I was gonna write this same sentiment.

It’s not a paradox. You’re too hung up on the flag. He’s not protesting the symbols (which represent much more than military service and the freedom of speech). He’s asking if the cultural and legal values that define those symbols are actually practiced in the United States. The people who are doing what you suggest…

Are you interested in making a coherent point?

This is a 100% empty and uncritical response that does not address what he is protesting.

I won’t shed any tears for them.

You both sound like dorks.

The drastic leap in quality from Ariana Grande to Beyonce/Rihanna exists only in your imaginations. This is all bad. And super corny.

You must have a really low standard for genius moments.

You have to be stupid to like this.

you forgot beyonce.

Aspects of the left have shifted. There are really a few different interpretations of what it means to be a leftist and I believe the one being discussed here is the leftist whose politics are largely based in seemingly progressive identity politics (which are really conservative at their root) and abandoned…

When you take those surveys, it harms the little person with no power to really do anything. They really do nothing to address failed corporate policies. Most likely, those surveys are just being used to show value for shareholders.

You are weird.

Trust me, this is heavy on my mind.

I suggest you sleep on it for a week or two and then get back to me.

At this point, I really have no idea what you’re talking about.

Yes, hyperbole.

In my use of the word tirade? Yes. It was a hyperbole. If that’s what you mean by bias. Otherwise, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.

I can firmly say no to that. You’re trying to making an equivocation that just isn’t there. Oh well?

I don’t know. Like it’s less reaching than assuming someone is that or that because their opinion is Tove Lo plays a style of music that is like the generic pop-girl version of Nickleback.