Gee, it’s almost like police should be held to a higher standard than criminals.

Stop with this bullshit already.

“my believing in drug legalization, right to abortion, and right to gay marriage are far right.”

“regardless of the motivation behind the decision”

Nope. You can assert that’s true, but it’s not. The motivation is everything. There were days I felt like someone should stick it to the Obama administration over something legitimately unjust—like our drone assassination program. No one ever did; when they stuck it to…

Oh, Frank. I love that kind of line.

“I don’t see color; I just see people.”

Meaning you ignore racism because you don’t like to think about it. And you can’t possible be part of the problem because there’s just not a racist bone in your body.

Count me as another vote for leaving the greys in the greys.

...ah, shit.

He’s trying to limit the damage the administration is doing. Now, if we’re being honest, it’s a pretty darn arrogant thing to believe that you can be the sole check on the President, and when it has come to many of these MFers who saw themselves as the “grown-ups” in the room and eventually got the boot, I’ve had…

I think Mattis is someone who genuinely intimidates Trump. Trump envies a lot of people and feels insecure around them, but always finds something about them to attack so he can feel more comfortable with himself. But Mattis is so obviously better than him in every conceivable way that Trump’s only recourse is to…

And I responded to your comment. Why do you feel the need to say it? It’s not like you’re prepared to change your mind, or to debate the merits of one LP channel over another. You have absolutely no interest in the genre and never will. That’s fine. So why bother, except for that circle-jerk effect (which appears to…

Because this is what I actually needed to see to understand this:

For the most part. There are still tons of racists and reactionaries there. They’re mostly represented by Alternative for Germany, which is currently the biggest opposition party, and the third-largest in the Bundestag overall; before last year, they didn’t have any seats at all. Right-wingers are ascending.

Oh, shut the fuck up already.

I don’t know why people go out of their way to tell others that they aren’t interested in or don’t understand the appeal of certain things. I mean, in the best-case scenario, all that leads to is a circle-jerk of similar comments.

You aren’t interested. Cool. It wasn’t made for you, then. Go read something else.

I dunno, man. I’m not black, but I think it’s probably a combination of the aesthetic being almost universally appealing (which is why white people get into it too) and it being a powerful cultural force that is not primarily driven by white/European influences—something that could speak to a person, and which they…

I think I’d probably feel more sympathy for her if she just didn’t do anything. It’s not like anything she’s doing is exceptional or even particularly meaningful, so why do it? It’s just giving her husband a way to have it both ways: to be “tough” (meaning cruel, but thankfully also incompetent) through his words and…

“I’m not excusing or explaining the actions of the officer”

I don’t understand why “protect and serve” is still a motto. They could easily change it to “Comply or Die” and no one would bat an eye.

Never meant to imply you were! The existential crisis isn’t something everyone actually faces successfully. I consider religious-based solutions to be intellectual suicide—wishing the crisis away instead of tackling it head-on. Sure, that works, but the people who most impress me are the ones who say “yeah, it’s…

Again, if you or any of his fans cared about him, you’d have wanted him to do two things:

*Pay for his crimes. That doesn’t need to mean dying, but when you do someone wrong, you owe them. Being imprisoned doesn’t always mean you’ve paid for your crimes, either. In our country (as in many others), it often doesn’t mean…

I think it’s fine and pretty much normal to say, “yeah, too bad, so sad. Whatever. Fuck him.” I oscillate between that and the pity I feel for anyone who leaves the world in worse shape than he found it; I mourn for what never was. I don’t think that’s such a bad thing to feel.

It’s another thing, though, to be…

Probably the best thing Tolkien ever wrote:

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

Maybe he did deserve to die. But does it even matter? I don’t feel bad that he died,…