Yeah, they actually get called for too many men on the ice. Apparently not Ottawa, they can have up to 8 people on the ice and not get called!

Nope, sorry. Russia as a whole is very homophobic, but there is still a difference between treating someone with contempt, and kidnapping someone in order to torture them. Russia has openly gay celebrities, and until Putin started looking for a convenient scapegoat, Russian was making baby steps in the right…

Why do you feel the need to constantly defend Islam? Were Muslims going to be persecuted if you didn’t jump in to remind everyone that Christians do it too? Oh, and please provide proof of these Christian concentration camps for gay people in Russia, because I haven’t heard of them.

Examples such as Uganda show us that severe persecution of gay people are sometimes based in both Christian and cultural taboo. The Philippines show us that high levels of Christian religiosity does necessarily lead to severe and pervasive violent repression. The nominally Christian nations of Europe: pretty damn…

What “granular level”? How is it going down to the granular level to say that the thing this article is talking about isn’t happening in Russia?

First of all, the rest of Russia is not sending gay people to camps, Chechnya is, so saying the entire country is like that is factually inaccurate.

Uh there are no concentration camps in Russia where gay men are being tortured. Homosexuality is not even illegal in Russia. And yes the fact that Chechnya is a muslim region plays a HUGE part. Directly from The Guardian: “In Chechnya’s ultra-traditional society, based on strong codes of family and clan allegiance as…

Wait, I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.

Whitewater? Jeez, I thought I was old.

I have no respect for people that need to be entertained by political candidates and secondly I was very inspired by Secretary Clinton, as were many, many others.

The speech was about de-emphasizing social issues in favor of economic issues to pander to people for whom social issues are anathema, i.e. middle American white people largely male. And then the sun will rise over a field of wheat and man in a hard hat will throw a football and a Bruce Springsteen song will play and…

I agree with a lot of what you’re saying here as a general principle, but I think the piece of the puzzle isn’t just rank-and-file loyalty that’s the simple cause of people acting the way they are, it’s also having to with Jill Stein saying, in so many words, that Trump would be a better choice than Hillary. And now…

Being against a two party system means jack shit under out system when it comes to presidential races. Because of the electoral college that requires that one candidate win 270 electoral votes or the House of Representatives chooses the president, we can’t have an effective multiple party system. We aren’t a…

I don’t think Stein is dumb at science.

Everyone is pissed because you guys are trying to run a third party in a TWO PARTY SYSTEM. You can ignore reality all you want, but this is one circle that is never going to be square.

That sounds like a nightmare, but I still pretty quickly decided on West.

I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe this is happening. That loop has been playing in my head all day.

Weren’t you too busy to vote yesterday?

Can someone explain why this comment has so many stars?

I’m a uber-leftie progressive and I don’t think it’s that bad that democrats have to appeal to the center (or slightly right of center) conservatives. The fact is that progressives as simply really outnumbered in this country. Conservatives even outnumber moderates (by a small margin 37% to 35%) Individuals who are…