Okay I gotta ask, is there significance around your username? I speak a little Japanese, and all I’m getting is “karasu to same.” Am I close?

I’ve seen a couple of Twitter personalities I follow saying the show has terrible messaging around transexuality, homosexuality, and fatshaming, but haven’t been able to find any articles that actually spell out the details (and I don’t really want to watch and support the show if there are messages like that.) Can…

I switched from VS to the Aerie brands, and *love them.* I’m a 34DD, and always had a “quad boob” problem with VS; Aerie bras are incredibly comfortable, fit well, and you can almost always get them on sale for like $30. I agree that they seem teenage-r, which is why it took me so long to try them out, but their…

Oh God then do NOT pick up the sequels. Andy is even worse (the third one, which focused on Emily and some new characters and featured pretty much no Andy, was okay.) And yeah, in the books Miranda is some kind of God figure the characters are still having nightmares about years later. Good Lord, I know there are…

>But those are fairly fringe cases

Okay, so what’s your point? I’m saying getting called racist helped open my eyes to the inherent racism of our society, and how I had internalized that even while I was so sure I didn’t harbor bad feelings towards black people. You argued at the top of this thread that getting called racist just hurts white people…

I really can’t fathom how any progressive who tackles the idea of income inequality can somehow divorce it from race. There have been so many articles about the particular economic vector of racism (the housing issues, the wage issues, issues with banks and lenders and theft of black labor for generations even…

Also, I’m confused, I thought a certain brand of progressives *hated* the “centrist” Dem party for catering to white people by being Republican Lite. Isn’t being super worried about antagonizing racist white people while continuing to ignore your actual base just about the *worst* catering the Dems could do? Why is…

*Standing ovation* 

“telling racists that they’re racist doesn’t magically make them become less racist.”

It does if they’re halfway decent people. I got called racist on a discussion thread years ago, and... she was right. (She’s also around here and makes awesome comments.) It took a while to settle in, but it kicked off the…

“However, on Pelosi I disagree. I’m not a fan of hers, but do you really think she even believes the “bi-partisan” line she’s saying? We all know it’s not true - it’s just what you say. Also, when she was leader in 2005, and then took over as speaker in 2006, she was ruthless. Pelosi is a politician in the mold of…

Please provide a link to this police report, as the victim herself hasn’t even provided that. And please elaborate how, exactly, Ellison is “racist.” 

I get the advantages of this new system, but holy cow, if great comments like this can’t get un-greyed in a reasonable amount of time, then we’re all just hanging out here with the trolls *anyway.* 

I live in MN as well, and read so many excellent blog posts grappling with this very issue. The conclusion I (and many other Dem voters, it seems) came to was 1) if Walz won, and the allegations solidified into charges, Ellison can resign and Walz can replace him with a Dem candidate, so voting for Ellison was not…

For f**ks’ sake, she said she would like to be President, but answered firmly “No.”

“We’re going to talk about 2020 in a minute. Do you want to run again?” “No.”

Hilarious that you first linked to your own blog organization, which linked to The Hill, which says *right in the first paragraph* that she had to be…

I think it’s also partially a chicken or the egg situation. I think progressive politicians are more likely to pop up if they see people being engaged with basic liberal ideas, and think “Hey I can make this even better!” Hearing about more progressive voter engagement makes them feel like they have a chance in hell…

“Because I was posting this prediction on Jezebel back in 2016.”

I remember you, and I remember the prediction, and I remember the queasy but hopeful squirm in my stomach that if Warren ever started making any movement towards a 2020 run, we’d have learned from our mistakes. (And hey, Warren doesn’t have the “baggage”…

It is actually staggering to see the prophecy coming true this early. I always knew Harris would get slammed by the progressive left, because a significant portion of them seem to have some strange, mysterious issues with “identity politics” (ie, anything that takes into account the brutal financial reality of…

So let me get this straight... you yourself said that if she had spoken up in 2016, she would have just been one in a long, long list, and thus her impact would have been substantially less, so even while doing a good thing, it wouldn’t have created much of a net positive. And yes, horrendous things were happening in…

The drag queens were the best part. I legit enjoyed the first 10-15 minutes of the movie thanks largely to the energy and atmosphere set up by them. Wish they’d just hung out there the whole time.