Guys like this are exactly why I don’t want to hear shit about what we’re losing by driving men like him out of their fields; we’ve lost way more from the women who have left voluntarily or been excluded by men like these over the years.

Congratulations on learning what an anecdote is.

Sorry, no, this is absolute horseshit.

Which would be relevant if violence against cats with the perpetrators facing absolutely no consequences was a real epidemic in this country. It’s not.

I’m curious how this works with EEO laws - some markers of diversity are obvious without asking, but how do you ensure that you’re hiring (invisibly) disabled or LGBT people, for instance, without asking illegal interview questions?

Read Ira Madison’s article about it in the Daily Beast.

I don’t know if redemption arc is the right word, but there was definitely a weird glossing over of both the apparent history of toturing black prisoners (which was used repeatedly as a punchline) and everything that he did at the advertising company (including punching the female staffer which was, again, played for…

People are far too quick to confuse having a reason for doing something with having an excuse for doing something.

“I gave the movie three minutes and didn’t want to continue” is a fair enough assessment of a piece of art for voting. Who wants to give away two hours of their life to watching something they don’t like?

My husband l o v e s Blade Runner so I’ve watched it a handful of times and I swear to god I could not tell you a single plot point in that movie beyond the barest of Drunk History summaries.

It was last year, weird she didn’t notice since she says she cares so much.

I can’t take this “wear black to make a statement” bullshit seriously as long as men like Gary Oldman keep getting awards at these things and all these people wearing black still give him standing ovations when he does. If we’re picking and choosing our abusers to ostracize, we’re not a movement.

The man married one of his victims and received little to no public condemnation for it and has built his career on being called a genius for making movies about older men fucking young women/teenagers. For a lot of sickos, that’s more than enough to satisfy a compulsion.

Exactly. Any person who blames the two-party system on anything other than the way our representative democracy is structured is a fucking moron and I don’t want to hear another word from them.

I actually just finished watching the clip and you’re right, Colbert looked taken aback. What a cheap joke on Oliver’s part. At least Colbert tried to save it by saying it was for DACA, but Oliver’s cynicism as though the point of the speech was to enact a miracle and not bring attention to the issue was really…

I care, because this tendency to talk about the DNC as though they solely hold all of the power to create change in Washington and as though they are the end all, be all of Democratic politics means that we get laments like yours about why they’re not doing x, y, and z things that were never their job in the first…

There’s no bigger sign that you only started paying attention to politics in 2016 than talking about the DNC as an all-powerful political entity and not an organization whose only job and mission is to raise money to elect Democrats. It’s not the fucking DNC’s job to fight gerrymandering, register people to vote, or…

John Oliver is in the group of very smart people who apparently still need it explained to them that 48 and 193 are smaller numbers than 51 and 238.

Oh my god, go back to Chapo.

Also, why the HELL do we Democrats just insist on being excited by candidates?? Why is that a thing with us? Why have we as a voting block not examined our own screwed-up thinking here? Why is up to the DNC to give us an “exciting” candidate (whatever that means) instead of on us to realize that governing is a job,…