How about this compromise: they hand out little blue checkmarks to anyone who can prove their real identity corresponds to their Twitter identity.

On average, we are the wealthiest religious group in the U.S. The average Jewish family makes *twice* as much as the next religious group on the list (Hindus, FWIW). We have never faced pogroms in the U.S. We have almost never faced the kind of injustices that black Americans have faced, and certainly not recently. We…

Yes ... I am Jewish and quite familiar with all of this history. I don’t see the point of tooting our own horn like this on a site geared toward black people though? Like, they have more important shit to deal with than listening to us brag about our superior ally cred.

When you think about how hard it is for black women to get into positions of power in this country, it makes sense. You can’t be where Maxine Waters is without being tough as nails and brilliant, too.

“cut that shit out. It’s not acceptable. And it’s REALLY not acceptable for Jews.”

A mole among the moderation staff? :/

Well, in order to pull you out of the grays, someone with that power first has to be reading the grays to see your post. They don’t do that often. :/

I’ve been hoping for this since he got elected. Last night was a damn good sign. Massive Democratic wins, even for straight-up socialists. A trans woman taking a homophobe’s seat, a feminist taking a sexist’s seat, and although I can’t think of a specific example, I’m sure that there was at least one black candidate…

I’m with this guy.

Are “mowing” and “flora” code for something else?! I can’t believe his neighbor went knuck on him about a yard.

Yeah, although every gun owner I know would point out that the “assault weapons” ban essentially banned guns that looked scary rather than the most dangerous ones. I’m all for limiting the types of guns that can be sold, but the next law will need to be better written. And hopefully limit magazine capacity too.

I can’t get over how he keeps repeating that there are “no guidelines” IN A THREAD FULL OF WOMEN TELLING HIM VERY CLEAR GUIDELINES.

People actually do hunt with semi-auto rifles, although it’s less common.

IME, a lot of relatively reasonable (i.e. not consciously supportive of fascism or white supremacy) Republicans are still pretty insane about communism.

If there is something that half of any given population loves and the other half considers harassment and you never know which preference any random person may have, isn’t the answer to never do that thing to strangers?

I’m so sorry you went through this, especially with men you had admired and respected. And even more sorry about the extra levels of bullshit WOC have to put up with when you dare to speak up about it.

But you’d prevent a lot more shootings by focusing on domestic abusers, since almost ALL these guys have a domestic violence history, and there are plenty of regular people with depression or anxiety who like to hunt deer.

What the ACTUAL fuck.

How about instead they erect a memorial to the real heroes of the South - the millions of people who survived genocide, destruction of their culture, torture, rape, and backbreaking forced labor? And whose descendants are still being asked to tolerate such moronic bullshit as “black Confederates”?

It is a million things besides a battle cry. Terrorists using it as one does not corrupt the phrase.