First I was ready to protest that the issue of political power relationships with the Democratic Party was legitimate to discuss here, but after rereading these articles and your comment I think you’re spot on. If the only explanation of how this happened that is actually put forward for discussion is the shallow,…

Yup. The entire GOP has been consistently enabling the bigoted abuse of executive power since the Nixon administration.

That’s what enablers do, they contain, fix, and mitigate the damage cause by the addict or narcissists behavior, which makes things a bit better and less harmful for those around them, but they sheild that person from the consequences of their actions and give them further opportunities to hurt those around them. Now…

Guess what? When people argue that racism results in the disproportionate arrest and sentencing of black people for crimes, giving statistics that show black people make up a disproportionate amount of those sentenced for crimes ISN’T A COUNTERARGUMENT.

Well now what happened is, uh, our president, he had a sort of, well, he went a little funny in the head. You know! Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.

Because it’s pathetic. It’s pathetic to imagine all these grown ass adults sitting around nervously hoping this guy on the speakerphone can talk down the literal toddler who holds the highest office in the land.

Enablers aren’t heroes, they just make things worse over the long run.

Yup, someone upthead pointed out that fox has a huge number of (conventionally attractive) rotating women contributors relative to other networks, there might not really be jobs for all of them at different networks.

Jesus Christ you weren’t kidding!

Conservatives will use the flimsiest, rarest evidence or even pure hypotheticals as “proof” that their beliefs are true. Weighing evidence like scientists makes people think politicized issues are much more uncertain than they actually are.

They came up with a hell of a racket. Refuse to allow congress to take any action to solve problems, then argue against the executive branch taking any action to solve problems by claiming that action is the responsibility of congress while refusing to actually respond, then claim these serious problems which are…

Yup. You can tell a lot about someone’s values when you look at on whose behalf they promote social ideals. Free speech for nazis but not blm. Rule of law for brown people, not for white business and political leaders.

Yup! The terms in which this debate is happening right now prove how much of our common understanding of American history has been controlled and shaped by southern white supremacists.

Re: #3, violence does need to be defined according to its motivation. “Radical Islamic terrorism” is a counterproductive oversimplification or even misrepresentation of violence from the Middle East.

Germany lost, the south won. Through political subversion and terrorism they preserved their racist system and power after the war. These statues are victory monuments and the history they say will be erased is the revisionist Lost Cause propaganda that has been taught in the south for generations.

Take that everyone who said complaining about Confederate was pointless! Turns out when we tell TV execs what we want and don’t want, they’re more interested in giving us what we want. Guaranteed the marketing budget just got upped for this show.

I noted your use of the word “fleeing” here. Please do keep in mind many of the liberal people leaving these areas, especially queer people and women, really are fleeing. They need to leave to have the space to live the life they want.

See, that breadth of political opinion is kind of why compromise with the Republicans is counterproductive. All the workable and helpful conservative plans and ideas for government are actually represented in the Democratic Party. The Democrats reach compromise legislation just from debate within their own party (see:…

According to the article it hasn’t been written yet and clearly they care already. Content producers care more about the people who actually think about their content than they care about people like you, so if you don’t care about what this work says or will say, you can just fuck off and no one will care.

But this public outcry is going to force them to treat this with the extreme sensitivity it deserves. TMITHC and The Handmaids Tale were existing stories, their quality and nuance was pre-tested. If this show ends up working, it will be in part because lots of people told HBO exactly what the big potential problems…