“it is disrespectful because Baron Cohen isn’t American.”

No, it isn’t, though if you’re suggesting more Americans should be willing to do the patriotic thing and strike back, even if in a small way, against these assholes, then I agree. Fucking pathetic that a foreigner has to do it for us.

“just confused why he would based on his looks”

Because you don’t understand that rape can be about more than just sex. Most rapists do it because they want sexual gratification, sure; others do it because they want to feel powerful, or they want to hurt women for various reasons. It’s not just sex; it’s an act of…

This question is totally irrelevant. It’s a business arrangement. He gets their labor, they get whatever compensation that both parties negotiate. There is nothing to “appreciate” about his status as a “job creator.” His “vision” doesn’t change the arrangement, which inherently places the “job creator” in a superior…

A person who votes for a terrible candidate purely out of spite. I never expected to find one of those among Trump’s supporters.

He can do it without taking to fucking Twitter before he even lifts a finger.

To the extent that he actually wants to help, good for him. To the far greater extent that he wants good PR out of it even before he’s done anything, fuck him.

No, it’s because of how elections work. People are not cowards just because they vote for the lesser of two evils. They simply (correctly) make the decision to ensure their vote is not wasted, and goes toward defeating a candidate who aligns less with their values.

Stop blaming voters and stop moaning about third…

This. These things aren’t mutually exclusive. Though I will admit that there are many, many people who care about animals but are absolute fucking misanthropes. They’re the ones on Facebook with pictures of their pets as their avatar, posting such things as their firm opinion that people who cross the border illegally…

The Root posts articles about northern/coastal liberal racism fairly frequently. There was also that little blockbuster movie about it too. I don’t really see many, if any people here under the illusion that racism is a Southern thing. Not any *black* people, anyway.

As an atheist, I just proved your point.

Police union, I would guess. You know, the only kind of union the right supports.

Until they make legitimate requests for better working conditions or higher pay, I mean.

It’s funny because sexual assault is the same as messing with a dude’s burger.

Meaningless.

Since you don’t know which economic metrics actually matter, I’ll introduce the most relevant one for most of us: wage stagnation. The fact that wages have remained stagnant for the past 20 years has little to do with the Fed. They’ve actually done a very good job managing inflation than in the past, which…

Who. The fuck. Cares?

Why does it matter that she praised him as an actor? It doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t represent support for his actions or even a defense of his character. It was her saying all she knew about him. Given that’s all she’s saying, it’s clear she just wants to make a clean break from him, which…

You just *know* that the idea here is to equate this guy’s beliefs with those of some FBI agents who are investigating Trump. They know they can’t actually discredit the investigation, but they can do their best to sabotage the rest of the justice system (and troll liberals) in the meantime. Everything is exactly…

Uh-huh. You think that the country’s population growth without immigration is enough to sustain itself? It’s not.

October is the best damn month and I’ll not let it be said otherwise.

Otherwise, spot on.

Again, I agree that should be the objection, but that wasn’t the argument being made. Instead, it was that any cis individual playing the role would be in “transface”, and that it would be inherently unacceptable.

I agree, but that’s different from:

Hell, for an hour. Some time at Peak Trump—when he’s settling in for his evening movement and pulls out his phone to Tweet about how pissed off he is at the last person to say something more intelligent than he ever has.

And then offer no alternative. The only one is “it”, which is dehumanizing.