The words ‘shooting victim’ next to a silly, innocent kid photo is fucking ruining me. It should be ruining everyone, but, you know, the gears grind on and so forth.

And we can all take comfort in knowing that nothing will be done.

Hillary’s been in law/politics her whole life with a laundry list of accomplishments and positions held, but her having this much knowledge and expertise and preparedness on the questions must be cheating! Who could have possibly guessed any of these questions?! I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked.

100%, yes. Not everyone is Ariana, not everyone SHOULD be Ariana. They both have different goals in their music.

That’s the thing – the internet isn’t a special space divorced from reality. It is reality. What you do and say is real and brings about real-world reactions and consequences. This isn’t just him online/through texts, this IS him.

This article gave me so much dissonance, because when I heard the song I thought she sounded incredible. I couldn’t help but feel impressed about the range of styles she’s touched on and how raw it sounded. It matches the video, at least in my opinion, flawlessly. It’s got a perfect amount of grit.

This is senseless and horrifying. I’m so sorry. We should not be numb to this.

I don’t think any of this is clear-cut, for what it’s worth. We have literally 0 prior experience with a third party having any kind of major backing in the US to be able to reference, so it’s pure conjecture. I just don’t have faith in anyone to actually compromise the way we talk about it idealistically because they…

It’s weird how you assumed my comment was “in the name of politics” and felt the need to scold me, but not the fact that someone brought their dead parent up as a non-sequitur in a political conversation. But hey, you do you.

You have my condolences — the death of a parent is something I thankfully haven’t yet had to experience, and I’m glad I could provide some levity to a shitty time.

There are a couple of issues with this...

Everything is proof of your rightness when you want it to be. Very convenient.

I don’t give a shit about your dead dad, if I’m totally honest with you.

The Democrats stonewalled and backstabbed one of their own damn candidates for the last 8 years. Absolutely they would rend a third party to shreds — tribalism is huge, and a third party lacks the established history/legitimacy of the other two. They’re effectively outsiders. Obama is an incredibly moderate Democrat…

Oh, okay, sport. I guess then you really weren’t telling a bunch of other people that they also missed the point, champ. Thanks for clarifying that up for me, sweetheart. It couldn’t possibly be that you’re shite at communicating your own ideas, it must be that we all missed the point, princess!

Is it brainwashing or is it entirely possible that people repeat common phrases like that because they’re frequently heard and repeated and easily understood?

A la carte voters, man. They see something on the menu that they like and they think they’re voting for just that without seeing the broader picture. There’s no concept of give and take or compromise.

You keep writing to people on here who disagree to tell them that they missed your point. If it smells like shit everywhere you go, check under your own shoe.

It’s easy to make a lot of promises when you don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of needing to deliver on them — and I say this as a liberal who is all on board for most of Stein’s ideas at their cores.

I hope he completely and totally realizes the gravity of what he’s done, its reflection of depraved inhumanity, and bears that weight completely by himself. I think needing to completely actualize that and live with it in his mind, in his body, alone with himself, unable or unwilling to kill himself would be torturous…