Basically, for every man who has a #metoo there’s about 100 women standing behind him.

Women usually lack the physical strength to overpower a man, but in a situation like yours, that doesn’t matter. That’s why female sex predators often prey on boys and young adults (see the myriad of stories about female teachers, who are covered very differently than male statuatory rapists - “lucky boy” and all), or…

Compared to the shit the US would be in with President John McCain from 2009 to this year, with possibly hundreds of thousands of US troops occupying Iran, Syria and Libya, yeah, it could have been much, much worse. Will any one person, even a President, be able to single-handedly turn the United States with its…

These exams were compulsory as part of the draft to determine your fitness to serve, if you didn’t show up to muster, MPs would come to your home at 6 am in the morning and drag you to a military prison. I assume (no explanation was given) the genital examination was about checking for testicular cancer, the most…

An estimated quarter to 40% of US billionaires are Jewish and many have dual citizenship with Israel. Many media corporations and newspapers have Jewish CEOs and editors in chief. Jews make up only 2% of the US population, but about 12% of donations to both parties - in the Democratic Party, it’s even 16%, and you can…

A sizable number of people who claim to fight for equality are actually fighting a war of the zero sum game - for me to win something, you have to lose something. It’s a very cynical, misanthropic view of humanity, but if you’ve bought into it, anyone from the other side talking about their problems can only be…

Trump’s 46.1% at the voting booth actually lined up with the polls very well (just like Clinton being about 2% ahead), so if voting were compulsory (just like it is in some other countries), Trump still would have about gotten that percentage as well. Even after a year of daily disasters, his approval rating is still…

Everyone knew about Weinstein. He was so notorious, his abusive antics and sleazyness were openly parodied on shows like Entourage (Harvey Weingard) and films like Tropic Thunder (Les Grossman).

Trump is not an improvement over Obama in that regard - civilian deaths from US strikes have tripled since Trump took over and gave the military free reign. Didn’t he promise to scale back America’s war machine overseas?

No empire has ever been maintained by isolationism. Empires need to be forward deployed, surrounded by friendly satellites and vassals. Forward deployment doesn’t just mean the military, but predominantly ideas, (pop) culture, markets, immigration and emigration, capital flows. That’s where America’s power resides,…

The Russians achieved a lot with relatively little investment - the facebook ads for instance only cost 150 grand, and the couple thousand social media trolls they employ probably don’t cost billions either. Russia is a country with less than 1/10th of the US GDP, they have to make every ruble count.

The Democrats would have to retake those states to be able to gerrymander first. They have supermajorities in seven states, the Republicans in 26 states. They have 17 governors, the Republicans have 33.

If this was a Democrat and the party didn’t rule him ineligible (he’d still be on the ballot - those have already been printed - but he’d not advance to the Senate even if he won), the Republicans, through one of their anonymous PACs, would plaster the whole state with ads and robocalls - “Will you vote for a child…

I’m not surprised at all that heterosexual men (or in your case, asexual) have been virtually silent #metoo’ers when it comes to assault and harassment by gay men, and completely silent when it comes to assault and harassment by women. Not only are we not permitted to share (it would make feminists and the LBGT…

US intelligence agencies almost certainly have vast amounts of kompromat on many political and business leaders throughout the world - especially in Western countries, where many American troops and intelligence agents are stationed. We know, for instance, that they monitored Merkel’s phone for at least a decade, and…

The real decision makers are the corporate and billionaire donors, but that’s another matter that has to be fought with different measures - like banning corporate and large private donations (which would require a liberal SCOTUS majority for starters, to revisit Citizen’s United).

The Democrats don’t need to gerrymander, they already have the majority of voters. IF the Supreme Court (or rather, swing vote Justice Kennedy) rules the current gerrymandering practice unconstitutional, the best course of action would be to leave it to a computer program to draw districts that are as simple as…

Maybe they believe the power of their racism will protect them against armor-piercing bullets. They certainly seem to think that it’s a telekinetic force field that protects them from every consequence of their own actions.

“Abortions and bailouts for me, but not for you.” Motto of the Republican party.

Subsidizing jobs that would not exist on an open market is absolutely a hallmark of every real-socialist nation in the world. There was virtual full employment in countries like East Germany, because the regime guaranteed every citizen a job. They could only do that by creating plenty of heavily subsidized bullshit…