You think? Hm. I'm thinking it probably doesn't read as divisive & hateful to either himself (clearly), the editor who picked out & introd his note, nor maybe to a lot of other people, I'm not sure. Most of the note is about how he has a master's and listens to NPR and def. isn't bigoted.
http://www.theatlantic.com/…
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This is interesting - http://www.theatlantic.com/…
They're saying that nationally, Democrat turnout wasn't low, that several million more votes for her might trickle in from California etc, so it wasn't that they stayed home - and that in the industrial midwest, former Democrat voters indeed voted for Trump.
“We just…

"to attempt to simplify or reduce the complexity of the situation on a national scale before a state-by-state postmortem is done is to feed the disinformation machine, which is designed to foment discord among the opposition. the blame game is a basic divide and conquer strategy …"
This. And yet that's kinda what I've…

People kept saying that he was a charismatic leader, "alpha". Maybe I just can't see him through their eyes, but I kept thinking no, he is like how male viewers want the men in porn to be as unattractive as possible. He's the Ron Jeremy of politics. Some people want the least competent, least smart, least qualified,…

Yeah. It's been kinda hard for me to reconcile that there's this active voter suppression in many places, at the same time as there's this abysmal voter turnout, and at the same time such high voter turnout among black women regardless of class/education and low among white men with low education - but I think I'm…

Hey there, they locked the other thread right as I finished my answer to your question if I have any figures on voter suppression in Pennsylvania, or any state. I'll post it here since it's kinda relevant here too -
"I don't, nobody can have exact certain figures on that, so it's just my personal reasoning based on…

What don't you understand? No white *feminist* voted for Trump - even if we all straight up hated non-whites, Trump is going to ensure that abortion is illegal in some states for a lifetime. This was not a Susan B Anthony moment of whose progress is prioritized - it was a question of universal female survival. But the…

You don't get that this case actually is a zero sum game to an extent, do you. "They" "should" do this and that for women, but they won't. They haven't in the span of over 50 years. They will do it for men. The outcome is more suffering women and fewer suffering men.

The Susan B Anthony story/phenomenon doesn't apply here because the white women who voted for Trump were not feminists, they are anti-feminists, whatever else they are I promise you that. Are you talking about the ones that stayed home or voted third-party? Many more men than white women meant third-party. The ones…

Yeah. Though it seems more willful in some cases…
Though on the other hand - I remember that back then, to me it seemed like a perfectly convincing argument that a person wasn't raped if they really had had consensual sex soon afterwards. Which to be clear is crazy ignorant. But if I thought so at that time, I guess…

Well, with Dave this type of thing came up enough that I always braced myself a bit for it when watching him. What's so weird is that I wouldn't have said anything about it then to anyone, don't think I even verbalized it for myself. It really wasn't very long ago, but it does seem like something changed culturally.…

For me, this bothers me because the US seems to have hit this point I never thought in my life I would see, where it's become kinda mainstream to differentiate between "dirty" and "non-consensual", and it's a fragile moment. And Dave was always kind of a reactionary when it came to gender (see his jokes about the Kobe…

Not surprised. I remember how after the Kobe rape case, where they identified DNA from several men in her underwear indicating she had sex with more than one man in the span of a couple of days, and Dave had this joke about how if your underwear is "a petri dish" you can't go crying rape.

Not being an American originally and just reading like Jesse's campaign platforms and so on, I never understand how people can be against him… until he does stuff. It's really a shame.

I'm so sorry! And, you know, everything Violet Crumbles said.

What in the world was it about Lana del Rey people believed was authentic and now feel tricked about?!
How many people from trailer parks cultivate a bittersweet nostalgia about it in their 20's? Did you think those were her home videos in "Video Games"? Y'all might have also noticed that it's not really the 50's…

The only thing stranger to me than people's enjoyment of her music is people's reasons for hating her.

It blows my mind that anyone would respond seriously to this. I guess you hit a raw nerve… over and over and over…

"I know that if I was in need, it would be easy to resent the fact I was disqualified from receiving help due only to my gender and the fact I don't have a baby."
But still not as much as you'd resent being homeless with a fucking BABY to take care of, if that were the case.

I guess that's why no comedians came out and condemned Michael Richard's most famous Laugh Factory set.