Riposte: Your attack on the original post is reducible in practice to an excuse-making exercise for a lazily uncharitable approach to propositions.

As synecdoches for more complicated concepts, they are perfectly fine, so long as you are aware of how the audience will read the intensions and connotations of the usage. It is not necessary to re-explain and re-litigate the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of social privilege (and the entirety of modern…

It’s the Swiss Option: Hey, if there’s a genocide and you don’t get involved, you can’t profit from it!

Freedom of Speech is the concept that the state—the police power of government—should be restrained from interfering in the expressions and publications of citizens and residents.

Tim Gunn is the available spirit animal for every well-meaning straight white dude.

...out of 10!

In my personal extensive but necessarily anecdotal experience, the palate sucking could theoretically also be due to an epic ganja-blowout. Smoke, of whatever species, is hard on the hard palate. But he just doesn’t have the chill, so blow it must be.

So much Russian virility in one vessel must be balanced. For comrade safety.

That looks an awful lot like Donayd Shlevenkovichump. But with a lot of vigorous up-and-down movement, to mimic American signature quirks.

Because John Hancock MUST BE BESTED.

That’s a...non-standard paper size. We don’t countenance such...wanton rebellion. Get your paper in ORDER!

“The EAR! Why did it have to be the EAR?!”

What’s missing from that apropos Holocaust reference is hipster glasses.

Anarchists don’t get elected. Intentionally. But nihilists do, and they pass.

It’s always today, no matter when you ask that question.

The difference between a jab and a cross is commitment and discipline.

The side where nationalists and anarchists do all the dirty work of beating and killing one another, so we can build back the institutions that allow us to do civilized shit.

It’s his only lonely tie to ancestral Scotland, you insensitive clod!

The better option was single-payer, but some whiners put a stop to that. So, yeah, we’re left with second-best option, which includes obnoxious sops to insurance companies like the mandate that help keep them afloat.

Well, go get yourself elected to the Senate, then. What are you waiting for?