But it wasn’t a great speech! It was a competent speech, yes, but since when do we applaud mediocrity? And the moment where he said that the dead SEAL was happy because the crowd was applauding was fucking gross. Not to mention that the content is horrifying—the VOICE program is legitimate Nazi propaganda tactics.

Someone on Twitter said it’s all Leo DiCaprio’s fault, because he was supposed to give Stone her envelope after she won and instead you can see him walking off with it. He probably gave it to some intern who got confused.

lol do go on. Was your next line going to be “You realize its the National SOCIALIST Party?????”

Maybe, but we have no way of knowing that. Things like gender and sexuality are so contextual—people in the past thought about themselves in ways that would seem totally bizarre to us today. It’s like trying to figure out if the “romantic friendships” of the Victorian period were really gay relationships. The space…

But...she wasn’t transgender?

Reagan, for all his faults, had some respect for and knowledge of how the government worked. (Also, people forget that he really wasn’t that popular of an actor and had been in various political positions for years before assuming the presidency).

The article cuts out confusingly, but basically the petition is arguing that Manning was under mental strain because of her dysphoria at the time of the leak and that her imprisonment is worse because she’s in a military prison with no understanding of trans issues.

They’re talking about Snowden in that comment.

Honestly? He probably is trying to prevent Trump from turning everything over to Pence. Trump is a horrid asshole, but Pence is a True Believer monster.

According to some witnesses, the issue wasn’t that people were only supporting Trump, the issue was that the left-leaners were obeying the “no applause” rule.