“But, like, if I participate in the system, aren’t I legitimizing it? If nobody participated, they’d have to come up with a new system! Besides, none of that stuff affects me at all.”

Oh, there are definitely many moderate and liberal Catholics out there. There are tons of them around where I live in Santa Fe, because we’re an area with a large Latino population which is also very liberal. I’m speaking specifically of people who grew up in extremely conservative and/or religious households, and…

To be fair, the politics of this issue in Myanmar are such that if Suu Kyi were to take any action perceived as helping the Rohingya, no matter how small, she would be out of office and back under house arrest (or worse) in a matter of days. Much of the Burmese public has a visceral hateful reaction to even hearing…

My girlfriend grew up in an extremely devout, conservative Catholic family. From experience interacting with the rest of her (rather large) family, it goes one of two ways.

Yeah, I know. I don’t think their popularity is comparable, and Obama was approximately 1,000,000% better at being President than Trump is. But in modern America, you can be a once-in-a-generation, FDR-level transformative leader and still have an approval rating of 55%. Polarization’s a bitch.

We don’t say, oh, well, it was only 2nd Degree Manslaughter, so really, it wasn’t all that bad.

This is the only place anyone should check for news about Donald Trump’s approval rating:

Yeah, absolutely. I applaud what Oliver said, and I think a little naming and shaming and lost work is appropriate punishment for what Hoffman did. But that doesn’t make him a rapist (as far as we know) or an Evil Bad Terrible Man Who Should Rot in Prison Forever and/or Die. We can recognize and call out bad behavior…

Can we stop with this kind of thing? It builds on the mythological hierarchy of abuse of women, as if just because men don’t systematically target women, assault them, intimidate them into signing NDAs, and have them followed by former Mossad agents, accusations by women against them shouldn’t be taken as seriously.

Okay, let me be clear: chances are, Emma doesn’t own any Marxist “private property”.

I’m aware of the Marxist concept of “Private Property”, and I don’t imagine that Emma possesses very much of it. She would be negatively affected by the abolition of private property, however, because that is an undeniably extreme proscription which has only ever existed in capital-C Communist economic systems, which…

Yeah, that’s the other thing. If “the revolution” ever does come, she’ll be among the first up against the wall—right next to the other gentrifiers, intellectuals, creatives and bourgeoisie et al. Doesn’t she know that “class traitors” are actually considered worse than aristocrats in the revolutionary mind? And…

I think she meant that in that in the ironic, hipster “lolcommie” sense. Because there is no fucking way that a white, middle-class, millennial woman who admits to shopping regularly at Whole Foods and blogs for a living would ever willingly accept life under an actual Soviet-style Communist system with no concept of…

Barack Obama is literally the devil as far as most Alabama voters are concerned. If he campaigns for Jones, that just feeds the “Pelosi/Schumer puppet” narrative that the Republicans have been pushing so hard. If Obama ties himself strongly to Jones, it won’t do much for liberal turnout—but it will absolutely send…

They will never get power ever again, so they’re doing all they can to ruin the next generations.

I really, really hope this is some kind of John Oliver stunt or something. What if it turned out that all the proceeds were being donated to progressive groups? Can you imagine the bitter tears of conservative rage?

Quite literally, in Roy Moore’s case.

Indeed I did. Still, I can think of about 20 news personalities more worthy of being called out here than Megyn Kelly.

You’re gonna ban Megyn Kelly, but not Sean Hannity or Fox News?

Okay... so you’d like to lock up these noble anarchists in your tiny home, when they’d probably be happier roaming the woods and killing things?