Exactly! There’s a mile of difference between “I’m calling you ‘fag’ because we’re reclaiming a slur in a fun familiar way” and “I’m calling you fag because you’re a fag, fag!”

Yeah. I mean I’d opt for her being snake in the grass style scum rather than agressive contagion style scum but at the end of the day scum is scum and has no place at the fucking Times so why quibble?

She’s one of those maddening people where you get where she’s going with the deliberately provocative language half the time and then the rest of the time you’re just like “What the fuck!?” and then you find out she’s hanging out with Weev and feel like shit for ever giving her the benefit of the doubt.

It’s actually interesting you bring that up! Vermont is relatively unique in that respect and is generally your best go-to for syrup and it’s pretty well regulated. Quebec is the worst and everything else is somewhere inbetween.

Do you understand how linear time works?

No, that’s really fair actually. Especially since most maple syrup is heavily ‘supplemented’ in ways that basically destroy the taste notes that differentiate it from sugar syrup. Quebec in particular has a really ugly history of dilution.

What you forget is that the modern English translation of his name is the painfully bro-ish ‘Josh’

Significance is not the same as virtue, and Obama’s first term was an unparalleled failure in part because of Rahm’s ideological myopia.

People whose liberal politics predate the third way, let alone actual lefties, can’t pass the Rolodex test. It’s going to be a long fight.

Uh, a lot of people went after Mitt Romney during the year after his failed presidential run. People doorstepped him and took stalker-shots of him while he was in Costco.

Russian bots don’t get paid anything. That’s what makes them bots. Farms =/= bots.

Mike Pence: Even ruder at the Olympics than Hitler.

lol @ this binch what doesn’t know about the rolodex test.

Presented for your approval: The circular firing squad.

Goddamnit, you’re telling me I’m going to actually have to follow a sport to have an opinion on competitors!?

To be fair, don’t racists think that black folks have an extra bone or tendon or something in their shin? So that they’re good at basketball and track but can’t swim.

That’s assuming the #resistance doesn’t get their way and install him as president.

Really it’s the difference between the bad movie that’s aggressively evil and the bad movie that accepts the first bad movie’s ideology as essentially correct but includes a sensual pantsuit rap.

They’d rather cosplay The West Wing than ever actually get anything done, because they know that they’ll be safe no matter what happens. No skin in the game, no real experience of what’s wrong with the system, nothing to shake them out of their fantasies about President Bartlett scolding idealogues.

I dunno. Sometimes the sunday comics version is better than the books. Like the Moomins.