How does this have 6 likes? It’s virtually unintelligible. Also, deb03449a1 didn’t suggest s/he is personally qualified to be president, only that Yang isn’t. You understand that 138 million people voted in the 2016 election, every one of them weighing in on the question of who was qualified to be president, and they…

You don’t think that the writer makes a fair point that Yang willfully ignores race in favor of economics in understanding our present situation, an indefensible position that only a “model minority” and techie could take? It’s fine if you want to argue that Yang’s popularity with white nationalists is overstated or…

I gotta say, even if someone carefully deliberated before carving into my neck with an electric knife, I wouldn’t be thrilled.

I made this exact comment in my reply to “Bitter Old Dude” below (we posted simultaneously). If you look at basically any medical research done on PoC between, say, 1650 and 2000, you’ll find a LOT of good reasons to distrust the medical establishment. And the literature shows rampant bias by doctors—including female…

It is definitely right there in the cult of rugged individualism at the US’s inception, you’re right. There’s an anti-authoritarian streak at the founding of this country and the problem is it sometimes confuses unmerited, arbitrary authority with expertise. I also think experts have done themselves a disservice by…

EXACTLY. I don’t know when the “I don’t need no stinkin’ expert” phenomenon began and I can only hope it’ll reach its zenith soon, but I wish people would even consider the notion that a layperson cannot correctly assess everything. If you are even remotely familiar with diagnostic criteria, let alone discerning it in…

Seconded. Jimmy Kimmel has become like, the anti-Jenny McCarthy: someone whose background, expertise, and early career suggest you should not take them seriously. It’s just that in Jimmy’s case they should, and in Jenny’s case, they really, really should not.

For whatever reason, I didn’t start out a JVN stan. Actually, the reason is that everyone seemed to fawn over him so obsessively and I just didn’t find him that witty or clever. I didn’t mind him, but I also couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to listen to his podcast.  But him speaking about this and in this way…

I see from your user name that you have a very nuanced view of complex matters like the loss of a pregnancy and romantic relationships. We’ll all be sure to abide by your dictates for when, where, and how to disclose stillbirth, bad marriages, and other unpleasantness. As an internet commenter and person who makes…

My two-year-old is obsessed with Mickey Mouse and so it’s critical to my parenting that I understand this: is Pluto not Mickey’s dog? And while I have you: is Goofy involved in an interspecies relationship with Clara Belle? Tres progressive.

touching on Apple’s “simple life” in Los Angeles of hanging out with her best friend, her dog, and her best friend’s dog.

Every time I see Hemingway’s face and sweaters, I want him to be such a better man than he was.

Seconded. On a petty level, this is the internet equivalent of “I could say something so mean right now.” You lose because you could just be bluffing and also anyone who ever had something truly withering to say just fucking said it. But also, part of what she’s wrote about in the book is the stillbirth she…

I had been waiting for the Ice Cream Duck-ification of Thunberg from the left, in which we say she’s only taken seriously because she’s white. I saw it from Travon Free on Saturday and promptly unfollowed. Is she more lauded because she is white and European and “cute” than she would be if she was a person of color…

I have had enough money to get the psychological care I needed. It still took a fuckload of excruciating work on my part. Trauma compounds trauma, so a person who, for instance, had a mother routinely overdose in front of her and had to give her CPR as a child, then was raped as an adolescent, and doesn’t get…

This. This this this. I have had scenarios in which I honestly kind of desperately needed to change my kid’s pee-only diaper in a restaurant booth (no changing table in bathroom, every other surface in bathroom was disgusting) and still opted not to because like, come on.  People are fucking eating, man.  I have…

I literally cannot hear or say the phrase, “Did you hear?” without at least in my head, sometimes out loud, responding, “twenty-five thousand.”

She isn’t even amusing. Once upon a time, yes, she was an excellent reality tv villain because she did things like fuck her bff’s bf and then get sort of clobbered in the face for it. But now she just kind of slinks around in ill-fitting rompers and gloms onto various friends who are having a show moment (recall her…

Her book details a lifetime of trauma and abuse. Regardless of age, a person can be vulnerable to manipulation, especially given the right set of circumstances.  And Ashton’s persona is certainly that of a dolt, but his success in business and entertainment suggests he’s rather more savvy than that.

I legit LOLed at the “really, really average” kicker of all this. So accurate. I almost wish E! True Hollywood Story still existed so we could get the talking heads of their Canadian classmates saying like, “yeah, Drew was on student council...he was secretary.”