Sometimes there is some debate among Syrians and lovers of Syria about showing especially horrifying photos on Twitter, Facebook, and so on. But the general feeling is that Syrians have to see these atrocities, so we should make the world look at what is being allowed to happen in Syria. You probably don’t want to…

It’s ok. President Bozo is gonna get some US troops over there and, believe me folks, it’s gonna be just great for the Syrian children.

Reports are that a lot of people, especially young men, are being detained as they try to leave Aleppo, which is what the regime generally does when people flee a city. At least some of these people will never be seen again, and all of them are sure to be brutally tortured.

I would imagine it’s that Bana’s mother deleted the account, fearing what would happen if they were captured and it was found on their phone.

And of course it’s not just Aleppo. Russian planes bombed the towns of Kafranbel and Maarat al-Numan in the Idlib province just today, targeting markets where families were shopping and killing at least fifty people. I’ll spare you the photos of dead children.

It’s an evil world. Always has been. Always will be. A lot of people are good, but collectively we’re just an evil shitshow.

Seriously. I’m dying over here. “THAT’S ALL YOU GOT, BRO?!”

... And it doesn’t matter to them that it doesn’t exist & never did.

You underestimate how dumb the average American is.

He was so incoherent and inconsistent that people projected whatever they wanted to hear onto him. Lots of “well, what he meant was...” and “clearly he doesn’t mean that” delusion. The NY Times had a whole article about people in Florida who depend on Obamacare and yet voted for Trump, falsely assuming he was lying…

Thank-you for the thoughtful answer! Do you think it’s a decades-in-the-making kind of frustration, coupled with a “things were better in an unspecified before-time that I am either misremembering or was too young to fully appreciate, but I’m going to pine for it anyway” kind of thing? Egged on by a lot of people who…

Exactly! “Conservative” = NOT in favor of change. They want to prevent any forward progress. They want to subtract civil rights, to conserve socioeconomic hegemony. They want regression, they voted for regression, now they’re getting all ingrown when they find out it won’t be so easy. Fuck these people.

I don’t believe the overarching motivation for voting Trump was change. It was anti-change—anti-progressivism. Liberals pushed a black president, gay marriage, BLM and plain red Starbucks cups down their throat and goddammit if they’d allow us to elect some uppity WOMAN as president.

While unemployment is way down in the US, wages have been stagnant for years. The types of jobs available are more and more likely to be part-time, unreliably scheduled shift-work in the service sector. A generation ago, people in the middle of the U.S. (the people who were responsible for electing Trump), were able…

As tempting as it is to roll around on some high-grade, 1,000-thread count schadenfreude, it’s also hard to ignore one nagging sensation that’s been altogether absent this election season: Sympathy.

Are we sure these are real? The one by the woman who thought Trump is going to fix the pay gap is too crazy to believe. Where on earth would anyone get the idea Trump cares about that at all?

I know. I enjoyed reading Tablet Magazine’s take on this, which includes the idea that you should treat these people like adults. They’re adults. This guy, Bob, is a senior—he’s been able to see this shit for 60+ years. It’s no one’s fault but his own that he helped elect a crooked billionaire with a history of…

Sorry but I’m too busy feeling sympathy for the people who didn’t knowingly support a sexist, xenophobic, racist fascist but will still be completely and utterly fucked by a Trump presidency to worry about the shit heads who were too stupid, blind, racist, sexist, or selfish to vote against him.

Unfortunately, the rest of us who didn’t vote for trump also have many many regrets. I guess that’s one way of uniting the country.

Morons deserve what they get, if there was only some way that only they could be punished and not the whole world that would be great... but no they did this shit to everyone... under Clinton they would have had health care and Obamas new overtime rule would have raised their pay but instead they elected a know…