I’m glad, that whole “the mass-murderer was the real victim here” bullshit pisses me off.

Fathers of boys: don’t leave it up to their mothers.

Trans people are “bullied” constantly (though I think bullying is too weak a word for being described as perverts and abominations, and having laws specifically written to discriminate against you) and I can’t recall any of them going on a rampage.

It used to be that crashes and deaths caused by driving while drunk was just considered a part of the inherent risk of driving. People drive; people drink; sometimes bad things happen. Such is life. It took a concerted effort of pissed of moms of dead kids to say that conceptualization was fucked up and it’s not only…

The reason most parents fail to do all that is because they don’t think about it, don’t want to really commit to it, or don’t realize how important it is. If you’re terrified of failing in this particular way, that’s because you’re serious about succeeding in this particular way, and half the battle is getting to that…

Nobody ever gives a shit about the women loners.

Great writing.

I don’t know if there is a “right” way for parents to behave and speak out after something like this but this feels gross to me. Apologize for what your child did and then shut up. I’m sure it’s hard to process something like this but it’s just not the same thing as having your child murdered in cold blood, ESPECIALLY…

And if the father is already married the answer is sister wives.

Considering that US history has included the casual murder, forced marches and wholesale destruction of the Native Americans (not to mention centuries of forced slavery of Africans, massacres of labor protesters and the glorification of the gun culture of the Old West), yammering about a sudden decline in the…

Things Australia/Canada/Europe has:

The cool thing is how neatly this dovetails into the “compulsory monogamy” thing bubbling up from the incel right.

Problem is video games, twitter, etc are in other countries too. Countries that have way lower rates of gun violence. Countries that have strict gun laws.

Single mothers are the root of all evil to the GOP. It’s not like they could pass laws that would help single mothers. That would be proactive. Instead they do everything the can to make life harder for them, and punish them for not being married. And when these women have to work two to three jobs to make ends meet…

The too many doors thing is obviously it. Did anyone in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory die in a mass shooting?

It goes back to the 80s. Dark Money by Jane Meyer does a great job of tracing how it developed.

The “grassroots” of the tea party movement were also funded and founded by the Koch brothers. The more progressive left would, in my opinion, be opposed to that kind of corporate cooperation and would be a more true grassroots movement.

The estimable Alex Pareene:

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The most important thing is that people can’t fool themselves into thinking it’s going to be easy. Entrenched power never just gives up and goes away. So when you lose, and you will lose a lot, don’t give up. One or two losses or victories doesn’t mean the fight is over.