Projection. Deflection. Course-correction.

This.

We also need to be able to recognize that sometimes the messenger is saying exactly what they’re intending to say about exactly the topic they’re trying to address. We know enough about her example precisely because she lived a significant amount of her marriage (and her motherhood) in the public eye. But I…

Why does this make you feel anything? He and his ex-wife have been divorced for over a year. Turn the lens around: Once they got divorced, how long was he supposed to stay married to his ex-wife?

I can’t wait until they “break up” and y’all are acting like you hated this the whole time. That’s gonna be a fun three days in December!

Why do they keep using that word? “Infiltrate...?” I keep reading stories about law enforcement officers being law enforcement officers, and - in the aftermath - the term “infiltrate” keeps coming up. Infiltrated by spousal batterers. Infiltrated by white supremacists. Infiltrated by bad apples... Is it possible they…

“This is quite the reach... a slap across the face doesn’t deserve to be in the same discussion as rape.”

That’s... the point!

If it had to be “retouched,” it wasn’t attainable.

If the time commitment involved in attaining it is only available to someone with significant amounts of free time and unearned disposable income, it wasn’t attainable.

You’re welcome to be as pedantic as you like, but it would be more impactful if you could offer a…

It was abusive in the sense that he was apparently a dick to her. That part shouldn’t be tough to grasp. Lots of valid questions about the characterization of this behavior, sure, but I’m not sure this is the square to hold down...

You’re hitting on the question I have about all of this. I’m onboard with the manipulative, abusive part of this. I’m struggling with the power imbalance part. She didn’t even know who he was when she met him. In Montreal. If the lead singer of Arcade Fire isn’t a known commodity in Montreal, then as far as I can…

That parenthetical is slightly off... “Arcade Fire” wasn’t a sex jerk to “Sabina.” Win Butler was.

Actually, if you “keep going with that logic,” you get to state and local elections being won by candidates that focus on state and local issues. You get to campaign investment strategies that focus on candidates and content, not checking boxes. You get to messaging strategies that don’t draw conclusions based upon…

People can draw whatever conclusions they want, based on whatever they want... I prefer data.

Texas isn’t Florida, though. And because “the Latino vote” is not monolithic, it doesn’t make sense to draw conclusions about Florida based upon Texas or vice versa.

“As with AOC, they’ll eventually move on, only revisiting their weathered rhetoric whenever they might do something of national notice and they’re running low on made up grievances.”

Here’s the problem with that: She’s gotta suffer through this bullshit every day until “they” “eventually” “move on.” And once “they”…

I’d love to see a running tally of how many times you’ve complained about YOUR job...

Spicy take. Not aligned with reality. Say whatever you want about Nancy Pelosi, but her tenures as Speaker have not been an obstacle to House Dems getting good legislation across the wire, or to House Dems messaging that legislation, or getting that legislation signed into law.

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Talking about Y2K like it was somehow overblown is ignorant and naïve. Y2K was real. It didn’t solve itself. And it didn’t get solved by bloggers.

I’m sorry, but that’s just buttercream-soft. You sound like the people who complain that a popular song got overplayed on the radio... Stop listening to the radio! It really IS that simple! Complaining that movies get marketed is more annoying than the marketing, which is more annoying than the movie. People who sell…

The penalty is steep if caught? This was a situation where the penalty was not applied because one offender called the police on another.

That and the fact that the inaccurate comment seemed to be arguing that a band should be punished for allegations against one of its members. Arcade Fire put out an album. That album was either “worthy” of recognition or it wasn’t. The songs on it were either “worthy” of recognition or they weren’t. If the AV Club…