I’m so ridiculously thankful to have attended college before social media existed.

Best meme I’ve seen in a long time:

So let’s ruminate over the fact that, if we had just gotten our shit together, if the country was even marginally less racist and sexist and if the climate of American politics was even slightly less idiotic, we might have gotten a President Michelle Obama.

yes. our nation is WOEFULLY lacking in critical thinking skills.

“Until this happened,”

Well it’s a shame it took her whole family getting sick but it’s refreshing to hear an anti-vaxxer say “I was wrong, I was batshit, I’ve since researched and have changed my mind”.

More than the apartments, I’m more annoyed by the “quirky female character who eats a lot of greasy, fatty food but maintains perfect skin and stays slim” trope. She’s not shallow like those salad eating bitches, she just LOOKS like them.

An attack on the US is objectively not equivalent to a loss of freedom.

Also, a National Anthem is a song glorifying your homeland, it’s not like Memorial Day or Veteran’s Day, it’s not focused on the military.

America was attacked by fascists. People then joined the military to fights against these fascists, and protect America and freedom. Regardless of the Bush wars, and what happened after 9/11 regarding morality, that is the essence of what happened. They fought and died so you would have the freedom to piss on their…

you mean the guys who attacked iraq on the flimsiest of pretexts, setting off a bloodbath that’s killing innocent civilians to this day?

Still doesn’t change the fact that Al-Qaeda / Afghanistan / ISIS or whoever else are not a threat to American freedoms. A threat to safety, yes (even though the statistical likelihood of being felled in a terrorist attack is vanishingly small), but not freedom.

Being tricked into thinking (or simply choosing to believe) you’re protecting something is not the same thing as protecting it. The post-9/11 military fetishism actually actively curtailed Americans’ rights, and led to (ongoing!) violations of the Constitution directed against citizens and non-citizens alike.

9/11 was an atrocity, but not a threat to our freedom. In fact, our own response to 9/11 (pervasive surveillance, murder-by-drone, militarized police, etc...) are actual threats to our liberty.

no, at this point, the yelling is necessary

The Axis forces were not a threat to the freedom of Americans. They may very well have become one had things turned out differently, but we will never know.

Oh FFS...UNLESS THE SOLDIER IN QUESTION SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OR FOUGHT FOR THE UNION IN THE CIVIL WAR, THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING ANY OF OUR FREEDOMS.

Y’know, the thing about this whole thing that sticks out to me the most is that we’re making such a big deal out of, and drawing so much attention to, one guy’s choice to sit down during a song, whether that was ok to do or not, instead of the very thing that Kaepernick is trying to bring attention to, which is the…

GO BACK TO THIS IN MY SHOWER??