I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed his attempt to smear moderate Democrats as “center right” collaborators. Yikes.

It’s the exact opposite. “Hate speech” as a legal concept, an exception to the First Amendment, doesn’t exist. Period.

Go Set a Watchman, man: Atticus is racist...

I don’t get the “herero” qualifier. You know gay dudes also don’t identify as or desire to be women, right?

Months late to this but your comment is so spot on I had to say something.

...but Kenworthy’s going to Seoul, right? Wasn’t he named to Seoul before Rippon?

I despise “what about ______ folk?” arguments, but OP is suffering from a serious case of OP-centrism. I’ve gotta assume OP is straight because, when someone mentions marriage, gay men don’t think about rings, dresses, bridal showers, and other gendered traditions created by this so-called “wedding industry.” (I don’t…

I have never once heard a gay person make that argument.

Definitely. The joke density was off the charts. So many throwaway lines and weirdly funny BB-specific moments: the bit about the burger reviews culminating with the subtle but crazy eyes; all the Sound of Music references; Tammy’s evolving but otherwise totally irrelevant hairstyle. The casualness with which Bob…

quality inversely correlated with Nielsen ratings

Don’t forget the mom who wasn’t having any of it from her husband!

I don’t think it’s inherently majoritarian. Nationalism is also a prerequisite for self-determination and, ideally, secession from the state within which the incipent nation was denied its right. In that sense, nationalism is anti-majoritarian. Real world examples abound, perhaps the most timely of which is the…

I thought the anti-’murica, anti-troop, anti-flag argument was so self-evidently ridiculous that I was honestly (naively?) surprised when I learned that it was gaining traction. “Fetishism” is the first word that came to my mind, too.

“Outside the stadium in East Rutherford, Julie and Vin Santomero, who brought their sons to the game, said they also did not want to see protests at a sporting event because they attended games to get away from politics. ‘It’s a football game,’ Mrs. Santomero said. ‘They’re here to play the game.’”

Weiner he ever learn?

Statistically, you’re probably right about the demographic of suck, but I’ve grown to despise the reflexive “white men” response. It doesn’t acknowledge the very real minority sub-populations that support them. I don’t know if it’s some kind of self-loathing on their part? But even among the extremist groups—KKK,…

Chapo Trap House? (I’m no good sure if that’s the exact name but it’s not worth opening up a new tab on my already over-burdened iPhone.)

I was gonna say, and I’m sure someone downstream has already responded to your comment, but the vitriol leveled against female family members is horrifying and horrifyingly consistent. Admittedly, BB writers created a cartoon version of Skylar in the first season, the embodiment of every bad stereotype about wives;…