Ring a ding ding. Pluss add in that the DNC still does not have a chair (tho given Perez and Ellison have both endorsed the 50 state plan at least they know whoever wins will want to do it so they could get busy on that....) they’re iffy on their direction. This is a good flashpoint to rally around.

I have hope in that the two frntrunners for party chair, Perez and Ellison, are both clearly on board for beinging back Dean’s 50state plan and building the local Dem parties again. I think whichever one doesn’t get the job still gets a major outreach position in the party, to smooth things over since we’re still in…

I couldnt even look at her face with how her neck is craned. I pray this was just a quick shot as she looked up and she wasn’t holding that pose, or if she he got her neck an icy-hot when they got home.

So very true. My bras vary between 34B, 36B, 32C, and 34C usually. Plus sports bras which are a whole other ball park a lot of the time.

Not so fast. DeVos moved out of committee and no Dems voted for her. It was party lines, 11 Dems vs 12 GOP. She’s not in yet, there’s the full senate confirmation coming. We need to just swing a few GOP and some of them are wavering becuase even many conservatives don’t like her.

Well we’ve had one good move at least. They’ve boycotted two comittee votes to prevent those noms from moving forward.

There’s a ton of that going around.

Yep. I do think Finn is going to be the focal point of some Stormtrooper rebellions tho. Maybe some defections. But if you’re actually in a fight with them then please for the love of the Force fight back.

I also totally understand the knee-jerk reaction it got, though. I grew up in the age of internet fandom, where as soon as a villain’s reasoning was revealed a decent chunk, possibly even a majority of the active fanbase, assumed that was exoneration-worthy. Tons of peoples associate knowing why someone did something…

Tragically in some areas public transport is not an option.

I will totally take doing a good thing that also benefits the company. Cynical good is better than no good.

My mom’s center left (which to the right wng is raving communist and the left is “practically a Republican”). She wants better pay and more respect for teachers, but thinks teachers unions are usually run by idiots who give unions a bad name. To be fair, most of her experience is with my hometown’s union, who cared…

No, due to asexuality. I would applaud him and we could go for ice cream.

I’m sure you don’t. But other people who read what was written might.

Exactly. Like explaining that Till’s mother lied about the whistle. That’s not done to call her out for lying, it’s done to show “oh my god this woman had to come up with a reason because whislting would genuinely have been justification for killing him in that time period.” It only adds to the horror.

Seconded. As I said in another reply, it’s like the complaint about adding O’Hare an the Onceler’s Family as the “real” villains of the newer Lorax film. It takes the onus off the Onceler and moves it onto people who are cartoonishly bad. And by doing that it stops people watching from wondering they’re part of the…

Exactly. Othering racists feels good but it also allows other people, especially other white peoples, to then not need to self-examine.

Exactly. Humanizing racists doesn’t mean feeling sorry for or coddling them. It’s realizing that they are human just like we are, and therefore we too can be racist.

Yep. It’s like with what went down with Paula Dean a yer or two ago. It’s important to understand that yeah, someone can come across as warm and loving and still be a racist. Racists aren’t some inhuman monsters, they are very much human. People need to recognize that not to sympathize with them, but to realize that…

I actually think it was a good thing. Because so many people, especially white people, build up racists as this inhuman “other” in their heads to the point that they themselves cannot be a racist because they’re not some utter monstrosity that few people could ever accomplish being.