Was just going to say this. So many black families ( mine included) have southern, northern, west coast, and east coast members because portions of the family broke off from the south in search of better education, less overt racism, and job opportunities. It was dangerous, grueling, and they had no resources but…

“Not everyone has the means or desire to just pick up and leave where they are, and coal mining may be the only choice they have if they want to make a living wage.”

Right. It’s a weird fetishization of the kind of Spartan way of life almost. Most Americans don’t go off and fight in wars, and yet we’re a warlike people, so we need to find ourselves some other way of feeling tough. In some cases that’s clinging to myths of the old west, in others its coal mining, and it’s…

The internet has helped a lot, as has aggressive college recruitment. I got out because colleges got my PSAT scores through automated reporting and then started offering me programs and scholarships. That was *right* before the internet was a thing. So the flyers came in the mail. But it was enough.

Let’s not be coy: it’s also almost entirely a white male workforce, while renewable energy factories tend to be mixed in race and gender. Not sure why we’re pretending that’s not a big part of this.

“who may as well have voted for Trump, as far as I’m concerned”

I don’t think celebrities are necessarily obligated to voice political concerns, but when TS uses feminism as marketing, I think she somewhat opens herself up to this kind of criticism.

Oh, we called Obama out on that many a time. The Administration and Congress just refused to hear us. Very few liberal democrats appreciated Obama’s waffling on immigration nor his execution of foreign policy via drone.   While some come-latelies can certainly be called out for not speaking up about it in the past,…

Now that I’m older, it’s absolutely terrifying, poor girl was abused and no one did anything about it. not her parents, teachers, other adults, hell even me and the other kids in our class.

Welp. Now we know why he’s so against transgender men using women’s bathrooms. Now we know why he pulled that fake statistic about trans men being more likely to commit sexual assault out of his ass on Bill Maher. 

I don’t if anyone would try invasion because Americans have so many guns.

It’s about fucking time, media. They are partly responsible for this shit show and should be apologizing to the American people everyday.

Instead, she got beat down by Matt Lauer, who responded to her usual word soup with, “Kellyanne, that makes no sense.”

The white women of jezebel are blaming a black woman who didn’t vote for trump, for Trumps election and posting tweets of other moronic white women as evidence. It must be Wednesday.

I’m no Oprah supporter but I am not sure if it is her duty to save anyone from the manifest dangers that are staring them in their fucking faces. She has absolutely no obligation to do jack squat besides go into the voting booth and pull the lever just like every other citizen. Each and every citizen has the duty to…

I started watching Greta Van Sustren after Rachel gave her an endorsement. We’ve talked about it a little here in some threads, the idea of watching “the opposition”. Last night she opined that she tended not to believe claims of domestic abuse in divorce hearings.

How bad is it though that for it to go this far there has to be tape evidence that supports that the nominee is a piece of shit human being for them to not be confirmed. And if we go back further enough to the election and remember the video of “Piece-o-shit in Chief” where he actually said things that confirmed what…

Adopted son, very likely abused by Dad. Not excusing his actions but he was created by his farther. He deserves any sentence he gets but in addition to that, any sentence he gets should be tacked onto Jerry’s as well.

Throwing some quotes around Unlimited Data would do the trick. Gets the point across and you get to be snarky to boot! :)

I would wager no, and no. Sessions has been Trump’s fanboy lapdog for his whole rise to his current position. He was the first (and for quite a while) only Senator to support him. He’s on the Brietbart train — Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller (who’s Bannon’s ideological colleague) worked in Sessions’ office before Cory…