“A pale and rather exhausted looking Democratic nominee, pushed through the primary as the party’s favored choice mostly due to the optics of his former post”

All I could think of was “but her emails...”
Really? That’s all people could think of to say why they didn’t want to vote for a woman. No thought to big picture issues’.

Wouldn’t that same doctrine require her to refuse this seat because a woman can never be in authority over a man?

Maybe one day they realize some of those necks were their son’s and daughter’s.

Hey third party voters/Susan Sarandon/people who didn’t bother to vote because of reasons aren’t you soooooo glad you didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton? You have to keep in mind that in every election the fate of the SCOTUS is at stake

People who say, “French fried potatoes” instead of just “french fries” are 100% serial killers.

And whenever the time comes for the next round of conservative contenders of color to be counted, Daniel Cameron is itching and inching to be first in line.

Framing how you counter it is just as important. For instance, my father-in-law is very Pro-Trump, very into passing around things on facebook, etc. and no college education, no natural skepticism beyond buying into conspiracies . I’ve had to sit him down and contextualize it. For instance, the “Coronavirus is a hoax…

Came here to say exactly this. People with the predisposition to fall for snake oil pitches will fall for almost anything that is framed correctly and fed to them the right way. Critical thinking and skepticism are vital to navigating the modern world without being duped. It’s one reason having a higher education is…

Oddly I was reading a novel yesterday, with the main action set around the mid 90s, in which a child dies because his parents believed

I’m definitely seeing the parallels between QAnon and the Satanic daycare scandals of the 1980s, which ruined innocent lives.

The wellness movement is largely built on the magical thinking we can control our fate with the correct behavior. Surely if we do enough yoga and eat only the correct things and find inner peace we’ll never ever get sick.

Yeah, definitely got the impression that this was going for the same ‘pivot’ slot that Kiksuya filled for Westworld or This Extraordinary Being filled for Watchmen.

It reminded me of Westworld S2 in that it’s best episode also concerned filling in the story of a background character. There it was Akecheta’s origin story. Here it’s Ji-Ah.

I loved this episode so much. It might be my favourite so far. We learn what Ji-ah is. And we learn what Atticus has become during the war. What was their relationship. And why he stayed in Florida instead of coming home.

If you didn’t know anything about Rob Reiner, you could have at least taken 30 seconds to Google him. He’s been a highly vocal (and financial) advocate for civil rights for 50 years. He helped start the American Foundation for Equal Rights. He’s repeatedly bankrolled challenges to Right-wing legal attacks on women,…

Honestly, y’all can get busy living or you can get busy dying. It’s your choice. But, honestly, you can die another day. You can rend your clothes and jump off a cliff AFTER we’ve lost and not a damn second before.

Idiots who decided to vote 3rd party/not bother to vote in 2016? 

THIS