Yes, if calling them out for their hateful, fearmongering makes me smug and pretentious liberal than bedazzle that shit on a neon t-shirt and I’ll wear it everywhere.

Don’t fall for that rope-a-dope bullshit. I grew up in the middle of a red state. There is nothing magical or noble about these fucking ignorant bigots. They’re dumb and mean. They have every opportunity to learn, it’s just that stupidity of that sort has become their tribal identity.

I am just over two years from having moved from NC to California. I lived in a city there, though not one of the big ones.

Yup. John Oliver put it really well when he called it the “clown town,fuck the world, shit show”. What’s super frustrating is republicans have gone so far right on basically everything that letting trans people use their bathroom of choice is considered “progressive” or “liberal”. It’s not! It’s just common human…

Well at least I'm not alone. And as I said to another commenter: it's hard not to seem smug or pretentious when the opposition keeps doing incredibly stupid and insane things. I mean it's 2016 and we're having a national debate about fucking bathroom laws!

I hadn’t actually but I just did and in our defense it’s hard not to seem smug or self satisfied when the opposition is so far up its own ass it’s tonguing it’s own colon. They just keep acting so damn stupid. Again, I know that sounds shitty but I can’t believe we’re having national debates over shit like bathroom…

Exactly how I feel. If it makes me look snug or pretentious or what the fuck ever, I don't care.

No I do, I sound like an asshole. I shouldn't judge a whole region since republicans do that and that makes it hypocritical. But at the same time.... Gays don't do anything to warrant the hate from small minded bigots. African Americans don't do anything to deserve the intense scrutiny and distrust they receive, it's…

You must have read that Vox article. I mostly disagree with the premise, sometimes it’s not being pretentious or “smug,” Republicans really are just that stupid.

Even straight people who aren’t 100% gender conforming and/or compliant with gender stereotypes. It does everything!

This is what I don’t get. When you call out white folks about racism, they’re all aghast. How dare you! When you discuss homophobia, they all remembered the guy who does their hair or their cousin’s bubbly friend who is a riot at parties. Yet here they are deciding who has a right to basic human functions. This must…

Ok, I’m gonna sound like a typical smarmy over educated liberal here but....shit like this is why people think of the Republican Party as “the stupid people party”. It’s also why that saying “if you want to see what life was like 25 years ago go to the south” is becoming so prevalent and incredibly true. I know that…

I feel so much rage.

It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that that bar's bathroom is safe for four year-old girls.

Huh. I hadn’t thought about whether these bathroom bills were also stealth attempts to harass gays, lesbians, and bisexuals before. This must be part of that new educational series, The More You Didn’t Want To Know.

Are you fucking—...

We’ve lost our collective minds

In the eternal words of Dennis Reynolds, “It’s the implication.”

Those uniforms scream "covering up a scandal with daddy's money"