Now can we have less “Trump is still a shitty president. News at 11" updates every single damn day?

Seriously, I’m a political junkie, I read about that stuff all day, I’m a freakin’ socialist so of course I hate Trump especially, but my god, that is not the stuff I read the A.V. Club for and if I’m being honest, this…

I do think there are other reasons (not that Trump’s business don’t play a role, I’m sure, but the fact that he has business interests in those countries is also reflective of what I’m about to say)...it’s just that those reasons are related to American imperialism. For various political and economic (re: military…

I actually agree with much of what you write, but to say it’s “all jews” is absurd. Even the ones currently living in Israel, if they are not very old, had nothing to do with its original formation, just as any non-Native Americans living in the United States had nothing to do with its formation and the genocide of…

Speaking as a Jewish person, I would probably punch Benjamin Netanyahu (for instance) in the face for his treatment of Palestinians. Quite readily.

Not everyone loves them, or considers them to be terribly progressive. I don't. Biden's treatment of Anita Hill was terrible, he basically wrote the original Patriot Act, and was a "law and order" (re: lock up the blacks) Democrat for decades. Obama has killed tons of innocents in arguably illegal drone strikes,…

Samantha Bee is often very funny, but her politics really are not very good or all that progressive a lot of the time. This strikes me as one of those times (if nothing else, I feel like we should all agree that those living in safe states should be able to vote however they want). But more troublingly, there's the…

And as for her animosity towards Hillary, well first of all again Bill is not running for president right now. But also I would encourage you to read comments from others here where they say that after being raped and then having mutual friends of their rapists not believe them, they couldn't help but feel even more…

I don’t think it makes Hillary more culpable and if you think I said that you are putting words in my mouth that I did not say.

My point was that Bill Clinton - AT THE TIME THAT HE HAD AN ACTUAL POLITICAL CAREER - did not suffer for this because our understanding of this issue had simply not evolved to where it is now.…

Agreed. I also think we have to factor in that Broaddrick's claims have (with the exception of that NBC reporter) only really been given credence primarily by the right wing of America. I'm the further thing from a right winger and I certainly don't want Donald Trump of all people to be president, nor do I like…

But don’t we have to factor in changing attitudes about rape over time? The original incident with Juanita Broaddrick (there have been others of course) happened in the 70s, came to light in the ‘90s. Since then there has been a legitimate revolution (still in progress) regarding attitudes towards rape and sexual…

I don’t think it’s the job as much as the fact that she comes off as kind of a “sassy loud black lady” stereotype in the available trailers (and while Winston was only given so much to do in the original, it wasn’t specifically EMPHASIZED that he was less intelligent or accomplished than the other, which is at least…

Speaking as a (male) fan of the original film, if those were the new cast members I think I’d be even more disappointed in it.

The original film isn’t Citizen Kane. But it’s one of the funniest comedies ever made. I think people forget how well-regarded it was at the time and that it’s on all sorts of best-of comedy…

This is an incredibly common terminology in politics. E.g. Bill Clinton is Republican-lite, Ted Cruz is Trump-lite, Rand Paul is Ron-lite, etc.

You can choose to make something else of it if you want. But the sheer number of times I have seen that terminology applied to people who are not Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth…

My only issue with this (excellent) post: it doesn’t even bring up Clinton’s time as Secretary of State, or her records on issues of war and crime in general, which have resulted in the needless deaths of countless people all over the world, and certainly within our country.

Not that Sanders is perfect: he voted for…

Speaking as a jew: no, no they are not. Of course there is some minority of people who criticize Israel because they are anti-semitic. (There is also probably a less insubstantial percentage that is anti-semitic, but would not be if they were not oppressed and needed an outlet for their rage. I’m not justifying hate,…

The Black Lives Matter thing is an interesting appeal considering A) a huge number of BLM activists despise Clinton and support Sanders, including the author of “The New Jim Crow” and more recently the daughter of Eric Garner, and B) the fact that the Clintons’ politicking are hugely responsible for the crises leading…

It’s always fascinated me how secretive game publishers are. I would say in some cases (particularly Nintendo), the excessive secrecy probably hurts them more than anything, because people purchase consoles or games with the money they have not knowing that some other thing they’d otherwise be hyped for was around the…

I’m excited too. Like cassiebear, when the beta was over I wanted to keep playing. I’m sure that the game has flaws, and that there are many things that could have been (I wish there was a more robust splitscreen option, for instance), but as it stands my girlfriend and I played the beta basically the entire weekend,…

Yeah, that just makes this so much worse, doesn’t it? I honestly would not be surprised if this puts her life in danger.

Thanks for reminding me why I stopped reading Gawker Media. Outing a sex worker is revolting.