That’s why I hate that argument, always. If something has nothing to do with you and affects you in no way, then hush up and listen to people fighting for a decent life. 

Is it me or is Rowling using basically the same illogical argument the anti-gay marriage crew uses: essentially, that giving legitimacy to others somehow lessens your own? All those assholes in the CA Prop. 8 battle kept moaning that their marriages wouldn’t mean anything anymore if gay people could get married too.…

If Trump went back to dog whistles, Powell would accept a role in his cabinet in under 30 seconds.

As usual, the GOP are fucking themselves. Without more stimulus the economy is going to collapse, again.

I think abolitionists would probably respond that your focus on those sorts of “worst case” scenarios is misplaced. The U.S. has an extraordinarily high number of well-armed, fairly well-trained (at least in combat situations) police officers, and that hasn’t prevented the U.S. from being an outlier, in the wrong…

The intention of defunding the police is to remove all militarization (tactical gear, tanks, military surplus sold/given to local police departments, etc.) and to redirect that funding to schools that desperately need it, towards community development, affordable housing, and so many things that have been left bereft.…

Counterpoint: Republicans have been calling Democrats every name under the sun, yelling death panels this and forced abortions that. If you’re ceding the intensity of language, then you’re conceding the electorate are predisposed to lean towards Trump and need to be fooled or coddled.

Republican logic:

Asking white people in power if there is systemic racism in ___________ is like asking fish if water is wet.

The BLM protests in the UK took a new turn at the weekend when a statue commemorating Edward Colston, a 17th Century slave trader from Bristol responsible for the enslavement and transportation of around 80,000 Africans of whom nearly a quarter died during voyage, was torn down. The city, like many in the UK, was…

Former vice president Joe Biden does not believe police should be “defunded,”

This is the same dumb lady who said she is proud to be called an Uncle Tom “because it means she left the plantation.”

It always struck me as funny that the bad cop apologists settled on bad apple as their favorite term to deflect criticism on the system of police.  They’re telling on themselves whether they understand it or not.

You, sir or madam, make downsyndrome look like a benefit.

Even when people talk abolishment, they’re not saying “no law enforcement at all”, they’re saying that this system needs to be totally dismantled and replaced by something new, which isn’t unreasonable, given the systemic flaws and the fact that it’s been successfully done in some US cities. If *you* know better than…

Ali, Russell, and the Olympic Fist Raisers were giants; figuratively unmatched as athletes in their courage to sacrifice their dreams for their convictions. When Kaepernick started protesting, half of the USA literally lost their mind on a Fox News narrative.

It took hard, stupid, active effort to be a shittier paper than the Tribune Review.

“Unsure of what Carlson’s plans are, I raised my toilet’s lid and screamed “WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY” down into the pipes where the Fox News anchor is rumored to summer.”