Self determination has always been kind of a bullshit principle that has been applied in a highly selective way. For one, self determination has overwhelmingly been reserved for white people, and even then inconsistently.

The vote is as illegal as such a vote would be here. There are still living people who fought in the last Spanish Civil war.

Keep in mind in this story that the gist of the Catalan discontent is that this is a wealthy region that pays more into the Spanish system than in gets back in regional services. That is a classic conservative complaint that this site routinely argues against.

Americans were and are fully capable of electing racist morons without outside assistance. Russian propaganda had little or nothing to do with it. 

Who cares? I mean that honestly. Say Russia ran some Facebook adds to try and convince people to vote for independence. The Government fired rubber bullets and assaulted people for just voting. They threatened sedition charges against newspapers that published poll locations. They mass arrested people sympathetic to…

Agreed. I have a PhD and am looking for a tenure track faculty position. I have worked for for profit education companies during the short time I’ve been graduated, which pays more than being an adjunct. About half of my friends from graduate school do have tenure track jobs. And you know what? They honestly are not…

Oh come on - she rejected the donation because of who it came from. This adds up to less than $200 worth of children’s books. The monetary component was negligible. The woman couldn’t help politicizing something as simple as an award for a job well done.

True. Sometimes I think the most damaging terrible thing that ever happened to strong female characters is the combination of words: strong female character.

This always bothers me with the Trump family. People keep attacking them over absolute nonsense, which is ridiculous because the Trumps have so very many things that really do deserve attacking there’s no reason to go for weak stuff like this.

I think he’s trying to talk about this sort of anxiety of representation in which to have a heroine or female protagonist (today) with flaws, vulnerabilities, shortcomings, or failures is to create a ‘bad’ or ‘weak’ depiction (that will get you dragged on twitter) rather than a full or complex character which…

This was the lead goddamn story on Fox News and other conservative sites while husband Trump is fucking up left and right most especially any leadership in spearheading Puerto Rico. It was red bait for the Foxbots and Trumptards and this librarian did no favors for literacy, charitable giving, or libraries.

Yeah issuing a blanket condemnation of Dr. Seuss and his work because he like the rest of the US got caught up in the anti-Japanese racist hysteria during WWII I think is a bit much, not that that should be overlooked.

Yeah, this seems like the wrong hill to die on.

Dr. Seuss atoned for his youthful mistakes. The messages in his books are overwhelmingly positive, tolerant, inclusive, and open minded. Writing them off as “racist propaganda” because of what he did (wrong) for the war effort is bullshit.

Wait do people think that Hollywood (and obviously the producers) aren’t being incredibly self-congratulatory about Wonder Woman? It’s a decent movie, a better-than-ok superhero movie, but in no way is it a great feminist gauntlet thrown down at the film industry.

Agreed, don’t care what anyone says. A studio w/a single game that has a single game mode is not worth 4 billion. At some point PUBG user base will drop and hopefully at that point we’ll see a more realistic number.

This is why I live in a 100-year-old house in a small town in the middle of New Jersey. Walking/biking distance to anything I need and not new construction so no HOA. The worst we have are town codes that can be enforced, but that is mostly to prevent blight.

You know what is weird? Ghost in The Shell has 44% on rotten tomatoes.

If there’s one thing I love, it’s seeing Speed Racer acknowledged as a good movie.

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