I guess you’re nicer than me because I saw a lot of pettiness and snark in that blog, and I’m not sure framing the ability to disconnect from the internet as a form of privilege is particularly helpful, and in any case it’s something that should be taken up with the publishers who decided what writers to invest in…

The average trump voter is a rural, uneducated white person.  Thoughtful consideration of the facts is not their collective strong suit. 

He’s saying crazy shit that his base loves while his policies are screwing us over. It’s really simple.

What am I deflecting? I’m directly responding to what you’re saying, not deflecting anything.

Uh, it’s probably because you (constantly) sound like a triggered, snowflake boomer.  All you do is spew vitriol.  You contribute nothing.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but basically what you’re saying is that because social media helped make Eilish famous, she owes it to the world to read the comments including the trolling bullshit? And you think it’s unfair that she gets to have the ‘privilege’ of being able to disconnect because as a blogger/writer,…

Why are you even on this site?  All you do is get triggered.  Must be hard being such a sensitive snowflake.

He’s pushing their “values” that’s why. Mainly discriminating on minorities and cracking down on women’s rights.

Eat, and I cannot stress this enough, shit. 

Yeah really, he’s saying all this crazy shit to his base that they love while his policies are screwing them over at the same time. Yet they’re all gonna vote for him again anyhow.

‘Despite it being an outright lie and easily verifiable as such, the rightwing media had convinced them that Bill Clinton sent all their jobs to China.’

Counterpoint: Forcing your employees to attend a political event is deeply fucked up - and is somehow legal.

She understood the terms of the business transaction, er marriage.

It’s quite simple: NASCAR fans are dolts. 

the crowd at that time had surely serious concerns about good ol’ boy Clinton’s “draft dodger” status

NASCAR has shown itself an ever more increasingly stupid exercise in excess and recklessness in the “hold my beer” culture. Time after time, they can’t seem to end a race without tremendous wrecks, suggesting (unfairly) that their drivers can’t drive worth a fuck. Guiding a poweful brick-shaped billboard around a bowl…

Excellent article, thank you. Keep our politics out of my sports (unless your politics are conservative, says the GOP supporters!!). 

Fun fact: 50% of NASCAR fans are attracted to the sport because it gives them hope that they, too, will someday have the courage to make a left turn despite the ensuing condemnation and ridicule from their peers.