The Europeans had known of lentils and nuts since the Middle Ages, and the indigenous people of New England had the three sisters; corn, beans, and squash. Both groups could fish, and take advantage of fresh water shellfish, but vegetable proteins were out there.

The lack of kill-switches for microphones is the problem.  Why those haven’t been instituted is beyond my ability to reckon.  If it’s candidate X’s turn to speak, candidate Y’s mic is cut until their time is up.  If candidate X interrupts too much, cut his mic until he can shut the fuck up.  

The next one needs a mic kill switch.

In that position, I’d have settled for a director willing to mute Trump’s mic.

I don't know, short of Wallace telling Trump to shut the fuck up, I don't think much could be helped. And frankly he did tell him, just in a non vulgar way.

Being anonymous is priceless.

All of your points are excellent. However, I would bring up two things.

It’s not that I blame him for it—If I lived his blighted existence I would stay high 24-7, believe it. I would snort anything. I would drink from an unmarked bottle I found in the burnt wreckage of a speakeasy that urban anthropologists dug up in the Bowery. I would shoot something labeled HEEROWEENIE in a filthy…

My (70-something super-Republican) former boss told me our city shouldn’t fund libraries any more at all because “people can just buy books, and not that many people read hard copy books any more anyway.” Usually I kept my mouth shut when he said this sort of thing, because I needed the job. This time, having once…

And fart on it all day long.

So Republicans are trying to make AOC the face of the Democratic Party because, why again? Like, do they think that having a young, charismatic, intelligent person who has proven herself extraordinarily effective at communication is going to hurt Democrats?

I would get the occasional student with a challenging name who would tell me “say it however you want,” not indignantly but just because they were the kind of kid who didn’t want to be a bother. To which I would just as politely respond “No. It’s your name. Don’t let other people define who you are. Tell me how it’s…

Good for the student for standing up for herself.

Do you not remember the absolute fit people(*racists, etc.*) had about Michelle’s mother living with them in the White House? It was a “HOW DARE THEY” and “MEH TURXPAER MON-AY!” meltdown. 

Jeremy, if you’re reading this, thank you. It’s rare we Asian Jews get our names out there but god damn dude you did this one proud.

You know what bums me out, a little special something on top of police brutality, racist murders, and all that, I mean. What bums me out about this is using sexual threat as insult, sexual violence as a“perfect call”. Sucking a dick and choking on it isn’t inherently shameful or punishment or anything.

I feel like it’s a little trendy RN for advice columns to be kinda mean and this one was so eager to be mean that they misread the question 

Yeah I really hate this response. 

This is a much better response than the article’s. I know so many activists and generally good people who have ended up in deep wells of suicidal ideation because of how desperately painful it is to live every waking moment in activism. Most people can’t live like that, or at least, not for long.