No I mean glib idiots whose ignorance provides openings for abhorrent, dangerous people to obtain power. Like yourself.

My children need more wine!

No, the first three points are pretty clearly directed at Trump.

Early draft of Trump’s letter to 46: “Hey Bozo. Sorry your crowds weren’t as large as mine. What a turnout! After winning the Electoral College in a landslide against Crooked Hillary Clinton, it stopped raining as I got inaugurized, and nine million people were there to show support. Despite what the press would have…

Yes, but we’re beyond flags now. There were no Nazis at Berkeley last weekend. We’be entered the witch hunt phase.

Privilege right now is Punching Nazis out of self-righteousness, because it will be the public who loses when the state crushes the next round of violence. Political violence right now is entirely selfish.

I heard about a group called “life after hate” on NPR last weekend. I’ve got their website open on a tab that I’ve not yet looked into. There’s some hope.

I agree. I don’t debate nazis. I do argue with more run-of-the-mill ignorant racists when I find them in my professional and personal life, since they can maybe still be reached. But debating nazis makes no sense. There are no casual nazis, but there are an awful lot of sheltered white folks who are racist because…

Except that ex white supremacists do, in fact, exist.

I agree. I’ve been watching this movement from here on the left for years and now people I know who were very concerned have sided with antifa. We need nuance right now, not tribalism.

It’s not concern for the Nazi though. It doesn’t bother me that Richard Spencer got punched. It’s concern for the person advocating the criminal act of punching a person for what they believe. They are wrong. It bothers me that people think they have carte blanche to assault people. That’s crazy. I don’t care if…

If you can justify violence on them based on what they believe, you aren’t really much better. Different yes, but again, what you believe and say takes a back seat to what you actually do.

I hate opening my mouth on frought topics like this, because it’s so easy to lose the humanity of the person you’re talking to behind the screen. And I agree with your statement.

I miss the AV Club.

Okay, check this out: The DHS and FBI just declared Antifa domestic terrorists. Pelosi condemned them after Berkely on Saturday. Paul Ryan had to crawl back and condemn them. The mayor of Berekly labelled them a criminal gang. Trevor Noah called them Vegan ISIS last night. The “bike lock” professor is facing 40 years…

No. Punching Nazis is wrong. Unpopular speech is just speech. You don’t get to punch people no matter what their beliefs are. At some point (and that point is when things become violent) what you DO becomes more important that what you SAY.

I know we ask this a lot (or used to, pre-Kinja) but now, more than ever before:

It’s weird that The Onion itself isn’t on the Kinja shitlist. Or that it kept its format when the AV Club transitioned.

Yes, you think you’re on an AV Club article, then you go to the comments and wonder what the fuck are these idiots yammering about? And not a single Simpsons reference!

“Now Sean, looking over your CV we couldn’t help but notice this blank space in early to mid 2017. Could you explain that?”