But if we can externalize America’s problems onto a scapegoat, we can absolve the media and patriarchy of responsibility and return the status quo. Wouldn’t that be nice? (For white people)

They could focus of the ethical issues of the backroom deal that went into the current pick... but then we might just get somebody worse.

Y’know with all this recent fame she could just phone her act in, but no.

She was off to skin 101 dalmation puppies to make into a fur coat, so at least there was some parity.

Nobody else knows this, but the 13th letter of the alphabet is M! MS-13 was the Main Stream Media all along folks! Enemy of the people, fake news, 2nd amendment and something racist!

Hahaha...

Are we talking the Supreme Court Justice? I imagine him waking up in a Walmart parking lot and thinking to himself, “Ah freedom! If only I could make it so everyone lives this way!”

Not to be crass, but could you please provide a ratiometric scoring of city/country gettings on, factoring in quality?

It’s hard enough to find somebody worth rubbing up against in a city of 10,000,000 people. What happens when your dating pool is reduced to people you pass by at the local Walmart? Choosing one is basically choosing neither!

And ruined. Thanks a lot!

People wrapped in privilege and assured society shelters white men from the consequences of their actions.

Any IRL equivalent to Westworld would end with everybody you killed or maimed lined up at the end of your experience all fresh and smiling to shake your hand and be like.

William Gibson has some thoughts (mostly twitter musings) on the fetishization of guns in America and how the gun changed from a tool for hunting or the farm to something insidious. He bases this on how guns have been depicted in print media over time.

Oh so that’s what happened! I though I just got older and started liking bitter things more.

Have you considered writing an opinion column at the NYT or Atlantic? You’ve got that certain something!

WTF do you think DACA was supposed to be!?

They had a year of debates, concessions, and compromises that ended with with a final “Fuck you” from the GOP when they got everything they wanted but still didn’t vote for it specifically so they could do exactly what you are doing right now.

It’s really too bad there is no other fantasy and nobody ever wrote another book after Tolkien that had swords or magic stuff in it. Damn shame.

We kinda had that ending slavery thing going on the first time. What we didn’t do was finish the reconstruction, and we continue to pay for that.

The DoEd draft budget is attempting to funnel $1B to for profit education, while cutting the office of civil rights and union protections.