being racist? Proud wearer of Nazi collaborator medals Sebastian Gorka is pushing a deceptively edited propaganda video to undermine a woman of color in an elected position?

Do you know that we have to change the belts on the high-speed machines ourselves now? With our fumbly, adult fingers??? /s

Damsel powers, bud. Just enough to keep her from getting killed, and the problem is her feminine weakness.

Yeah, that’s kinda . . .

I’d argue it was more “It was the 1960s/70s, and female characters weren’t usually put in play as ‘the most powerful member of their group.’” Narratively, that’s the justification. In reality, she was there to be a damsel, and they gave her what they thought were damsel powers, until someone realized those powers…

Obviously, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, but it has just occurred to me that there’s really not a way this ends well for him the more time he spends in jail.

I can’t think Pelosi or Schumer have had time to keep up their fiddling practice the last few years, but it does seem like they’re thinking of breaking them out. No need to worry about the arsonists.

What I’ve read elsewhere included suggestions of mounting a very powerful laser emitter (the moon is usually held up as the location for that) as a way of continuing to direct significant amounts of light toward the sail.

It always annoys me when people I know who lean right claim there are no moderates that can win, or “the Democrats won’t nominate a moderate.” But it’s because their idea of “moderate” and “middle ground” is Reagan.

I’m honestly surprised at the number of people in Democratic leadership still expecting that maybe Lucy’s not gonna yank that football away at the last minute, and they’ll decide that maybe they can work with others occasionally, the way they did prior to 1996, and to a much lesser extent from 1996-2007.

I’ve also seen a lot of “You can’t prove it was racist,” usually leaning on whether someone explicitly used a slur or said outright they think black people are X. Which I guess goes to that intent argument you’re pointing to, and turns it into a situation where the burden is on showing (without any doubt) that the…

That complete shift in tone right up near the top is really something.