Why is there a dichotomy between using your phone and enjoying something? Do these people not have ears? Do they not have eyes? Skin with nerve endings? Is it utterly implausible that they use their phone for stretches of time and then occasionally look away from it to take in their surroundings? I mean, if your phone…

If an email that caused one person to be like “Yo Sanders, what do you believe?” and Sanders to be like “Yo, we’re all of the same god” and be immediately forgotten was the downfall of his campaign, his campaign wasn’t that strong to begin with.

1. Would people also reasonably hold their arms up without phones in them at a concert? Ding! Survey says yes. Maybe we could start a Change.org petition for all those song lyrics about putting your hands in the air + waving them around like you just don’t care?

There’s a pretty significant difference between a loud concert with lights flashing in your face from all directions while people scream and dance and a quiet, dim theatre. If one person on a phone is enough to distract you in all of that at a Rihanna concert, I’m genuinely sorry about your capacity to pay attention…

I can already hear the choir of faithful ‘but this country was founded on the teachings of Jesuuuuuuus~’ verses ringing in the rafters! Lord have mercy. Or don’t.

Ahhh, thanks for the heads up. I’m an apatheist myself, so I’m not exactly crazy about the DNC shitting on a candidate’s perceived atheism (or religion in general). The was only ever a small blip on my radar throughout the primaries, so it’s good to know some context.

I don’t particularly know much or care to know much about DWS, but can we actually expect the DNC to be neutral during race time? Their goal is to get a Dem elected, isn’t that sort of a big giveaway that neutrality isn’t a goal?

At risk of getting mauled to death by Bernie fanatics*, his campaign picked up an…

Agreed with others fully that it’s shit to go anti-atheist/anti-Semetic, but also...did they ever actually go through with it? I didn’t hear a peep about his beliefs throughout the entirety of the campaign, so while it’s a shit thing to try to plan, what even came of it?

Yeah, you know Hillary Clinton. One of those short-term politicians just in it for the instant gratif—

I hate the GOP as much as the next liberal, but this is manufactured and meaningless bullshit. There’s plenty going on with the GOP that promotes white supremacy that doesn’t involve this cheap filler.

It was nice of him to bring his family to the speech. :)

Democracy is the fucking worst.

These stories always make me reflect on just how awful and horrifying one small mistake can be. The father isn’t a monster, he’s a human who made one slip and now he’s got to live with this for the rest of his life. I feel for him. And it’s because he’s humans and prone to error — and because guns are so unforgiving…

Disconcerting? Your fans didn’t suddenly disappear, they’re actually engaging pretty directly with your performance by choosing to record it?

I think this misses the point a bit; the teenager didn’t set out to kill the girl, as far as anyone is aware. Nobody is making the assertion that killing is teenage behavior, they’re asserting that getting into fights is definitely precedented. People make awful, horrible mistakes for all kinds of reasons. What is…

Nothing says protest like being wrong about science!

If there is a god, there will be some divine fucking intervention happening in the form of a meteor taking this Day-Glo clown out on national television.

I tried to be mad at you for beating me to this comment, but then I watched the gif and we all win, together.

The 90s kid nostalgia train is running everyone over and I could not dive out of the way fast enough. And I was a 90s kid.

“Cookie tummy” is the cutest thing I have ever heard in my whole damn life.