It doesn’t confuse the issue, it gives necessary context. That physical abuse which you’re so happy to pass over as commonplace (as though the commonness of child abuse in any way reduces the urgency of calling it out) enabled the sexual abuse that occurred, just as the nonsexual abuse in usa gymnastics caused the…

You don’t tell a creator how to create his own word because there’s no such thing as “his word” - word coiners have no rights. Word usage is determined by the consensus of the people who form a language, who give it the commonality that makes language language. If you have a problem with that, feel free to go galt and…

Wait, why was she accompanied by her grandfather? If she’s mature enough to be carrying a loaded weapon she’s mature enough to represent herself, and to look after herself at legislative hearings. I’m gonna bet that grandpa and her parents insist on never letting her out of their sight because they (correctly) think…

No, you’re projecting the derangement of bernie haters. Those of us in the progressive movement who are sane would happily have voted for elizabeth or pete had they built a winning coalition, something only bernie has been able to do in this race. Bernie’s success this time around has been built not on bernie bros but…

But we cancelled them! How are they still around?

No, just beyond reasonable doubt.

A simple majority is not enough to remove potus. How many times does this need to be explained to you?

Not so much ironic as deliberately straightforward - these guys are attempting to emulate al qaeda, that's why they chose the name.

The whiteness treadmill keeps churning. As long as you retain an other to reference against you can afford to add new groups to your privilege pool.

If they get to run against their own nominee that’s great for them, because they get to show their independence. But downballot effects are no longer of much relevance. Ticket-splitting is a thing of the past, and races are basically run on partisan affiliation now. That means we never had a chance of holding AL, no…

No, sorry, it's Influencers who were cancelled. We had the chance to cancel Men, but we failed. Go figure.

I'll choose to spend my anger on the airline that deliberately created this environment, as an incentive for passengers to spend more.

if the airline rented tasers so people could use them against their fellow passengers, would you be shocked, I mean, boggled, when people described passengers who use tasers in-flight as assholes? Doesn't matter how common a practice is, doesn't matter if the airline authorizes it or not. If you use an object to do an…

Seat reclining is (legalized) theft. Regardless of colloquial language use you do not buy a seat on a plane, you rent the space between the seat you are sitting on and the one in front of you, or to put it a different way you rent the front of the seat you are sitting on and the back of the one in front of you. That’s…

Institutionalized self-loathing. Decades of humiliation have taught the american left that not only can we not have nice things but we can’t even ask for them. This makes people suspicious of attempts to make things better (see the suspicion of m4a even among unions) and it means when a promising candidate shows up…

Thanks to the democratic party's stupid refusal to run winner-take-all primaries we have to settle on a candidate in the next couple of weeks or we risk a disastrous contested convention. The process needs to be wrapped up quickly, like it or not.

If bernie dies in office that’s a good thing for the movement (and thus for the country), his vp takes over with a groundswell of sympathy and gets to run as an incumbent potentially twice. The only way it’s even potentially a problem is if bernie wins at the convention but then dies before november and other…

You meant that ironically, but he does in fact deserve (a share of) the blame at least for a generation’s late start on fighting climate change and probably the botched response to katrina. Don’t know that he would have prevented 9/11, but the aftereffects of gore not taking office were so numerous I couldn’t list…

How does he get away with filing frivolous lawsuits like this? Seems like the kind of thing anti-SLAPP measures were intended to stop.

What’s really appalling is your use of your grandmother (or possibly, given this is the internet, pretending to have one) as a tool in apologia of collaborationist propaganda. And this movie is exactly the opposite of telling kids what a nazi looks like and how to avoid being one. Its message is that if you aren’t…