“I’ll be so good for women. Women love me.” “The blacks love me.”

Anderson got one good one in there when the lady asked, “What are the top three functions of the federal government?” Trump: “Security, security, security.” Anderson: “You can’t just say security three times, name two more.” Trump: “Education and health care.” Anderson: “Wait, I thought your stance was that those…

To be fair that’s like asking follow-up questions on a 6 year old’s plan to fly to the moon. He’ll answer you, but in an avalanche of small, unrelated words that don’t make any sense in the order they’re delivered.

Everyone in the GOP is a sell out. Tax breaks are frankly the only issue they care about.

their goal is to return America to the early 1950s

I know, this paragraph just killed me:

Female ex-GOP here. When it’s how your entire worldview is informed from birth, “brain damaged” maybe isn’t quite as accurate as “brainwashed”.

Yes, I think we can acknowledge that indentured servitude was brutal and terrible without equating it with race-based chattel slavery. Three big differences:

No it wasn’t cushy but they were allowed to vote, own property, and hold political office things that were denied to slaves and free black people

God, if I hear one more person bring up the “BUT THE IRISH!!!” argument when discussing racial oppression I will strangle them. I’m Jewish, and I don’t feel the compulsion to yell out “BUT ANTISEMITISM!!!!” when discussing the Black Lives Matter campaign. Different topic for a different time. Totally and completely…

If she’s not already then she’s being groomed. It’s not a comfortable truth, but that shouldn’t stop us from facing it. In America, we’re basically turning a blind eye to these monstrous pedophiles and rapists because ‘religion’. The same people who bitch about how bad women have it in third-world countries are…

This. These communities exist solely for a small group of old men to rape and enslave a bunch of women. The majority of the boys born will never get married, but shunned because they serve no purpose for the higher ups.

That’s what I came down to the comments to ask about - I’m so confused. What I’ve taken away from this is - They hate Nintendo for ‘bad’ translations and ‘censorship’ by doing things like giving underage female characters less skimpy costumes and removing the ability to change bust sizes on localised versions of…

It’s easy to see how she got caught up in this, she was forwarded the essay by a white supremacist or Gater and got duped and is now too proud to admit it. I don’t agree with what has been described as the content of Rapp’s essay but I’ve not read it so wont judge the actual content and even if I had read it and…

But they aren’t books about a doll. They really started out as historical novels about 9/10 year old girls that also had a catalog with look-alike dolls. Then the dolls had pricey accessories and outfits, but even my upper middle class parents were like, yeah no. My mom’s concession was to buy a collection of dress…

Definitely glad to see another black character in the AG line, but I wish they had more characters of color in their Girl of the Year (or whatever it’s called now) line. Teaching stories of slavery and civil rights are essential, but kids should also be able to see their own contemporary experiences reflected.

I had Samantha. I loved her. I also teach. The identity part doesn’t bother me at all, and didn’t as a kid. No one is forcing a kid to keep the doll’s identity as Samantha, Addy, Felicity, etc. I also played with Barbies and plenty of other dolls, too, so it’s not like I didn’t have an outlet to use my imagination and…

The description of the first book makes it seem like they’re definitely touching on the Civil Rights Movement although probably not the exact things you mentioned.

Haha yeah. The other books did deal with some sideplots that were a little darker: Samantha made friends with a sad poor child factory worker I think? And Molly had an English girl come stay with her who escaped the London bombing and was worried about her dad dying in the war? But they were definitely side plots to…

I imagine that would be construed as them admitting his guilt, which would put them in a position to admit to endangering his other female artists to his abuse as well. God, it makes me so sick to think about all the other girls he must have done this to and likely still could be doing it to.