It’s not just better training required for police officers. We need to stop hiring sociopaths for the job.

Is this a real comment? You didn’t read the post, or follow the links, but you have concerns that the cop is being treated unfairly? Good kinja!

Agreed. To a frighteningly large proportion of Americans, racism means calling attention to the fact that people are treated differently according to their race.

More power to her!! But....she has a long way to go technique wise to be the star she’s dreaming of being! Ballet is hard :-/

Yes, that whole “establishment” thing made me laugh a little bitterly, coming from a reasonably wealthy, white male who has been a politician for a long time.

It’s been really interesting trying to speak to the sexists among progressives. The words “slut” and “skank” and “cunt” are prominent.

I’m dying to read a linguist/anthropologist’s essay on how people discuss Hillary in comparison to the other candidates. You can say you don’t like someone without making it so obvious your opinion is tainted with misogyny

It’s almost like they should not use violent language in a campaign!!

Jeb is that kid whose dad spent a year in the minors and won’t let him quit little league. “Dad, I HATE BASEBALL PLEASE STOP MAKING ME HIT LEFT HANDED” and his Dad is like GO PLAY THIRD BASE RIGHT NOW.

Being a sore loser and not conceding when he loses, shit talking the organizations when he doesn’t get their endorsements, stealing campaign data, whining about the establishment when he almost exclusively gets positive press and now constantly changing the conditions after agreeing to them - it’s Bernie’s world…

People who think that way clearly haven’t experienced enough pain. And I don’t say that because I wish them pain (although I do), I say that because they obviously don’t understand what actual human anguish feels like.

nah it’ll be all “god doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle. You’ve been chosen to care for this child”

As someone who has been called a bitch numerous times by men while committing the unpardonable offense of doing my job, Ms. Autler handled this exactly right. It really gets under their skin when you’re calm or you laugh. I think they expect women to gently weep when called a bitch.

Makes some sense. After all, most people’s firsts are disappointing experiences with no hope of a satisfying finish.

Between this and the two planes that were mysteriously forced to land due to unspecified illnesses on board I’m thinking of Station Eleven.

They really styled Jennifer Lawrence to look like Kate Winslet here.

This is a perfect example, this little exchange you’ve had to have - Anyone even considering Hillary is expected to bend over backwards to be fair and inclusive and repeat endlessly that they like Bernie too, and he’s great and be made to feel defensive about supporting Hillary even a little bit.

Did you just “wait your turn” someone on “women’s issues”? Ye gods.

The thing is, this isn’t 2008. We have a Republican congress and it’s going to stay a Republican congress for some time. There will be no progressive changes in the next four years. This race is indeed solely about holding on to the gains that were achieved under Obama, most during his first term.