That is the excuse very many bad actors hide behind. No one that actually cares about the well being of conscious creatures buys it. The reality is that choices are likely to have either a good or bad consequence in the real world, overall. When you willfully make the choice that spares you pain or grief, at the…

Maybe I don’t vote because I don’t believe that either candidate deserves to be president... I have done that before. That is not cowardly... cowardly would be choosing something that is against my morals.

There are a lot of reasons not to vote... some of them better than others. In the specific instance in which you do actually care and you choose not to vote (by claiming that your “acting on your conscience”, or “the system is broken, so why participate”, etc) you are acting cowardly. You are attempting to spare…

Its a tough problem... The election, for better or worse, ended up being a binary proposition. That is simply an accurate description of the reality we all had to engage with. You either supported Hillary or you were necessarily supporting Trump. I have yet to hear a single vaguely convincing argument that really…

It’s not complicated. If you’re going to direct outrage at a comment reply to that comment.

Your comment is explicitly direct at “Hamilton Nolan”; the author of this article. It seems a bit disingenuous to pretend that we should know you didn’t really mean to direct it at them.

What in the holy hell are you talking about?! The article clearly states that the egg throwing was a bad action taken by a single bad actor. That is a central variable of their point.

I’m critical of the articles underlying narrative that dedicating yourself to working with this POTUS is necessarily compromising of a…

It’s not like we live in a country where nearly half of the voting population voted for an extraordinarily unpopular candidate like Hillary Clinton largely just to prevent Trump from winning...

Lets face it... there is a vast demographic overflowing with people that “hate” Donald Trump. It doesn’t help that he keeps on…

After those tweets, she shared that she had been “counseled not to talk about this for career’s sake,” adding, “F my career then, I’m a woman & human first. That’s what my craft is built on.”

“...young women are deeply human...”

Another friendly reminder that political correctness is simply treating people with respect.

Otherwise, fuck buzzfeed for playing the same bullshit game as right wing nuts. Who the fuck reports unverified news with zero evidence??? Oh, that’s right, today’s online ‘journalists.’

The red one screams “NINTENDO” to me. In a good way.

Companies don’t generally go through the rather expensive and time consuming process of moving “destitute commoners” around, either.

It doesn’t have to “work” for everyone to be wildly successful as a segment or as a spin-off. There are a lot of people that don’t like Conan’s brand of comedy but that doesn’t stop his show(s) from “working” most of the time.

I imagine that may depend on the full nature of the contract(s) they have probably already signed in relation to Coachella.

But I also have to remember that everyone in their secret histories has made some transgression against women, just as I—in my whiteness, my relative economic comfort, my blind spots, and areas of ignorance—have surely offended and impeded someone else.

In all that time, the only lessons she seemed to focus on were how to not get beat in the next election, instead of focusing on how to get people to actually want to elect her. Those don’t equate.

Well... it is a representative democracy (meaning the opinions/goals/rhetoric of representatives should shift to reflect the people they represent)... and you can only really make change from the inside (of institutions and rules that aren’t always ideal) so successful politicians tend to compromise in ways that can…