If I’m not mistaken, playing anthems before sporting events started in WWII to double-down on nationalism. Not that it’s likely in the current climate, but a REALLY EASY way to de-politicize sports would be to not play a fucking national anthem before every event.

I both lean far to the left and vehemently support Israel’s existence. Like many left-leaning American Jews, I am both pro-Israel and appalled and horrified by current Israeli leadership. It is an awkward position, because we can agree up to a point with many of Israel’s critics—but then there comes a time when you…

Which one of the candidates you’re backing supported the fucking war. That you Hil-bots are SO, SO, SO, SO, fucking tone-deaf is almost impressive. The hypocrisy is what makes it infuriating. Do you class-trading fucks have no soul? At all?

Can’t wait for centrists to keep on pushing away the most engaged slice of their potential electorate and then react with insulted astonishment when somehow they continue hemorrhaging seats across the country.

1. Without video evidence, these two boys would get criminal records that could socially and economically cripple them for life. They still might.

Someone on twitter suggested that, perhaps, Kid Rock might not be the best choice as a Senator seeing as how he dropped out of school at 14 and does not appear to have ever gotten any education beyond 8th grade, and therefore may be less than conversant in the actual setup and workings of our government since, you…

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Forgot to add:

“we don’t have two political parties in America. We have one business party with a democratic and a republican wing”

As much as I support equality, I can tell you people in the middle west of the country do not care.

I think part of the reason that some people were making Obama out to be much further left than he is, is because the poles on the right have moved sooooo far. What is now “acceptable discourse” in the GOP was once considered extremist, and too many in the DNC have been trying to stake themselves around the new center,…

Good god I hate Syracuse. Their fans’ obsession over a freaking jackass basketball coach, who goes completely out of his way to criticize his own players (attempting to hurt their draft stocks) who earn him millions of dollars for free, and has committed clear and significant violations, is nothing short of absurd.…

I say this as a Philadephian: we are the absolute worst people on the face of the planet.

Yep, because New York and Boston natives are such peaches.

philadelphia is the south of the north

I’m a special education teacher in a high needs middle school in Philadelphia. About 1/3 of students in our district fall under the definition of homeless. In my school alone, 94% of our students live below the poverty line.

Now my fellow PA peeps can focus on booting Toomey from office next year.

I am a public school teacher. I am sitting at my desk, which is in a classroom in a public school full of minorities and SpEd students, and I am weeping. I have about 9 minutes left on my lunch break, and I don’t know that I can pull it together in time. I am crushed, absolutely gutted. I am afraid for my students, I…

Theres respect and theres objective fact, this is more of the latter. Trump while a reprehensible person isnt wrong in this regard as America has BY FAR been the most militarily aggressive country in the world since Nazi Germany.

NIS: i promise i won’t ever say a discouraging word about Minor Threat. Ever ever!