Roses are red

Actually, those are arguments against white supremacy, given the relevant historical context: that those problems are caused largely be the fact that minorities are forced to live in a society built on the assumption of white supremacy, and therefore consisting of institutions built almost entirely by white people for…

I loved this (from NYT):

Such a tired unlearned position. I had a friend shadow me for a day a couple of years ago. At the end of the 14 hour day, he said “you only taught for 75 minutes today, but we are just getting home at 10.” He long teased me that professors are do-nothings. It was eye opening. He had no idea how much paperwork, how…

“but I would never judge someone on their politics.”

For real. This is the same argument people use to absolve VP Pence.

There’s nothing quite as breathlessly willing to take a big gulp of fresh right-wing extremist piss in the mouth as neoliberals.

And maybe stole the 2004 election.

In Star Trek there was the idea of a group of people who believed in “Peace At Any Price” AKA PAAP. These were the people who sought to turn the prime directive into the near iron-clad rule it was in Picard’s era.

Nixon was the most insidious. His actions themselves boiled him out of office, but the focus on Nixon himself and his presidency completely hides the other things Nixon was responsible for over a period of decades in creating the Republican party we know and loathe today.

Not if you’re just a cog in someone else's get rich machine. 

Excellent point. Business structure matters.

If your company can’t survive without investor or other external funding, beat it. Fast. You’re gonna lose your job, union or no.

And the Union prevents everyone from being laid off, how, exactly?

Your boss will not save you when push comes to shove

I’m sorry. How the fuck can someone who works at a “millennial-focused digital news site” be “blindsided” when the layoffs come?

Why does guessing incorrectly allow you to punish the pledgemaster?

I say for two big reasons. First, investments take away from current profits, which go to stockholders when they announce earnings. Like HamNo points out, people want their money now.

Maybe we should have thought of that before inflicting decades of shitty foreign policy on Central America. Whoops.

I keep hollering it to anyone who will listen, this is the Reichstag fire of the Trump administration. He authorized lethal force for a reason, they will find a justification to use it, and then they will use the predicable fallout of US soldiers killing a unarmed brown person to split the nation, and in the political…