Our president is a fucking rapist and the media all quietly shut up about his dozen accusers after the election, it’s a fucking disgrace.

Ok, this really is something that should have been mentioned in the article. Doesn’t change the point of the article, but omitting talking about this as a reference to a recent event does make it seem disingenuous.

So a quick scene or just a line from Sansa telling Jon to do that next time and him saying you’re right would have done great work to make Jon look like he’s making leadership mistakes, not just being unfairly backstabbed by people like Thorne and Littlefinger, and it would help it not look like Sansa is…

That’s fine if the show is going to present Jon as a bad leader because of it but I’m not sold on that being their goal because the scenes with Sansa questioning his leadership are making Sansa look bad, not him.

Maybe he could, I don’t know, fucking tell them about it? About the horrifying shit he saw at Hardhome? They already believe him enough to prepare to fight and he’s got Tormund to back him up, why doesn’t he talk about the enemy in anything more that the vaguest terms?

Why not? This show is supposed to be strong in political drama, the writers can do better and they shouldn’t be given a pass for these scenes which undermine our opinion of both Jon and Sansa’s leadership skills if the writers want us to think they’re good leaders.

Or Jon could talk to her and his close allies in private first like a good leader. Jon sucks at this.

“Jon has seen the army of the dead and is the only person who understands what is at stake.”

Yeah, you sure sound like you’re here in good faith

“they’re stuck with him until they figure out how to unwind his influence.”

Right, which is why it’s pointless to refute the lies, you have to discredit the source of these lies. It’s a word association game, say Fox News lies and Fox Propaganda so many times people naturally associate the words every time they hear the name Fox. And this isn’t contrary to democratic values. It’s recognition…

Dems really need to step up and have a coordinated anti-propaganda strategy, it’s the only thing that will change American politics. It’s literally what we’re dealing with, what Fox “News” has been doing to half the country for decades. We need to name it what it is, not what they call themselves. FoxProp,…

Exactly! This proves it’s all bullshit in Fox News land, it’s so bad people are having to resign for it! They’ve got like 5 stories on their site harping on this right now, under their lead articles criticizing Obama for taking expensive vacations now that he isn’t President any more (yes, seriously). Never mind the…

It’s the Karl Rove strategy of accusing your political opponents of things you’re weak on, taken to a really, really stupid level.

Yup, which is why basically no one on the left actually defended the image as good art, they mostly were calling out a hypocritical response by R’s.

Oh, they love “real” women, just like they love “real” America, but if you don’t fit their fantasy of what “real” women or America should be, you are literally beneath their consideration.

There could be nuance if one side wasn’t constantly having to argue against the racist response and not say anything the racists would see as supporting them. We’re stuck on the first step of the debate over public response because the right won’t admit the racist response is wrong and counterproductive.

I keep telling you what you can do: you can either learn what racism actually is before you come in demanding proof of it, or you can say at the start that the only proof of racism you will accept is an actual recording of someone personally using racial slurs in earnest (the testimony of others does not count, no…

Yes, the rhetoric in that speech is the right way to address the relationship between terrorism and Islam, it’s very similar to rhetoric that has been used consistently for years by smart, responsible leaders like Barack Obama and the imams at the mosque the Manchester bomber attended. Donald Trump sure as fuck didn’t…

Would attacking Christianity and Christians has stopped slavery? No. So why would attacking Islam and Muslims stop terrorism? The danger from terrorism is not a danger from Muslims in general and treating it as such actually benefits terrorist groups, but nice job exploiting recent tragedy to try and score cheap…