Unless there’s a way to make the US population way less sexist within a few election cycles, the only options are figure out how to win* despite that sexism, or keep losing. Pointing out that the group that kicked your ass had an unfair advantage, by itself, does nothing to help you kick their ass the next round.
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If you want to argue that Bernie supporters “get” to prefer Bernie for their own reasons, why don’t Hillary supporters get to support Hillary for our own reasons, none of which is “it’s her turn”?
I lost my trust for Hillary when she voted for the Iraq war. At that moment I knew that she was either playing politics, or couldn’t tell that the Bush administration was lying to her about WMDs. Either way, she moved into my “don’t trust” pile.
There’s a big issue with this argument though. I absolutely get how ambitious women are denigrated and considered bitches and untrustworthy - I see it every goddamn day at work. BUT. That doesn’t mean that thinking a woman is untrustworthy is automatically based in sexism, and I’m just pretty exhausted with any…
Well she lost, so great stratagem there.
that’s a naive take.
This was exactly the problem with a lot of the Hillary supporters when faced with the surge of support for Sanders. God forbid that people have the temerity to actually support the candidate whom they agree with most. Nope, it was Hillary’s Turn, and anyone who said otherwise was a sexist shithead. As far as they are…
It was when my progressive friends on Facebook all came to the same collective realization that we were voting for Hillary not because we liked her but because she was our only bulwark against fascism. And when my libertarian friends on Facebook pushed toward Johnson because “fear is not a reason for voting.”
As…
Guys, anyone else looking back on the “extra hour in the ball pit” con/con with fond nostalgia now? Just me, then? K.
Girl, I hear your ten pounds and raise you an amount that I am unwilling to disclose. Stress eating/drinking is probably a nationwide epidemic right now.
Disclosure: I used to dance ballet.
But other religions have various subsects that take into account varying degrees of literalness and adherence to the original religion. Most Jews are not Hasids, as I assume most Muslims are fairly mainstream; there is a huge assortment of differing takes on Christianity. Scientology is a cult, and run by one living…
Could I help in the development of an Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”-era doll who is a Lithuanian immigrant living in Chicago and performing child labor?!?
Angela Merkel, leader of the free world, summed up Putin pretty succinctly: ‘I understand why he has to do this — to prove he’s a man,’ she told a group of reporters. ‘He’s afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.’
I don’t get why people want to cut her slack. She’s totally evil too, and complicit in this shitstorm.
Tough shit. I’m tired of being Captain Save-a-Ho to the rest of the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing country. It’s not MY job to drag you kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
We had a tiny terrier when I was a kid who lived to be 19, and probably would have made it a few more years had his love of mischief not taken him to a place he ought not have been.
SoulMate Dog is a big dog, and their life expectancy isn’t as long. I whisper, “Live forever,” to her every night before bed and she’s…
My democratic ideals also tell me to raise fucking hell when someone is attacking our civil liberties and frankly attacking our democratic ideals.
I still think Trump never intended to be President long, and just let Pence be Prez in about six months. He still hasn’t released his tax returns, he isn’t going to set up a true blind trust, and all his policy positions are, “well, just want and see.” He knows he’s not there for the full 4 years and he isn’t going…