Any normal human being would have ignored SJP’s condolences or simply said ‘thanks’ and moved on.

Yes, I want to vomit. What the fuck is wrong with us. KJU is getting ridiculously positive coverage for a low-stakes publicity stunt at the same time as he’s actively threatening the US with nukes. Why the fuck are we falling for this. It’s SO FUCKING STUPID.

All of this fawning coverage is really appalling. Between Russia and North Korea, we’re doing a great job of making America look like fucking idiots. Screw around with our democracy? Sure, we won’t investigate and we’ll even rip ourselves apart! Threaten us with nukes? Hey, how about we go out of our minds with…

Um, your point? He offered a solution to a woman who had very, very few. He offered multiple solutions, once you realize he also followed up to get the birth parents treated and funded. You think this was a “give me your baby or go to jail” situation?

What a shitty way to spin this story.

Do your goddamn research. It says RIGHT IN THE POST that CNN has covered this story, and more extensively. Had you taken the three seconds to glance at that coverage before posting your scorching-hot take that a drug-addicted adoptee should grow up to turn on and scorn her adoptive parents, you’d see that the officer…

Are people unaware of what a peacock sounds like? It literally sounds like someone wailing “help”, or like a baby crying. And sometimes they scream:

I’m not going to tell you your approach is wrong, you’ve got different priorities. That’s fine. As I’ve made clear above, I think there’s value to making the internal financial models of companies reflect the true amount they’re willing to pay people without the weird quirks of pay imbalance within roles. I think that…

“Merit based” is just standard industry terminology for annual raise. Use the phrase “annual raise” if you don’t like the implication.

It’s not a keeping-up-with-the-Joneses thing, it’s making sure that the market actually pays you what has been assessed as your worth. If you leave that money on the table it doesn’t go to a teacher in the Bronx, it goes to the other people around your pay grade who are making more noise or back into the company…

When I told people I grew up in Boston they asked if my family had IRA members. Then they asked if I had tons of siblings. Then they asked if my family were disappointed I didn’t get into Harvard.

It’s not that you’re not being clear, you’re just having a different conversation. “Pay me what I’m worth” is a different fight than “That job isn’t worth what’s being paid”, and I don’t think they’re particularly natural fits for the same conversation.

Depends what internet circles you kick around in. If you’re a big political nerd, they notably went viral.

I think it’s unsustainable in an industry that’s done it for so long there’s not much more to wring out. It’s a practical consideration of finite resources, PAs already work for free, there’s not much more digging to do. And you’re mixing two different things with the Chastain case - the point of Chastain’s action was…

Slightly different circumstances in that Chastain was a producer and this is a one-off production. The reason I find the BBC example compelling is that it’s more tightly tethered to a budget (with the UK population as funders and account-takers). So looking at patterns, it appears the BBC realized that the only…

He’s had a couple, google ‘em. He’s a good speaker who appears to be genuinely passionate about what he’s saying, and a good storyteller while speaking. Connects with his audience well, etc. He’s a pretty solid choice if you’re looking for qualities that will balance Trump’s style and delivery.

The SotU rebuttal hasn’t been a real launchpad in a while, has it? I thought Kennedy was a good pick for this - he’s unlikely to fuck it up, he’s able to deliver while appearing to experience common human emotions, etc. And if he flames out, so be it. But I think he’ll just come across as solid and sane.

Why do you think the money’s coming out of the pockets of the “truly underprivileged”? Why wouldn’t the reckoning come at the tier that very obviously doesn’t need it, like at the BBC?

You can’t pick all the battles at once. They all have merit, but you need to pursue a handful at a time.

It’s important to make sure everyone is equally overpaid. LOL