Obligatory reminder: this is legal. This is what legally immigrating looks like - showing up, filing the correct paperwork, turning yourself in. That is what asylum-seekers are doing. So any argument about immigrating “the right way” or “illegal” immigration has no place in this conversation.

Why do so many of these people writing to criticize feel the need to share all about themselves? It’s disturbing. How can they be critical of the person they’re apparently hoping will validate them? Why else are they sharing all these details about themselves and their lives with Michael, Damon, The Root?

I enjoy it, LOL. I’ve seen it begin to be adapted into common parlance even though pipo (lol) are still spelling it wrong. One day, we’ll look up and Michael’s name will be in Merriam-Webster as the founding etymologist of “wypipo” :D

Diplomacy can sometimes be overrated.

Eh, I prefer “Quit being a dipshit, dipshit.”

“And when under direct assault, the Bluegrass is able to retract the entirety of it’s head into it’s protective shell. This allows it to safely avoid danger while also enabling the turtle to rest comfortably inside its own asshole.”

**David Attenborough voice**

“In times of danger, the Bluegrass Turtle uses fat energy from its neckpouch to survive.”

Damn! That last line!

Since there seems to be a whole lot of “butbutbut I was so friiiiightened” behind the weaponizing of the calling of the cops by wypipo on POC who literally aren’t doing anything illegal, I have this for everyone

So....dude just wanted a refund and wound up in some Rodney King shit and he’s being charged with what I’m going to guess are felonies. Just wow.

I think it’s perfectly fine to enjoy one fool smacking down another fool as long you keep in mind that in the end they are both fools.

If it had been someone I knew, I absolutely would have responded. Total strangers who may be bots/Russians I’m starting to just deal with a little bit less, and this one was a matter of timing, as I had to get out the door rather than get involved. Others were already taking the person to task, though, which helped.

Yeah, if Rachel Maddow was found to be using the same personal lawyer as President Obama, you can bet your ass there would be no end to the shrieking from Fox and the other nutbags about how MSNBC has a desk in the Oval Office, directing the Mooslim Socialist Kenyan to drive the nation into an abyss of…

I love how the same people who freak out over an athlete kneeling during an anthem as “against the flag and our country” are fighting so hard to keep up monuments of people who literally fought against our flag and our country. You can’t make this shit up... #AMURKA

According to the model—and it’s important to remember that

They’re not “losing their minds” - they’re doing exactly the thing they always do, and they do it on purpose and they do it meticulously. We need to stop acting like these people are just dumb lunatics and remember that they are fucking snakes.

Again, when someone is having a mental breakdown, do not call the fucking police.

It’s the equivalent of making a kid who defiantly peed in his own bed sleep in it. And you know - he might not be wrong.

I find it’s important to be aware of my implicit biases. I know they’re there. I don’t want them to be, but there they are. And so I try to actively fight against them. Constant self-vigilance.

Never in the history of humankind has an oppressor society voluntarily ceased its oppression and invited those who had been oppressed to become equals.