Being paranoid that everyone in the store (customers & management alike) are “against” her, plus the delusions that she was being discriminated against aren’t signs of just being an “asshole”. I have a schizophrenic brother so I’m fully aware of the difference between asshole-moves and someone who is suffering from a…

I’m sorry but I fucking hate this kind of take. Being an asshole is not a mental illness. She might have a personality disorder, like trump seems to, but there’s zero evidence she’s mentally ill.

I can’t wait to see what happens to these communities when Paul Ryan’s Trojan horse comes to take their social security, disability, and Medicare payments away.

It’s so infuriating. I wrote this before but I read my father about 20 posts from Why We Are Afraid documenting hate crimes whose perpetrators specifically invoked Trump and dad was still like: Nope, it’s not what you think.

I know the shit has his the fan because white tourists in Manhattan are being openly racist to Black NYers in like, Starbucks. Out of the blue, for no reason.

Let us not forget to mention the fact that many of these people have also voted representatives into office who have screwed them royally and have helped to accelerate the secular economic trends that have been at the root of their immiseration.

Oh yeah, we’re all going down. It’s going to be painful for everyone. I don’t think people understood what they were voting for in this election, but they will when it’s too late. It’s really going to smell like revolution then.

Donald Trump told the New York Times, “I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group... It’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why.”

I can’t wait to see what happens to these communities when Paul Ryan’s Trojan horse comes to take their social security, disability, and Medicare payments away. That ripping sound you hear is the social fabric and social contract that you assumed was just part of life being torn asunder. That’s what small government…

I’ve seen a lot of online posts saying that we need to work to understand the “Trump voter.” That liberal elitism prevented us from seeing/reaching the scared middle-American who saw their way of life slipping away. But, seriously, fuck that nonsense. I grew up in a small Alaskan town and I got out. I’ve gone back…

Reporting from Trump country: facts still don’t matter and these reports are not proof that Trump has normalized bigotry in this country or that his election has led to an increase in hate crimes. I know that it looks like there is indisputable truth, but what you are looking at is stuff that happens ALL THE TIME and…

Also the current seventy-plus-year-period of enormous-war-less-ness is an incredible anomaly, historically. Humanity has never gone this long without an enormous, species enveloping war. We’re probably due.

I’ve actually been thinking about this recently. I wrote a paper for my Holocaust studies class on the generational effect of the Holocaust. I don’t have the paper in front of me right now, but it went something like this:

Dude, I vividly remember when Gen X was the lazy generation that had it hard. That was before we invented the dotcom bubble, I guess?

Anyway, anyone who thinks that the millennials are special snowflakes in this regard (either in terms of their supposed bad/entitled attitude about life or in terms of the hardships…

From Bloomberg:

You seem to confuse democracy with liberalism and progressive beliefs. Millennials are more progressive and liberal than older generations, yes. But they support democracy less than older generations do. This is what the article is talking about.

But not really;

It’s long been a theory that fascism (or one of its authoritarian siblings) rises every 3 generations, when those with direct contact with the horror die out, and there’s no-one to recognise the warning signs.

This doesn’t seem to be specific to millennials at all. It’s boomers who didn’t fucking die off fast enough who are wrecking the damn place.

Another nightmare in a long series of nightmare picks. I can’t believe this is where we are now.