I’m with you on the bootcut. And I HATE trying on jeans. I take 10 pairs in the dressing room and none of them fit.

Pretty much this. Except I was the child parents THINK they’re going to have, the one who doesn't understand. I remember being a kid and seeing two guys kissing in Central Park and asking my parents about it. They were like “sometimes men fall in love with men and women fall in love with women.” I was completely…

Ok, well, I’m going to get on the bandwagon and suggest you start moving towards divorce or separation. I say this as someone who is currently in couple’s therapy with my boyfriend, who has some similar tendencies but still ultimately way better from what I can tell. Yes, you do sometimes feel like the couple’s…

not to hijack the thread and all, but i was searching for the perfect gif reaction to this story. my “millenial gif” search gave me nothing funny to use on this article, HOWEVER it did give me emo lee pace with ripped arms and his hair blowing in the wind, so

In fairness, most of them actually have a train of thought to start with, though, and aren't just free associating words until they run out of breath.

Jon Stewart would never do a bit like this because he had a sense of empathy and a basic respect for humanity. It’s why he never seemed to be punching down — even when he brutally took people to task. He always made sure he was making fun of people for the right reasons.

You’re missing the fucking point. Whether or not you personally think upspeak is annoying is unimportant. (And there is actually reason to think that women are more inclined to use upspeak than men precisely because they are viewed as aggressive, hostile, unattractive, etc. when they use a more declarative tone, and…

I’ve said it before, but I’ve never understood the “some slaves were well treated” argument. I grant you that not all slaves were repeatedly raped, beaten, starved and worked into an early grave. This argument boils down to the idea that slaves were expensive. Like racehorses, say? A creature that has no say in where…

My parents buy into this bigoted idiocy, and it is terribly sad to see generally good people who would be kind to anyone they know in everyday life embrace this hateful racist nonsense.

Sanders pretty clearly proved for a long time that it’s possible to have a politician that you feel good about supporting. It’s not more complicated than that. Bernie supporters had candidate that they supported rather than a political party or a lesser evil and they feel that that was taken from them, and with the…

Trump plants? Is it really beyond your comprehension that maybe, just maybe Bernie supporters feel betrayed and are displaying their dissatisfaction with the DNC and the political establishment on the left. Not everyone that doesn’t put their faith in Hillary and the DNC is a right wing plant. Get over yourself.

Sanders has a decided advantage of not having a completely toxic relationship with the Republican Party. It’s not that I think they’ll come to the middle for a “Commie socialist” but they don’t win points with their electorate just for being disrespectful to him.

Surely the DNC is broken if they had to issue an apology to Sanders for trying to rig the Democratic elections in favour of Clinton?

Amen. There are many, many, many Bernie supporters (I’d say the vast majority) who are reasonable, sane folks who got excited for a candidate and his policies, and are now excited to help make those platform promises he championed a reality. They are awesome, and stepping up, and holding the DNC accountable for…

Who are the children, the ones sticking to their principals, or the ones who rigged the system to get their candidate nominated and now can’t stop crying that the “Bernie or Bust” crowd is going to sink her in November?

So telling Bernie supporters that we owe Clinton our votes even though the Dems have fucked us is ... amazingly not helpful, or useful, and not going to accomplish what you think it does.

I think ‘what is wrong with them’ is they were basically lied to and the system they operate under is corrupt. I’d be booing, too. It amazes me how all of a sudden this corruption is ‘no big deal’ because it favored Hillary. This is more of the same disgusting behavior we’ve seen for decades in politics... it’s just…

It’s ridiculous to expect your candidate of choice have a fair shot at the nomination? It’s ridiculous that you now **must** vote for a woman you didn’t feel was right for the job simply because she has a “D” beside her name?

"..I feel like the whole point of academia (at least when it comes to the liberal arts) is to be exposed to all sorts of thoughts and viewpoints and the like. "

Good points, but I think one of the problems with Chait's article is that he conflates silencing with disagreement. Like, the kids who harassed the Omar Mahmood kid who wrote the article about "left-handydnyss" (hilarious, by the way) were attempting to silence Mahmood through harassment and intimidation. But that's a…