In light of WikiLeaks’s involvement in this election cycle, I highly doubt her sentence will be commuted any time soon. Even though the information she released has nothing to do with the election (obviously, having be in prison for the last six years), Manning’s leaked documents really put WikiLeaks on the map.

She’s served six years in prison. I don’t see how commuting her sentence constitutes “forgiveness.” The thinking is six years is plenty of time considering her actions.

“I don’t want to buy my kids Christmas presents this year” since we’re quoting.

She wants to give them nothing, to teach them some weird lesson about the world being fucked. That’s very different from opting out of a fuckton of presents.

Yes! Unless the kid’s asking for an insulin pump substitute toys are fine. I never met a child outside of Debbie from the Addams Family movies that snapped because they got the “wrong” Barbie.

y’all, yes, I read the article, she lives in Canada, but the article focused on the American political climate and she tweeted that she is American in relation to this article. My B, I guess, but my sentiment still stands.

Yes to all of this. Also, we actually buy a lot of stuff for our kids for Christmas because we *don’t* buy them a ton of shit throughout the year (besides clothes and shoes as needed). We only get them one or two things for their bdays, because we much prefer to do experiences for them on or around their birthday.…

I hate Donald Trump and I encourage calling out all the terrible shit that he’s causing in the US and around the world. But lady, don’t use Trump as a justification for your Grinch-ness. Whether you genuinely think consumerism is bs, or in reality you just resent the fact that you feel pressured to spend some extra…

....and for fuck’s sake, can we put to rest the idea that buying ‘too many’ presents for kids is gonna make them materialistic and shallow? Having parents with shitty values is what makes kids materialistic and shallow, not giving them too many Lego sets or whatever. The world may be fucked, but it isn’t some…

This is the same writer who put up that piece saying that, now that her wedding was over, weddings in general should be over. Delights all around.

Biggest effect so far is encouraging the ontario counterparts. We use to joke about an elephant and mouse sharing a bed... now the elephant has shit the bed.

I think there’s a way to balance it out so they receive and they give. We try not to do excessive Christmases. They are getting a Lego set and a book and a stocking. But they also participate in a huge amount of giving - we help out at the food bank and the women’s shelter. Most of the focus of the month is on how we…

I didn’t realize your 3 and 5 year old were personally responsible for the state of the world but if you really feel like ruining their Christmas instead of doing anything proactive like, oh, I don’t know, contacting your senator or volunteering with an organization that’s actively affected by the state of things,…

One of my friends put me in the Pantsuit Nation FB group. The day after the election, I left it.

Apart of me is tired of having to listen to people who voted for Trump talk about how they feel alienated and how their feelings are important, too. I know my feelings and other groups are not important or don’t matter to them. They either don’t see me and other groups as people or don’t consider us important.

I believe that love IS the answer ... but not the kind of passive, feel-good, saccharine platitudes and symbolic kind deeds that Van Jones seems to be talking about. The kind of love that we need is challenging and revolutionary and ACTIVE, and it isn’t the same thing as simple niceness.

I feel like your inconveniences are less important than the real issues here, yet somehow you wrote an entire article about how much it sucks to be cold.

And very good long underwear, that you will never want to take off. It’s not like NYC doesn’t have winters, but I’m from upstate NY, and it’s effing Arctic there sometimes. I have learned to stay in coastal zones, however more expensive they may be...

I don’t want to Northsplain to you, Anna, but you have to rent a snowmobile. 

Aren’t Santa’s key physical components his bushy white beard, his jiggly belly, and his twinkling eyes? What the hell does the color of his skin have to do with any of those things? What is wrong with people?