This is one thing I’ve always been confused about. Wouldn’t it be better for most businesses if they didn’t need to offer healthcare to their employees because the government provided it? You’d think they’d be all for that, no?

I don’t know if he was referring to the AHCA, but Mark Green, Trump’s the former nominee for the position of army secretary, has said that universal care would harm people, because then they wouldn’t be forced to seek out help from the church, and through that, be led to Christ.

Shit, man, that is awful. I’m so sorry. Can I presume to make a suggestion: tell this story to as many people as you can, including your elected reps, before the final vote. People need to hear the vivid, personalized, heartbreaking stories of what the ACA meant for people and what this new monstrosity is trying to do.

I understand Amy on this. I ain’t rich enough to have rich guilt, but I do have former poor kid guilt. I don’t really pay for services I can do myself (like pedicures) and I tip really well when I do get any kind of service I can’t (like massages).

I think you’re right. My undergrad is in history, so it’s in my nature/training to think along those same lines. Oddly, I’ve found some relief in coming to the realization that we’re just living in a really bad time.

A lot of this kind of “Clinton lost because she sucks” analysis seems to be missing that candidates exactly like Trump are popping up in a lot of Western countries (Philippines, France, England) and *winning.* Yes, Clinton may be uniquely awful and somehow The Worst Campaign Runner Ever, and yet many candidates that…

I don’t think Sanders helped. 2016 came down to populism vs policy wonk. Clinton was in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t position- she could push back on Sanders, but not attack him, for several reasons. You don’t kick down, and Sanders was losing, so it was kicking down. If she pulled Sanders apart, point by…

This also reminds me of growing up in a mostly white small town in Michigan. I got heavily bullied and harassed everyday in elementary school. When I would go to the principal to complain the response I got was “just go to the other side of the playground.” Not, let’s reprimand the crappy bullies and stop your life…

The idea of eating the money really sucks. There were real concerns—like, this was my rent, which I just spent on this thing that’s not happening.

She uses the brains to solve crimes. So she has to eat the brains while the investigation is taking place.

Lay off Moss and Scientology, for the following reasons:

This story also ran on The Root earlier. And because people recognized the original photograph Mesflin used for her own transformative artwork, and claimed that there might be some bullshit going on there, I have to humbly request you swap out the instagram image linked in the article with the link from the image that…

You remembered just fine. Anyone thinking Trainspotting glorified anything is straight up stupid. Pretty sure that movie is why I didn’t do drugs in high school - I didn’t want to shit my bed.

I think everyone should work in a hotel at least once. I feel very different about humanity.

Bernie supporters and bernies campaign were *very transparently* trying to rewrite history to make Bernie a leader of the civil rights movement. It was not a “I don’t know her” it was “I was there, I never heard of him, but I was aware of the Clintons”. And the clintons have the record to back it up, Bernie *does…

I actually stood in line to see his rally in Philly, and I left the rally early, done with him. It was the first day he used the “Hillary is not qualified” argument, and I was just like fuck that shit. You can disagree with her on issues but NO ONE would say that a man who was a lawyer, Senator, chair of a major…

John Lewis has earned the right to say what he wants about the civil rights movement. His point being that Bernie showing up for one march and getting his picture taken does not a civil rights icon make. And that is true. What has Bernie’s civil rights record been for the past 20 plus years?

Bernie reminds me of 1960's radicals who supported socialist agendas, but really saw basic rights for women and people of color as an afterthought that could be solved with socialism. It can’t. Systemic racism and sexism and misogyny is a lot more complicated than that. To me that was Bernie’s fatal flaw. Which is…

During the election (shortly after RNC when I was fucking horrified and during DNC when a bunch of Bernie bros started crowing about how their tantrum meant more than people’s actual lives) a male friend condescendingly explained to me which issues were ‘progressive’ enough to appeal to voters like him. The misogyny…