Yeah but cutting all those programs will free up money to the rich so they can hire more people. Everyone will benefit!!!!

Yeah and then they would stupidly attack sick immigrants, hispanics, and blacks and unknowingly infect themselves and wonder why they are dying too.

Now, now, I think Republican state houses in Wisconsin and NC and other places that drastically curtailed the voting rights of their minority constituents deserve a lot of credit too!

This. Putin’s involvement is terrifying b/c of what it represents, but I don’t think it had any impact on who won the election. From a damning information standpoint, all the hackers in Russia couldn’t keep pace with Trump’s own self-destruction. And regardless America still voted Trump.

It’s because they are black. We are expected to forgive and be kind even though that courtesy is never extended to us. If you look at news conferences or reports where a black person has been killed extra-judiciously or in one of these racist attacks, one of the first things the family is asked is “do you forgive the…

Well it’s a good thing the overwhelming majority of black people voted for her.

“I think white Americans like ideas, even if they’re bad ideas and will ignore the rest”

I like you so I’m going to try to temper myself.

This didn’t happen overnight, it’s been happening since 1980—even before, really, going back to Phyllis Schlafly’s dark-money-funded attack on the Equal Rights Amendment, which presented a bizarre, Kochs’-eye vision of manly men being unmanned by manly women.

This is all part of the normalizing of the extreme right. At some point we, as a society, decided that we would abide by this type of discourse and ideology. There will come a time, if we don’t stop it now, that it will be as common as the weather report and it will be taken for granted that it’s the new normal. It…

His films are watched because it’s possible to be both a great artist and a horrible human being. The first part is why people are overlooking the second part. It’s not about white privilege or male privilege, because as was pointed out in the article, if he’d been your average everyday white male, he’d have been…

But the cruelty is often in service of white nationalism.

Hollywood has been eating promising young child stars and spitting out broken adults since the Wizard of Oz days. Because in reality, Hollywood is only liberal/progressive when they want to win Oscars; outside of that, if you’re not a rich white man you’re basically screwed. They couldn’t care less about the welfare…

Killing net neutrality will help services like Netflix and Youtube, who can negotiate free streaming with the carriers. Who will get killed are startups trying to compete with them.

Ironically, my BIL’s job involves those things and he drives a pick up but he’s not white so he’s not a real American.

The first of many things we have Trump to thank for. TV execs, the spineless antrhopomophized suits that they are, will now try to make programming to appeal to the white middle class bigots that put someone like Trump in office. Nevermind the fact television is inundated with this kind of white bread programming (The…

Only white people have the luxury to pretend that everyone lives in a color-blind, post-racial society. If you don’t share in their pretense, you are rocking the boat.

No.

he just wants a soapbox