They are trying to replace her with someone more conservative.

The people who aren’t following politics: She’s not left enough

The people actually trying to oust her in Congress: She’s too far left, we need a centrist.


The space between those two is the people who are like “yeah Pelosi is gone” if she loses and then will be shocked when it’s a conservative Dem who replaces her.

You people are getting played, the threat is from blue-dogs, they’re not going to be to the left of Pelosi.

Woman resigns, shitty CMO dude still there.

Yeah, that seems about how it works.

Swatting is pretty awful but a great way to help reduce these incidents would be, I dunno, maybe cops not being trigger-happy cowards.

Wow it sure is great they’re doing this.

I mean, they could have all been asking hard questions so that Acosta would have been impossible to single out, but I guess not!

Yeah cause going after auntie Maxine in Los Angeles is going to get traction

Way to flip flop Obama

Democrats are running on healthcare. It’s by far the most common thing they are running on.

To say they are just running against Trump is repeating a Republican framing.  

Remember that time Ben almost died on stage because he was being transphobic?

Fuck off, scumbag.

There’s an academic definition of racism and a colloquial one, and people confuse the two. Intentionally.

It doesn’t matter because white fragility is a real thing and no matter how you phrase it, most likely white folks will raise holy hell about being criticized.

So you’re upset that people are upset about doing something and that their ire doesn’t disappear the moment a person apologizes?

Yes it is

“I thought torturing children was bad, then you posted the phone of a public figure and lost the moral high ground”

What the fuck?

Amazon was never going to move to avoid that tax. It’s a threat.

Huge companies don’t just up and move unless there is *substantial* incentive, and this tax wasn’t enough.

Nolan falls into the same situation as a lot of white leftist writers, in that he refuses to consider the context of race and the lives of PoC in his writing.

You see this over and over again. It fucking kills unity in leftist movements because the white guy will just talk on and on and start telling PoC how to be…

Also FWIW Tor.com has an *extensive* annotated readthrough of the series, including Gardens, and including comments from the Author in the article comments.

GotM was written significantly before the other 9(!) books in the series. It’s widely considered to be the worst, and supposedly the author spent years shopping it around and while he was doing that, became a much better writer.

Consequentially, the 2nd book in the series is one of the best, and stunningly good. The…

Yeah I always assume that children deserve to be beat by police officers.

That’s me, a perfectly normal well adjusted person like you.