I watch it from time to time, especially if I want something to fall asleep to, and honestly besides Foote I think the rest of it holds up fairly well, but it really pops out at me more nowadays where as when I was watching it in middle and high school, I didn’t fully pick up on it. It was more like, “Oh, well I guess…

It reminds me of Ken Burns’ Civil War when Shelby Foote is talking about speaking to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s descendents, and how they have a deep reverence for the man, while, perhaps not undeservedly so, loathing Sherman. Of course his family has some sort of mythologized ideal of what their ancestor was, because…

Other people I have known in similar situations have lacked the knowledge, resources, or mind set to do those things. When you are poor, you spend a lot more thinking about getting through your day or to the next paycheck. Pulling yourself out of a situation is relatively difficult to do, particularly if you’re not…

DUDE, YOUR BALLS ARE MADE OF PUSSY

“I’m terrified, I’m afraid you’re going to kill me, I really am, alright?” 

Oh, isn’t it interesting that all of a sudden he’s concerned about becoming the victim of police violence. I’d view that as a great irony if I could be persuaded to give a tiny little flying fuck about his future.

“...the bedrock belief that the collective acquisition of assets and wealth, the challenging of the status quo, the bum-rushing of the political class in this country for a truly progressive agenda is the only effective fight back against political, economic and media cultures that value minorities principally for the…

I understand that argument, and am sympathetic to your goal, but I just don’t think you can fix it. If you’re going to pay them more, you’re going to have to charge more for your fast food. If you charge more for your fast food, you’ll likely see a drop in business and employees get fired, the place closes, etc. In…

Her partner currently does not work. It would be nice if he could help her get her /their kids ready and pick them up from school, unless she does this out of enjoyment. Hopefully he is making her dinner and stuff like that at least.

Looking forward to reading more of these. When we talk about people who “work for a living” or the “working class”, much less “hard working Americans”, we need to remember who makes up the majority of that category and what it really means.

You’d almost think her race had something to do with the arrest.

Thanks! Couple more questions, if I may.

Texas Liberal here. We are trying, but damn, Texas is a huge fucking state, and even with our big liberal cities, it is ripe for some very creative district maps where wide expanses of sparsely populated regions full of bible-thumping self-righteous conservatives can turn out in significant numbers. and vote…

Because we don’t have statues of Joseph Goebbels in city parks. There is a continued, focused effort in America to gloss over, deny, and ignore that this country was built on mass murder and enslavement, which have lasting effects on the socio-economic status of millions of Americans.

I’m sure you could edit The Wire to make it look like a rom-com between a Baltimore cop and a black man in which the cops and the black community get along wonderfully. Like that “Scary Mary” recut of Mary Poppins to make it look like a horror movie.

Ouch, someones fe fe’s get hurt ?

then shouldn’t we be critical of the source material, not the ones who pivotted it to video?