THIS point should be made more often. Too often the “female purity” folks and the “homophobia” folks have mindsets that stem from the same root problem: (1) they have little to no respect for the group of people they find most sexually attractive, (2) they believe everyone else is just like them in terms of…

Sam Bee is a national goddamned treasure.

“shouldn’t they just try piggy backing on the legalization of gay marriage? I feel like it gets dicey when it comes to things like spousal benefits and tax deductions”

I think, first of all, the very ability to step out of the shoes she was walking in 100% changes her experience. People who pretend to be homeless to make themselves feel better aren’t actually homeless, people who put on fat suits to live as an overweight person aren’t actually overweight. People who wear blackface…

Unfortunately, this is common in indigenous communities. There has been a state of emergency on in the Pine Ridge reservation for years because of the youth suicide rate.

Somewhere along the way, Americans decided to view voting as a boring, stupid thing — and not as both their most sacred right and their greatest responsibility as Americans.
And I have no idea how we can get people to see the importance and necessity of voting; we all like immediate results. Telling people that they…

That needs to change!!! We really are screwing up by not voting.

“Fuck. So close.”

Despite his comments about at least two of his daughters (Tiffany here, the comments about Ivanka saying “If she weren’t my daughter...”), I actually don’t think he wants to have sex with his own children. Rather, I think he believes that the highest compliment you can give a woman is to call her fuckable. Which leads…

What a badass. That was so satisfying to watch. It’s time people like him are made uncomfortable, so they can feel an ounce of the discomfort they’ve caused the people in there state.

“I’m not talking to you-” YAS KWEEN

I was really hoping the fundamentals were going to spell something out with their capital letters, like Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent.

It’s widely being proclaimed that the interview didn’t go all that well for Sanders (theWashington Post is declaring it a “disaster”).

This piece shows a staggering amount of self-delusion regarding the political economy of the media.

There’s a pretty long history of transphobia amongst gay cis people, much in the same way there’s a long history of transphobia amongst certain feminists... that’s really all there is to it. We’re basically the eternal punching bag for other marginalized people to vent their own demons.

Oh, sure, “balance.” Yes, let’s call it “balance” to let the people who think that I cannot be trusted with my own fucking body run the country half the time, ‘cause that’s what fairness means, right? One step forward, one step back. Balance! Progress? Meh. What we need is balance. Oh, but very courageous to denounce…

So much THIS. The idea of taking turns democracy? This isn’t kindergarten games. This is one side stating “we’ll take away the rights of anyone not like us, invade the reproductive choices of women, poison the environment and resources for profit, and blunder our way into more wars - which we are already using an…

we need balance.

That really was the dumbest part of what he wrote. Balance for the sake of balance is not a virtue, and it’s not a map toward progress, either. If we just automatically alternate between liberal and conservative, we’ll get a cycle of each new administration working to undo what the last did rather than move forward to…

Yup, Hitler didn’t come to national prominence because no one voted for him. That’s the problem with painting Hitler as the personification of evil - it excuses the real evil, the evil of people who either ignore injustice or do injustice because they are following orders. Trump is showing us who he is and yes it is…