Studs Terkel has a book of oral history about race in the US that includes an interesting story or two about people rethinking their prejudice.

We have a Congress in name only as well. And a Senate, and a Supreme Court, don’t forget them as well. The US is an oligarchy and these entities reflect that.

Helicoptor commutes for the rich and favelas for the rest of us.

I say the exact same thing all the time. The GOP has a solid brand, you know exactly what you’re getting when you vote for them & the dems need a helluva lot more than we’re not them to go anywhere (c-Bernie).

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President Ryan are two words that are full of “oh-I-just-puked-a-bit-in-my-mouth.”

I keep on saying that no one loses an election that they should handily win like a Democrat.

Right, because the world is filled with companies run by enlightened despots and if you’re not happy in one place well there’s just bunches of other places to go to with just swell, robust benefits (especially that US health insurance) in this glorious workers paradise.

The problem is that when you work for these people they myopically think that what drives them is exactly what drives you, too, and expect you to work for them with the same drive that they have for it, to the exception of everything else in your life. I’ve worked for a couple of toxic people like this already, no…

A tree is a root system both below and above the ground, I think it’s a metaphor for travel from our plane of existence to the that of the red lodge.

I am very much looking forward to this, even moreso after it was indicated that Fire Walk With Me is suggested pre-reboot tutorial.

I moved out of a small (50k) city in Wisconsin at the end of the 1980's because I knew that I couldn’t live in a redneck wonderland. It’s not just things like the healthcare access described here, it’s the homophobia, the racism, the misogyny, the gun culture, the cognitive dissonance that leads them to vote against…

You may want to read Nancy Isenberg’s book “White Trash” for a crash course on this (and, no you shouldn’t).

Yeah, look at how Germany and the US are in the process of switching roles from 70ish years ago. My dad fought the Nazis - he didn’t vote for them.

I dunno, J.J Abrams is fairly respected and The Force Awakens and the Star Trek films that he’s had his fingers in are foul.

Geez all the comments about the price of the magazine, that is a freaking grand cover.

Re: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren has managed to stay focused on attempting to improve economic opportunities for people who have been left behind—middle class Americans.”

Paul Ryan is smart enough and he is patient. He’s working a long con and things are assembling for him to get what he wants. Apologies from the People’s Republic of Wisconsin.

Please oh please oh please let there be heads hit with metal folding chairs.