No it doesn't. If a rich and powerful person kicks you, and you do nothing, does that mean you "consented" to them kicking you?

Which is why we all wish Obama could run again. I'm going to miss having someone in office who had at least a nodding relationship with dignity.

To the extent that I think something he said he thinks was stupid and wrong, yeah, I want him to change. I'm not sure why a public figure would be shocked that people disagree with him when he says controversial things.

Yeah. When you disagree with what someone says they think, you want them to change. What exactly is so shocking about that?

Because people are able to have differences of opinion on which candidate they want to support? My grandparents also were concerned about Obama's amount of experience in 2008. They still ultimately voted for him twice and have multiple posters of him on their wall now.

How about attacking him for claiming to not know what the KKK was?

Those are some things that he'd do. But I think it's also fair to say that Trump is frightening because his vengefulness, narcissism, and lack of impulse control means that there are plenty of other evilly stupid things he might do that we can't anticipate.

Yeah he did. And Romney also wouldn't have pretended that he didn't know what the KKK was in order to avoid having to refuse the endorsement.

Present rational arguments against being racist? I'm not sure that has any more utility or importance online than calling out someone's racism - since they've already crossed the rationality line re: racism and deserve to be called out. But okay, sure.

I didn't realize Trump voters were so careful to vote counter to GRRM. Interesting. Me, I always try to vote counter to Neo-Nazis, so the election was pretty easy this time around.

As opposed to what?

Too vulgarly bright. Sucked into a blackhole or slowly freezing into lead is more tasteful.

Yup. I saw it myself, though I didn't go out of duty or by bus.

That most novels are longer than Rosemary's Baby?

Don't know the budget here, but didn't he make oceans of money with the Passion?

So? What does that have to do with anything? Does being a POC somehow force someone to also publicize their sexual orientation?

Nope. That's the opposite of what I said: that having Down's Syndrome doesn't mean that their entire life is an open book and they lack the right to privacy. Plus, the existence of Down's Syndrome does not mean that other people don't have the right to privacy. Or do you think that people having Down's Syndrome means…

All the time. Because those are not the only qualities they have. Privacy is precious.

Howard Stark was in Ant-Man. And in the Peggy Carter tv series. And his murder was referenced in the Winter Soldier. I guess Stark's mother wasn't mentioned that much. The scene worked emotionally for me because of what it meant about Steve's selfishness.

Which character was that?